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Need a copy editor? Look in the mirror

M+R

The problem lies in thinking of editing as a process of correction — where a better, more knowledgeable, or more experienced writer fixes the shortcomings in a draft. This doesn’t mean you need to turn your copy into a Wikipedia article. What problem needs solving? How can I give myself useful writing feedback?

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Trust Me, Know Me, Love Me: Trust in the Participatory Age

Museum 2.0

But here's the problem. And here's the bigger problem. Of course, this can go too far--if you are always apologizing for mistakes, people might think you have a basic stability problem, which erodes another kind of trust--the kind museums already have locked up. I'm reading a book of essays about how to teach written by teens.

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Meet Marshall the Nonprofit Blogging Coach

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

By blog coaching I mean that I teach people how to run a blog. Then I show them Wikipedia, and I used to demonstrate Wikalong, but the page history of that service is broken and thus so is the wiki as far as I'm concerned. You mentioned that you do blog coaching. What is blog coaching exactly and how do you do it well?

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Saving the California Condor: A Collective Impact Story

ASU Lodestar Center

This type of collective approach is how we should approach every large-scale social problem. Stephanie teaches undergraduate courses in the Nonprofit Leadership and Management program, and she has also been a youth summer camp director for over 20 years. In 1991, condors began to be released back into the wild. It soars.”.

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Act 1: The Problem. For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. Step 3: Teach people how to start bookmarking! If you have questions about tagging or want to share your organization???s Users add tags to describe online items, such as images, videos, bookmarks or text. sharpie.???