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We’ll also be referring folks to resources for more formal learning and peer connections, like NTEN , the Nonprofit Technology Network and host of the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference and Netsquared and TechSoup Global – and of course sharing resources from our colleagues in the nonprofit/social media field.
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2) Get a wiki. 3) Find resources to build your skills, and give them time every week: webinars, listservs, online classes, books, etc. 3) Find resources to build your skills, and give them time every week: webinars, listservs, online classes, books, etc. Attend conferences. Build this into your time and budget plans.
What's a wiki? Wikis are websites that are extremely easy for anyone (even you!) Its success can distort understanding of what makes a wiki work. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? But wikis are a very specific tool.
pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attend or present. Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. I've been doing a small research project.
tags: fundraising advocacy ) I was lucky enough to meet Ivan Boothe at the first (or maybe second) Netsquared Conference back in 2005 and have been following his work for years. So he cautioned me that some of the information might not be entirely up to date that he shared on listserv including a pointer to his awesome slide show with audio.
In addition our participation at the conference, we got to discuss blogging while sharing a day of sightseeing in London. It was also a success in terms of an "intermediated conference" between the people who were in real-time, physical space and the virtual participants who were on the IRC or video conference connection.
Yesterday, when I got the email announcement CpSquared (The Community of Practice on Communities of Practice) about its new wiki , I went over to explore. This evolving wiki is already quite rich in useful resources and at this stage has three areas: A Communities of Practice Bibliography. Wikis for Communities of Practice conference.
Set up an event wiki. Wikis can take the shape of the event and its participants and range from more to less formal. See a recent tweme from our Marketing & Online Community conference 2008. (Slideshare is the YouTube of the PowerPoint presentation for those who don't know it yet.)
From last week's Web2.04Dev Conference is a snap poll " What does Web2.0 Graphing Social Patterns is a conference devoted to the business and technology of Facebook taking place next week in Silicon Valley. There's an unconference called OpenFaced taking place in tandem with the conference. " Nonprofits and Web2.0
Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. But at least they were preserved) An early video from the Riders Conference in Kansas City in 2000 was discovered on Blip.TV. Events and Conferences: Live Blog Notes, Upcoming, and How-Tos. Follow the links from here.
I need to get my act together for next week's Circuit Rider Conference in UK and a session I'm doing with David Wilcox called " Demystifying Web 2.0 Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. And, then revisit and revise the outline we brainstormed via skype and wiki , and finally build a powerpoint.
from Beth Kanter's Social Media Strategy wiki. tried turning email discussions on listservs into blog posts and opting to record conference call presentations. Curate your event notes and materials : "We encourage our speakers and our attendees to share their conference materials and notes. and budget decisions."
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The themes science, environmental, nutrition, economic development, children, youth, parenting, and leadership are very much appropriate as this conference agenda from the NACDEP and ACE/NETC shows. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Step 9: WikiWiki.
They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards. At this year's NTEN conference , the thing I heard the most had to do with message. Going to conferences is a part of my job. Paying attention and contributing to listservs is a part of my job. By that I mean that they should expose themselves online.
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They can then go online and create a wiki to share documents and lists together, they can also create a listserve and a blog to keep everyone informed of progress and discuss strategy. Imagine that a group meets locally to discuss a clean water strategy. All of these tools are cheap and easy to use.
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