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Green Innovation for Business Unconference

Tech Soup

Have you ever heard of an unconference ? is to regular web pages, meaning it is more of a business oriented social-networking event than a traditional conference where talking heads push information at you all day. It is a participant-driven gathering centered around a particular theme. It is to conferences what Web 2.0

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Online Community Unconference June 10 in Mountain View, California

Tech Soup

Next week, I'll be attending The Online Community Unconference (OCU) , along with my TechSoup community colleague, Susan Tenby. The OCU is a gathering of online community practitioners — managers, developers, business people, tool providers, investors — to discuss experiences and strategies in the development and growth of online communities.

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Notes from SOCAP09: Thoughts on Micro-Donations, Crowd-Sourcing, Radical Collaborations, and Mobile Tech

Tech Soup

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.

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"Real Time Web" Summit - Thursday, October 15, Mountain View CA

Forum One

The real-time web is creating new opportunities in business, media, communication and collaboration. We are bringing together industry leaders using the real-time web in social networks, financial services, media and nonprofit groups to discuss: * the state of the art, science and business of the real-time web.

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Three Upcoming Nonprofit Events and Conferences to Check Out

Care2

Care2’s Eric Rardin will be speaking on the panel “Cause Marketing and High Level Engagement” which will discuss how brands can leverage social networks and achieve high level engagement to grow their reputations and business. Frogloop has a 15% discount code for nonprofits. The code is Mike15.

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Open311: What Nonprofits and Public Libraries Can Gain from Open Government

Tech Soup

I've kind of become an open-data geek in the past few months, largely thanks to NetSquared's unconference at NTC. Kapor suggested that open government is a part of the natural progression of open source: open-source developers have already redefined software and business. Redefining government is the next step.

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Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Forum One

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.