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Foo Camp 2009

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I think this is my third or fourth Foo Camp, and the energy around public uses of technology was palpable. 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. I just got back from Foo Camp 2009, which was a blast as usual.

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WiserEarth.org Goes Multi-lingual: Guest Post by Peggy Duvette, WiserEarth

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm thrilled that Peggy Duvette, Executive Director, agreed to share a post about their new capacity to speak many languages and its offline events. . 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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Vendor Relationship Management: Why Nonprofits Should Care

Tech Soup

Whenever I learn about a new concept or trend in technology, I try and think about how nonprofits and libraries could use it or benefit from it. The movement has huge potential for nonprofits and public libraries, but it still has some ways to go in the overall technology sector. VRM: A Quick Explainer.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

without becoming slaves to technology. Small dots is an advocate for technology in the arts. Graphing Social Patterns is a conference devoted to the business and technology of Facebook taking place next week in Silicon Valley. There's an unconference called OpenFaced taking place in tandem with the conference.

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5 Things Oakland Taught Me about Civic Hacking

Tech Soup

" He told CityCamp attendees that civic hacking is not about the technologies being used. Technology solutions are sometimes created without the input of the people they are intended to benefit. Discussions like those at CityCamp inform the technology solutions the group will be creating. Not so in Oakland.

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