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NonProfit 2.0 UnConference and holiday discount

Amy Sample Ward

Unconference is coming to Washington, D.C., Unconference here. delivers the best of both worlds, offering great keynote sessions led by Amanda Rose, Founder of Twestival, but in an unconference way with no PowerPoint, 15 minute leads, and open questions and dialogue for fantastic conversations. Nonprofit Technology.

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Two Excellent Nonprofit Technology Professional Development Opportunities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She's Geeky - Kaliya Hamlin, the expert of unconfernces, is putting together this unconference for women who work in technology, both nonprofit and for-profit. John Kenyon is doing a series of Webinars for NTEN on technology leadership. (In I'm going to try to make it. In this session, we???ll

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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Open Space and Unconference Facilitation. It helps people process complex thoughts. In some facilitation methods, the participants do the documentation – for example the World Cafe where participants take notes of the conversation or Open Space Technology where knowledge capture is done by participants throughout.

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NTEN Members Online Round-Up: We're Back in Action, and So Are You!

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Some NTEN members deploy technology, others build it! Peter Dietz and Christine Egger officially started the process this week of transitioning Social Actions – the community creating APIs and collaborations to make finding actionable opportunities easier across the web – over to its new home at GuideStar. unconference.

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Over the Shoulder Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. And, I wonder how that can be facilitated by the Internet and Technology.

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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. David has written up an incredible rundown of the game, including the cards, the planning documents and more. Visit the SHINE socialreporter blog to read David’s post.

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. What makes for a good team experience is a good on-boarding process.