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Learning In Public On Wikis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It’s hard because you have to be very disciplined about noticing and documenting your practice. Wikis can be terrific platforms for supporting professional learning in real time, but it requires a comfort level with “ learning in public.&# Learning in private is what most of us did in school.

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Wiki Wiki Means Quickly in Hawaiin

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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Reduce Travel with Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

From a GreenTech perspective, we mean something specific: a succession of online sessions over time that allow people to communicate and work together on long-term or shared projects, often by developing common work-plans, documents, presentations, meeting notes, and other work products that all participants can use whenever and wherever they want.

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Nonprofits Live Recap: Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

The team uses tools such as Huddle and Zoho to list and assign tasks, Google Docs and Wikispaces to share documents and other resources, and ReadyTalk and GoToMeeting for internal team training. Wikispaces. Wikispaces. Collaborate with Wikis. where blog recaps and upcoming events can be found. SAP Streamwork.

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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. Wikis are just great for that! Some folks just aren't comfortable with using wikis yet. I'm not complaining.

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Critical Friends and A Reflection Process for Working Wikily

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

currently very curious about the interplay of blog (as socially contructed time based creatures) and wikis (which. After reviewing the wiki documents and process so far, he has posed two questions so far. When do you as the wiki facilitator get out of the way? I responded with don't just poke - be a critical friend!

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Your first blog could even document your learnings and reflections about Web.20! Openness - ????A

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