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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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When Words Get in the Way (Like "Virtual Volunteering")

Tech Soup

That's why, at the start of any workshop, after the first poll of the room or the webinar attendees, I offer my definition of virtual volunteering: Volunteers completing tasks, in whole or in part, off-site from the organization being assisted, using any Internet-connected device (computer, smart phone, etc.). Is it Facebook?

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Case Study: Transforming A National Network Culture Through Technology

NTEN

We were all tired of endless, expensive phone calls and conferences that had not enabled parent centers to become lean, mean technology machines. Over the years he designed all the data collection/management systems, a statewide computer network for staff, websites, phone systems, and whatever else was needed.

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The Horizon Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The purpose is to promote wider scale discussion and pursuit of collaborative projects among the K12 classrooms. Mobile Phones. The Horizon Project Wikispace is where teams of students and teachers from around the globe working on action learning experiments using these emerging technologies. Social Networking. Virtual Worlds.

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The community is hosted by Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer of SocialFish in collaboration with Omnipress. They're done on the phone and chat. yes, pbwiki, wikispaces, and wetpaint have free versions). once and it was disaster, best to use to supplement discussion in between phone calls). It has 400 members.

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