Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2010

The Case Foundation has generously supported our work on research to support social media capacity building of the nonprofit sector. There is a nice synergy as ALL the proceeds from my share of the sales of the book will be going to the Sharing Foundation , the organization I championed for the first America’s Giving Challenge.

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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. Because of this commitment, the disability advocacy groups I know about are actively supporting the settlement as a victory for disability rights.

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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. Want to support these events? For the past five years, each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has hosted MuseumCamp. We welcome campers from diverse community, civic, and cultural sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2007

It's unconference style, and very supportive atmosphere for women who work in technology and also want to encourage more women to get involved. The participants from both the for-profit and non-profit sector - so lots of cross pollination of ideas and tons of support. That's the coffee cup from She's Geeky.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2010

This morning, NetSquared hosted a special unconference at NTC on open data. Where are the reams of data from funders on the cost and ROI of projects they've supported? On the other hand, some people suggested that funders should be the first place to look for more openness. Tools Web Building.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2014

MuseumCamp was inspired by other action-oriented professional development experiences, ranging from open-ended unconferences to tightly-formatted tinkering workshops. And if you want a more efficient approach to multi-vocal facilitation, try an unconference. Build structures to support meeting each other. Sleep on it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

This is an unconference so it will have an agenda created by the people who attend. to support skill exchange and learning between women working in diverse fields and to create a space for networking and talking about issues faced by women in technology. This includes women who work with nonprofits and technology. The goal is.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2014

These same tools can support individuals' relations with schools, churches, government entities, and other kinds of organizations." They organized VRM Days, a week-long unconference to get techies, venture capitalists, and innovators involved in the project. Even so, something about VRM still doesn't click for me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

She's Geeky - Kaliya Hamlin, the expert of unconfernces, is putting together this unconference for women who work in technology, both nonprofit and for-profit. ll examine the role of information technology in supporting the essential functions, business processes, and mission of a nonprofit organization. I'm going to try to make it.

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NTEN

JULY 17, 2009

Unconference: You want to learn more from your colleagues, have a chance to play with the latest ideas that we haven't included in the conference agenda, and have more chances than the pre-planned Affinity Groups to connect. We're looking a an unconference track or on the first day of the conference. Beyonce will be tough to top.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2012

We already have enthusiastic support from some museum rock stars like Kathleen McLean , Maria Mortati , and Eric Siegel. To make this a hit, we're going to need someone who wants to make this their baby and support its creation. Exciting, right?

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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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Forum One

MARCH 1, 2009

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

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

They come to us looking for practical tips and a supportive community. Wellington, New Zealand: Get a Digital Head Start for 2017 — NetSquared Wellington Unconference. We also learned that. Most NetSquared participants come from small "startup" nonprofits with no budget and no staff. Friday, February 10, 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

I've had the good fortune of participating in several similar online communities where women are supporting one another to learn how to use social media and other issues - blogher , Cyber Yenta's Boston TechnoBabes , N-TEN Affinity Group/ TechnoBabes , GIGI (girl geeks of the world cafe ), as well as mentoring young women bloggers.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2008

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. We also saw some. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2011

There is also the Accessibility Unconference in Boston on September 17, 2011. Highlights include automatic reporting of new text output in a variety of clients, support for global plug-ins, additional key bindings for Braille displays, and more. And coming up in October, Accessibility Camp has events planned for Washington, D.C.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

They organize supporters, raise attention to important social and political issues, seek donations, and organize supporters to walk, run, shout, protest, and vote, things that were once done mostly by nonprofit organizations. Nonprofits use them to rally supporters. Crowdsourcing the Corporate/ Nonprofit Partnership.

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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. Susan Tenby from TechSoup shares her notes from the Unconference. A few examples - TwestivalDC , BostonTwestival , SFTwestival , and so many more.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2009

We are using a hybrid unconference/workshop model in which participants work collaboratively to explore and brainstorm a few pre-selected "wild ideas" for future museum initiatives related to audience participation. Let me give you an example. To keep it manageable, we'll select just a few project proposals on which to focus the workshop.

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Forum One

MAY 5, 2008

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. We also saw some. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the.

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Forum One

MARCH 11, 2008

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. We also saw some. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 21, 2007

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. We also saw some. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2009

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. We also saw some. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the.

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Forum One

AUGUST 13, 2007

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. We also saw some. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the.

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Forum One

MAY 15, 2007

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. We also saw some. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. We also saw some. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. We also saw some. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the.

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Forum One

AUGUST 29, 2008

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. We also saw some. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the.

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Forum One

AUGUST 25, 2008

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. We also saw some. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the.

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Forum One

AUGUST 20, 2008

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. We also saw some. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the.

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Forum One

AUGUST 18, 2008

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. We also saw some. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the.

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Forum One

AUGUST 5, 2008

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. We also saw some. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the.

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Forum One

AUGUST 4, 2008

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. We also saw some. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the.

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Forum One

AUGUST 3, 2008

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. We also saw some. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the.

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Forum One

JULY 31, 2008

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. We also saw some. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the.

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Forum One

JULY 29, 2008

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. We also saw some. " The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the.

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