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Collaborative Models for Capturing and Sharing Conference Notes at Nonprofit Gatherings

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So, I wonder what collaborative thinking through our fingers might look like when it comes to capturing and sharing notes from conferences, dialogs, meetings or informal gatherings. This model can also be scaled to an entire blog community platform. Take for example, the netsquared conference.

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3 Answers for a Young Activist

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Collaboration. Whether it takes the form of social media tool s , like wikis , or a conference, like Opportunity Collaboration , or a generation , or an economic necessity, I think collaboration is going to be one of the hot trends within and outside of the social change field. Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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Funding Personal and Social Transformation: Paula Sammons, Seasons Fund

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Your mission statement says, "The Fund, a collaborative effort led by several private foundations, springs from a shared belief that cultivating a rich inner life is both a worthy end in itself and an overlooked pathway to heightening the impact, effectiveness, and sustainability of social change initiatives." Cross posted from BlogHer.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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FORGE uses a collaborative, rather than top-down model, to serve refugees' needs, and much has been written in the blogosphere and media about Erickson's "radical transparency" around the organization's financial challenges. You use a process that on your website was described as the, "collaborative project planning process."

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Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Well look at the underlying technologies that will make this possible, how it will evolve, and the business models that will support it. Panelists: Ken Fisher, Editor-in-Chief , Ars Technica, Alexis Ohanian, Product Manager of Awesome , reddit.com, Drew Curtis, The Member , Fark.com, and Erin Kotecki Vest, BlogHer 10. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Interview: Zen and the art of Nonprofit Technology

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Michelle most recently published a white paper in collaboration with NTEN called " Let's Talk: How Open APIs Can Change How Nonprofits Manage Data " It is a topic of critical importance in the nonprofit tech space. I think that the nonprofit tech community in general operates a lot out of a gift economy model.

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Stop Cyberbullying Day: Some Inspiration from the Blogosphere

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Hats off to Lisa, Jory, and Elisa (as well as to my fellow BlogHer CE editors) for posting such brilliant thoughts about this topic. shows what amazing things can happen through collaboration. If we want important breakthroughs to happen faster, we must promote effective techno-personal and collaborative skills in the classroom.

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