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What are your best tips for wiki adoption for new users?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One group came up with an idea about using a wiki for internal collaboration. So I asked on Twitter, what is your best wiki adoption tip for internal collaboration? Here's the responses: Laura Whitehead suggested reading this article about wiki collaboration and happiness. Here's the wiki link, edit it there please.

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Making Facebook Groups Rock for Nonprofits – Guest Post by Miriam Brosseau

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Docs are like super-simple wikis, and probably the most truly collaborative aspect of a Facebook group. Docs live in a designated place within your group and are therefore not as subject to the news feed, which is more timely. Docs are great for posting information that you plan to come back to again and again.

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CiviCRM Developer Camp

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It’s quite good, and there are some useful docs to see it at work on the CiviCRM wiki. I also dug into some of the internals and code of CiviCRM, and feel better equipped to start contributing more than ideas and feedback to the project. I also learned about CiviCase, which is actually present in 2.2.

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New Book: How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” The chapter suggests “Tearing down the silos” and that this will encourage more open leadership, and create a transparent environment. The idea is to go from a hierarchical structure (what Allison Fine and I described as Fortress in our book) to a more collaborative, team offer. Sometimes easier said than done!).

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How Can Volunteer Coordinators Help Their Organizations Become Networked Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I left inspired, yet I also felt there is still a lot of work we need to do to help our peers in volunteer coordination put these ideas into practice. Training could also be done virtually with videos or through shared docs on a wiki. Supervised or supported service. Recruitment is just the start.

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Crazy for the Tools

NTEN

Dropbox sits nicely between formal, full featured project communications tools such as Basecamp (which we also use), Central Desktop , or Google Apps and Docs. For technical documentation and general specifications, I am in one or another Google Doc every day, may use Writeboard , or a real wiki, and these days maybe Salesforce Content.

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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Our Plugin for the Confluence wiki already operates like this; if you’ve bought the plugin, you are completely independent of our website. I think this model may become more prevalent, as organizations are not going to comfortable letting vendors store their data, but will want to take advantage of RIAs like Gliffy or Google Docs.

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