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Disrupting Social Change at Nonprofit 2.0 Unconference

Care2

If nonprofits are going to solve the world''s toughest social justice issues and create real world impact, then we need to disrupt the charities and radically change the way they function and are led. Unconference on June 26 th at SEIU headquarters in Washington, DC. Public Affairs. Unconference this year?' Social Media.

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Women Who Tech: Tools and Apps to Energize your Base

Amy Sample Ward

I recommend using a tool like Netvibes because it allows you to have a public and/or private dashboard, and is easy to use and customize. You can see an example of a dashboard by visiting my public Nonprofit Tech Dashboard. What about risk management issues around geo-social tools? How do you set up an unconference?

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Foo Camp 2009

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I think this is my third or fourth Foo Camp, and the energy around public uses of technology was palpable. 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. I just got back from Foo Camp 2009, which was a blast as usual.

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Vendor Relationship Management: Why Nonprofits Should Care

Tech Soup

The movement has huge potential for nonprofits and public libraries, but it still has some ways to go in the overall technology sector. " Of course, when I read "other kinds of organizations," I immediately think of nonprofits, public libraries, and foundations. We like to be ahead of the trend here at TechSoup, however.

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Thoughts on the Social Collaboration Game from SHINE09

Amy Sample Ward

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. More public sharing : The point of breaking people up into groups is that there can be many more engaged groups instead of one large group with minimal participation.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They organize supporters, raise attention to important social and political issues, seek donations, and organize supporters to walk, run, shout, protest, and vote, things that were once done mostly by nonprofit organizations. What are the change issues for traditional nonprofits that want to become “networked nonprofits?&#.

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CongressCamp: Where the Hill Meets Web 2.0

Forum One

CongressCamp was an unconference focused on the Congress side of Gov 2.0. Participants explored the use of web-based social and collaboration technologies and their use in transforming congressional engagement with the public. Ownership of data and security and privacy issues is not widely understood by congressional staff.

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