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Learning In Public On Wikis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Wikis can be terrific platforms for supporting professional learning in real time, but it requires a comfort level with “ learning in public.&# Learning in private is what most of us did in school. Three Different Designs for Public Learning On Wiki. It’s open or public document.

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Watch this Webinar About Wikis

Tech Soup

hosted a webinar called "Collaborate with Wikis" which was recorded and can be accessed here. I interviewed David Beall from SFHomeless.net and Beth Duttlinger from Alliance Library System who shared information about their experience creating and using a wiki.

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Attention Nonprofit Wiki Users: Let's Desconstruct Your Wiki!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I put a question on Twitter, " What are your best Wiki adoption tips? But, I'd love to see a range of examples that de-construct the development of a wiki in a nonprofit setting. The use of wikis for communities of practice, behind the firewall, to support project teams, to reduce email, or whatever is becoming more common.

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The Giving Wiki, Literally.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Wikis have been used for knowledge sharing , learning , conference coordination , and repositories - and curriculum as community. I wasn't talking about a wiki for fundraising - the literal meaning, but more the stated philosophy on Dave's wiki: I'd suggest we follow the ADD DON'T TAKE AWAY model of wiki building.

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Reflections from Independent Sector and Blackbaud Conferences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta.

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Wiki Wiki Means Quickly in Hawaiin

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Techsoup is hosting an online event about Nonprofits and Wikis on November 1-3. They have set up a wiki for the event on wikispaces, my favorite hosted wiki application. (I I was at a conference this week at a session on Web2.0 buzzwords and someone asked what the word wiki meant. Ah, but there's the rub.

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Great reads from around the web on December 25th

Amy Sample Ward

February 12, 2010, and promises to be "more than just a conference on the next generation web." " Wikispaces Blog " Blog Archive " How Non-Profits Are Using Wikis – The Wikispaces Blog has some great examples of organizations using wikis in their work. "This NonProfit 2.0