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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. The Session Design and Implementation. Orienting the Group.

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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. I just got back from Foo Camp 2009, which was a blast as usual. I think this is my third or fourth Foo Camp, and the energy around public uses of technology was palpable.

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NPTECH Punk

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it? I learned a lot.

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Nonprofit Technology Meetings In Your Community

Tech Soup

Wellington, New Zealand: Engage Your Community unConference. Open Houston and The City of Houston drafted a group of volunteer designers, writers and data scientists to streamline the local government’s communication strategy. Toronto, Canada: Office 365 Lunch and Learn. Naples, FL: WordPress Walk-In-Clinic.

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

Tech Soup

A few weeks ago, I attended a panel discussion on open government data. The event was presented by Twilio and Open 311 , one of the organizations leading the charge to make government data public, accessible, and usable. I've kind of become an open-data geek in the past few months, largely thanks to NetSquared's unconference at NTC.

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Meet Your Local NetSquared Organizer at #17NTC

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Vancouver, British Columbia: 2017 Vancouver Open Data Day Hackathon. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: How to Do More with the Nonprofit Data You Already Have. Ottawa, Ontario: Data Science for Ten Oaks. Boston, Massachusetts: TSNE, TNB, and TNB Labs Super Roundtable: From Data to Decisions at Your Nonprofit.

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Is There a Community of #Tech4Good Activists Waiting for You?

Tech Soup

Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Vancouver, British Columbia: Design for Nondesigners. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: How Nonprofits Can Find and Use Public Data Effectively. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Tuesday, February 14, 2017. Tuesday, March 14, 2017.