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DIY Online Collaboration: Wikis

Tech Soup

If creating such a resource seems out of your league, you might want to consider building a wiki. What Is a Wiki? A wiki is a website maintained collaboratively by a community of contributors focusing on a particular subject or project. By far the most recognized wiki is Wikipedia. Building a Wiki.

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Attention Nonprofit Wiki Users: Let's Desconstruct Your Wiki!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I put a question on Twitter, " What are your best Wiki adoption tips? But, I'd love to see a range of examples that de-construct the development of a wiki in a nonprofit setting. Perhaps you most likely remember this amazing deconstruction by John Udell of the Wikipedia entry on ??? Screenshot of podcamp Wiki.

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The Muppet Wiki! One of the Ten Best Wiki Communities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Muppet Wiki. For the Making Media workshop I am doing next, I was in search of examples of how wikis might play a role in " Filmmaking 2.0 Interesting, Four-Eyed Monsters , the poster child for social media and filmmaking, does not appear to have a wiki. I found the Wikipedia entry for Ken Burns.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

There are two types of media we will look at here: direct and indirect content. Direct Content. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Indirect Content. Why Social Media?

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Those whacky wikis

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

In our search for collaboration tools we've been looking at web sites that in one way or another make use of the wiki model - pages which are freely editable by a community of users. Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

Most of the content was (and is) user generated. Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. If the Wikipedia community can build Wikipedia with the smallest handful of grant dollars and paid staff, what could the AIDs community do if it embraced these tools?

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Great reads from around the web on August 15th

Amy Sample Ward

Wikipedia Rolling Out Article Rating System – What Do You Think? – "Love it or hate it, you can't say Wikipedia is slow to innovate. Have you made a video like this? Would love to see your other examples of annual reports that break the mold!

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