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She's Geeky -- An Unconference for Women in Technology

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Kaliya Hamlin pinged me to let me know about She's Geeky -- here's the info from the site. This is an unconference so it will have an agenda created by the people who attend. Search Engines. Social Networking Sites. Or maybe bracamp? Now, I need to figure out how I can squeeze this in before podcamp Boston and VON.

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

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French, Portuguese and Spanish speakers can now connect with like-minded people on WiserEarth, set up their own groups, and search easily for information on nonprofits and social change organizations all over the world. The site was launched three years ago on Earth Day by environmentalist, writer and visionary, Paul Hawken.

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Learnings and Reflections from BlogHer about Mobile Phones for Video Blogging and Beyond

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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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New Models for Community Partnerships: Museums Hosting Meetups

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People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person. On 8.16.08, the Museum of Art and History (Santa Cruz, CA) hosted FreelanceCamp, a free unconference that brought 150 designers and techies from the south bay area together to talk shop. Evaluate the outcome.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

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A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. Are you suffering from Social Networking Web Sites overload syndrome ? He notes with a trace of sarcasm, "???With

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An Amazing NpTech Social Media Link Buffet: Take Your Pick!

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You can even add a good deed widget for your site. Susan Tenby from TechSoup shares her notes from the Unconference. communities can compete with each other by fundraising on the GlobalGiving site. SmallWorlds : While I'm on the topic of ning, this newest project from GlobalKids embeds a 3-D Virtual world inside a Ning site.

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