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Reduce Travel with Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

This updated blog post from the campaign explores some ways to increase online collaboration and also reduce travel and work efficiency. Online collaboration is one of these generic terms that seems to lose meaning the more people use it. Why Is Online Collaboration Green? Cloud Services for Collaborating.

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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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DIY Online Collaboration: Wikis

Tech Soup

A wiki is a website maintained collaboratively by a community of contributors focusing on a particular subject or project. Decide what software to use for your wiki — consider the Wikispaces software available to eligible organizations through TechSoup. What Is a Wiki? Examples of Wikis.

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Watch this Webinar About Wikis

Tech Soup

hosted a webinar called "Collaborate with Wikis" which was recorded and can be accessed here. We had Sarah Cove from Wikispaces explain what wikis are, how they work, and describe the benefits that organizations discover when they use them. On Wednesday, Techsoup Talks!

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How to Work Across a Distributed Team

Tech Soup

Working across distributed teams is all about collaborative work with our colleagues who may be in different cities or even countries. on Wikispaces. of Susan Tenby and Jessica Dally on TechSoup how is a distributed organization. Webinar recording: Online Collaboration Tools. page for online collaboration tools.

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When Words Get in the Way (Like "Virtual Volunteering")

Tech Soup

Some people define oh-so-strictly: remote volunteers who never come on-site at an organization, and all of their service is conducted online. An online collaborative space like wikispaces? If you have a favorite networking tool for working with volunteers, we would love to hear about it? Is it Facebook?

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Wiki Wiki Means Quickly in Hawaiin

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They have set up a wiki for the event on wikispaces, my favorite hosted wiki application. (I Podcamp - check out how the conference documentation was organized. Amy Gahran's wiki for blogher posts - to organize them from the huge tag stream that came out of the conference. Ah, but there's the rub. It requires a culture shift.

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