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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions. Small Group Design.

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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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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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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). Greg Berry , Systems Designer of Nuance Intelligence. This post is cross-posted on my personal blog and on the NetSquared Blog. Here is what you missed, so you don't have to regret not having gone. Boyd Cohen , of 3rd Whale.

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Over the Shoulder Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nancy has a post about " Over the Shoulder Learning " I always try and promote the people and process stuff, but the reality is that tools are often the "door opener" to the process conversations because they are more tangible. It is informal knowledge transfer around using the tools. Her dream: unconference.

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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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Voices from the Community: Accessibility

Tech Soup

There is also the Accessibility Unconference in Boston on September 17, 2011. Tools for Free. Free tools are another great assistive technology resource that our community shares information about in our forum. And coming up in October, Accessibility Camp has events planned for Washington, D.C. and Ottowa.