Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Description : Social media tools allow for people to connect: broadcasting messages to real time communication, online networking to offline collaboration.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2010

With the global success of Wikipedia, many organizations are curious of the pros, cons, and technical details of how exactly wikis work. This free webinar on Wednesday, May 5, 11 a.m. Pacific time will review the basics of wikis, including software options, best practices, advantages, as well as drawbacks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. The intent of the exercise (besides getting us to move around) was to help reflect and learn about self-organizing group collaboration. The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle. That's the vision for his company and work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2005

Wouldn't using a wiki be a great platform to collaborate on nonprofit technology standards ? Deborah Finn has fallen in love with Wikis and has started an entry for nonprofit technology.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

Instead editing is, or should be, a collaboration — where multiple perspectives combine to shape content so that it can better connect with audiences. This doesn’t mean you need to turn your copy into a Wikipedia article. That’s not how we should approach editing.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 23, 2008

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?

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. (An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). Google Maps. Podcasting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

BoxWorks is the annual conference for Box.com, one of the emerging cloud file storage and collaboration companies similar to Dropbox and Huddle. I envision a magical time when we'll all be our own little Wikipedias. It featured five startup companies that gave a glimpse into where the cloud is taking us. Please log in and tell us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Paul Buchheit is the created of Gmail and Adsense and has set up collaborative process to get advice on how he should donate "a bunch of money." He isn't relying on the traditional approach of asking an expert, but wants to crowdsource suggestions through social networks.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. Connected Citizens: The Power, Peril, and Potential of Networks – This new report from the Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute explores engaged communities: "Ten years ago, a tiny web site asked people to volunteer to write their own encyclopedia.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2012

case you haven’t heard, 501(c)(3) private foundations are now eligible to receive donated video conferencing, online collaboration, and remote desktop solutions from the Citrix Online Donation Program. Paul Getty Trust, which operates the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California and the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

This project will also track and explore the relationships between anti-censorship groups in different parts of the world who are collaborating to defend the right to access web 2.0 It will also facilitate collaboration between activists, allowing them to find each other, share tactics and strategies and experiences. websites (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

Perhaps you most likely remember this amazing deconstruction by John Udell of the Wikipedia entry on ??? It really helped you understand the inner workings of the collaborative construction of content on Wikipedia. If you've been following social media closely over the past 3-5 years, you know that this isn't an original idea.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

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. Tags: Collaboration Environment Technology. Global Energy Observatory ?

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

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. Tags: Technology Environment Collaboration. Global Energy Observatory ?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Community Health Needs Assessment), is collaboration between Kaiser Permanente, Institute for People, Place & Possibility (IP3), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One of the sites discussed, CHNA.org. With the Community Commons tools, people can choose to keep their maps and data private or share them with others.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 22, 2007

Here's an article posted by Amy Luckey at GEO (Grantmakers for Effective Organizations) that talks about the use of collaborative web tools to strengthen the relationships between funders and organizations. Suppose you look up your NPO and find incorrect information in the article? What's the most effective way to correct the article?

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. Provide Context Users need a grounding point to understand your data. They need something to put into a perspective that they relate to intuitively.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

We think this kind of information sharing is the essence of nonprofits and libraries' collaborative spirit. Lots of organizations now use Creative Commons licensing, including the World Bank , Wikipedia , and MIT plus many other universities. Why TechSoup's Content Is Creative Commons-Licensed. We are in pretty good company.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

But there are other ways to be collaborative; really SaaS is built on collaboration. And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. .’ [Your captcha is asking me to type a slightly naughty word) 2 Mr Web Service 09.25.08 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

I found the Wikipedia entry for Ken Burns. " One of my favorite examples was the Muppet Wiki Here's what Daniela had to say: Established on 5 December 2005, Muppet wiki is a collaborative site about the Muppets and their creator, Jim Henson. Maybe I missed it or perhaps there is a good reason why. That's a start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2005

Interesting, Wikicities was mentioned by SJ Klein during the Berkman Center Thursday blogger meeting session on wikipedias. (I They're great places to organize ideas, write collaborative documents like mission statements or PR materials, and keep your organization running without having to have so many physical meetings. One is wikis.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. Provide Context. Users need a grounding point to understand your data. They need something to put into a perspective that they relate to intuitively.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. Provide Context. Users need a grounding point to understand your data. They need something to put into a perspective that they relate to intuitively.

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AFP Blog

JULY 30, 2007

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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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2007

While current trends in film length make me dubious of this trend’s overall power, O’Reilly observes that short-format content is more accessible, more searchable, and most importantly, well-suited to collaborative work. One of the comments listed other, non-web-based collaborative uses of short-format content, including potluck dinners.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2006

It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. The you that writes blogs, creates podcasts, shares open source applications, creates entries on Wikipedia, posts videos on YouTube, meets friends on MySpace and chats with avatars on Second Life.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 23, 2016

In fact Wikipedia lists 47 cultural celebrations of new years that are celebrated at other times throughout the year, such as the Chinese New Year and Rosh Hashanah. We live in a connected world, so open yourself up to collaboration. Britain didn’t adopt January 1 as the New Year until 1752; Thailand didn’t until 1941.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers. "We're moving from a 'top down' model where high quality resources were once published through peer review and traditional authority-based publishing modes to a different model," she explained. Anyone can publish through blogs, wikis, and websites.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 23, 2006

The latest ideas on collaborative software tools, AJAX web applications, and that mainstay of bread-and-butter business apps, the spreadsheet, are coming together in wikiCalc , a new application being developed by my old dormmate and VisiCalc originator, Dan Bricklin. The history, as Wikipedia explains it, goes like this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. A good collaboration between the state hospital and ngo. . It is not a book with pages, but it is about relationships. . Wiki: Collective brain of humanity.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

The mission statement of One Laptop per Child is artfully constructed: "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

It's also interesting to note that, according to Wikipedia, Hawaii, New Mexico, California and Texas are already majority-minority states. Last spring the Urban Institute and the Racial Diversity Collaborative released a study called Measuring Racial-Ethnic Diversity in the Baltimore-Washington Region's Nonprofit Sector.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

We all know how challenging collaborative writing is: Jefferson carried around a copy of his original draft of the Declaration of Independence until his dying day, so people could see how it read before Franklin and his committee ruined it by putting it in the form we know today. Self-evident, indeed!

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