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Nonprofits Live Recap: Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

The October edition of Nonprofits Live examined the topic of online collaboration. Online collaborating requires an extra dose of the same skills we use when we collaborate in person and a number of tools to bridge the physical distance between collaborators. Barriers to Collaboration. Useful Collaboration Tools.

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11 Ways to Make Conference Planning Easier

Care2

Are you planning a conference? It seems like nonprofits are perpetually planning conferences. As a conference organizer, even when the conference finally ends, you breathe a sigh of relief only to realize that you have to update the conference website, send thank you notes, and put out your next ask.

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Making Facebook Groups Rock for Nonprofits – Guest Post by Miriam Brosseau

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Docs are like super-simple wikis, and probably the most truly collaborative aspect of a Facebook group. Because they are collaboratively editable, they are great for anything that requires a teasing out a group voice – agendas, statements or announcements, etc. Finally, events, like docs, also have a comment stream attached.

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A Note About Those Notes

NTEN

A reveal of the magic behind the 15NTC collaborative notes URL creation. For a number of years at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), we have created “Collaborations Notes” for each of the sessions. This is a Google Doc that anyone can access and contribute to before, during, or after the session. Ash Shepherd.

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The Advantages Of Online Strategic Planning

fusionSpan

By holding shorter sessions via video conference over a period of time, we have found that organizations actually make progress more quickly and end up with better results. All of this is done virtually combining video conferencing with a collaborative tool to capture notes and ideas along the way.

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Vote for these SXSW Nonprofit Panels

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What’s Up Doc? With the launch of “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” co-authored with KD Paine , we thought we do a reprise of our popular panel in 2009, “ Social Media, Nonprofit, ROI Poetry Slam.” New Tools for Digital Justice - [link] – coordinated by Mike Medow.

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July Is Web Conferencing Month

Tech Soup

Read on to learn what web conferencing is, why you should also use audio conferencing, how Adobe Connect stacks up, and tips and tricks for wildly successful web conferences. Web conferencing excels where rich collaboration and close interaction are needed and teams are dispersed. Web Conferencing. Webcam sharing (multiple users).