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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. What is an Unconference?

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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Open Space and Unconference Facilitation. The book is an extremely practical resource whether you are working on improving your skills or teaching others. A simple hmm… often works. It helps people process complex thoughts. People can work alone, with a partner or small groups of three or five or larger.

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Introducing Community Participation Bootcamp at the MAH

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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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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.

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

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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. We love to see our members' work growing and succeeding.

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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. ll examine the role of information technology in supporting the essential functions, business processes, and mission of a nonprofit organization. In this session, we???ll

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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. 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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