Content curation - the process of finding, organizing, and sharing topical, relevant content for your audience that supports your nonprofit's engagement or campaign goals (or your professional learning) begins with "Spotting the Awesome." I love that phrase coined by my friends at Upwell. Do you or your organization have formal guidelines for "spotting the awesome" like Upwell (see below) or is it more of "we know it when we see it?" Effective content curation can help your … [Read more...]
It's Not What You Know, It's How You Learn
About a year ago, Mario Marino reached out to me and several colleagues with some provocative questions about e-learning in the nonprofit sector. E-learning is using internet technology and your networks to learn in real-time - either as an individual, within your organization, or a network and learning is applied to get results. This e-mail exchange with a dozen or so colleagues evolved into a guest post about one aspect of the topic. Mario and his colleague, Katie Paris explained that … [Read more...]
Nonprofits Need to Integrate Learning into their Work in 2014
The Chronicle recently published an article with expert advice on what nonprofits should start doing in 2014. If you look down the list of tactical advice and tips, there is a bigger pattern that emerges. Nonprofits should integrate learning into their work, program delivery, and communications. As Charles Jennings suggests there are three different frameworks for doing this at work: Adding, Embedding, and Extracting. Adding Learning to Work He describes this option as sending … [Read more...]
How Nonprofits Get Significant Value from Content Curation
On December 17 at 6:30 pm, I am facilitating a discussion and presenting at one of Scoop.It's "Lean Content" events in San Francisco. The topic is "The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation for Nonprofits." Content curation is sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it and sharing the very best content with your network. Rather than another potential recipe for information overload, content curation can be a method for self-directed learning … [Read more...]
The Unexpected Benefits From Content Curation
By the time you read this post, I'll be somewhere in the air between California and India to facilitate a "Networked NGO" training for NGOs in India that are Packard Foundation grantees. More about that later. But I have some exciting news! My article is the lead story in the June, 2012 NTEN Change Journal! You can use that link to access the article and subscribe to the journal. In January of this year, I predicted that 2012 would be the year of content curation. I have this habit of … [Read more...]
