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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. Wikipedia would not be possible without the support of its volunteer contributors, who help keep the site's content current. What Is a Wiki?

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How to Work Across a Distributed Team

Tech Soup

Working across distributed teams is all about collaborative work with our colleagues who may be in different cities or even countries. Our moderator will lead the discussion and you can either watch all the action or chat to your hearts content. on Wikispaces. Webinar recording: Online Collaboration Tools.

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More online than local: Why I love Google Docs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A good deal of my work involves collaboration with remotes colleagues and includes tasks as writing articles, curriculum, research, etc. Not everyone I work with has moved away from Word/Excel -- so I'm finding myself with one foot in the web-based collaboration tools and the other foot stuck in Microsoft Office.

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The Horizon Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The purpose is to promote wider scale discussion and pursuit of collaborative projects among the K12 classrooms. The report identifies six areas of emerging technology over the next one-to-five years: User-Created Content. Several small scale discussions via Skype will be had with the teachers and these journalists. Social Networking.

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I blogged about the content last week. The community is hosted by Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer of SocialFish in collaboration with Omnipress. From my experience in doing technology trainings, no matter well you describe levels and content, you always get a range of experience, comfort, and skill. . Yes check here ).

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Critical Friends and A Reflection Process for Working Wikily

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

1) Bystander: Reads only (2) Gives Feedback: May add a comment to a blog post or add a link to a wiki page (3) Joins the community: Signs up for a swarm list (4) Joins the expertise map/advisory group: Fills out a profile and identifies a module (5) Participants in the collaborative writing. what module would you most like to contribute to???

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