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Reduce Travel with Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

In 2010, TechSoup's GreenTech initiative held a travel reduction campaign that we called our TeleGreen Your Work. This updated blog post from the campaign explores some ways to increase online collaboration and also reduce travel and work efficiency. The environmental impact of working collaboratively online is to reduce travel.

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Nonprofits Live Recap: Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

Kristy Graves is a member of TechSoup's Online Community and Social Media team working across the organization to oversee social media conversations and support ongoing collaboration for the community team's online live events and various social media channels. Wikispaces. Wikispaces. Additional Resources.

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Critical Friends and A Reflection Process for Working Wikily

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm very interested in learning how different types of networks or communities work in a networked way - this whole notion of working wikily. wondering if i might poke my nose into this knowledge building experiment. He brings the lens of experience of a community building process for a new media curriculum.

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DIY Online Collaboration: Wikis

Tech Soup

Have you ever thought about building an online space where different people can easily share their expertise on a subject or project? If creating such a resource seems out of your league, you might want to consider building a wiki. Typical wiki communities are work groups within a company, educators and students, and hobbyists.

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A Nonprofit Version of Widget Box?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I remembered that almost a year ago I was working on screencast about widgets for nonprofits to build community and had set up a wikispace called nonprofit widgets. A directory of developers with rating systems would help nonprofits connect with folks to build the widgets. Great to have the tools, but you need a strategy.

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10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project

Have Fun - Do Good

If you have a do-good project, or a small nonprofit that you want to promote, fundraise for, or build an online community around using social media, your first step is to create a plan. Build web traffic? Wikispaces , PBworks ) Using more tools isn't necessarily better. That said, many tools work well together.

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Open Source Thinking: A Remix Wikitation of Marnie Webb's Ten Ways To Use Web2.0 Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is a different mindset: "Ah darn, someone else has got there first" versus "Great, don't have to do that, I can build it on it!" You can export jpegs to flickr and create set , you can upload a powerpoint into slideshare or create a wikispace for the presentation or wikitation. " For me, it???s