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Learning In Public On Wikis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m just beginning a new crop of peer learning projects for nonprofits to learn the practice of being networked nonprofits and use social media effectively at Zoetica and through my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. It’s hard because you have to be very disciplined about noticing and documenting your practice.

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DIY Online Collaboration: Wikis

Tech Soup

If creating such a resource seems out of your league, you might want to consider building a wiki. What Is a Wiki? A wiki is a website maintained collaboratively by a community of contributors focusing on a particular subject or project. By far the most recognized wiki is Wikipedia. Building a Wiki.

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Mindful or Mind Full Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This session will teach you some techniques that you can immediately put into practice and help you work more efficiently and effectively, enabling you to achieve more in less time and ultimately increase the return of your efforts. My Curated Lists and Wikis. Information Coping Skills Wikispaces. Visualization Techniques.

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#13NTC Session: Mindful or Mindfull Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work. To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work. My Curated Lists and Wikis. Information Coping Skills Wikispaces. Takeaways. Visualization Techniques. The Information Diet.

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Wiki Wiki Means Quickly in Hawaiin

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Techsoup is hosting an online event about Nonprofits and Wikis on November 1-3. They have set up a wiki for the event on wikispaces, my favorite hosted wiki application. (I buzzwords and someone asked what the word wiki meant. The k-12 wiki she set up has some excellent resources in it.

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How to Work Across a Distributed Team

Tech Soup

on Wikispaces. Community team wiki with a distributed team resource list. Patterns and practices for distributed teams. Additional TechSoup Resources. NTC 2011 TechSoup virtual teams presentation. on Slideshare. Susan Tenby's NTC presentation notes. TechSoup travel reduction products. Eight Tools to keep your team connected.

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. If you didn't have a chance to participate, you'll find the slides, resource materials, and an archived recording over at the webinar wiki. Are the three wiki tools listed free?

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