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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. Additional Resources. SAP Streamwork. Microsoft Office. Microsoft Lync Server.

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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. Over the past five years, I have created many wikis to support online learning projects and wikispaces has been one of my platforms of choice because it is easy to use, free, and integrate other social media content.

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

Tech Soup

That means people who translate documents wouldn't be considered online volunteers, because they aren't actually using the Internet for their service, they are using their skills. An online collaborative space like wikispaces? If you have a favorite networking tool for working with volunteers, we would love to hear about it?

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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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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. Techsoup is hosting an online event about Nonprofits and Wikis on November 1-3. I've written a lot of about using Web2.0

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Critical Friends and A Reflection Process for Working Wikily

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After reviewing the wiki documents and process so far, he has posed two questions so far. With wikispaces, it is important to use the overall site monitoring features so you know when people make contributions. He brings the lens of experience of a community building process for a new media curriculum. s feelings of ???responsibility???

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