Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

There are three paths to scaling organizational impact beyond the confines of one’s current organizational context (that will be familiar to most): advocacy, knowledge sharing or (an old funder standby) scaling services. Want to scale through dissemination of knowledge? The path to scale requires excellence– but not across the board.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It’s a form of network building. We at Monitor Institute have been digging into questions such as these as part of a broader reflection on the networks-focused work of the organizational effectiveness team at the David & Lucile Packard Foundation. This blog post was originally published on the Working Wikily blog.

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MAY 28, 2010

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."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

The description: “ Talk with Michelle about internal software systems – document and knowledge management, CRM, client management databases, intranets, etc.&# I volunteered to be the “expert&# in residence for the “Program&# track of Office Hours. So, come join me.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Designed with peer knowledge sharing in mind, CoP's aim to provide an established point of reference along with a network of support and resources. The Community Technology CoP and the Knowledge Management CoP have both already taken advantage of the newly available monthly calls.

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JANUARY 12, 2011

Their mission is to provide knowledge and expertise to help nonprofits and funders learn from their work to improve their results. The case goes like this: We want to provide knowledge and expertise. Many people in their audience will absorb knowledge better from informative (and shiny!)

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

Partners include: The Center for Effective Philanthropy , The Communications Network , Global Philanthropy Forum , Grantmakers for Effective Organizations , and One World Trust. It also provides a knowledge management function since each magnifying glass icon takes the viewer directly to the relevant page on the foundation’s website.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2016

Every month our global network of community organizers host Tech4Good events in more than 60 cities. Paul, Minnesota: Human Resources Networking Lunch. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Librarians as Knowledge Management Allies for Nonprofits. Upcoming Tech4Good Events. Monday, July 11, 2016. Tuesday, July 12, 2016.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

He is also interested in approaches network learning and highlights knowledge management for development. (He I've been following Christian Kreutz 's blog, CrissCrossed Blog , which explores social changes through communication and focuses on the impact, potential and challenges of using Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2006

Within two seconds, I found a fascinating article called " ICTs, capacities and networks " by Peter Ballantyne and Denise Clarke. The summary: "This article considers the collective capabilities of networks in relation to their use of ICTs, information and knowledge management. that a network makes to its members."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Last week, I wrote about the tension between individual and organizational use as it relates to individual staff members representing their nonprofit organization on Social Networking sites. I understand why this keeps senior management at high profile organizations up at night." The Shed 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

Stephen Downes points to a post by Tony Karrer with disagreeing with some points in about the value of blogging in Thomas Davenport's book Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers. it becomes a wonderful resource for any organization to leverage as part of larger knowledge management solutions."

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

This is one of the key messages I garnered from the lengthy but interesting and provocative Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development report (PDF), recently published by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Global Business Network. Systems thinking and knowledge management become critical skills for philanthropists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

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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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Thousands of nonprofit pros rely on our annual Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar to discover skill-building, strategy-slaying, network-enhancing nonprofit events. The Madison Nonprofit Day Conference is a one-day conference jammed pack with ~30 workshop sessions, networking, exhibits, lunch, and a variety of activities. Oct 18 - 21.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Finally, this comes from a library techie, but I'm sure that nonprofit techies might agree with the advice, " How To Keep Techies Happy " Marketing, Knowledge Management, and Evaluation Somehow there is a connection between these areas and David Wilcox puts his finger on it with his posts ( here , here , and here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

The Network-Centric Advocacy blog says thank you to the Integration Proclamation that might help progressive organizations reach the Holy Grail: getting the technology groups use to work together! " The Network-Centric Advocacy blog explains. Wikis, Widgets and Social Networking Do you think there are too many freaking widgets ?

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