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More online than local: Why I love Google Docs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last month, when I had my horrible computer crash, I lost one or two documents and a few emails. I've been using online wikis - documents and more recently, spreadsheet wikis for the past year. And, Google documents allows you export and import pretty easily without too much reformating hell. I'm not complaining.

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Attention #NPdataNerds: Report back from the first-ever Do Good Data Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She turned to Facebook to ask how we might document the day for those who couldn’t join in person. After much discussion about Etherpad, Piratepad, okfnpad, Storify, and other tools, we settled on good old Google docs. Andrew is already cooking up some big changes for next year’s conference, so don’t miss out. right here.

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Advice for Consultants - Part 2

Robert Weiner

3) Find resources to build your skills, and give them time every week: webinars, listservs, online classes, books, etc. document your work (for yourself, and the client): configurations/settings, inventories, assessments, options, recommendations, decisions, plans, budgets, meeting minutes. - Attend conferences.

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Wikis: What, When, Why

Museum 2.0

After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? Our final task involved emailing a word document to the convenors. Wikis are great for documenting events with many parallel content tracks. a conference). Why did this wiki work?

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September Net2 Think Tank Roundup: Curating Content

Tech Soup

I always remind people to document their live events with photos or video. tried turning email discussions on listservs into blog posts and opting to record conference call presentations. find these, we use a combination of SlideShare, Google Docs, and tagging to keep things connected [.] I've also.

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