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The study analyzed the actors, contexts and technology used in the Innokas Network, which focuses on school development at the grassroots level, in the light of the blog posts pro-duced by the network in 2011–2019. Teachers and their expertise play an important role in the transformation of education, and networked development communities provide an oppor-tunity for the co-development of innovations and their widespread dissemination. The Innokas Network is such a school development network whose members are school, private and third sector actors as well as researchers. The Innokas Network maintains a thematic community blog where members of the network write about the network's activities. More information is needed on networked development activities, as research has found it to be an effective way to increase people’s knowledge and skills. The research questions were: 1) which technologies do the authors of the Innokas Network blog refer to in the blog posts written in 2011–2019, 2) what kind of social and pedagogical frameworks and actors are described in the blog posts and 3) how are the different actors, pedagogical frameworks and technologies present in different social frameworks? The research data consisted of a total of 401 blog posts from 2011–2019 on the Innokas network's public blog. Blog posts were analyzed using qualitative content analysis as well as cross-tabulation. The blog post mentioned a total of 275 different technologies. The technologies most featured in blog posts were programmable robotics, programmable microcontrollers, and programming platforms. Activities were described in five different social frameworks: micro-community, school community, local community, national level and international level. The most typical pedagogical frameworks were a lesson, training, and club activities. The most typical actors were the student, the teacher and the tutor. For each social frameworks, the typical pedagogical frameworks and actors involved in the activity were outlined. Networked development activities reaches a large number of different actors and networking activities take place on several different levels and in a wide variety of frameworks. A broad range of technologies are involved in the network's activities, but there is a clear emphasis on innovative technologies such as robotics and other technologies that require programming.