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Delivering Excellence in the Age of AI or Association 4.0

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Expectations for high-touch service and personal attention are rising steadily. Organize the Effort A well-defined oversight and change management structure ensures that the right people are ready to lead that charge. Sliding by on “same old, same old” is not an option in a newly competitive environment.

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Best Practices for a Stress-Free Fund Accounting System Implementation

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Once you have a clear understanding of what your organization hopes to accomplish by transitioning to a new fund accounting system, you can begin to make specific preparations involving the organization’s people and processes. What processes can be optimized to provide value and give people actionable data used to make strategic decisions?

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13NTC Sketchnotes: Mindful or Mind-full

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Sketchnotes: Mindful or mind-full Since a big part of this session was on visual note-taking as a way of focusing attention, here are my notes (1.5 MB) – minus content from yours truly (since I was up delivering it at the time, and "Wait a sec while I sketch what I just said" can get awfully tedious for people).

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

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Whether you are working within a funding organization or on the ground in social change, developing an effective knowledge practice will help to advance strategic missions and goals. More people working in or with grantmaking organizations now have some term related to knowledge work in their titles or job descriptions.

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The Future of Nonprofit Technology: Some Predictions

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It doesn't feel like real money to people, because they text and the contribution is simply added to their bill. Is it because we like hiring more senior people? Other orgs will finally learn what I've known for 5 years: bring it in-house and don't silo your tech people, make one of them a c-suite leader. an obscure font.

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Guest Post by Kira Marchenese: What Happened When We Introduced 350 Staff to Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The big challenge with training is the challenge of transfer - after people go through a training - do they actually put the knowledge and skills into practice? Everyone attended a 90-minute presentation by Eric Schwartzman on what social media is and why we should pay attention. People were extremely engaged. How did it go?

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Tips for Content Curators from Beth Kanter: How To Avoid Getting "Content Fried"

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As you encourage content curation activities for your staff, you may also want to remind them of techniques for being efficient and staying focused: Manage Your Attention, Not Just Your Time: Don't just create a to-do list, lay it out on daily and weekly schedules, breaking down key tasks of the project into chunks.

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