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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!) 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.

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My NTC Session Planning Wikis.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've created a wikitation site (presentation as wiki) to house the presentation materials and for some basic primers/factsheets I hope to write. The planning wiki (very much a work in progress right now) is here. #3 We will then create a screencast, with audience participation, in the style of a cooking show. (No,

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New Study: Social Media Use By Foundation Leaders

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Other findings include: More established forms of online communications — e-newsletters and Listservs — are regularly used by foundation CEOs at a much higher rate (65 percent and 45 percent, respectively) than the newer social media tools. What I really like is that you can compare different social channels across foundations pretty easily.

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The Zoetica Salon: A Peer Learning Community for Nonprofits and Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In those days, we used listservs and online discussion software, but platform matter. Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field. It was the free and open sharing of knowledge, insights, quick tips, and how-tos.

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More online than local: Why I love Google Docs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been using online wikis - documents and more recently, spreadsheet wikis for the past year. Wikis are just great for that! Some folks just aren't comfortable with using wikis yet. One colleague told me that they were allergic to wikis! I'm not going to ditch email or listservs anytime soon.

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Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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Getting More out of Online & Offline Events

Forum One

Set up an event wiki. Wikis can take the shape of the event and its participants and range from more to less formal. If the event is offline, conduct follow-up online discussion using a simple listserve or a group collaboration tool to keep the lively discussions going. We've got a number of presentations from various events.

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