Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

This makes me more comfortable for me to open my laptop and take notes. Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. Some takeaways about emergent collaboration: Having a shared goal can really catalyzed the group, without it you get interesting random behavior.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

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. One Laptop Per Child (just launched that year). The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. Google Maps.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

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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