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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

Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools.

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NTEN Webinar: Social Media Building Blocks

Amy Sample Ward

Wikipedia says: A webinar is a neologism to describe a specific type of web conference. A webinar can be collaborative [ 1 ] and include polling and question & answer sessions to allow full participation between the audience and the presenter. First, what’s a web-inar? Is sharing really caring?

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. Net Tuesdays became a series of national and international face-to-face meetings connecting industry and nonprofit techies. (An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). Google Maps. Podcasting.

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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. Capriza has developed what they call a virtualization-based approach that allows someone to make an internal organization mobile app for a department — in as little as a week.

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Campus Party H4SB — Hacking for Something Better Coming to US in 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is major emphasis on what is possible when ingenuity, 11K gb internet connections and collaborative teams intersect. These are best of breed young hackers doing what comes naturally, incited and incented by blazing connections, motivated collaborators, cash reward challenges and future employers’ avid attention.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. The Second C: Collaboration. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action.

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The NonProfitTimes - eNewsletter-t's Wiki-World

AFP Blog

The NonProfitTimes - eNewsletter: "Taking advantage of the first revision of Form 990 in years, the National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) and Guidestar have created a Wiki page to solicit comments and suggestions for the new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) form.Like Wikipedia, the collaborative online encyclopedia, users can log on with a (..)

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