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C + C + C = C? The Secret to Viral Marketing

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That's the number of "yes" votes we got for our proposed NTC session in just a couple short weeks—apparently the most ever. [Ed So what gives, and how can you crush our record when you propose a workshop next year? The waterfall age of the Encyclopedia Brittanica has given way to Wikipedia, and the bottom-up world is here to stay.

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Doing the Conventional, Unconventionally

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

(Much more detail outlining the process and the facilitation can be found here: “Wikimedia strategic planning wiki,” [link]. Wikimedia is the non profit that operates and manages all Wikimedia projects from Wikipedia to Wikibooks, Wikiversity to Wikispecies.). Most strategic planning processes organize around the plan,” said Sue.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. One question I'm wondering myself - what does effective wiki facilitation really look like - literally.

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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

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The field became fixated on achieving two holy-grails, requisite in every proposal, but nearly always unattainable: sustainability and scalability. . Mobile phones themselves are increasingly being used as a platform on top of which applications using SMS or EDGE/3G are being used to collect data and facilitate service delivery.

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Open Source Strategic Planning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” While Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site, its budget and staff is relatively small and it relies on 100,000 contributors across the world to create and edit content. In 2009, the foundation began by harvesting almost a thousand proposals for future directions from community members through online crowd-sourcing.