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What is the scaffolding for learning in public?

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The TCC Group is facilitating a “learn in public&# process by sharing early research findings related to 1300 capacity building grants. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning.

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You're Doing That Wrong! Rule of Thumb

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

report led me to post on the concept of 'collabuary' raised in the report, which prompted Stephen Downes to comment in reply , trying to distinguish between folksonomies and collabuaries (which he thinks isn't a useful term; it just means 'vocabulary' or 'taxonomy'). Resources included in the wiki with podcast. A link to a Web 2.0

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Information Coping Skills for Memory Loss? Writing it down.

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I slapped a list of blogs in my wiki for me. The taxonomy is rudimentary and not very informative. I put on a wiki for easy maintenance and for whoever stumbles upon it and might find it useful as I believe in open content and open thinking. I have no ownership of the idea either -- so take it, run with it.

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WeAreMedia Live Workshop: Reflections

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This was workshop was based on the knowledge shared on the WeAreMedia wiki over the past year using Dave Cormier's Community as the Curriculum approach. The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. In addition, we had expert knowledge in the room from JD Lasica, Paul Lamb.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

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Such a place can also be a source of “user generated content”, relieving your internal staff from the burden of coming up with fresh content, and truly leveraging the ideas of your larger community. A wiki is a great low-cost solution if your community is comfortable with it technically. What is a knowledge sharing network?

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

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Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. He also mentioned a Romanian wiki called MediaPedia.Ro. Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator. Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. For example, Daily Kos created a wiki. He talked about the growth of wikipedia.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

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When I’ve used this curriculum, I listen to the conversations at the tables to see if people are engaged, stuck, or have questions. It is hard for one person to do that with 300 people and 30 tables, but the experience has given me some great ideas on how to scale that. How did that relate to the learning objectives?