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Reduce Travel with Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

The environmental impact of working collaboratively online is to reduce travel. Wikispaces : Wikis are a new type of website that allows multiple people to add or modify content. Wikispaces is a wiki-hosting service that allows you to create a collaborative website that is easy to setup and use.

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Vote With Your Purse 2.0: Women's Online Giving, Offline Power

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This includes impact, inspiration, information, inclusion, and interaction. There is a section on how to use Sprout and Chipin in for fundraising -- so I'll take this opportunity to mention my ChipIn Case Study about sending a young woman to college and my personal fundraising wikispace.

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DIY Online Collaboration: Wikis

Tech Soup

Decide what software to use for your wiki — consider the Wikispaces software available to eligible organizations through TechSoup. The TechSoup team is also impacted by these changes and to that end uses the wiki to share curated content from other sources that has informed their work.

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The Horizon Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Horizon Report , a research-oriented effort to identify emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education. The report identifies six areas of emerging technology over the next one-to-five years: User-Created Content. Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming.

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Case Study: Transforming A National Network Culture Through Technology

NTEN

The US Department of Education recognized that Parent Centers could increase their impact through technology and allotted funding for 8 pilot centers that represent the cross section of abilities in the network to test a technology model.

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10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project

Have Fun - Do Good

Wikispaces , PBworks ) Using more tools isn't necessarily better. Based on your goal for using social media, how will you measure your impact? YouTube , Vimeo ) Photo sharing (i.e. Flickr, Photobucket ) Microblogging: Twitter , Tumblr Social networking (i.e. Facebook , Ning ) Social bookmarking (i.e. How will you measure success?

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In January, NMC released The Horizon Report , a research-oriented effort to identify emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education. The report identifies six areas of emerging technology over the next one-to-five years, including virtual worlds.