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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sometimes it doesn't support the process of collaboration effectively for all the reasons we already know. That's why Nancy White's post on most useful synchronous online facilitation practices really caught my eye. And, how does a virtual world tool help or hinder effective online collaboration or a synchronuous online communication?

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Go Green with Video, Audio, and Web Conferencing

Tech Soup

Web conferencing, voice and video conferencing, and other types of remote collaboration have become a mainstay in the modern workplace. So far, the Skype premium mobile phone app allows only group audio calls. TechSoup’s Communicate and Collaborate product offerings. The cost of travel is becoming more expensive.

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Making Facebook Groups Rock for Nonprofits – Guest Post by Miriam Brosseau

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Facebook groups mostly function asynchronously, but a synchronous activity now and again can really rally the troops. Docs are like super-simple wikis, and probably the most truly collaborative aspect of a Facebook group. Expect to get answers both in the poll itself and in the comments, and run with both! Group chat.

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5 Takeaways from the bbcon 2020 Virtual Higher Ed Super Session

Connection Cafe

They were able to meet via phone and social media channels, a s well as in person while remaining s ocially distance. . To aid COVID-19 vaccine research , institutions bypassed guidelines or proprietary processes for sharing research to best support the collaborative efforts to produce a vaccine. .

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Connect with TechSoup at NCVS!

Tech Soup

Watchitoo — The new tool behind the TechSoup NPlive web series offers video from many sources integrated with images, YouTube and social chat, Q&A, and webinar tools including a collaborative whiteboard. We think Watchitoo. Tweetchats — A TweetChat room opens with a hashtag like our recent #NPtagging conversation.

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8 Tips for Facilitating Nonprofit Hybrid Meetings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The options include: Flex (in office 1-3 days for meetings/collaboration) and Fully Remote (work from anywhere). We think of meeting facilitation as a real-time or synchronous activity where a group of people exchange ideas or discuss topics. Digital space becomes more important than physical space. Hybrid Meeting Facilitation.

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Metaverse Museum? Guest Post on Second Life and Museums by Sibley Verbeck

Museum 2.0

Just as with the telephone, television, the Web, mobile phones, e-mail, etc., Collaborative Experience. The primary value of virtual worlds is not only being in a place but acting freely within that space in social collaboration with other people. So what does it all mean, and where’s the reality within the virtual reality hype?