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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. Perhaps you most likely remember this amazing deconstruction by John Udell of the Wikipedia entry on ??? Screenshot of podcamp Wiki.

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Open Source Strategic Planning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After lunch, conference participants got to to choose two presenters to spend an hour with in a small group to ask questions and deepened the learning. ” While Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site, its budget and staff is relatively small and it relies on 100,000 contributors across the world to create and edit content.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. I'm live blogging the conference sessions which are being conducted in Romanian. Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. Requires sustained effort.

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Wikis: What, When, Why

Museum 2.0

What's a wiki? Wikis are websites that are extremely easy for anyone (even you!) The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. Wikipedia, like YouTube and Facebook, is a giant in the world of Web 2.0.

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NpTechTag Summary: NpTech Blog Buzz, NGOS at Demo 07, and Moulin

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The offline wikipedia, Moulin. Marnie Webb offers more post conference call reflections. DEMO 07 NpTech Bytes: DEMO 07 is a conference focused on cutting edge and emerging technology, mostly for the business sector. Some blog posts about the conference tagged with nptech can be found here , here , here , and here.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

They also happen face to face at the NTC and other conferences. A wiki is a great low-cost solution if your community is comfortable with it technically. Some are huge. Some are successful, but messy. The tag points to individual resources, but is that knowledge? That’s where curation comes in to lend a helping hand.

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Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Research community engagement

Google Research AI blog

We also help make global conferences accessible to more researchers around the world, for example, by funding 24 students this year to attend Deep Learning Indaba in Tunisia. At research conferences, Googlers serve on program committees and organize workshops, tutorials and numerous other activities to collectively advance the field.