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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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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. Decide what software to use for your wiki — consider the Wikispaces software available to eligible organizations through TechSoup. What Is a Wiki?

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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

To design a technology model that could address the spectrum of skill in the network would be a challenge. Over the years he designed all the data collection/management systems, a statewide computer network for staff, websites, phone systems, and whatever else was needed.

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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

What: The art of social instructional design. The community is hosted by Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer of SocialFish in collaboration with Omnipress. Here's some reflections on the Webinar: Overcoming the Strawberry Jam Problem With Social Design. I think you can design around it. Social Instructional Design.

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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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WeAreMedia: Reflections on Working Wikily - Getting out of the way

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the design decisions in setting up the wiki was registration. I also set it so anyone could post a comment on the wikispace discussion threads, although there doesn't seem to be a lot of spontaneous discussion on the wikispaces feature except for the name change which had 54 responses. Levels of Collaboration.