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May 12, 2011
From Online Community to Cash

In 3 years, an education non-profit in small-town North Carolina went from a 6-person staff to a network of thousands charged with advancing its mission. How was this growth possible? In an in-depth exploration of this experience, Alice Williams explains how online communities made this transformation happen. Full of hard-won lessons and emerging best practices, this workshop is an eye-opener for organizations open to growing their online presence.

May 10, 2010
The Community Connection: Extending Mission and Resources through Online Networks

In January 2009, a small education nonprofit in Hillsborough, North Carolina fielded a request from the U.S. Department of Education seeking input from a cross‐section of the nation's most accomplished teachers around a number of major policy debates. They needed a report in five working days. How could nine full‐time staff in small‐town NC, already weighed down with multiple responsibilities, fulfill this request?

April 15, 2004
The Business of Blogs

Blogs are about to storm the corporate world — but not via the CIO's office. They are appearing in companies most often as the convenient records of engineering or design projects. In fact, blogs are following the same bottom-up adoption path that was created by instant messaging (IM), another collaboration tool originally used for personal communication. As blogs bubble into businesses, they introduce new ways to create, share, and leverage knowledge — and that is why they should be on your radar.

August 8, 2002
We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs

Weblogs offer an exciting new way to voice your opinions, share ideas with others, and help your business grow. Written by a team of weblog pioneers-the people who helped create Blogger and the MetaFilter community blog-this book shows you how to build, evolve and automate weblogs for personal and business use.

August 8, 2000
Growing Online Community

On August 8, 2000, CTO Steve Champeon led a panel entitled "Growing Online Community" at Web2000 in Washington, DC. Here's a list of the panelists, some notes on the panel, and some useful links.