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Great reads from February 19th through February 27th

Amy Sample Ward

5 Ways to Collaborate on Documents Online in Real Time - London Net Tuesday's upcoming event on 3 March focuses on online collaboration tools and strategies. Here's a great review of some of the tools available for shared documents. Here's an interview with Danielle on NWF's use of Twitter.

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Great reads from around the web on October 27th

Amy Sample Ward

So, when the ICT-KM Program was tasked with organising the social reporting for the Share Fair on Agricultural and Rural Development Knowledge in Africa in Addis Ababa in October 2010, it was clear that it was high time that we document the social reporting team’s experiences and lessons learned in a generic guide. Event management?

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Community-Driven Social Impact: Presentation & Workshop at Amplified Leicester

Amy Sample Ward

. • To provide practical examples of how collaborative technologies can be exploited in a city context. The group is in an interesting position, preparing to move from the incubated group that it has been thus far to a more open group meeting less often (moving from every other week to once a month) in collaboration with CreativeCoffee.

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How To: DIY Community & Content Mapping

Amy Sample Ward

Over the last few of years I’ve had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. So, I thought I’d take the time to document my recommended processes here! A note about DIY.

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Community-Driven Social Impact: Presentation, Case Studies, and Workshop

Amy Sample Ward

Especially with the increased use of social media tools to help community building activity around causes or specific organizations. Where are they: which platforms or tools do they use and when do they use them? Don’t ever go for a new, shiny, cool social media platform or tool simply because you’ve heard others talking about.

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Great reads from around the web on May 24th

Amy Sample Ward

We’ve cracked the competition process open, leveraging a combination of workflows and social tools to produce a compelling experience of real participation in key activities. . " Making Stories Work for Your Org: What the Data Says | NTEN – "Don't count on a personal story to transform your fundraising appeal.

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The 45 Social by Social Propositions

Amy Sample Ward

Over the last few months, I’ve been collaborating with Andy Gibson and David Wilcox , and Clive Holtham and Nigel Courtney from Cass Business School, on a book about using new technologies for social benefit projects. Think about mindset, language and skills before you think about tools, features and screen designs. Start small.

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