Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2010

unconference on Friday morning in Washington, DC. There will be two more public Internet events this week: The first is The Networked Nonprofit After Party on Thursday at 3:30 EDT, hosted by Philanthropy.com Web Editor Peter Panepento. The BlogTalkRadio show will feature calls from you! Join us at [link]. Please join us if you can.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Open Space and Unconference Facilitation. Innovation / Generating New Ideas. Making Decisions and Getting Consensus. Strategic Dialogue. Organizational Development. Networked Facilitation. Community Organizing. Participatory Gatherings. Any many more. Does it makes your eyes pop out?

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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. Liz and I had incredible conversation about mobile blogging during the blogher unconference last July and I always found her to be one someone who with a great deal of wisdom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

This is an unconference so it will have an agenda created by the people who attend. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

The photographs above were taken on the last day of Blogher, at the Unconference on Sunday morning facilitated by the talented Kaliya Hamlin who blogs about unconferences here. 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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SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Her dream: unconference. What we had unconference with over your shoulder and worked in pairs. Graham Wenger put it up - blogging allows to share what we're doing and allows us to look over each other's shoulders. Connect with people who can advance our learning. Benefits for the person looking and be observed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

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. Expect a few more posts over the weekend pending Internet access while I'm waiting for my connection to Singapore from LA. I'm going to try to make it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2006

CaseCamp is described as an "unconference" where people gather to share case studies of their work, with the goal of creating a commons for discusison, learning, and networking. What will you do to follow up? And then, how can we help you? I also just came across another variation on the barcamp model: Casecamp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

I've also found that events that use the "unconference" approach and informal learning and sharing like Boston Podcamp have also helped me learn. Thank you everyone!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

Holding unconferences to invite individuals and busineses beyond their staff and partners to participate - and this serves as a important research/feedback mechanism. Witzel says other transparent behavior includes: Creative commons licenses on the web site. Sharing internal presentations on slideshare.

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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 4, 2008

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. " A slightly different take on the concept of slow.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2006

And, since this is an unconference format, all we need to do is add ourselves to the agenda. All in all, podcamp was a valuable source of knowledge exchange. Also, if we want to see a more balance female/male ratio of podcast gatherings, more women need to show up. Damn, next year I will.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

They’re convening Barcamp-like unconferences called PubCamps all over the country, allowing local techies and citizen journalists to forge collaborative projects with NPR and PBS stations, both online and offline. Crowdsourcing the Corporate/ Nonprofit Partnership.

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AUGUST 25, 2006

I've seen this used frequently with "unconference" or "open space" technology-oriented conferences and workshops. For example, during the Global s London Summit, a wiki was used to capture a brainstorming session and then to help bring those ideas foward in the months following the gathering.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Here's a few: She's Geeky , an unconference for women in technology, held a blog day on September 19th which generated many posts including a few from the nonprofit tech space ( here , here , and here ) Blog Action Day is October 15th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

There's an unconference called OpenFaced taking place in tandem with the conference. Graphing Social Patterns is a conference devoted to the business and technology of Facebook taking place next week in Silicon Valley. It's for both developers and marketers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

PodCamp is a FREE BarCamp-style community UnConference. for podcasters and listeners, bloggers and readers, and anyone interested in New Media. I was lucky enough to participate in the first one, held for the first time from September 8-10 in Boston, Massachusetts. I learned so much and the networking was awesome. I don't even podcast!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Susan Tenby from TechSoup shares her notes from the Unconference. WeAreMedia Webinar on September 23rd - A Choose Your Own Expert Format ! Registration here. Socap09 Still Buzzing : Last week, the SoCap Conference generated a lot of buzz. What was most sexy? More from Stephanie McAuliffe's blog and SocialBrite.

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