Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Open Space and Unconference Facilitation. ” This builds trust and establishes your objectivity. It lets the speaker hear what they just said and can build trust. Innovation / Generating New Ideas. Making Decisions and Getting Consensus. Strategic Dialogue. Organizational Development. Networked Facilitation.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2012

Unconference this really resonated with me when Paul Young of charity: water said in his keynote, what if your online communications (website, social media, fundraising appeals) looked like how you talked. There has been a lot of great discussion over the past year about organizations striving to be more human. Listen to your Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2010

The Case Foundation has generously supported our work on research to support social media capacity building of the nonprofit sector. There is a nice synergy as ALL the proceeds from my share of the sales of the book will be going to the Sharing Foundation , the organization I championed for the first America’s Giving Challenge.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 30, 2009

It's structured as an unconference, where the 300 or so folks showing up design the conference program of roughly 70 sessions in about an hour the first night. The lawn outside the buildings (and the orchard behind the lawn) is covered with tents. I just got back from Foo Camp 2009, which was a blast as usual.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

NetSquared Local believes that the best way to build a strong, self sufficient community of #nptech practitioners is for us to go outside and get face-to-face. NetSquared Camp, an unconference for hackers and activists, was held on June 1 in Vancouver. We challenge you to join a NetSquared Local group or start your own ! Event Reports.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 17, 2013

NetSquared Local believes that the best way to build a strong, self sufficient community of #nptech practitioners is for us to go outside and get face-to-face. Using NetSquared Camp as an example, he introduces readers to the participant-driven unconference model. It you can’t make it to Victoria ( you’re missing out! )

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Care2

JANUARY 10, 2012

This year marks the 6th anniversary of the Rootscamp “Unconference” where organizers set the agenda, share lessons learned and drive the conversation about best practices in organizing. Frogloop has a 15% discount code for nonprofits. The code is Mike15. When: February 7-9, 2012. Click Here to Register. When: February 18-19.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2010

This morning, NetSquared hosted a special unconference at NTC on open data. Tools Web Building. It was a fascinating discussion that touched both on many of the reasons why nonprofits are taking a look at data sharing and on why consequential data sharing can sometimes be challenging or unfeasible for nonprofits.

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Care2

JUNE 25, 2010

Allison Fine and Beth Kanter keynoted a thoughtful keynote conversation moderated by Shireen Mitchell during the first annual NonProfit 20 Unconference. Because he had a very personal connection to the issue. Kanter and Fine also warned nonprofits to stop obsessing over control.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2009

The Online Community Report MeetUp is back this month, fresh from the Online Community Unconference and ready to discuss online community tools and techniques. This month our guest speaker is Brad Selby from Flixster , an online community for movie lovers. Event Details: When: Wednesday, June 24 at 7:00 p.m.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2014

Our events are powered by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self-sufficient local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. Wellington, New Zealand: Engage Your Community unConference. Research Triangle, NC: What’s on your Dashboard? Thursday, February 20. Saturday, February 22.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2013

If you aren’t a hacker but still want an in-depth experience, join North Carolina’s Tech4Good group for their annual conference June 6–7 or visit lovely Vancouver, Canada for their NetSquared Camp unconference on June 1. Toronto, Canada: Technology, human rights & movement building around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

The She's Geeky (un)conference will provide an agenda-free and friendly environment for women who not only care about building technology that is useful for people, but who also want to encourage more women to get involved. This is an unconference so it will have an agenda created by the people who attend.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Every month I bring you a roundup of free technology training events that will help nonprofit staffers like you build their skills. San Francisco, California: Evening Sustainability Unconference. Busia, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya and Mozilla — Building for the Future with App Maker. Monday, April 17, 2017.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

I've kind of become an open-data geek in the past few months, largely thanks to NetSquared's unconference at NTC. What if instead, the government made certain data and systems available to citizens, so that we could design and build our own vending machines? You don't get what you wanted out of the machine, so you shake it."

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2011

Some NTEN members deploy technology, others build it! unconference. It's back now and here to stay. There's so much going on this week, you may need to settle in with a cup of tea to check out everything NTEN members up to! You can watch the video and hear how the American Red Cross is putting the social web to work! Will you comment?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Net2Local, TechSoup Global’s grassroots #nptech community-building initiative has almost reached the end of 2013. In the new year we’re planning on supporting organizers in holding unconferences and workshops in Burkina Faso, Australia, Canada, Guatemala, the United Kingdom and the United States. What did we do?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2009

This past Saturday at the SHINE09 unconferance , David Wilcox , Andy Gibson , Drew Mackie and I facilitated a version of what was called the Social Collaboration Game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

They are in the process of building and growing a 'problem solving' network by convening thoughtful people inside and outside of EDF to review their thinking and then comment, critique, and contribute new information so they can improve their impact. Witzel says other transparent behavior includes: Creative commons licenses on the web site.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

SF OCTRIBE: Featuring Albert of Albert's List on Building Facebook Communities. San Francisco, California: Sustainability Unconference (All Day). Seattle, Washington: Building Better Websites with Web Accessibility. Code for America Civic Hack Night. Thursday, May 4, 2017. Saturday, May 6, 2017. Monday, May 8, 2017.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Online learning is awesome (and TechSoup has got you covered ), but a special magic is created when we get together in the same room and start building relationships. Lusaka, Zambia: Website Building and Designing Using WordPress for Nonprofits. Port Harcourt, Nigeria: Website Building and Design. the Best of the Unconference.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

So if you're looking to build your skills and find your fellow accidental techies, there's probably a group near you! As an event host, you build your reputation, develop new tech skills, and give back to your community. Lusaka, Zambia: Website Building and Designing Using WordPress for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2009

Transparency Camp is an unconference designed to convene a trans-partisan tribe of open government advocates from all walks — government representatives, technologists, developers, NGOs, wonks and activists — to share knowledge on how to use new technologies to make our government transparent and meaningfully accessible to the public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

What should we be building to help artists make and sell art, engage their audiences, and connect to other artists? They’re convening Barcamp-like unconferences called PubCamps all over the country, allowing local techies and citizen journalists to forge collaborative projects with NPR and PBS stations, both online and offline.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2008

A couple weeks ago I asked you and the Have Fun * Do Good Facebook group for suggestions for Changebloggers, people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise awareness, build community, and/or facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place. A conference or unconference?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2011

As our community discusses the topic of building a culture of accessibility, an important distinction arises. There is also the Accessibility Unconference in Boston on September 17, 2011. Voices from the Community is an ongoing series of blog posts culling. popular topics of interest from the TechSoup Community Forums and other.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Bring your ideas and experience about event logistics, creative formats, and building robust communities. NetSquared /Tech Club Organizer Mini-Unconference for Tech Club/NetSquared Organizers. A lively discussion is sure to ensue. Digital Battles for the World's Souls — Friday , March 6, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The event also included plenary speakers, including a provocative talk about data methods from Alexandra Samuels and cross-track sessions from traditional panels to unconference. The culmination of these two and half very intense days was an Idea Accelerator Lab. Scribe: The role of the scribe is to capture ideas and build group memory.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Virtual Conference (aka UnConference). Host a virtual conference event aka an Unconference. Similar to the unconference, you could bring musicians together to host a concert or mini-festival benefitting your organization. Did you have a conference planned that needed to be canceled? UnConcert/UnFestival. Virtual Happy Hour.

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Forum One

JUNE 4, 2008

Read More » Letter from Participation Camp: The Digital Divide Aimee McLaughlin in Influence 5 May 2010 As a relative newbie here at Forum One, I wasnt sure what to expect when as I headed to my very first "unconference."

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Forum One

MAY 15, 2007

Read More » Letter from Participation Camp: The Digital Divide Aimee McLaughlin in Influence 5 May 2010 As a relative newbie here at Forum One, I wasnt sure what to expect when as I headed to my very first "unconference."

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2005

Read More » Letter from Participation Camp: The Digital Divide Aimee McLaughlin in Influence 5 May 2010 As a relative newbie here at Forum One, I wasnt sure what to expect when as I headed to my very first "unconference."

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

Even if you’ve never participated in an ‘unconference’ event like this, no worries! Building Stronger Online Communities Without Losing Your Sanity – [International Ballroom B] (#strongoc). The NOS session is a chance for anyone interested in open data and APIs to connect and collaborate. When : 10:30 a.m.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Thousands of nonprofit pros rely on our annual Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar to discover skill-building, strategy-slaying, network-enhancing nonprofit events. It is run as an unconference, meaning YOU set the agenda. Today, we're excited to announce the all-new list for 2017! Wellstone Action / Washington, DC / $140.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2014

MuseumCamp was inspired by other action-oriented professional development experiences, ranging from open-ended unconferences to tightly-formatted tinkering workshops. And if you want a more efficient approach to multi-vocal facilitation, try an unconference. Build structures to support meeting each other. Sleep on it.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2015

Mai-ling Garcia, the city of Oakland's online engagement manager, put it succinctly: "We're not here to build applications for you, we're here to build applications with you." CityCamp was an "unconference," meaning that the agenda was defined by the participants, who pitched and voted on session ideas.

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Forum One

APRIL 17, 2009

While many of us have been working for years to build tools that help engage citizens in government, we've finally reached a point in which the tools, the momentum, and the administrative support are making American-style democracy more open and accessible. At this "unconference," attendees will be setting the agenda.

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