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Reduce Travel with Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

In 2010, TechSoup's GreenTech initiative held a travel reduction campaign that we called our TeleGreen Your Work. This updated blog post from the campaign explores some ways to increase online collaboration and also reduce travel and work efficiency. Why Is Online Collaboration Green? Cloud Services for Collaborating.

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Nonprofits Live Recap: Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

The October edition of Nonprofits Live examined the topic of online collaboration. Online collaborating requires an extra dose of the same skills we use when we collaborate in person and a number of tools to bridge the physical distance between collaborators. Barriers to Collaboration. Useful Collaboration Tools.

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DIY Online Collaboration: Wikis

Tech Soup

A wiki is a website maintained collaboratively by a community of contributors focusing on a particular subject or project. Typical wiki communities are work groups within a company, educators and students, and hobbyists. Organizing a wiki team is much like organizing a volunteer or work team.

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How to Work Across a Distributed Team

Tech Soup

Do you do much of our work online? Working across distributed teams is all about collaborative work with our colleagues who may be in different cities or even countries. At TechSoup, the need for us to all work in the same office is becoming decidedly old school. Why Working In Distributed Teams Is Green.

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To The Twitterverse and Beyond: A Taxonomy of Twitter Tools from Brian Solis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's why I'm was so excited to see that Brian Solis and Jesse Thomas have collaborated on a "alpha" version of the "Twitterverse" of Twitter tools covering a broader taxonomy of uses - from relationship management to work flow support and beyond. I would love to see a clickable version.

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Watch this Webinar About Wikis

Tech Soup

hosted a webinar called "Collaborate with Wikis" which was recorded and can be accessed here. We had Sarah Cove from Wikispaces explain what wikis are, how they work, and describe the benefits that organizations discover when they use them.

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Critical Friends and A Reflection Process for Working Wikily

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm very interested in learning how different types of networks or communities work in a networked way - this whole notion of working wikily. He has a context for what may work and what may not. Dave notes: This works best when people feel a clean responsibility to the work at hand. s feelings of ???responsibility???

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