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DIY Online Collaboration: Wikis

Tech Soup

If creating such a resource seems out of your league, you might want to consider building a wiki. What Is a Wiki? A wiki is a website maintained collaboratively by a community of contributors focusing on a particular subject or project. By far the most recognized wiki is Wikipedia. Building a Wiki.

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Great reads from around the web on December 25th

Amy Sample Ward

UnConference and holiday discount | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – NonProfit 2.0 " Wikispaces Blog " Blog Archive " How Non-Profits Are Using Wikis – The Wikispaces Blog has some great examples of organizations using wikis in their work. "This NonProfit 2.0

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 " The year was 2005.

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Crowdsourcing: Community vs Crowd

Amy Sample Ward

Three specific examples that are very different include: Connectipedia : a wiki-based platform that allows anyone interested in philanthropy or social impact in the Pacific Northwest (or beyond) to share research, resources, information, or data about people, places and topics. What do you think?

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Alexandra Samuels is live blogging from Netsquared North

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Alexandra Samuels is live blogging from NetSquared North, a gathering of folks interested in non-profit technology issues who are in town for the Northern blogging conference. There is also a wiki.

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Got Social Media Policy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Altimeter Group has a good collection (although mostly corporate) on its wiki. Netsquared is running a thinktank on this topic and you contribute your ideas here. Charlene Li's Wiki of social Media Policies. The social media policy tool helps you with part of the of step 1. . Does your nonprofit have a social media policy?

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Mark Liu from NetSquared: Part 2

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

(. in which I continue to interview my former dorm-mate, Mark Liu, now the project manager for TechSoup's NetSquared initiative) [Me] What can you tell us about the April NetSquared conference? First, we hope to build a community of active participants in the NetSquared website over the coming months.