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Nonprofits Live Recap: Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

The October edition of Nonprofits Live examined the topic of online collaboration. Online collaborating requires an extra dose of the same skills we use when we collaborate in person and a number of tools to bridge the physical distance between collaborators. Barriers to Collaboration. Useful Collaboration Tools.

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Reduce Travel with Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

This updated blog post from the campaign explores some ways to increase online collaboration and also reduce travel and work efficiency. Online collaboration is one of these generic terms that seems to lose meaning the more people use it. Why Is Online Collaboration Green? Cloud Services for Collaborating.

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DIY Online Collaboration: Wikis

Tech Soup

A wiki is a website maintained collaboratively by a community of contributors focusing on a particular subject or project. Typical wiki communities are work groups within a company, educators and students, and hobbyists. Begin by identifying what your community needs and articulate what the purpose of your wiki is.

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To The Twitterverse and Beyond: A Taxonomy of Twitter Tools from Brian Solis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's why I'm was so excited to see that Brian Solis and Jesse Thomas have collaborated on a "alpha" version of the "Twitterverse" of Twitter tools covering a broader taxonomy of uses - from relationship management to work flow support and beyond. I would love to see a clickable version.

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How to Work Across a Distributed Team

Tech Soup

As more of us do, we're finding new ways to communicate with colleagues who may be in distant locations. Working across distributed teams is all about collaborative work with our colleagues who may be in different cities or even countries. on Wikispaces. Community team wiki with a distributed team resource list.

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When Words Get in the Way (Like "Virtual Volunteering")

Tech Soup

That means a volunteer could perform most of his or her service for an organization on-site, but if he or she is doing some of the service from home - designing a logo, tagging photos with keywords, writing an article for a newsletter, participating in an online community of fellow volunteers - that person is also engaging in virtual volunteering.

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Case Study: Transforming A National Network Culture Through Technology

NTEN

All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability. Fast forward to Jan.