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Disrupting Social Change at Nonprofit 2.0 Unconference

Care2

Unconference on June 26 th at SEIU headquarters in Washington, DC. This is an important discussion to be having right now as nonprofits struggle to raise money and find alternative revenue streams in our recovering economy. Unconference is aimed at nonprofit practitioners and consultants who work in: Online Advocacy and Outreach.

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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. Tim O'Reilly painted a breathtaking picture of the future of government.

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AI for Nonprofits and Social Good: Link Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AI is developing faster than our regulatory system is prepared to handle and threatens to consolidate power in the tech companies and oppressive governments that deploy AI while making society vulnerable to AI biases, surveillance, and other dysfunctions.

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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." Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the barrier to entry for all citizens in government decisions. But our discussion quickly turned to local solutions. CreatetheGood.org.

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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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Nonprofit Technology Meetings In Your Community

Tech Soup

Wellington, New Zealand: Engage Your Community unConference. Bagels & Bytes discussed the Windows XP Migration; File Transfer & Cloud Storage; Donor Management Databases and more at their February meeting. Toronto, Canada: Office 365 Lunch and Learn. Naples, FL: WordPress Walk-In-Clinic. Traverse City, MI: February Meetup.

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NetSquared Local Events: Week of June 17, 2013

Tech Soup

Using NetSquared Camp as an example, he introduces readers to the participant-driven unconference model. They discussed how online innovation can impact everyone from the agricultural sector to small startups. Maria Zaghi organized a virtual regional meetup as part of the G-Everyone Summit. This Week’s NetSquared Events.