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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nancy observes: For one shot interactions where you cannot expect a lot of investment in learning tools or processes, the conference call (land line and/or VOIP) is still the dominant choice, but I try to include SOMETHING visual in the mix. I posted a question on the educator listserv and there doesn't seem to be one.

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Forum One Staff Share OpenGov Ideas

Forum One

Advancing students would be granted a paid summer internship at the Department of State ensuring that the reward is linked to both their educational and professional development. The community would be serviced by select USAID ambassadors, which may include acting foreign service officers, as well as USAID approved educators.

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Social Network Management Systems?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Crabgrass is written in Ruby on Rails, and has groups, messaging and wikis, among other features. It combines all the academic features of a CMS and the learning tools found in an LMS with the networking tools of a secure social network and other Web 2.0 tools (blogs, wikis, etc.). 3 Takeo 04.28.09