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Nonprofits Live Recap: Online Collaboration

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The October edition of Nonprofits Live examined the topic of online collaboration. Online collaborating requires an extra dose of the same skills we use when we collaborate in person and a number of tools to bridge the physical distance between collaborators. Barriers to Collaboration. Useful Collaboration Tools.

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Reduce Travel with Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

This updated blog post from the campaign explores some ways to increase online collaboration and also reduce travel and work efficiency. Online collaboration is one of these generic terms that seems to lose meaning the more people use it. Why Is Online Collaboration Green? Cloud Services for Collaborating.

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DIY Online Collaboration: Wikis

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A wiki is a website maintained collaboratively by a community of contributors focusing on a particular subject or project. Typical wiki communities are work groups within a company, educators and students, and hobbyists. This wiki was built as a collaboration between TechSoup and the Corporation for National and Community Service.

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WeAreMedia: Reflections on Working Wikily - Getting out of the way

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also set it so anyone could post a comment on the wikispace discussion threads, although there doesn't seem to be a lot of spontaneous discussion on the wikispaces feature except for the name change which had 54 responses. You have to register for wikispaces in order to add yourself. Levels of Collaboration.

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More online than local: Why I love Google Docs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A good deal of my work involves collaboration with remotes colleagues and includes tasks as writing articles, curriculum, research, etc. Not everyone I work with has moved away from Word/Excel -- so I'm finding myself with one foot in the web-based collaboration tools and the other foot stuck in Microsoft Office.

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It is difficult to let go of the old ways. from powerpoint to wikitation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Community groups, nonprofits and other entities are embracing Web 2.0 In this session, we'll focus on three sectors: nonprofit groups, public access television and community-oriented citizen journalism. I'm finding that I so willing to collaborate and let go, that I have no presence - I'm distributed all over the place.

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How to Work Across a Distributed Team

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Working across distributed teams is all about collaborative work with our colleagues who may be in different cities or even countries. Working in distributed groups is in the realm of green IT because it is a form of telework, or work done outside of the traditional on-site work environment. on Wikispaces.

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