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Getting meta: Why the #CommBuild chats have evolved for three years and counting

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In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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What are learning platforms?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

An LMS, or learning platform, is a system that is designed to facilitate some sort of learning process over the web. Some, especially those that are very content/document heavy, have become familiar with Document Management Systems (DMS). What they might not be so familiar with are Learning Management Systems (LMS).

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What I’m learning

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There are issues that relate to encoding, fonts, and character sets, machine translation, interfaces to facilitate human translation, issues of workflow, volunteer and project management, and a whole host of other issues. It is actually pretty mind-boggling.

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Michelle, the consultant

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I think of myself in these terms: I educate, facilitate, mediate, and problem-solve. I kinda thought that was surprising, but in thinking about what I write, I realize that people could get the wrong idea (or, more accurately, fail to get the right idea.) And, I guess truthfully, the blurb on my consulting site is kinda dry.

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Getting meta: Why the #CommBuild chats have evolved for three years and counting

NTEN

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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NPTECH Punk

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I got a chance to test this out in a more orchestrated way (as opposed to the usual consultant/client interactions) when I facilitated/taught an OpenOffice.org “untraining&# earlier this month at Google HQ in NYC (some more details are on the Google Blog.) I learned a lot.

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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps? And, further, efforts like Adobe AIR, and Microsoft Silverlight , are bringing full-fledged desktop application functionality to applications in the cloud.

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