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I know the folks over at http://thinkhost.com power their web servers on wind and other green energy, plus they have lots of other services that are of interest to non profits
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If people are interested in checking out what the inside of a Newsgator account looks like (it's my favorite) I've set up and seeded with feeds a demo account at http://newsgator.com username: marshalldemo pw: welcome
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This is a great example of where wiki-fears could meet wiki-possibilities. I can just imagine people saying "we can't have just any random employee editing the handbook!" One answer being, of course, to assign each employee a user name and password and only allow edits to be made by logged in users. Then you know exactly who is making what contributions
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Ok, here's a visualization of a possibility at the minimal end of the spectrum. One thing enabled by these new tools is to automate all or part of your web site's newswire. If you've got a section titled "Our Issue in the News" then two web2.0 ways you can populate that section include: 1. have members of your group tag news stories elsewhere
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here's my take on this question For some indication of how intense the explosion of web based services and applications is, check out these pages: Del.icio.us/tag/web2.0 Del.icio.us/tag/web2.0+apps Emily Chang's fantastic site eHub What do the things highlighted on these pages have in common? They reley on serious bandwidth cheap data storage
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For sure! I've found that two things that help are: 1. drawing comparisons to similar tools allready in use, eg. "you know about your browser's bookmarks, well here's how social bookmarking is different." or "instead of copying and pasting documents online into Word and then emailing them to yourself or others, here's how you can tag
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In response to the public vs. private wikis, one thing to consider is that it takes a considerable amount more buy in per person for an organization to get the most out of a private wiki. If folks outside the organization can't be utilized to populate the wiki and make it useful, then that all rests on the shoulders of the group's own members
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I was asked to share resources and facilitate a discussion here today about RSS Syndication and how organizations can use it to share knowledge, but this forum program is giving me too much trouble with links in HTML so I've just made the post on my own blog. I hope you'll go over and visit, but comments might be best posted here (?) for continuity
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I have begun a thread titled Some Wiki Thoughts and Resources that may be helpful in a how-to sort of way.
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As I was asked to facilitate discussion today on how wikis and RSS can be used for organizations to share knowledge, I'll begin with a few resource links and some thoughts on wikis. I'm going to do what I can today, but I just had a new niece born in the middle of last night - so you'll have to forgive me if I don't have as much time