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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 May 17th

Amy Sample Ward

million grant from the Stanton Foundation to work with academic experts on Wikipedia articles related to public policy, which could include everything from political theory to legislative history and issues such as health reform and science. The Wikimedia Foundation, which finances and oversees the nonprofit site, received a $1.2

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The Muppet Wiki! One of the Ten Best Wiki Communities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Muppet Wiki. For the Making Media workshop I am doing next, I was in search of examples of how wikis might play a role in " Filmmaking 2.0 Interesting, Four-Eyed Monsters , the poster child for social media and filmmaking, does not appear to have a wiki. I found the Wikipedia entry for Ken Burns.

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Why is Skills Management Important?

Gyrus

Last week I defined skills management by referencing and summarizing an existing Wikipedia article. This week I’ll explain why skills management is important and I’ll begin by repeating Wiki’s definition of Skills Management: “ The practice of understanding, developing, and deploying people and their skills.

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Great reads from around the web on August 15th

Amy Sample Ward

Wikipedia Rolling Out Article Rating System – What Do You Think? – "Love it or hate it, you can't say Wikipedia is slow to innovate. Article raters have the option of self-identifying as a subject matter expert for whatever article they rate."

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Those whacky wikis

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

In our search for collaboration tools we've been looking at web sites that in one way or another make use of the wiki model - pages which are freely editable by a community of users. Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world.

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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. The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia.