Design Project Unconference 
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.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 30, 2009
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. My understanding is that this was very important to the University of Michigan, one of the key libraries at the center of the Google Book project.
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JUNE 19, 2008
From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it? I learned a lot.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 20, 2014
Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions. Small Group Design.
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.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
Starting today and through the weekend, Twestival will rock on, with over 200 local Twestivals happening supporting tweetups to raise money for a designated local charity. 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.
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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