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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

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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NetSquared Volunteers Help Nonprofits Like You Master Technology

Tech Soup

San Francisco, California: Sustainability Unconference (All Day). Los Angeles, California: Data Visualization with Tableau Public and Power BI. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Dublin, Ireland: Digital Street Mapping Workshop. Saturday, May 6, 2017.

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

Tech Soup

Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: How Nonprofits Can Find and Use Public Data Effectively. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Wellington, New Zealand: Get a Digital Head Start for 2017 — NetSquared Wellington Unconference.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Tools Artists Need Geeks To Create Join us to discuss the digital tools being used and abused by theatre makers, dancers, musicians, crafters, wordsmiths, cinematographers, photographers, painters, and other multimedia artists. Putting the Public Back in Public Media Think NPR and PBS are just broadcasters? What’s new?

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See You at the 2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference!

Tech Soup

Digital Battles for the World's Souls — Friday , March 6, 8:30 a.m. Digital Battles for the World's Souls. NetSquared /Tech Club Organizer Mini-Unconference for Tech Club/NetSquared Organizers. Want to connect with Steve in advance of NTC? He's happy to answer your burning data questions. – 10:00 a.m.

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CongressCamp: Where the Hill Meets Web 2.0

Forum One

CongressCamp was an unconference focused on the Congress side of Gov 2.0. Participants explored the use of web-based social and collaboration technologies and their use in transforming congressional engagement with the public. technologies frequently is not guided by an underlying digital communications strategy. technologies.

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