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Reduce Travel with Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

This software as a service model of computing has the added environmental and budgetary benefit of needing a less robust computer system, servers, and installed software to host these applications. Wikispaces : Wikis are a new type of website that allows multiple people to add or modify content.

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Learning In Public On Wikis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One answer comes from Eugene Eric Kim in a presentation he did about networks, “Be the Change You Want To See&# – it’s about modeling. There are three different models: Personal Learning or Portfolio Wikis: My first wiki was more “wiki portfolios&# as my colleague Marshall Kirkpatrick phrased it.

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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. We knew that this technology project was worthy of a significant change in the way we work.

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Wiki: Compare them All

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Great model! I compared wikispaces with pbwiki - the two user-friendly hosted wiki apps that I like. This is a cool site. It lets you select any two or more wiki packages and then it dynamically creates a feature-by-feature comparison. Speaking of wikis, there's gonna be an online wiki and nonprofit event next week over here and here

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The Horizon Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Horizon Project Wikispace is where teams of students and teachers from around the globe working on action learning experiments using these emerging technologies. I also think the Student Code of Ethics are good model too - sort of like online community standards or codes of conduct. Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming.

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A Social Media Measurement Nonprofit Guinea Pig: Thanks Tim! Please add your thoughts!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I blogged my preliminary thoughts and set up a wikispace , I was seeking a specific nonprofit example to make it more real. Tim Davies from the UK volunteered to be the guinea pig and test the thinking process (a logic model of sorts) for his newly launched web project that incorporates social media strategies.

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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

She notes, "It doesn't specifically talk about open content, but discusses online and offline content income models in depth, with numbers." This month, the Horizon Wikispace , where teams of students and teachers from around the globe are discusisng and creating what impact of these six emerging technologies in the classrooms.