First of all, I just want to note how exciting it is that Amy Sample Ward has come on board as the new Net2 Community Builder. As you all know, Britt has done an amazing job of bringing some fantastic people around Net2's vision, she is loved and appreciated, and everyone is excited to see her stay involved with the Net2 community. At the same time, we're psyched to be checking out the great things that Amy is going to bring our way. Here's to the future.
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A Few Thoughts on the Unending Magic of Meetups
As many of you know, NetSquared has been host to a series Net Tuesday meetups throughout the country. The events, which are organized by folks in cities throughout North America, bring together people interested in the intersection of connective technology and the nonprofit world. For several years now, these events have been a great success by way of keeping NetSquared connected with the community it serves, and keeping the community it serves connected with it. Hopefully you are in some way involved with a Net Tuesday Meetup in your area, and if there isn't one, perhaps you would be interested in taking on a leadership role in that capacity.
Source: NetSquared, a project of TechSoup.org blogsMaking People Powerful - Interview with Scott Heiferman from Meetup
Scott Heiferman, founder and CEO of Meetup, talks to us about how he learned to value communities, why he wants to make people powerful, and what we have to look forward to expect in the 21st century.
Jed Sundwall: Can you talk about the genesis of Meetup? What motivated you to create it?
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Demanding to be Heard - Interview with Brian Dear from Eventful
Brian Dear, founder of Eventful, talks to us about how structuring event data is helping people find the events that matter to them and their communities.
What does Eventful do?
Eventful's mission is to help people discover, track, create, and share events. Basically, we want to provide worldwide comprehensive service to help people find events everywhere. We're trying to address a major need that the Internet hasn't met until now, which is basically a search engine dedicated to event discovery.
We're trying to exploit technology to the fullest to help people with one particular niche, albeit a very large niche. On any given day, probably 50 million events go on throughout the world.
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The NetSquared, Cisco and the other sponsors put on a great event. Here are some of the folks I worked with at the registration table in the morning.
Jayson Fagar & Colleen Nagle, NetSquared staffers, at the registration table.
Source: NetSquared, a project of TechSoup.org blogsNetSquared Meetup at 08NTC in New Orleans Tonight
Just a quick reminder that if you are at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in New Orleans this week, we're having a casual meetup tonight (Wednesday, March 19th) from 5-6:30 PM at Loa Bar in the International Hotel (221 Camp Street).
We'll be joined by folks from the larger TechSoup community, and the Nonprofits in Second Life community.
Hope to see you there!
Photo by me.
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