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Transparency Camp West 09: Blogging and Tweeting An Open Board Meeting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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5 Things Oakland Taught Me about Civic Hacking

Tech Soup

It's not just technologists or data experts, but also community members, activists, and government officials. CityCamp was an "unconference," meaning that the agenda was defined by the participants, who pitched and voted on session ideas. How to unlock data from PDF reports on the city's website.

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