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Learning In Public On Wikis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the past five years, I have created many wikis to support online learning projects and wikispaces has been one of my platforms of choice because it is easy to use, free, and integrate other social media content. Peer Learning: The wiki is used a platform to capture group knowledge about practice.

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Nonprofits Live Recap: Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

The team uses tools such as Huddle and Zoho to list and assign tasks, Google Docs and Wikispaces to share documents and other resources, and ReadyTalk and GoToMeeting for internal team training. Wikispaces. Wikispaces. A Few Good Tools for Sharing Files with Distributed Groups. Additional Resources. SAP Streamwork.

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Reduce Travel with Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

See a good deal more about the new cloud computing online services and other ways of working collaboratively in the TechSoup article: A Few Good Tools for Sharing Files with Distributed Groups. Wikispaces : Wikis are a new type of website that allows multiple people to add or modify content. Additional Resources.

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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. Small Group Collaboration.

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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. " The description is: Public broadcasting isn't the only industry that's exploring the role of social media in their work.

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DIY Online Collaboration: Wikis

Tech Soup

Typical wiki communities are work groups within a company, educators and students, and hobbyists. Decide what software to use for your wiki — consider the Wikispaces software available to eligible organizations through TechSoup. Software for creating wikis is easy to use and is available in both open-source and proprietary forms.

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More online than local: Why I love Google Docs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, with google groups you have an option of reading via a RSS feed. So, I've used wikispaces, pbwiki, socialtext, jotspot, and writely (now google docs). I still read listservs because that's the only place I can find a particular people/peers sharing information about a particular topic.

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