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Great reads from around the web on May 28th

Amy Sample Ward

Wild Apricot Blog : Make Your Own Infographic – "Infographics are to data what storytelling is to an annual report: a more engaging way to help bring attention and understanding to your nonprofit’s cause. Yesterday we looked at an interesting infographic that suggested a new way to view your volunteers.

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Unlocking the Potential of Peer Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Six initial observations have emerged as the most important: The substance of the peer learning experience should be of immediate use in the participants’ work—ideally an emerging area that needs attention where there is not yet a lot of information, and where the group can co-create material.

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Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In this blog post, I will describe the process Wyman used to study how our organization historically captured, stored, used, and shared data, information, and knowledge and how developing a systemic Knowledge Management enterprise will increase our efficiency and performance. How does your organization learn and share knowledge?

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Heyday lands $6M to build a knowledge base from the services you already use

TechCrunch

Sam and I had recently shut down a product in the knowledge management space that failed to get traction,” Rahman told TechCrunch via email. “In the process of building the product, we met a group of early adopters who felt underserved by popular knowledge management tools that require constant manual input.

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Minnesota Open Idea: Crowdsourcing Contest For Social Change Done Right

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In this interview, Jennifer Ford Reedy , VP for Strategy and Knowledge Management, at the Minnesota Community Foundation shares the how they designed this online social good contest for success. Strategy cabinet partners got a lot of attention from Grassroots Solutions to help craft strategies to reach all their stakeholders.

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Call for Papers: Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development??? Knowledge Management for Development Journal??? KM4D Journal) is an open access, peer-reviewed, community-based journal on knowledge management in development ??? technologies for knowledge sharing???

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Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Conference: What have you learned, Dorothy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This process of going from individual’s insight to group’s ‘knowledge asset’ is a critical one. An excellent resource on the topic of Knowledge Assets is Geoff Parcell and Chris Collisons’ Learning to Fly: Practical Knowledge Management from Leading and Learning Organizations.