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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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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. We began the session by filing out of the conference room to the parking lot outside for an interactive exercise called " The Dance Floor and the Balcony." He is currently facilitating strategic planning for the wikimedia movement.

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The Future of Cloud Computing: 5 Startups to Watch from BoxWorks

Tech Soup

BoxWorks is the annual conference for Box.com, one of the emerging cloud file storage and collaboration companies similar to Dropbox and Huddle. It can find PDFs or any other document type located in Box, your computer, SharePoint, or anywhere else an organization keeps its files. You just search like you would on Google.

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The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia.

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

NTEN

It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets.

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Use TechSoup's Content for Free!

Tech Soup

We think this kind of information sharing is the essence of nonprofits and libraries' collaborative spirit. Lots of organizations now use Creative Commons licensing, including the World Bank , Wikipedia , and MIT plus many other universities. Why TechSoup's Content Is Creative Commons-Licensed. We are in pretty good company.

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

Forum One

It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets.

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