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December 2010 Community Builder’s Chat Wrap-up #CommBuild

Amy Sample Ward

We heard from many people that there were too many holiday deadlines at work to make the chat so be sure to add your thoughts to the comments here after reading the archive to join in! Laura Norvig shared the guidelines used for their email listserv: E-mail discussion lists hosted by the Resource Center are not moderated.

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Some Little Known Faith-Based Technology Resources

Tech Soup

Church Technology Listservs. I’ve been following the discussions on the Unitarian Universalist techie listserv and it’s a great information sharing group. Another is the ChurchMgmtSoftware listserv. TechSoup Landing Page for Faith-Based Organizations where you can find several product donations. Image: Aftab.

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TechSoup Global: A Tale of Two Dramatically Different Networks and Their Development

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some of the lessons learned include: -Could have provided the Netsquared community with more tools to do their work like listserves, web sites, etc. I was struck by Marnie’s comments on this and ask her to explain them on a FLIP video interview. She also blogged a few thoughts.

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More online than local: Why I love Google Docs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm finding it very annoying to having to open an attached document from email, save it to my hard drive, and work with track changes or comments though. Wikis and wiki spreadsheets are so much more efficient than sending back word and excel spreadsheets with comments or track changes.

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$100 Laptop at WSIS 2005

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A comment mentions this: " A slightly embarrassed Mr Annan inadvertently broke the crank handle of the non-functioning model on display as he left" from this news story. Here's the google news stream that captures the news articles mostly from the mainstream media about this product. Here's a photo from WSIS flickr stream.

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FOR-PROFIT OR NONPROFIT?

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This post from the npEnterprise Listserv Allen Bromberger does some great pro bono work for the field by answering questions on the npEnterprise list, which is the official list of the Social Enterprise Alliance (where I am proudly a founding board member and am in my last term). Otherwise, a sub would be strongly indicated.

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Whats Your Groundswell Social Technographics Profile: I'm A Creator

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

points out , us creators get accused of wasting lots of time in our basements making content when we could be doing something productive. The other day, Chris Brogan left a comment about how conversations online were becoming more distributed and fragmented. And, a lot of my content is for social purposes.

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