Amy Sample Ward

MAY 4, 2009

My colleague, friend, and collaborator David Wilcox just posted about the social collaboration game we are going to be putting on at SHINE derived partly from the social media game and from our work on the Social by Social project. You’ll find details here. “ If you want to do it quickly, do it alone. But how do you make it work in practice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

There are also nonprofit specific facilitation tool kits like this one for international development projects. I like to avoid being stuck in the same techniques and am always interested in expanding my toolkit. Open Space and Unconference Facilitation. That’s why I love looking and testing different methods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? Blog Days, Blog Actions, and GTD for Blogs Perhaps inspired by Blog Day and Blog Carnivals , lately, I've been seeing coordinated "blog action" projects crop up in and around the nptech space. Adopt a classroom project from DonorsChoose and lead a blog fundraising campaign.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 17, 2013

Using NetSquared Camp as an example, he introduces readers to the participant-driven unconference model. Vancouver’s Stevie Vu asks if you’ve ever been to a conference with no agenda. This Week’s NetSquared Events. Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Here are a few ways you can take advantage of Google Alerts: Be sure to set up alerts for your organization name, project or program names, and key staff people (any one that may be quoted or referenced in association with your work). How do you set up an unconference? Subscribe via RSS in a reader to cut down on emails.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2018

MuseumCamp is a professional development experience that is part retreat, part unconference, part adult summer camp. You will learn the theory and practice of how to open your organization to robust community participation. For the past five years, each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has hosted MuseumCamp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

This is an open and transparent network. A college professor discovered it, and had the class review it as a project. Holding unconferences to invite individuals and busineses beyond their staff and partners to participate - and this serves as a important research/feedback mechanism. Leadership and culture are important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

While I was in Chicago, Ryanne Hodson , who I met at last year's BlogHer, is in Cambodia and Southeast Asia with Jay Dedman to document the work of Project Hope International. My first exposure to "unconferences" or Open Space Technology was during a week-long arts and education professional development seminar in 1997.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2011

Opening Hearts and Minds. As community member and Executive Director of Knowbility Sharron Rush points out , a culture of accessibility requires "open hearts and minds, the ability to listen and look in new ways, the willingness to lay aside basic assumptions, and a true commitment." online community channels. and Ottowa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and voting process. The panel picker process has opened – so you can vote for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program until August 27th. The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

San Francisco, California: Sustainability Unconference (All Day). Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels & Bytes "Open-Source Summer Fiesta" San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 17, 2017

Each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History hosts MuseumCamp , a professional development experience that is part retreat, part unconference, part adult summer camp. The right person is a great event manager, creative collaborator, open communicator, clear writer, and possibilitarian thinker. Dear Museum 2.0

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Arlington, Texas: Bi-weekly Developers Call for the Joseph Storehouse Project. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. London, United Kingdom: Uses of Internal, External, and Open Data for Charities. Sunday, February 12, 2017.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2009

We are using a hybrid unconference/workshop model in which participants work collaboratively to explore and brainstorm a few pre-selected "wild ideas" for future museum initiatives related to audience participation. I'm working on a project to open an interactive museum/bar in Santa Cruz focused on social participation.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Last week, Jim Richardson and I hosted MuseumNext , a 24-hour workshop for museum professionals focused on bringing new, wild museum projects into the world. Wild idea" sessions , featuring six dream projects, some already in motion, others firmly ensconsed in their creators' heads.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Why not join, upload your logo in the photo pool, and write a wall post promoting your latest your Facebook project! Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. There's an unconference called OpenFaced taking place in tandem with the conference. And if you???re

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Forum One

AUGUST 28, 2007

Read More » Letter from Participation Camp: The Digital Divide Aimee McLaughlin in Influence 5 May 2010 As a relative newbie here at Forum One, I wasnt sure what to expect when as I headed to my very first "unconference."

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NTEN

MAY 11, 2012

NTEN members are providing more educational opportunities, asking for more help on amazing projects, and announcing even more technology tools than ever before. BAVC will select at least six of the world’s most promising social issue documentary projects to participate in a week-long new media and social impact laboratory in San Francisco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Mozilla Week of Service Begins September 14th: Mark your calendars and sign up to offer your geek skills to your local community for a service project this week. Susan Tenby from TechSoup shares her notes from the Unconference. American Open Challenge is GlobalGiving's second online giving contest. Registration here.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2014

MuseumCamp is a playful, intense, spirited 3-day adventure in which small teams of diverse professionals do a rapid-fire project together on a theme. Last week, I focused on the 2014 theme (social impact assessment) and the many creative evaluation projects produced by campers. Sleep on it. Acknowledge the dips. They are frustrated.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2015

CityCamp was an "unconference," meaning that the agenda was defined by the participants, who pitched and voted on session ideas. Why Open Data Is Important. As a librarian, I am philosophically (some might even say rabidly) in support of free and open access to information. The Challenges of Open Data.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

It’ll open with candid stories about the ups and downs of working in social good and close with an afternoon of action and volunteering with local nonprofits. National Arts Marketing Project Conference. National Arts Marketing Project Conference. National Arts Marketing Project / Austin, TX / $575. 11/10/2016.

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