Net Tuesday

We've got two new Net Tuesday groups starting this week, so spread the word!

The first Chicago Net Tuesday will meet on Tuesday, March 11th at 6 PM.

The first Los Angeles Net Tuesday will meet on Wednesday, March 13th at 7:30 PM.

If you live in the Chicago or Los Angeles area, please help to spread the word.

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We recently received a Tweet from @coolcatteacher asking,

"@NetSquared - Do you have a method for rural nonprofits to get involved using elluminate or other tools -- many of us aren't in cities" (She lives in Camilla, Georgia).

Although Net Tuesdays, monthly gatherings for social changemakers and web innovators, are meant to provide an opportunity for face-to-face socializing and networking, some folks might not have enough interested people in their area to get a group together.

What tools do you think would be useful for creating virtual Net Tuesdays? Second Life comes to mind, but not everyone's computer and Internet connection can handle Second Life.

The Cool Cat Teacher mentioned elluminate. What are other ideas do you have for virtual meeting tools and/or examples of successful monthly virtual meetups?

Flickr Photo Credit: Rural Wisconsin by Pedro Salinas.

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It's almost Spring, and Net Tuesdays are popping up all over the place!

This month, new groups started in: Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Vancouver.

We've also got a budding group in "The Triangle" (Durham-Raleigh-Chapel Hill) in North Carolina that is looking for co-organizers. If you're interested, contact Chris Limerick at chris_limerick AT yahoo DOT com.

Veteran Net Tuesday Atlanta organizer, Timothy Moenk, is also looking for a co-organizer. You can contact him through Atlanta's NetSquared Meetup Group or on Twitter @tmoenk.

All of the groups, including Net Tuesdays in Portland, OR; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Seattle; Phoenix; Houston; Washington, DC; New York City and San Francisco are always looking for speakers. You can contact the organizers through their Meetup groups, or email net2@techsoup.org, and we'll put you in touch with them.

Map of Net Tuesdays from the NetSquared Meetup Alliance.

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This month's Net Tuesday San Francisco will focus on how to creating a successful web campaign for your nonprofit. Our speakers will be David Taylor, the Founder and Director of Radical Designs, and Jon Warnow, an organizer and technology coordinator whose most recent project was Step It Up. Jon received a Brower Youth Award in 2007. Check out the YouTube video (above) about his work with Step It Up.

Net Tuesday San Francisco will be held at the TechSoup/CompuMentor offices (525 Brannan Street Ste. 300) on March 11th from 6-8 PM. RSVP on Upcoming, Meetup or Facebook.

Speaker Bios:

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Thanks to everyone that came out to the Feb. 19 NetSquared DC Meetup that was graciously hosted by Google in their cool new office space and featured OneWorld.net. A record number of Net2DC folks gave their insight and expert feedback to help OneWorld.net effectively redesign their site.

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Ross Chapman, Net Tuesday San Francisco's vlogger, has posted video of the presentations by Jeremy Pepper and Nate Ritter from last month's session, Organizing Your Community to Create Change with Twitter and the Point on NetSquared's Blip.tv Channel.

Tonight we're trying a little experiment and are going to stream video from Net Tuesday SF using Ustream

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We've got 10 Net Tuesdays happening in February, and two new cities looking for co-organizers, speakers and sponsors. Wahoo! If you want to start a Net Tuesday in your city, email me at bbravo@techsoup.org.

UPCOMING NET TUESDAYS

ATLANTA, GA
February 26
Location: TBA
Topic: Streaming Video/YouTube

CHICAGO, IL (NEW!)
Looking for co-organizers, speakers and sponsors. For more info. contact: Aaron With at aaron@thepoint.com

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Our wonderful San Francisco Net Tuesday Podcaster, David Collin, has posted recordings of Nate Ritter and Jeremy Pepper's presentations from last month's Net Tuesday: Organizing Your Community to Create Change with Twitter and The Point.

Interviews with Jeremy and Nate are also available on the NetSquared Podcast.

Video of both presentations should be available in a couple weeks on netsquared.blip.tv.

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The next Net Tuesday San Francisco will be February 12 from 6-8 PM at the TechSoup/CompuMentor offices (525 Brannan St. Ste. 300; San Francisco, CA, 94107). Our topic is Building Nonprofit Online Community with MyBlogLog, Yahoo! Groups and Upcoming.

We have three speakers from Yahoo!

Ian Kennedy, a Product Manager for MyBlogLog at Yahoo!, will discuss how nonprofits can use MyBlogLog to build community on their blog or web site.

Gordon Strause, a Product Manager for Yahoo! Groups, will talk about how nonprofits and social entrepreneurs are leveraging Yahoo! Groups to build their organizations and movements, and more generally about how nonprofits can best leverage social software.

Vince Maniago, Product Manager for Yahoo's social events site, Upcoming, will discuss how individuals and organizations can use Upcoming as a platform to promote their events and ideas.

RSVP on Upcoming or Meetup.

Guayakí Yerba Mate is our beverage sponsor.

Here's a little more info about our speakers:

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Net Tuesdays are springing up all over the place! The newest Net Tuesday will have its first meeting on February 5th at WorkSpace. Joe Solomon, who recently wrote about 5 Ways Free Online Petitions Can Be Improved on the NetSquared Blog, is the organizer.

You can RSVP and spread the word on Upcoming, Facebook or Eventful.

If you want to start a Net Tuesday in your town, email me at bbravo@techsoup.org

Photo Credit: Fall in Vancouver by Jason Vanderhill.

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