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Women Who Tech: Tools and Apps to Energize your Base

Amy Sample Ward

Then, for each group, create a chart with 4 columns and identify: Their goal: why do they engage with you. How do you set up an unconference? Here are two great resources to get you started: unconference and open space technology. To get started, first brainstorm and identify the various groups or segments of your community.

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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Open Space and Unconference Facilitation. Writing people’s ideas on a flip chart or white board helps with the group memory and knowledge capture. The chart writer’s role is to captures the groups ideas. Whenever possible, the chart writer writes down the speaker’s exact words. Strategic Dialogue.

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Live from Transparency Camp '09 in DC

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And the " bar camp " format, or unconference or "open space" approach, really leads to meaningful topics and peer to peer discussions. See the chart of sessions. Craig Newmark, "a customer service representative" and supporter of Sunlight, speaking at the outset.

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Scribe: The role of the scribe is to capture ideas and build group memory.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

It is run as an unconference, meaning YOU set the agenda. This milestone provides an opportunity for the international education community to both celebrate the progress we’ve made in expanding access and support for diverse and underrepresented students and chart a path forward toward inclusive excellence in global education.