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Nonprofits Share Their Wiki Success Stories

AFP Blog

Nonprofits Share Their Wiki Success Stories : "Nonprofits Share Their Wiki Success Stories How two orgs have built and maintained active, vibrant wikis By: Brian Satterfield December 8, 2006 As emerging Web 2.0

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"USAID Development 2.0 Challenge Awards Ceremony" Thursday January 8th

Forum One

The focus of the contest, as stated by USAID, was: Mobile technology, including everything from inventive applications for smart phones to simple text messaging, is increasingly ubiquitous in the developing world. Tags: Technology. . * Ushahidi v2 - Mobile.Crisis.Reporting.

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Forget the Tech, Let’s Talk Mission

NTEN

Perhaps one of the most challenging questions a nonprofit can ask is, "What should our org's commitment to the use and leverage of technology actually be?" There is little doubt that technology aligned and used properly can bring efficiency in extending and meeting goals in support of the mission.

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Walking the Line Between Web2.0 and Old Skool in Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

and Old Skool in Nonprofits " This adds beautifully to the conversation over at NTEN Wiki (name coming soon). a checklist helping orgs understand when they should not devote resources to Web 2.0. So does that mean that our org should not be investing time and energy in social media tools? Kool Aid? , Some are showing signs.

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How Can Volunteer Coordinators Help Their Organizations Become Networked Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At the same time, volunteer service organizations need to rethink how they work and what technology they use. Training could also be done virtually with videos or through shared docs on a wiki. There’s no doubt that social networks are allowing organizations to connect with and recruit non-traditional volunteers in new ways.

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WeAreMedia Live Workshop: Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Tags: wearemedia training materials technology training.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Same answer as for all of your nonprofit technology questions: be strategic.