Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 30, 2009

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. My small contribution to the discussion was (of course) on accessibility. I just got back from Foo Camp 2009, which was a blast as usual.

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Forum One

MAY 5, 2010

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. It's only the beginning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: I've been fan of Wiser Earth ever since I had the opportunity to hear Peggy Duvette and Angus Parker discuss their approach almost a year ago. This will be an unconference where social entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders and individuals will share and discuss innovative technology moving us towards a just and sustainable world.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2010

She’s Geeky – “he brainchild of Kaliya Hamlin, She’s Geeky gives women in technology an opportunity to get together and discuss the unique issues they face in their respective fields.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2012

There has been a lot of great discussion over the past year about organizations striving to be more human. Unconference this really resonated with me when Paul Young of charity: water said in his keynote, what if your online communications (website, social media, fundraising appeals) looked like how you talked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

In less than 24 hours, I will be boarding a plane bound for Mumbai to present at the NASSCOM conference called NASSCOM India Leadership where I'll be on a panel on NGO and Social Media as well as lead a discussion at an unconference on whether CEO/Executive Director's should use social media.

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Care2

JANUARY 10, 2012

This moderated discussion hosted Jeanette Russel of Salsa Labs and featuring Colin Delany founder editor of Epolitics.com and myself (Allyson Kapin) will explore how activists can harness this unprecedented energy to move policy while strengthening our organizations during this heated presidential election year. The code is Mike15.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2010

We had a lot of fun with the Ustream live stream and Twitter chat where we discussed the themes from the book and answer questions. Howard Lake over the UK was watching and took live notes summarizing the discussion and offering some screen captures. unconference on Friday morning in Washington, DC. What a send off!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

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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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2009

The Online Community Report MeetUp is back this month, fresh from the Online Community Unconference and ready to discuss online community tools and techniques. Brad's talk will kick off an informal discussion on online community strategies, so bring your ideas, questions, and topics of interest.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 17, 2013

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.

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Care2

JUNE 28, 2010

Unconference on Friday, June 25th. Wendy Harman, Social Media Manager at Red Cross, was the first to discuss the listening tools she uses (namely Radian6) -- and process she follows (more on that in a moment) to keep a beat on what people are saying about Red Cross across social networks and the blogosphere.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2009

We are bringing together industry leaders using the real-time web in social networks, financial services, media and nonprofit groups to discuss: * the state of the art, science and business of the real-time web. efforts to create standards and interoperability. challenges in user experience, technology and monetization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

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. Then we opened up for discussion.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

Sometimes it’s easier to solve a problem by discussing it with a friend over beer. NetSquared Camp, an unconference for hackers and activists, was held on June 1 in Vancouver. That’s why NetSquared Twin Cities is co-hosting a happy hour this week for nonprofits and technology folk in Minneapolis-St. Event Reports.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2014

Seattle, WA: Facebook: A Discussion of the Strengths and the Limits of Social Networking. Wellington, New Zealand: Engage Your Community unConference. Washington, DC Developing a Holistic Mobile Strategy. Wednesday, January 29. Manchester, United Kingdom: CiviCRM meetup. Thursday, January 30. Tripoli, Libya: NetSquared Tripoli Meetup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

However, in one of the discussion threads on the Summit wiki, there has been mention about using cameraphones or smart phones for this in addition to. The photographs above were taken on the last day of Blogher, at the Unconference on Sunday morning facilitated by the talented Kaliya Hamlin who blogs about unconferences here.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

A few weeks ago, I attended a panel discussion on open government data. I've kind of become an open-data geek in the past few months, largely thanks to NetSquared's unconference at NTC. Mitchell Kapor echoed many of O'Reilly's points and discussed open government in the context of the history of open source.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2010

This morning, NetSquared hosted a special unconference at NTC on open data. It was a fascinating discussion that touched both on many of the reasons why nonprofits are taking a look at data sharing and on why consequential data sharing can sometimes be challenging or unfeasible for nonprofits.

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Forum One

MARCH 1, 2009

And the " bar camp " format, or unconference or "open space" approach, really leads to meaningful topics and peer to peer discussions. We had about 28 people from a range of organizations - really good discussion ( see notes ). See the chart of sessions. More followup thoughts later. Picture courtesy of stereogab.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2009

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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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Steve Nagoski, senior data scientist at TechSoup , will discuss steps that nonprofits can take to use their data and publicly available datasets to make better-informed decisions for greater good. A lively discussion is sure to ensue. NetSquared /Tech Club Organizer Mini-Unconference for Tech Club/NetSquared Organizers.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2011

As our community discusses the topic of building a culture of accessibility, an important distinction arises. There is also the Accessibility Unconference in Boston on September 17, 2011. Voices from the Community is an ongoing series of blog posts culling. popular topics of interest from the TechSoup Community Forums and other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

For one thing, the line between internal and external discussions is thin. Anyone can participate or contribute to their Network strategy planning discussions which are also shared on the program's blog. Blurring the lines between internal/external: What does modeling transparent behavior actually look like on the ground?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

San Francisco, California: Evening Sustainability Unconference. Vancouver, British Columbia: Luminate Online Discussion Group — Ask Anything. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Digital Dumpster Fire: Tips to Handle Social and Online PR Problems ( Communications Networking Lunch). Monday, April 17, 2017. Tuesday, April 18, 2017.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2008

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the. We also saw some.

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NTEN

JULY 17, 2009

Unconference: You want to learn more from your colleagues, have a chance to play with the latest ideas that we haven't included in the conference agenda, and have more chances than the pre-planned Affinity Groups to connect. We're looking a an unconference track or on the first day of the conference. These are just the highlights.

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Forum One

AUGUST 5, 2008

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the. We also saw some.

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Forum One

JUNE 24, 2008

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the. We also saw some.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

San Francisco, California: Impact Investing 101: Panel Discussion. Wellington, New Zealand: Get a Digital Head Start for 2017 — NetSquared Wellington Unconference. Austin, Texas: 5 Things Every Nonprofit Can Fix on Its Website to Get Results. Los Angeles, California: Muslims in Tech. Tuesday, January 24, 2017.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 31, 2007

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the. We also saw some.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 17, 2007

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the. We also saw some.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2009

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the. We also saw some.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 31, 2007

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the. We also saw some.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 31, 2007

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the. We also saw some.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2007

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the. We also saw some.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Kanter will bring together a group of highly visible free agents working on important social change causes and representatives from different nonprofits for a lively discussion with the audience. Our session will explore how and why this needs to change. What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents?

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