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Unconference: NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data

Tech Soup

Attend the Unconference: Netsquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (# 10NTC ) to learn how. If you easily listed five ideas and are fired up to share your knowledge, demo your website, share your application, or get feedback, then bring your project and join the session! No problem.

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Online Community Unconference June 10 in Mountain View, California

Tech Soup

Next week, I'll be attending The Online Community Unconference (OCU) , along with my TechSoup community colleague, Susan Tenby. And often the best source of information on all of these challenges is other knowledgeable practitioners, which is what makes the OCU a rewarding event. What's an unconference?" read more.

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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. Innovation / Generating New Ideas. Making Decisions and Getting Consensus. Strategic Dialogue. Organizational Development. Networked Facilitation. Community Organizing. Any many more.

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Over the Shoulder Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is informal knowledge transfer around using the tools. The fact is that we don't know very much, but collectively we know a lot because people have different knowledge. Her dream: unconference. What we had unconference with over your shoulder and worked in pairs. So, this is the network effect of that model.

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Letter from Participation Camp: The Digital Divide

Forum One

As a relative newbie here at Forum One, I wasn't sure what to expect when as I headed to my very first "unconference." The unconference was about connecting government managers and staff, public engagement experts, online tool developers, and citizens to encourage shared insights, decisions, and actions in government.

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A Compass for Congress

Forum One

Back in September, Forum One was one of the sponsors of CongressCamp, an informal "barcamp" unconference here in Washington. Even once the event ended, CongressCamp participants wished to help bridge the gap between citizen knowledge and congressional needs.

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Points of Entry into Podcasting for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I think it is a fabulous technique for capturing and sharing knowledge from conferences and other nonprofit gatherings as I noted here. One of the people who posted was very knowledgable --so I emailed them to inquire if their nonprofit had done podcasting. All in all, podcamp was a valuable source of knowledge exchange.

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