Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

This is the final post in our series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we look at determining the value of creating a collaboration community. The second part explores challenges in facilitating collaboration. The world of collaboration platforms is a bit of a jungle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2007

I'm mentoring in Nancy White's online facilitation workshop and she just shared a pointer to this tool. But, you can create a collaborative mindmap online using this application. after John Smith pinged me and Nancy about an experiment with this tool. Like the same thing when you use a wiki for that?

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2010

hosted a webinar called "Collaborate with Wikis" which was recorded and can be accessed here. I interviewed David Beall from SFHomeless.net and Beth Duttlinger from Alliance Library System who shared information about their experience creating and using a wiki. On Wednesday, Techsoup Talks!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

"What are the best ways to foster collaboration?" How to pick the best tools for your particular collaboration challenges. Collaborative Conversations have been convened in client companies such as Genentech, NASA, The National Park Service at Yosemite, UCSC, and The Center for Interfaith Relations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2006

Techsoup is hosting an online event about Nonprofits and Wikis on November 1-3. They have set up a wiki for the event on wikispaces, my favorite hosted wiki application. (I buzzwords and someone asked what the word wiki meant. The k-12 wiki she set up has some excellent resources in it. Ah, but there's the rub.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 17, 2010

It seems obvious that there should be a tool we can use to help us here. I have spent the last week or two trying more of these online project management tools than I can count. A task management system folks will actually use - When they finish a task, will they remember to go to this tool and check it off? Basecamp. .

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 17, 2010

It seems obvious that there should be a tool we can use to help us here. I have spent the last week or two trying more of these online project management tools than I can count. A task management system folks will actually use - When they finish a task, will they remember to go to this tool and check it off? Basecamp. .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I decided it was time to do a roundup of the discussion and collaboration alternatives that exist at this point. I’m focusing on tools that are free and open source – tools that you would install on your own server, or your own private cloud. 2) Elgg: Elgg is a powerful open source social network tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

Check out the NGO Learning Wiki. It was created by Greg Cohen to share resources he has identified while exploring tools for the members of the Association of Private Voluntary Organization Financial Managers. Another, more focused on the tools of collaboration, is KnowledgeManagement. There is substantial overlap.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

By Steve Backman, President, Database Designs To close out our month-long look at some of the best tools for nonprofits, Steve Backman tells you about some of his favorite day-to-day software. Favorite software tools are all about managing processes fluidly. Dropbox also has essential team collaboration built in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning. Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Simple wiki services to foster collaboration across locations and countries. Accounting software — perfect for organizations that work across borders. Digital images that help you capture and share your organization's work in action. Spanish-Language Products Available at TechSoup: read more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

With the entire network engaged, the leaders worked together to create a report to document the lessons they were learning from implementing leadership programs for reproductive health, through a new wiki. Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

These range from private blogs to share privileged information and invite input; to online communities around face-to-face events; to project and partner collaboration; to communities of practice focused on specific topics. It approximates the “out of the box” functionality of Jive, and integrates a significant suite of tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

I'll be collaborating with colleagues online to further plan our sessions and online materials. In this session we'll explore some uses for screencasting, the tools you'll need to create one, and tips and tricks for making them work. Overview of the tools needed. There is just no replacement for face-to-face connections.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

These range from private blogs to share privileged information and invite input; to online communities around face-to-face events; to project and partner collaboration; to communities of practice focused on specific topics. It approximates the “out of the box” functionality of Jive, and integrates a significant suite of tools.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

We all know how challenging collaborative writing is: Jefferson carried around a copy of his original draft of the Declaration of Independence until his dying day, so people could see how it read before Franklin and his committee ruined it by putting it in the form we know today. a month to create and maintain your own wiki site!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

My colleague Loretta Donovan pinged me to let me know of her newest blog and her take on the topic of " Capturing Collaborative Knowledge from Nonprofit Events." Using tools and a process, the words, ideas, experience, sounds, etc., Guide To The Use Of Wikis At Events, (briefing 104)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2008

My colleagues in the UK David Wilcox and Dave Briggs have started an open process to develop some tool kits for organizations and social media. The etoolkit wiki is here. through an open, collaborative process." The toolkit has 3 components: The toolkit itself, a prepared pack of information. A facilitated workshop.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Nowhere is this truer than in the online collaboration space. In cases where an organization wants to engage in collaboration online but doesn't know exactly how, they could certainly evaluate the options and do a detailed software selection to find the "right" solution. This is the work that matters. Want mapping?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. Here's a clip of Joe Trippi explaining how web media tools are impacting political campaigns and movements.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

We help the human rights movement speak truth to power, because we believe each story of human rights abuse is a tool for justice. Maintain and develop our team's automated data processing and analysis infrastructure (POSIX-environment command line tools built on bash, make, python, and R).

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2009

When I talk with organizations about how they are using social media tools to engage online, whether they’ve already started or not, I find that the most common approach is to set up that Facebook group, add a blog to the website, or even set up a wiki for an event. But that’s it. For the full post, visit the SSIR blog here.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

" Five Social Media Fundraising Trends for 2009 – Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media – "Over the past six months, I've been collaborating on a book with Allison Fine, titled "The Networked Nonprofit" and we've been sifting through stories, research, and seeing many patterns.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Nowhere is this truer than in the online collaboration space. In cases where an organization wants to engage in collaboration online but doesn't know exactly how, they could certainly evaluate the options and do a detailed software selection to find the "right" solution. This is the work that matters. Want mapping?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

However, the tools continue to get better and better, and we are excited to begin working with Acquia's Drupal Commons , a recent entrant into the enterprise collaboration fray. functionality (blogs, documents, wikis, profiles, groups, etc) and can support open, partially open, and closed community sites. This hasn't changed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

I am participating in this year's " Connected Futures: New Social Strategies adn Tools for Communities of Practice " a five week online workshop for community managers, designers and conveners to explore social strategies and tools to support their work. Be sure to check out the Technology for Communities wiki too).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

So, I wonder what collaborative thinking through our fingers might look like when it comes to capturing and sharing notes from conferences, dialogs, meetings or informal gatherings. Event or Conference Wiki: An elegant approach is to set up a wiki and assign note takers to use it to capture notes during the session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Source: Nielsen Online The We Are Media Festival of Tools is starts the last week of work on the Nonprofit Social Media Toolbox with a focus on social networking tools and widgets and apps. So, go over to the wiki and add your best how-to resource and you could win a t-shirt. And perhaps nonprofits?)

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2011

Online tools now exist that make it possible for work teams to contribute from outside a traditional office setting. Chief among them: what tools would facilitate such an arrangement and how to cultivate a collaborative spirit among team members? What Tools Are Useful for Collaborating with Virtual Staff?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

How can we and how are we using social media tools for social change? “Social media is a storytelling tool, it’s let voices effected by climate change be heard around the world&# (@ amysampleward ). Social media is still the tool or the medium, not the change or the action. link] is a climate change wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development??? This focus comes on the wave of new web based tools and processes supporting knowledge sharing, knowledge management and organizational learning that have emerged. Call for Papers. KM4Dev Journal Vol. 3, Issue 1, June 2007. ???Stewarding

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Forum One

APRIL 22, 2010

At Forum One, we periodically examine dozens of collaboration platforms. Additions: Photos, wikis, video, search, email notifications, and chat. A social networking tool similar to an intranet, specializing in online collaboration. Tags: Influence Collaboration Tools & Software. www.groupsite.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2011

On October 17 and 18th, I will have the honor of participating in an interactive convening , hosted by GEO and the Monitor Institute focused on how funders can increase their impact by supporting networks and embracing more open and collaborative approaches to grantmaking. Check out these posts for background: Networked Funders Wikis.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Using tools that allow reposting, sharing, emailing and so on will give anyone the options they want to push your content around the web for you. Sometimes what you want to do and the tools at your disposal just don’t match. Collaboration via social media has enabled the program to come together and launch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

They can, for example, provide executive directors with leadership training, organizations with skills and tools to develop strategic plans, and networks with training on the latest technologies to scale their work across the globe. She manages to make everyone feel like they have wisdom to bring to the table (or the wiki).

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