Care2

JULY 8, 2014

Michael Smith, the Director of the White House''s Social Innovation Fund , spoke to the Unconference after lunch. Nonprofits need to cultivate a culture of evaluation, to learn what is working and what is not. If we are going to get the right solutions, we need the right people in the room, not just the elite. Be Fearless.

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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. How uninspiring for a sector filled with passionate people who are trying to change the world and make it a better place to live.

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2014

You may have also met her at the 14NTC, where she was working with the NTEN team behind the scenes. I remember going to an amazing unconference led by Ash Shepherd and Amy Sample Ward a number of years ago in Portland. see photo below). How did you first become involved with the NTEN Community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

This effort was realized thanks to more than 10 months of work by a team of 43 volunteer translators based in Brazil, France, Mexico and the US. WiserEarth offers a free and ad-free network to a vibrant member base of 37,000+ people from 231 countries, regions and territories.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 4, 2009

My colleague, friend, and collaborator David Wilcox just posted about the social collaboration game we are going to be putting on at SHINE derived partly from the social media game and from our work on the Social by Social project. But how do you make it work in practice? You’ll find details here. “

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

Conference , especially the “ unconference sessions “ in Washington, DC on Friday. Wendy has let me shadow her work for the past five years and share her wisdom in many blog posts. She shared some insights about the Red Cross’s social media work leading up to Haiti. A big thank you conference organizers!

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2010

Whether it was changing computers, cameras, cd players, or anything else, she was there with an attitude of, “let’s make this work!&# For as long as I can remember, my mom was the one to step up first to any technology problem or opportunity in our house growing up.

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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. Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on?

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Forum One

MAY 5, 2010

As a relative newbie here at Forum One, I wasn't sure what to expect when as I headed to my very first "unconference." The unconference was about connecting government managers and staff, public engagement experts, online tool developers, and citizens to encourage shared insights, decisions, and actions in government.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2018

MuseumCamp is a professional development experience that is part retreat, part unconference, part adult summer camp. MuseumCamp is amazing, but there are two issues that come up every January when we announce the new session: The application process is very competitive, and hundreds of people end up being rejected or waitlisted.

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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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

On Thursday, I attended the unconference/open space portion of SOCAP09 (Social Capital Markets 2009). I found a few tech sessions that were relevant to the purposes of TechSoup, and as is always the case, I collected the business cards of some intelligent people doing good work. Boyd Cohen , of 3rd Whale.

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Care2

JANUARY 10, 2012

From "Arab Spring" to rallies and movements bubbling up across the US, people around the world are organizing and demanding change. 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.

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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. If you were there , I would love to hear your thoughts as well; and if you weren’t , well, read David’s post about how it all works and join the conversation!

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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. The goal is.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 17, 2017

Each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History hosts MuseumCamp , a professional development experience that is part retreat, part unconference, part adult summer camp. We will host 100 diverse people who are making change in the world, our communities, and our institutions for 2.5 MuseumCamp will be August 9-11, 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2007

It's unconference style, and very supportive atmosphere for women who work in technology and also want to encourage more women to get involved. I facilitated a session on working in the nonprofit sector, with colleague Liz Perry , who is a sketch blogger and works an instructional technology specialist in a nonprofit school.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2013

NetSquared Local members meet monthly in 50 cities around the world with the goal of helping each other solve their tech challenges and finding a tribe of people who shares our passions. Portland, OR: Getting People to Click DONATE on Your Nonprofit Website. It’s time to get face-to-face with your nonprofit tech friends!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2012

It's the end of the summer, which means we are sadly bidding farewell to our fabulous summer interns, getting lonely and scared about how we will possibly do amazing work in the coming months without their brilliance, ingenuity, and creativity. We typically have two to three interns in this role, working 15 to 24 hours per week.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 23, 2013

That means Net2Local organizers are reaching as many people as NTEN’s NTC conference every quarter ! We’ve been working on meeting Net2Local organizer requests for more event support by holding theme months. Our volunteer network has accomplished the following: 232 events. Approximately 5,000 attendees. Theme Months.

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Forum One

MARCH 1, 2009

There really are a lot of amazing people working on web technology, strategy and policy in the DC area. And the " bar camp " format, or unconference or "open space" approach, really leads to meaningful topics and peer to peer discussions. It's ongoing today - Sunday - and you can follow it by viewing the (high volume!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Nancy has a post about " Over the Shoulder Learning " I always try and promote the people and process stuff, but the reality is that tools are often the "door opener" to the process conversations because they are more tangible. We watch people and learn. People thought it was trivial. Her dream: unconference.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History hosts MuseumCamp , a professional development experience that is part retreat, part unconference, part adult summer camp. We will host 100 diverse people who are making change in the world, our communities, and our institutions for 2.5 For people on the front lines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

While I was in Chicago, Ryanne Hodson , who I met at last year's BlogHer, is in Cambodia and Southeast Asia with Jay Dedman to document the work of Project Hope International. My first exposure to "unconferences" or Open Space Technology was during a week-long arts and education professional development seminar in 1997.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 21, 2015

illustration by Beck Tench Each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History hosts MuseumCamp , a professional development experience that is part retreat, part unconference, part summer camp. You can make space by inviting non-traditional partners into your work. For people on the front lines. For knowledge workers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

For more context, see Networks and Philanthropy Exploration and the most recent release of the Working Wikily paper from Monitor Institute. The network grows out of their ground-breaking work in partnering with businesses. You can read more here ) Later, they worked with Fedex to develop the first hybrid truck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2006

However, once you get back and face a suitcase of dirty laundry, a backlog of work, and settle back into your day-to-day routines - you loose that freshness. You know how inspired you feel after attending a conference? You get stacks of business cards, a notebook full of new ideas, and some great energy. What to do?

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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

In order to do this, they need to work with free agents, hyper-connected individuals who are passionate about social change, but don’t work within institutional walls. What are the lessons learned from Free Agents about working with nonprofits? What works? Our session will explore how and why this needs to change.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Fundraising during Covid has been disruptive for everyone – every single sector has been impacted but particularly those that work in event fundraising. After NTEN had to cancel their annual conference, they set up a crowdfunding page where people could still donate to help cover lost revenue from the conference. Virtual Live-Stream.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

When one of our many TechSoup NTC attendees (look for people in spiffy black and white t-shirts) spots you wearing your button, you'll receive a free drink ticket. Our staff would love to meet you and hear about the great work you are doing. NetSquared /Tech Club Organizer Mini-Unconference for Tech Club/NetSquared Organizers.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2008

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2011

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of People with Disabilities "has recognized access to technology as a foundational right in today's world," while the United States Department of Justice has begun looking at extending American Disabilities Act protections to the Internet. and Ottowa. Tools for Free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

We're in the middle of the dog days of summer when people go on vacations and it's hot outside. At Blogher Unconference, Leslie Madsen Brooks (who works with university faculty to help them make their instruction more thoughtful and who is also a dog lover ) put up a session called "Slow Blogging." Life slows down.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2009

We are using a hybrid unconference/workshop model in which participants work collaboratively to explore and brainstorm a few pre-selected "wild ideas" for future museum initiatives related to audience participation. I'm working on a project to open an interactive museum/bar in Santa Cruz focused on social participation.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

More than 20 NetSquared-affiliated organizers will be at the conference — look for the people wearing NetSquared pins. Burlington, Vermont: Work Life Balance — Integrate Renewal into Your Busy Day. the Best of the Unconference. These global leaders are coming from the United Kingdom, Uganda, Florida, and DC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2006

In my work, I have 20 minutes to interview Bill Gates and I need my equipment to work." One of the people who posted was very knowledgable --so I emailed them to inquire if their nonprofit had done podcasting. I think descriptions of our work really need a visual component to be captivating."

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