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Start the New Year Off Right: A Guide to Online Giving - ReadWriteWeb via kwout

Check out this post by Gerry McGovern:

The collaborative Web Posted: Sunday 09th of December 2007 05:49:00 PM
Posted In: New Thinking by Gerry McGovern (Robert does not necessarily agree with all the views expressed here.)
The essence of the Web is about linking, sharing and collaboration. Productivity and value creation is driven by cooperation.
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Bible in a Year

Today's YWAM Prayer Diary readings are now just one click away at http://www.biblegateway.com. The standalone php code is shown below. This works well as a block in Drupal or equally well in a posting.

For those thinking through how to connect YWAM staff using the web you might like to check out this post by Ray Cheung:

Mashable the First Ever Collaborative Open Web Awards Posted: Tuesday 27th of November 2007 07:01:21 AM
Posted In: WebAppers Robert does not necessarily agree with all the views expressed here.
Mashable is one of the social networking news blogs which has over 130,000 readers, has organized a first ever online, open collaborative awards event called Open Web Awards.
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The social connections between YWAM staff may be developed and nurtured by web based tools. Check out this post by Alex Iskold.

The Social Enterprise - What Works, and What Doesn't Posted: Tue, Nov 6 2007 2:00 PM
Posted In: Read/Write Web (Robert does not necessarily agree with all the views expressed here.)
So how can companies become agile? The answer is from the bottom-up. The hierarchy needs to give way to self-organization. What this means is that instead of control and decisions coming from the top, individual teams need to be empowered to execute. This does not mean chaos and anarchy. It does not mean complete lack of planning. It actually means setting goals globally but enabling the execution locally. Each team within the company needs to have the tools, the motivation, and the mandate to execute at its best.
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The "Amazon Dynamo" post is the first in a series of posts designed to highlight developments that have a good chance of impacting our IT and Communications decision making in the next three to five years. When highlighting a post, there will not be too much commentary from me, just a short quote and link to the relevant post.