Gyrus

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Last week I defined skills management by referencing and summarizing an existing Wikipedia article. This week I’ll explain why skills management is important and I’ll begin by repeating Wiki’s definition of Skills Management: “ The practice of understanding, developing, and deploying people and their skills.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2007

Welcoming the Wiki: "A more interesting question is the impact Wikipedia might have on other technology companies. Will the example of Wikipedia help our tech employees to become more friendly?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2005

Deborah Finn has fallen in love with Wikis and has started an entry for nonprofit technology. Wouldn't using a wiki be a great platform to collaborate on nonprofit technology standards ?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

In our search for collaboration tools we've been looking at web sites that in one way or another make use of the wiki model - pages which are freely editable by a community of users. Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. http ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 7_July_2005_London_bombings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Much more detail outlining the process and the facilitation can be found here: “Wikimedia strategic planning wiki,” [link]. Wikimedia is the non profit that operates and manages all Wikimedia projects from Wikipedia to Wikibooks, Wikiversity to Wikispecies.).

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. If the Wikipedia community can build Wikipedia with the smallest handful of grant dollars and paid staff, what could the AIDs community do if it embraced these tools? Google Maps. Podcasting. Text messaging.

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AFP Blog

JULY 30, 2007

The NonProfitTimes - eNewsletter: "Taking advantage of the first revision of Form 990 in years, the National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) and Guidestar have created a Wiki page to solicit comments and suggestions for the new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) form.Like Wikipedia, the collaborative online encyclopedia, users can log on with a (..)

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

Wikipedia Rolling Out Article Rating System – What Do You Think? – "Love it or hate it, you can't say Wikipedia is slow to innovate. Have you made a video like this? Would love to see your other examples of annual reports that break the mold!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Wikispaces : Wikis are a new type of website that allows multiple people to add or modify content. The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia. Wikispaces is a wiki-hosting service that allows you to create a collaborative website that is easy to setup and use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

video and photo-sharing sites like Youtube, Flickr, Dailymotion; blogging platforms such as Blogspot, Livejournal, Typepad and Wordpress; social networking websites such as Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, Wikipedia, VoIP services; etc.); applications either via the Advocacy Wiki site or by e-mail through the contact page. websites (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. He also mentioned a Romanian wiki called MediaPedia.Ro. Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers. Anyone can publish through blogs, wikis, and websites. " Today, information is published from the 'bottom up' or from user-generated sources. This new hierarchy model is the basis for my exploration of virtual media as a delivery mode."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2005

Interesting, Wikicities was mentioned by SJ Klein during the Berkman Center Thursday blogger meeting session on wikipedias. (I One is wikis. for examples of what different types of communities are doing with wikis. Does anyone know of any nonprofits using wikis? I hope to post an interview with SJ soon.)

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

A wiki is a great low-cost solution if your community is comfortable with it technically. Every day, people ask, and get answers to, questions about best practices , professional development , just - in - time technical info , whimsical resources , legal issues , and many other questions related to librarianship. Some are huge.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 23, 2006

The history, as Wikipedia explains it, goes like this. Tags: nptech , wiki , applications Considering Dan invented the entire idea of the electronic spreadsheet as we know it, we'd be fools not be interested. The generally recognized inventor of the spreadsheet is Dan Bricklin. Take a look.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin. However, some of us recognize that conversations are a mere stepping stone for co-creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

" Geeks for Good and Green Geekery Ruby Sinreich facilitated a session at BarCampRDU on how geeks can use their powers for the forces of good and has a wiki with resources. Video, Wikis, Virtual Worlds, and Social Networking Wikiscan let's you see who is editing wikipedia as mentioned in a recent Wired Magazine article.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

Writing up a nonprofit profile only takes 15-20 minutes. If you know of some fabu nonprofits that are using these tools and want them to be highlighted, just register (if you haven't already), login, go to the "Put Your Voice in the Mix" page: click on "submit your case study" and fill out the form.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more. Can you tell me more about your work with wikis and nonprofits? How have nonprofits you're working with used wikis?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. The visuals used on the wiki (Except for the screen captures) came from flickr photos that were licensed using the Creative Commons attibution license which means I can use them freely as long as credit the creator. Openness - ????A

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

The Core are people who do most of the work (think wikipedia editors.) wiki that gives you a good set of questions to ask after you've created a descriptive drawing. . A cluster is a bounded group of people who are connected, but have few connections to other nodes. Low-Tech Approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! A wiki filled with information and presentations about Second Life in Higher Education. Meanwhile, a few scholarly articles on the topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

With the entire network engaged, the leaders worked together to create a report to document the lessons they were learning from implementing leadership programs for reproductive health, through a new wiki. Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

What's a wiki? Wikis are websites that are extremely easy for anyone (even you!) The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. Wikipedia, like YouTube and Facebook, is a giant in the world of Web 2.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. The site was developed by Democracy in Action. Much commentary and critiques about the semi-public ballotting process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

” While Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site, its budget and staff is relatively small and it relies on 100,000 contributors across the world to create and edit content. Next, consultants helped facilitate an asynchronous process involving a wide set of stakeholders using an online wiki to write and edit sections of the plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Second, she goes into a lot of details on what she calls 'Informational Social Networks' like Wikipedia , Mahalo Answers , and Yahoo Answers which get a lot of traffic and can generate significant ongoing referrals. Since its a wiki and frequently updated it won't be obsolete like a book! Mobilizing Generation 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

The screencast will include a companion wiki with resources to aid further explanation. If you're curious about Occam's Razor, here's a more detailed description or see the simplicity page in wikipedia. I was happy to discover Laura Quinn's recently published and very good article on TechSoup, " A Few Web Analytics Tools.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 6, 2007

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

She didn't really know what a wiki was, but she liked the idea of it. The characteristics I imagine are based on my definition of a wiki as a website that anyone can edit. In 2008, I worked with one museum director for whom the word "wiki" is synonymous with "Wikipedia." But that is not everyone's definition.

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Care2

OCTOBER 3, 2007

60) Search « Dreaming of a Wiki? Tuesday, August 8, 2006 at 11:38AM | by shannon Source: Wikipedia/Yotophoto.com When you send out a newsletter or email blast, you probably figure that your message will be seen by everyone you send it to, right? Main | Is Going Local the Next Big Thing in Online Activism?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

This is one of several powerpoint presentations now archived in SlideShare and also included in a NpTech History wiki (anyone can join and contribute.). Wiki That A Story Pitching Wiki at TechSoup is where you can submit your article ideas to editors. Today I Cried resigns ! FOSS, Audio and Video for Activism and Advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

The offline wikipedia, Moulin. Wikis, Widgets and Social Networking Do you think there are too many freaking widgets ? An interesting article title, " Wikis are Not Knowledge Management Tools " speaks to how wikis are not a better tool for KM, but about being able to work differently. It's called Moulin.

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