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Great reads from around the web on December 25th

Amy Sample Ward

" Wikispaces Blog " Blog Archive " How Non-Profits Are Using Wikis – The Wikispaces Blog has some great examples of organizations using wikis in their work. "This These opportunities are typically open to all sorts of social entrepreneurs as well. Download the December 2009 version of this list here.

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Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging - article on TechSoup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This article, " Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging " was recently updated and published on TechSoup. It morphs two different blog posts by nonprofit tagging thought leaders, Ruby Sinreich and Alexandra Samuel. UPDATE: I've published a resource on tagging and nonprofits.

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Tagged Again. Media Consumption.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I saw that I had been tagged on Nancy White's blog, I left a crabby comment. Wiki: I love wikispaces, but also use mediawiki, socialtext, and pbwiki. Now who to tag. leave a comment and you're tagged! Sometimes when I get overwhelmed, my reaction is to dive into my blog reader. A new form of work advoidance.

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To The Twitterverse and Beyond: A Taxonomy of Twitter Tools from Brian Solis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Better yet, I'd like to see a wikispace that included descriptions, links to tutorials, and tips. Tags: twitter. They are asking for feedback on what is missing, suggestions for categories, and other ways to improve the tool. I would love to see a clickable version.

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Watch this Webinar About Wikis

Tech Soup

We had Sarah Cove from Wikispaces explain what wikis are, how they work, and describe the benefits that organizations discover when they use them. Tags: E-Learning Online Seminar Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 We also had Sarah Manley from Wikia answering chat questions during the webinar.

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When Words Get in the Way (Like "Virtual Volunteering")

Tech Soup

That means a volunteer could perform most of his or her service for an organization on-site, but if he or she is doing some of the service from home - designing a logo, tagging photos with keywords, writing an article for a newsletter, participating in an online community of fellow volunteers - that person is also engaging in virtual volunteering.

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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. Let look at the tagging standards for the project. So, rather than once tag to capture everything, we have some differentiation here. Who had input?

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