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Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field. In those days, we used listservs and online discussion software, but platform matter. It was the free and open sharing of knowledge, insights, quick tips, and how-tos. Photo by Dkurpaptwa.
Fifteen of us met for 90 minutes to share, commiserate, trade ideas and think about our work at the intersection of evaluation, knowledge management and organizational learning. How to create systems for accessing knowledge resources that foundation staff will use. How to set aside time for reflection and learning.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy , Nonprofit Times , Social Innovation Review , and Nonprofit Quarterly are a few industry specific publications that are considered "go to" sources of knowledge. The ASU Lodestar Center Nonprofit News (LCNN) is a free source of information sent to your inbox bi-monthly, and it's stuffed with knowledge and tools.
Ask on listservs ( ProgEx , NTEN Affinity Groups , ISF Yahoo group , etc.) This is not the time for jargon -- save that for talking to your developers (or your NTEN listserv buds). Their mission is to provide knowledge and expertise to help nonprofits and funders learn from their work to improve their results.
Games for Change is looking to hire a community manager to manage a variety of online projects, primarily the Knowledge Network. This person will also oversee G4C's online presence, listserv, and future social networking space. For detailed info see here.
The same topic came up recently on the APRA''s listserve, PRSPCT-L. I would hate for you to delete those records and lose all that data and institutional knowledge that you have been collecting along the way. A few months ago I wrote a post on the topic of whether nonprofits should delete old donor records.
This happens all the time on listservs where people who work on integrating technology into their work participate -- whether it be teachers, librarians, community of practice, online facilitators, nonprofit techies, etc. For example, recently on the UK Riders list there was a thread about tech support knowledge base software.
I'm using some traditional ways to research this topic: -Email to listservs -Posts on online forums -Google search. Oh no, your query is analyzed and sent to a knowledgable ChaCha Guide who is trained to search and already knows a lot about the very thing you???re The work in progress is here. re not searching alone. re looking for!
TechSoup Global's mission is to do whatever we can to provide the IT resources and knowledge that charities, NGOs, and libraries need to operate at their full potential. We administrate the Refurbisher Listserv. I call it "humanitarian electronics recycling and refurbishment." " Perhaps I should explain.
Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. The guide helped me understand that I was looking for both specific conferences as well as lists of conferences in those areas by knowledgeable people. My experience is here.
Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. Share your knowledge, your passions and your personality in your posts by writing about what you know. I mentioned a link from IBM via Elsua (Luis Suarez). Write What You Know.
Email, Facebook, posting to listserves, your website, direct mail—the list goes on and on. Laura Quinn, Director of Partnerships and Knowledge. As Idealware’s Director of Partnerships and Knowledge, she works with partners and helps guide content into high quality resources. Read more or register at [link].
Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. But many nonprofits are using Ning for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and learning. All about the Forums.
I'm thinking a lot lately about tagging communities (NpTech Tag), information coping skills, and distributed and disperse nature of networked/connected knowledge sharing. I think I'm a digital curator. Steve Rubel has an excellent definition , although it isn't new. Perhaps editors are those who also still work in print form too?
Some possible uses: I put this out on the SalesForce Nonprofit Practitioners listserv. I'm working on a screencast and it might be excellent way to do research or share implicit geek shoudlder-to-shoulder knowledge across the Internet.
Most of the professional networks I belong to online operate using the most antiquated of text-based tools: the listserv. Are there opportunities for explicit knowledge-sharing that are rooted in photographs and videos?
Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup. Since the courses are very interactive, learners gain experience in online communication and teamwork as well as new knowledge in the subject of the course.
The online group includes a listserv email archive, a library, a wiki, a group blog, and a discussion thread platform. Groups will also have the option to hold a monthly discussion call for questions, feedback and knowledge-sharing among members. How will the CoP members interact? Are monthly webinars or calls required of a CoP?
In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter. He also identified staff who were enthusiastic and proficient in using Twitter to lead training.
I started my research on a listserv of practitioners for SalesForce Nonprofit version asking for case studies and examples. However, while I was interviewing, I noted the "tacit knowledge" bits - the tips and jotted down the approximate start and end time of the tip quotes I wanted to use. I used a hybrid of his approach.
Remember to include both hard skills (specific knowledge and technical qualifications) and soft skills (behavioral characteristics, personality traits, and attributes of work style). Now it is time to translate that vision into reality. First, consider what specific skills and competencies will be required for success in the role.
Here is a compilation of responses to the same question from the APRA's listserve, PRSPCT-L : "I would consider any data valuable when it can be utilized for predictive analytics or to build a case for trends. All of these approaches have their downsides, of course, but they don't encourage data loss. Others Who Agree.
You can think of it as having 24/7 access to another users filing cabinet, but each user's collection of bookmarks helps to build an rich knowledge network. Think of wikis of a good tool to collect information or knowledge. Resource Collection off a listserv: [link]. Collaborative writing off a listserv: [link].
FIRM has built a social media infrastructure that links together our blog, social network presence, listserv and static website into a coherent network of tools. Now that FIRM has built stuff, learned stuff, we have to share that knowledge in a comprehensive and useful way. That's the importance of the guide I'm helping pull together.
While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project. Woody launched it with an email to the ASTC listserv--a good group to target for his content. Wikipedia, like YouTube and Facebook, is a giant in the world of Web 2.0.
And my mission is really to educate and empower nonprofit leaders and their teams with the knowledge and tools to scale their revenue and amplify their impact. So feel free to get on our mailing listserv or whatever the real phrase is called and stay in touch. As nonprofits, we have the missions of our organizations.
And I think another important component is knowledge. And so do you have that sort of squared away on the roles and responsibilities and the processes? . A lot of team and people though I’m seeing here, seems to be the majority.
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