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8 Actionable steps for any nonprofit RFP

EveryAction

About half of the 100+ consultants I’ve interviewed this year alone say they will skip an RFP if it doesn’t share an available budget—including one helps you make sure you’re capturing the attention of all the potential knowledge and partnership that’s out there! Share your ideal outcome. Finally, get views on that awesome RFP! Key takeaways.

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The Zoetica Salon: A Peer Learning Community for Nonprofits and Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Organizational Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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Research Friday: A Case for Content Curation

ASU Lodestar Center

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.

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2011 NTC Preview: Let's Talk About Tech, Baby

NTEN

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.

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Games for Change Is Seeking A Community Manager

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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The NpTech Mashup Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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