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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. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams.

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Letter from Participation Camp: The Digital Divide

Forum One

As a relative newbie here at Forum One, I wasn't sure what to expect when as I headed to my very first "unconference." The unconference was about connecting government managers and staff, public engagement experts, online tool developers, and citizens to encourage shared insights, decisions, and actions in government.

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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. What if instead, the government made certain data and systems available to citizens, so that we could design and build our own vending machines? You don't get what you wanted out of the machine, so you shake it."

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NTC Community Call Recap

NTEN

Facilitate meet-ups and small group meals outside of conference lunches New to the NTC scavenger hunt New to the NTC Booth Insider’s Guide Blog to highlight the informal activities Social Events A speed-networking session Formal conversation time with other nonprofit tech professionals and vendors Organized dinners out, with RSVPs Space for yoga?

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Join Us at MuseumCamp 2015 to Explore Making Space for Self and Others

Museum 2.0

illustration by Beck Tench Each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History hosts MuseumCamp , a professional development experience that is part retreat, part unconference, part summer camp. You can make space by giving yourself permission or time or a paintbrush. For designers. This year, our theme is SPACE.

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Live from Transparency Camp '09 in DC

Forum One

I had a great time yesterday at Transparency Camp '09 in DC - kudos to Peter Corbett , and Gabriela Schneider and Clay Johnson and others at Sunlight Foundation , as well as others for catalyzing it. And the " bar camp " format, or unconference or "open space" approach, really leads to meaningful topics and peer to peer discussions.

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Transparency Camp West 09: Blogging and Tweeting An Open Board Meeting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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