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New SSIR Post: Will 2009 Bring Social Learning Spaces to Life?

Amy Sample Ward

When I talk with organizations about how they are using social media tools to engage online, whether they’ve already started or not, I find that the most common approach is to set up that Facebook group, add a blog to the website, or even set up a wiki for an event. But that’s it. For the full post, visit the SSIR blog here.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: Shout-outs, Contests, Wikis

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Flickr: cogdogblog Judy Hallman always rocks the power of wikis for knowledge aggregation and collaboration. She just provided a nice summary of her 501 Tech Club Triangle meeting notes in wiki format , so others can help add to and annotate them. 2009 NTENny Spotlight: David Krumlauf.

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Great reads from around the web on November 25th

Amy Sample Ward

" Five Social Media Fundraising Trends for 2009 – Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media – "Over the past six months, I've been collaborating on a book with Allison Fine, titled "The Networked Nonprofit" and we've been sifting through stories, research, and seeing many patterns. ."

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Blog Action Day 2009 Climate Change: Technology in the Climate Movement

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Today's Blog Action Day 2009 ! Amy Sample Ward recaps the lively discussion and shares some excellent resources like this Climate Debate Map , the Drupal.org profile of TckTckTck and the Climate Lab Wiki. The annual event's focus this year is Climate Change, an the issue that will impact all of our lives.

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Collaborative Paper: What to do in the nonprofit sector to offset the economic crash.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Marty Kearns has set up a collaborative paper and discussion on a wiki. It will be the only growing market in 2009. It's part of the Foundation Center's aggregated page of articles, podcasts, data, and resources that Focus on the Financial Crisis. You can updates through RSS. The paper is called Cascading Failure.

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Guest Post: Celebrating Beth’s Five Years As Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An online conversation led to a phone call, and in March 2009, Beth arrived here for what was originally envisioned as a nine-month Visiting Scholarship. She manages to make everyone feel like they have wisdom to bring to the table (or the wiki). She makes everyone feel like failure is okay.

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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps? Our Plugin for the Confluence wiki already operates like this; if you’ve bought the plugin, you are completely independent of our website.

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