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Free Webinar: Collaborate with Wikis

Tech Soup

With the global success of Wikipedia, many organizations are curious of the pros, cons, and technical details of how exactly wikis work. Pacific time will review the basics of wikis, including software options, best practices, advantages, as well as drawbacks. Tools Web 2.0 This free webinar on Wednesday, May 5, 11 a.m.

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Great reads from around the web on May 17th

Amy Sample Ward

million grant from the Stanton Foundation to work with academic experts on Wikipedia articles related to public policy, which could include everything from political theory to legislative history and issues such as health reform and science. Here are five tips from some of the best in the non-profit business."

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Citizen-Powered Response.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

Here was the Philanthropy News Network announcement of the project: "TechSoup NetSquared, the project to increase nonprofit effectiveness through Web-based social tools, has added a case study section to its website. 'Net2 The new platform and the new tools are all about communities. Tools social media Twitter NetSquared'

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Those whacky wikis

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

In our search for collaboration tools we've been looking at web sites that in one way or another make use of the wiki model - pages which are freely editable by a community of users. Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world.

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Great reads from around the web on August 15th

Amy Sample Ward

And it doesn't have to cost a ton: this video is made with basic tools that are free to use. Wikipedia Rolling Out Article Rating System – What Do You Think? – "Love it or hate it, you can't say Wikipedia is slow to innovate. Have you made a video like this?

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Reduce Travel with Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

I liked our 10 technology tips to help you reduce your need to travel, and also our travel reduction tools we compiled. All of the tools mentioned allow you to do things like store and share documents, calendars, project management schedules, and presentations online at no or low cost. Online Project Management Tools.