Over the past five years, I have created many wikis to support online learning projects and wikispaces has been one of my platforms of choice because it is easy to use, free, and integrate other social media content. Photo by Beth Kanter. MORE
You can export jpegs to flickr and create set , you can upload a powerpoint into slideshare or create a wikispace for the presentation or wikitation. Flick Photo by Thomas Hawk. Later today I'm doing a Webinar, a briefing on Web2.0 tools for the good folks at NCNA. MORE
on Wikispaces. Do you do much of our work online? As more of us do, we're finding new ways to communicate with colleagues who may be in distant locations. Working across distributed teams is all about collaborative work with our colleagues who may be in different cities or even countries. At TechSoup, the need for us to all work in the same office is becoming decidedly old school. We have had to find ways for people to work well together when they are in different locales. MORE
There are plenty of great hosted Wikis, like PBWorks (formerly PBWiki) and WikiSpaces , in addition to all of the Wikis that you can download and install on your own Server. I'm following up on my post suggesting that Wikis should be grabbing a portion of the market from word processors. Wikis are convenient collaborative editing platforms that remove a lot of the legacy awkwardness that traditional editing software brings to writing for the web. MORE
We had Sarah Cove from Wikispaces explain what wikis are, how they work, and describe the benefits that organizations discover when they use them. On Wednesday, Techsoup Talks! hosted a webinar called "Collaborate with Wikis" which was recorded and can be accessed here. I interviewed David Beall from SFHomeless.net and Beth Duttlinger from Alliance Library System who shared information about their experience creating and using a wiki. MORE
So, I've used wikispaces, pbwiki, socialtext, jotspot, and writely (now google docs). Last month, when I had my horrible computer crash, I lost one or two documents and a few emails. It was because I wasn't only backed up within 24 hours, not minutes. I didn't loose a whole lot more because most of my work is now "backed up" or inside of web applications. I've been using online wikis - documents and more recently, spreadsheet wikis for the past year. MORE
Information Coping Skills Wikispaces. I’m in Minnesota for the 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference where I am doing a plenary session on Saturday morning and two breakout sessions. This blog post serves as a resource page for a session on mindfulness with Rob Cottingham and Jana Byington-Smith. Description: How nonprofits can stay focused given all the distractions inherent in today’s attention economy? MORE
I also set it so anyone could post a comment on the wikispace discussion threads, although there doesn't seem to be a lot of spontaneous discussion on the wikispaces feature except for the name change which had 54 responses. You have to register for wikispaces in order to add yourself. MORE
I compared wikispaces with pbwiki - the two user-friendly hosted wiki apps that I like. This is a cool site. It lets you select any two or more wiki packages and then it dynamically creates a feature-by-feature comparison. Great model! Speaking of wikis, there's gonna be an online wiki and nonprofit event next week over here and here MORE
yes, pbwiki, wikispaces, and wetpaint have free versions). On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to do a Webinar called " Social Media for Trainers: A Bag of Tricks " over at the Engage 365 Online Community site. I blogged about the content last week. MORE
You can do this using an inexpensive hosted service, such as wikispaces or zoho's wiki , or you can install on your own server the original mediawiki or newer full systems such as tikiwiki. These days, having an “Intranet†comes up a lot as a requirement for website projects. I'm using the term advisedly to refer to a range of needs for private space for organizing campaigns and collaboratively developing ideas. MORE
The Wikispaces Plus Plan , available through TechSoup, offers nonprofits and libraries a hosted wiki site. In the spirit of TechSoup's new look , we've compiled a list of resources and products from around our global network on website design, planning, and management. MORE
If you're just discovering my blog or tagging for nonprofits via this post, check out my Nonprofit Tagging Wikispace 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. MORE
I remembered that almost a year ago I was working on screencast about widgets for nonprofits to build community and had set up a wikispace called nonprofit widgets. When I saw the words "nonprofit widget," I had a senior moment. Today, I came across an interesting post from John Bell of Digital Influence Mapping Project blog has an interesting idea , nonprofitwidget.org: Non-profits need to engage their brand ambassadors now. MORE
eLearning cloud computing education tstrainlearn tsculturalorg tsyouthorg tslibraryorg tsinstructionorg Wikispaces online tools tschoolsorgIt often surprises people when I mention that education accounts for fully one-fifth of nonprofit activity , second only to human services. MORE
This entry linked to Wikispaces page (Technology Steward Nancy White is presenting this slide show tommorrow at Ignite Seattle! I can't wait for the reflections. Good luck Nancy! MORE
Decide what software to use for your wiki — consider the Wikispaces software available to eligible organizations through TechSoup. Have you ever thought about building an online space where different people can easily share their expertise on a subject or project? If creating such a resource seems out of your league, you might want to consider building a wiki. What Is a Wiki? MORE
There is a section on how to use Sprout and Chipin in for fundraising -- so I'll take this opportunity to mention my ChipIn Case Study about sending a young woman to college and my personal fundraising wikispace WCF Foundation has just released a new report: ??? Vote With Your Purse 2.0: Women???s s Online Giving, Offline Power ,??? a study of women online donors and how the Internet is changing the nature of political engagement for women. MORE
So, I imagine the adoption issues are similar to moving to intranet, wikispace, or basecamp to manage team or internal communications. Benjamin Greenberg works for Physicians for Human Rights but I "met" him on Facebook through a mutual friend, Marian. I actually got a chance to meet Ben face-to-face at a recent Berkman Center Thursday Bloggers meetup. Ben and I also follow each other on Twitter (he's @minorjive ) and that's where I heard him mention this presentation. MORE
They have set up a wiki for the event on wikispaces, my favorite hosted wiki application. (I Techsoup is hosting an online event about Nonprofits and Wikis on November 1-3. MORE
With wikispaces, it is important to use the overall site monitoring features so you know when people make contributions. I'm very interested in learning how different types of networks or communities work in a networked way - this whole notion of working wikily. MORE
" 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 I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of December 25th). MORE
Better yet, I'd like to see a wikispace that included descriptions, links to tutorials, and tips. MORE
What I'd like to see is a Facebook app for wikispaces so I can integrate my workshop wikis. I just installed a wiki application on my Facebook profile called Wikimono. I'm sure more will follow or they may already be there. MORE
After asking around, I considered four free-ish options for the wiki: pbwiki , wikispaces , Google sites , and wik.is. I eliminated wikispaces because you have to pay to be ad-free (though it looks and functions very well). MORE
When I blogged my preliminary thoughts and set up a wikispace , I was seeking a specific nonprofit example to make it more real. | View | Upload your own. I'm doing a workshop on Social Media Metrics, Measurement, and ROI at PodCamp Boston tomorrow. This is work in progress. MORE
Wikispaces : Wikis are a new type of website that allows multiple people to add or modify content. Wikispaces is a wiki-hosting service that allows you to create a collaborative website that is easy to setup and use. You choose who has access to create or modify content, and because each version of a page on Wikispaces is saved, users can compare versions or go back to a previous version for reference. MORE
To learn more about virtual worlds in education, check out the Horizon Project Wikispace If you think that virtual worlds means Second Life, there are many others. I just discovered this introduction on YouTube and thought I'd share it here. One thing I learned is that WhyVille is a virtual world that will run on low bandwidth (dial-up) and lower end computers. MORE
Wikispaces , PBworks ) Using more tools isn't necessarily better. One of the most common questions I'm asked as a social media consultant is, "Which tool is the best?" Unfortunately, there isn't an easy answer to that question. If you have a do-good project, or a small nonprofit that you want to promote, fundraise for, or build an online community around using social media, your first step is to create a plan. MORE
The team uses tools such as Huddle and Zoho to list and assign tasks, Google Docs and Wikispaces to share documents and other resources, and ReadyTalk and GoToMeeting for internal team training. Wikispaces. Wikispaces. MORE
Photo in flickr - Letting Go. I have to prepare for a presentation at the Integrated Media Conference (public broadcasting) at the end of the month called "Lessons Beyond the Field." MORE
Google Analytics for Wikispaces. Today, at the 2011 MyCharityConnects Conference in Toronto, I had a ton of fun leading a session and discussion around making the most of social media in just 30 minutes a day. MORE
An online collaborative space like wikispaces? At the start of any workshop I lead related to virtual volunteering, I ask the audience, "How many of you are engaging with volunteers virtually?" " If few or no people raise their hands, I ask the question again at the end of my workshop. And the numbers always change. Take for example the webinar I did recently for TechSoup's audience on the best assignments for online volunteers. MORE
Wiki: I love wikispaces, but also use mediawiki, socialtext, and pbwiki. Sometimes when I get overwhelmed, my reaction is to dive into my blog reader. A new form of work advoidance. So, a few days when I was particularly crazy, I went rolling through my reader. When I saw that I had been tagged on Nancy White's blog, I left a crabby comment. Heck, it's the weekend, so I thought I'd respond. This meme is on media consumption. MORE
With a mix of donated tools like Wikispaces and free services like Facebook, your organization has more readily accessible channels to get its message out, boost its fundraising and help recruit volunteers. MORE
I then poked around Wikispaces (since the We Are Media wiki is using the platform, it seemed like a good choice) a little before jumping in. Wikispaces also made it easy to change the privacy settings so that only members could view and comment. I, like most nonprofit staffers I imagine, both love my job and always have a mountain of work to get through. MORE
Using Wikispaces, we created the Technology Leadership Initiative (TLI) wiki, and invited all stakeholders to be members, including project directors, IT staff, technical assistance providers, and members of the US Deptartment of Education -- a total of 50 members. MORE
UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here. Flickr Photo by whatchamakallit. I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. MORE
The Horizon Project Wikispace is where teams of students and teachers from around the globe working on action learning experiments using these emerging technologies. MORE
Information Coping Skills Wikispaces. I am doing the ending key note at the Social Media 4 Nonprofits Conference in Silicon Valley today. Here’s the description: How nonprofits can stay focused given all the distractions inherent in today’s attention economy? Social media doesn’t have to be overwhelming– you can take control back. MORE
Wikispaces. Many donated and discounted products at TechSoup have services and licenses that are tied to a one-year timeframe. Because of this, we get a lot of phone calls from nonprofits and libraries asking: Does my service expire or shut off after one year? Do I need to request another donation from TechSoup? Is this something I need to renew with a software provider directly? Worry no more! MORE
I'm beginning to post the slides and detailed notes from the session at NTC08 here on my blog and on my Social Media Metrics Wikispace. | View | Upload your own. The introduction set the ground rules and offer these overview points to the what and why of social media ROI. What do we mean by metrics, measurement, and ROI? What are the challenges in measuring the success of social media? A lot of intangibles, but they're important. No standardized metrics for social media (yet). MORE
This month, the Horizon Wikispace , where teams of students and teachers from around the globe are discusisng and creating what impact of these six emerging technologies in the classrooms. MORE
Wikispaces Related Topics Amy Sample Ward
JUNE 6, 2011
Google Analytics for Wikispaces. Today, at the 2011 MyCharityConnects Conference in Toronto, I had a ton of fun leading a session and discussion around making the most of social media in just 30 minutes a day.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 26, 2012
Information Coping Skills Wikispaces. I am doing the ending key note at the Social Media 4 Nonprofits Conference in Silicon Valley today. Here’s the description: How nonprofits can stay focused given all the distractions inherent in today’s attention economy? Social media doesn’t have to be overwhelming– you can take control back.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 12, 2013
Information Coping Skills Wikispaces. I’m in Minnesota for the 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference where I am doing a plenary session on Saturday morning and two breakout sessions. This blog post serves as a resource page for a session on mindfulness with Rob Cottingham and Jana Byington-Smith. Description: How nonprofits can stay focused given all the distractions inherent in today’s attention economy?
Tech Soup Blog
MAY 6, 2011
With a mix of donated tools like Wikispaces and free services like Facebook, your organization has more readily accessible channels to get its message out, boost its fundraising and help recruit volunteers.
Tech Soup Blog
JANUARY 22, 2013
eLearning cloud computing education tstrainlearn tsculturalorg tsyouthorg tslibraryorg tsinstructionorg Wikispaces online tools tschoolsorgIt often surprises people when I mention that education accounts for fully one-fifth of nonprofit activity , second only to human services.
Tech Soup Blog
MARCH 23, 2012
Decide what software to use for your wiki — consider the Wikispaces software available to eligible organizations through TechSoup. Have you ever thought about building an online space where different people can easily share their expertise on a subject or project? If creating such a resource seems out of your league, you might want to consider building a wiki. What Is a Wiki?
Tech Soup Blog
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
The team uses tools such as Huddle and Zoho to list and assign tasks, Google Docs and Wikispaces to share documents and other resources, and ReadyTalk and GoToMeeting for internal team training. Wikispaces. Wikispaces.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 6, 2007
What I'd like to see is a Facebook app for wikispaces so I can integrate my workshop wikis. I just installed a wiki application on my Facebook profile called Wikimono. I'm sure more will follow or they may already be there.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 14, 2008
To learn more about virtual worlds in education, check out the Horizon Project Wikispace If you think that virtual worlds means Second Life, there are many others. I just discovered this introduction on YouTube and thought I'd share it here. One thing I learned is that WhyVille is a virtual world that will run on low bandwidth (dial-up) and lower end computers.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 28, 2006
I compared wikispaces with pbwiki - the two user-friendly hosted wiki apps that I like. This is a cool site. It lets you select any two or more wiki packages and then it dynamically creates a feature-by-feature comparison. Great model! Speaking of wikis, there's gonna be an online wiki and nonprofit event next week over here and here
Tech Soup Blog
MARCH 13, 2014
An online collaborative space like wikispaces? At the start of any workshop I lead related to virtual volunteering, I ask the audience, "How many of you are engaging with volunteers virtually?" " If few or no people raise their hands, I ask the question again at the end of my workshop. And the numbers always change. Take for example the webinar I did recently for TechSoup's audience on the best assignments for online volunteers.
Amy Sample Ward
DECEMBER 24, 2009
" 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 I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of December 25th).
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 23, 2006
If you're just discovering my blog or tagging for nonprofits via this post, check out my Nonprofit Tagging Wikispace 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.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
There is a section on how to use Sprout and Chipin in for fundraising -- so I'll take this opportunity to mention my ChipIn Case Study about sending a young woman to college and my personal fundraising wikispace WCF Foundation has just released a new report: ??? Vote With Your Purse 2.0: Women???s s Online Giving, Offline Power ,??? a study of women online donors and how the Internet is changing the nature of political engagement for women.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 29, 2008
I'm beginning to post the slides and detailed notes from the session at NTC08 here on my blog and on my Social Media Metrics Wikispace. | View | Upload your own. The introduction set the ground rules and offer these overview points to the what and why of social media ROI. What do we mean by metrics, measurement, and ROI? What are the challenges in measuring the success of social media? A lot of intangibles, but they're important. No standardized metrics for social media (yet).
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 28, 2009
Better yet, I'd like to see a wikispace that included descriptions, links to tutorials, and tips.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 10, 2008
I also set it so anyone could post a comment on the wikispace discussion threads, although there doesn't seem to be a lot of spontaneous discussion on the wikispaces feature except for the name change which had 54 responses. You have to register for wikispaces in order to add yourself.
Tech Soup Blog
MAY 7, 2010
We had Sarah Cove from Wikispaces explain what wikis are, how they work, and describe the benefits that organizations discover when they use them. On Wednesday, Techsoup Talks! hosted a webinar called "Collaborate with Wikis" which was recorded and can be accessed here. I interviewed David Beall from SFHomeless.net and Beth Duttlinger from Alliance Library System who shared information about their experience creating and using a wiki.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 24, 2007
The Horizon Project Wikispace is where teams of students and teachers from around the globe working on action learning experiments using these emerging technologies.
NTEN
FEBRUARY 14, 2011
Using Wikispaces, we created the Technology Leadership Initiative (TLI) wiki, and invited all stakeholders to be members, including project directors, IT staff, technical assistance providers, and members of the US Deptartment of Education -- a total of 50 members.
Idealware
NOVEMBER 11, 2009
I then poked around Wikispaces (since the We Are Media wiki is using the platform, it seemed like a good choice) a little before jumping in. Wikispaces also made it easy to change the privacy settings so that only members could view and comment. I, like most nonprofit staffers I imagine, both love my job and always have a mountain of work to get through.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 6, 2007
I remembered that almost a year ago I was working on screencast about widgets for nonprofits to build community and had set up a wikispace called nonprofit widgets. When I saw the words "nonprofit widget," I had a senior moment. Today, I came across an interesting post from John Bell of Digital Influence Mapping Project blog has an interesting idea , nonprofitwidget.org: Non-profits need to engage their brand ambassadors now.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 22, 2007
You can export jpegs to flickr and create set , you can upload a powerpoint into slideshare or create a wikispace for the presentation or wikitation. Flick Photo by Thomas Hawk. Later today I'm doing a Webinar, a briefing on Web2.0 tools for the good folks at NCNA.
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 18, 2008
After asking around, I considered four free-ish options for the wiki: pbwiki , wikispaces , Google sites , and wik.is. I eliminated wikispaces because you have to pay to be ad-free (though it looks and functions very well).
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 24, 2008
So, I imagine the adoption issues are similar to moving to intranet, wikispace, or basecamp to manage team or internal communications. Benjamin Greenberg works for Physicians for Human Rights but I "met" him on Facebook through a mutual friend, Marian. I actually got a chance to meet Ben face-to-face at a recent Berkman Center Thursday Bloggers meetup. Ben and I also follow each other on Twitter (he's @minorjive ) and that's where I heard him mention this presentation.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 26, 2007
When I blogged my preliminary thoughts and set up a wikispace , I was seeking a specific nonprofit example to make it more real. | View | Upload your own. I'm doing a workshop on Social Media Metrics, Measurement, and ROI at PodCamp Boston tomorrow. This is work in progress.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 11, 2006
So, I've used wikispaces, pbwiki, socialtext, jotspot, and writely (now google docs). Last month, when I had my horrible computer crash, I lost one or two documents and a few emails. It was because I wasn't only backed up within 24 hours, not minutes. I didn't loose a whole lot more because most of my work is now "backed up" or inside of web applications. I've been using online wikis - documents and more recently, spreadsheet wikis for the past year.
Tech Soup Blog
JANUARY 21, 2013
The Wikispaces Plus Plan , available through TechSoup, offers nonprofits and libraries a hosted wiki site. In the spirit of TechSoup's new look , we've compiled a list of resources and products from around our global network on website design, planning, and management.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 6, 2007
Photo in flickr - Letting Go. I have to prepare for a presentation at the Integrated Media Conference (public broadcasting) at the end of the month called "Lessons Beyond the Field."
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 24, 2006
They have set up a wiki for the event on wikispaces, my favorite hosted wiki application. (I Techsoup is hosting an online event about Nonprofits and Wikis on November 1-3.
Tech Soup Blog
JULY 5, 2011
on Wikispaces. Do you do much of our work online? As more of us do, we're finding new ways to communicate with colleagues who may be in distant locations. Working across distributed teams is all about collaborative work with our colleagues who may be in different cities or even countries. At TechSoup, the need for us to all work in the same office is becoming decidedly old school. We have had to find ways for people to work well together when they are in different locales.
Idealware
AUGUST 17, 2009
There are plenty of great hosted Wikis, like PBWorks (formerly PBWiki) and WikiSpaces , in addition to all of the Wikis that you can download and install on your own Server. I'm following up on my post suggesting that Wikis should be grabbing a portion of the market from word processors. Wikis are convenient collaborative editing platforms that remove a lot of the legacy awkwardness that traditional editing software brings to writing for the web.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 3, 2007
Wiki: I love wikispaces, but also use mediawiki, socialtext, and pbwiki. Sometimes when I get overwhelmed, my reaction is to dive into my blog reader. A new form of work advoidance. So, a few days when I was particularly crazy, I went rolling through my reader. When I saw that I had been tagged on Nancy White's blog, I left a crabby comment. Heck, it's the weekend, so I thought I'd respond. This meme is on media consumption.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 1, 2008
With wikispaces, it is important to use the overall site monitoring features so you know when people make contributions. I'm very interested in learning how different types of networks or communities work in a networked way - this whole notion of working wikily.
Have Fun - Do Good
OCTOBER 5, 2009
Wikispaces , PBworks ) Using more tools isn't necessarily better. One of the most common questions I'm asked as a social media consultant is, "Which tool is the best?" Unfortunately, there isn't an easy answer to that question. If you have a do-good project, or a small nonprofit that you want to promote, fundraise for, or build an online community around using social media, your first step is to create a plan.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 27, 2010
yes, pbwiki, wikispaces, and wetpaint have free versions). On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to do a Webinar called " Social Media for Trainers: A Bag of Tricks " over at the Engage 365 Online Community site. I blogged about the content last week.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 20, 2007
This month, the Horizon Wikispace , where teams of students and teachers from around the globe are discusisng and creating what impact of these six emerging technologies in the classrooms.
Idealware
OCTOBER 6, 2008
You can do this using an inexpensive hosted service, such as wikispaces or zoho's wiki , or you can install on your own server the original mediawiki or newer full systems such as tikiwiki. These days, having an “Intranet†comes up a lot as a requirement for website projects. I'm using the term advisedly to refer to a range of needs for private space for organizing campaigns and collaboratively developing ideas.
Tech Soup Blog
JANUARY 25, 2012
Wikispaces. Many donated and discounted products at TechSoup have services and licenses that are tied to a one-year timeframe. Because of this, we get a lot of phone calls from nonprofits and libraries asking: Does my service expire or shut off after one year? Do I need to request another donation from TechSoup? Is this something I need to renew with a software provider directly? Worry no more!
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 19, 2007
UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here. Flickr Photo by whatchamakallit. I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game.
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