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Foo Camp 2009

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive ( a forceful critic of the settlement), Tim O'Reilly, Marissa Mayer of Google were all part of the audience.

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Women Who Tech: Tools and Apps to Energize your Base

Amy Sample Ward

Community Mapping helps you identify not just the various segments of your audience, but also create a clear picture of which tools/platforms are associated with those groups and which messages are best to target where. How do you set up an unconference? I’ve also set up a step-by-step guide to creating your own dashboard.

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NPTECH Punk

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The unconference/camp model of learning about technology issues is really great, but falls a little short when dealing with a specific tool, and an audience that is mostly unfamiliar with it. I learned a lot. link] Make sure it is really water soluable magic marker … 2 Tino Paz 06.21.08

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The Social Web is Not Flat

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In less than 24 hours, I will be boarding a plane bound for Mumbai to present at the NASSCOM conference called NASSCOM India Leadership where I'll be on a panel on NGO and Social Media as well as lead a discussion at an unconference on whether CEO/Executive Director's should use social media.

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Nonprofit 2.0 Reflections: Sharing Practices Around Listening and Free Agents

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Conference , especially the “ unconference sessions “ in Washington, DC on Friday. We kicked off the conference with an interview style keynote about the Networked Nonprofit, moderated by fabulous Shireen Mitchell (aka digitalsista ). The best part is when the audience joins the conversation. Here are my notes.

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Four Conferences Online Organizers Should Attend

Care2

So, where does your nonprofit fit in this race to capture your online audience? Unconference. Unconference in DC will lead a series of sessions and conversations about using social media to create networked communities and movements. Join Amanda Rose, founder of Twestival as she kicks off the unconference with a special keynote.

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Why aren't we supporting leadership in a way that helps people grow?

Care2

Unconference we explored how to disrupt social change in the nonprofit sector. Majora encouraged the audience to not be afraid of being in a leadership position. Unconference Storify here. Yesterday at the Nonprofit 2.0 The day began bright and early, bursting with energy. Majora Carter started us off as the first keynote.