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Great reads from around the web on April 28th

Amy Sample Ward

"Show why Earth's not effed" and get inspired from the stories of those making change. We hope to establish a collaborative learning community — with plenty of space for ideas and wisdom of the field. Beth has a great post discussing some of the changes and how they impact your organization on facebook.

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Build a Digital Ecology–Promote IT Collaboration Across Your Organization

.orgSource

This is a tall order—however, to maximize the impact of your investment these fundamental changes are necessary. They should be agile thinkers who can act quickly and are not challenged by a change in direction. Offer incentives for learning and recognize and reward the power users.

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How To Focus When You Work in An Open Office Space

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Gensler study suggests that employees need four different work areas to be productive: focus, collaborate, learn, and socialize. Such spaces offer great benefits for collaboration, transparency, knowledge sharing, learning, creativity, and team building.

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Peeragogy: Self Organized Peer Learning in Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Peeragogy comes from Howard Rheingold via his Social Media Classroom and he explains it here: When I participated in the Change: Education, Learning, and Technology MOOC , I grew even more interested in the intersection of digital media/networks with self-directed learners and collaborative learning methods.

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Share Files and Collaborate Online with Box

Tech Soup

Teach for America , The International Rescue Committee , and Kiva all use Box for content management and collaboration. Learn more about their stories and watch a video detailing their work on the Box website.??. Learn more about each of these organizations on the Box blog. spanhidden.

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Thank You Fernanda Ibarra: She's Number 7!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am a multiplayer giving a lot of focus into the Web (online communities, socialnetworks, collaborative learning). If 100 Facebook friends (or their friends) donate $10 (or more - so I can get back to regularly scheduled blogging on other topics and client work) and spread the word to their friends, we can change her life forever!

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7 Reasons Nonprofits Need iPads

Forum One

Despite the shortcomings in Apple's v1 product, I believe that the iPad — and successors from other vendors — will change how people interact with online content. It could spawn innovative interactive applications that support collaborative learning.

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