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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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2010

Want to connect with other women in technology – learn and share, network and build friendships? We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights.&#.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Since my slides are mostly screen shots, I’ve shared a bit of context below. Check out who is actually clicking on the links you share to identify passionate and interested people who you could engage on a deeper level (invite them to help share your message in other ways and so on). How do you set up an unconference?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Wellington, New Zealand: Engage Your Community unConference. Warsaw, Poland: Open Access. Open Houston and The City of Houston drafted a group of volunteer designers, writers and data scientists to streamline the local government’s communication strategy. Saturday, February 22. Monday, February 24. Tuesday, February 25.

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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. Get inspired, laugh out loud, and share honest lessons from the messy, joyful world of community participation.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 17, 2013

Using NetSquared Camp as an example, he introduces readers to the participant-driven unconference model. NetSquared Community Manager Elijah van der Giessen shares notes, slides, and video from the recent Net Tuesday introduction to maximizing your Google Grants budget for nonprofits. This Week’s NetSquared Events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

" For me, live blogging notes from conferences and other gatherings helps me think through my fingers about what is being said in the room (and helps me retain it and share it with others (usually via my blog.) How can you encourage/support new users of these tools to participate in the capturing and sharing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

" Holly Ross from NTEN has the final word with a brilliant post sharing all the metrics they track and putting them into context. Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? Another option might be to use a shared google calendar. t documentation" from the list of what open source communities can learn from nonprofits.

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2011

One of the biggest traits of the nonprofit technology sector is a willingness to share experiences and knowledge. unconference. Registration is now open. Registration is now open. We'll probably share the link to this round-up on Facebook. Get your ticket today ! Will you comment? NTEN's own Holly Ross is, too!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

This is an open and transparent network. As Witzel observes, our strategy for scaling the network includes sharing of the learnings, modeling transparent behavior ourselves, collecting and diseminating results, trainings, and scaling the fellows programs who can infiltrate companies to acquire a green lens.

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NTEN

AUGUST 29, 2011

It will be open to all attendees, but it will include member recognition and the Member Awards. Salons will be moderated peer-sharing sessions, organized around a specific topic and set takeaways; salon sessions will last 90 minutes and be spread out over the conference. Share them in the comments below.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Share the Love (and the Savings)! Share the gift of TechSoup by telling your favorite organization about our free membership. Our donor partners are sharing the love too! The Science Fair is open Wednesday and Thursday. NTC gives us another chance to connect and share best practices for organizing communities.

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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. Do you have a preferred method? The Session Design and Implementation.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Nancy has a post about " Over the Shoulder Learning " I always try and promote the people and process stuff, but the reality is that tools are often the "door opener" to the process conversations because they are more tangible. Desktop sharing in conferencing apps. Her dream: unconference.

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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. They want to share in more than one medium. Check out his illustration of the panel). Trust me.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 17, 2017

friends, I want to share two great opportunities to get involved at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in 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. Dear Museum 2.0 APPLY TO MUSEUMCAMP.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

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. 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

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The NetSquared regional ambassadors will also be on-site sharing the joy of being a NetSquared organizer and participating in the fun. Vancouver, British Columbia: 2017 Vancouver Open Data Day Hackathon. the Best of the Unconference. These global leaders are coming from the United Kingdom, Uganda, Florida, and DC.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

CongressCamp was an unconference focused on the Congress side of Gov 2.0. The open format encouraged the constructive sharing of varying (and sometimes opposing) perspectives. Last weekend, Forum One participated in CongressCamp at George Washington University.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

This could be sessions with your CEO and board, interviews with your field workers/program staff and any initiatives where you have the potential to share information with your donors. Fundraisers can “host” a table and share information through their personal fundraiser page. Virtual Conference (aka UnConference).

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2008

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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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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

MuseumNext had four main sections: Interactive activities , including an opening workshop with a group of designers associated with an extremely wonderful exhibition called Doing it for the Kids featuring sustainable toy designs. Thank you to everyone who came and helped co-create an exciting experimental event in a beautiful city.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data. What : Learn how your organization could use open data and APIs to show your impact, coordinate volunteers, or inspire supporters to take action. The NOS session is a chance for anyone interested in open data and APIs to connect and collaborate. Thursday, April 8, 2010.

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NTEN

MAY 11, 2012

Have more news to share? Unconference on June 15th, 2012 – it's DC's only unconference dedicated to the social cause space. On May 3rd, Azavea announced its newest open source product, GeoTrellis, a high performance geographic data processing engine. Share your links in the comments! Women rule!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

During the past two weeks, links shared via the #nptech hashtag on Twitter have been like a Chinese buffet, a huge selection of tempting dishes that look so good you want to fill an entire plate. Susan Tenby from TechSoup shares her notes from the Unconference. It's open to 501c3's serving U.S. Registration here.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

In addition to choosing 6 breakout sessions from more than 90 possibilities covering the latest & greatest (as well as the tried & true), you'll be able to attend Affinity Group Meetings , Ignite Sessions , an Unconference on Open Data and APIs , and more. That's a lot o' learning! CFRE Credit ! Details to follow.

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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

Bookmark it, share it, love it, and download it for Google or Outlook. In one, very full day, some of our world’s most effective philanthropists, organizational experts, and passionate advocates will share useful insights. It is run as an unconference, meaning YOU set the agenda. General / #WHATIFConference / @ImpactFoundary.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2014

This week, I want to share a bit about the behind-the-scenes of MuseumCamp. MuseumCamp was inspired by other action-oriented professional development experiences, ranging from open-ended unconferences to tightly-formatted tinkering workshops. Here are five key lessons I''ve learned about making this kind of event work.

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