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Disrupting Social Change at Nonprofit 2.0 Unconference

Care2

Unconference on June 26 th at SEIU headquarters in Washington, DC. Unconference is aimed at nonprofit practitioners and consultants who work in: Online Advocacy and Outreach. Craig Newmark, of craigslist and craigconnects, disrupted the classified business and is known for devoting his life to philanthropy and helping nonprofits.

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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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Embracing Your Fearlessness at Nonprofit 2.0 Unconference

Care2

But in today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, and where our activists and donors expect us to be transparent, responsive, and tech savvy, nonprofit leaders must work through their fears and change the way they do business inside the organization and externally, if they are going to exist in the next 10 years. The Nonprofit 2.0

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Green Enterpise Unconference: Timely Gathering, Dec 3rd, Mountain View CA

Forum One

The “ Green Enterprise Unconference ” we’re hosting on December 3rd is looking extremely timely and interesting. It’s timely because integrating environmental factors into decision-making is likely to become a key issue in 2009 for businesses and governments. Hope you can join us: The “ Green Enterprise Unconference ”.

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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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The Internal is the new External: EDF Business Innovation Exchange

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The objective of the The Innovation Exchange is to facilitate rapid and widespread adoption of environmental innovation in business. They hope to improve both the environmental impact of business (improve operations) and the business impact of the environment (improve products). Sharing internal presentations on slideshare.

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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. Her philanthropic pursuits and business interests have all pointed toward greater self-esteem and economic potential for low-income people everywhere. Unconference Storify here. Yesterday at the Nonprofit 2.0 This was self-evident in her keynote.