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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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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. Google Maps. Most of the content was (and is) user generated. Citizen journalism.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. The Second C: Collaboration. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action.

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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Projects #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s It is intended to do all of this in an open, collaborative manner which will engage and support the work of numerous researchers, grad students, government policy wonks and others. GEO will eventually include data, and data on Google maps, for: 1. We think it?s

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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Project #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s It is intended to do all of this in an open, collaborative manner which will engage and support the work of numerous researchers, grad students, government policy wonks and others. GEO will eventually include data, and data on Google maps, for: 1. We think it?s

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NpTech Tag Summary: Putting the U in YouTube, Some Cool Events, and Electronic Sheep Dreams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AFP Blog points the Mindblizzard Blog story about how the Dutch Red Cross will begin fundraising in Second Life using Yike Strum , a top model, as their Red Cross ambassador. Robin Good has a nice roundup of affordable Web Conferencing Tools and a useful comparison chart in a google spreadsheet. Britt Bravo covers it here.

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Wikis: What, When, Why

Museum 2.0

The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project.

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