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Net Tuesday organizer needed in Phoenix!

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Amy Sample Ward
on December 2, 2008
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Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.

Each month, social changemakers and technological forerunners come together at Net Tuesday events around the world to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and reinforce our online NetSquared community.  These monthly events offer a great opportunity for people from all stretches of social change and social media to collaborate, whether you’re a developer, innovator, programmer, entrepreneur or part of a nonprofit organization.  The Phoenix Net Tuesday is looking for a new organizer and hoping you’re it!

Are you in Phoenix or know someone who is?

The Phoenix Net Tuesday group has over 50 members and needs a new organizer to help drive momentum and faciliate events.  Organizing a Net Tuesday group offers a great chance to network and get connected to social changemakers in your city as well as be part of an innovative network of on-the-ground collaborators with NetSquared.  Net Tuesdays are currently taking place in 22 cities around the world with more groups starting each month.

Get involved!

Are you interested in learning more or stepping up?  Connect with the Phoenix Net Tuesday group online and contact the current organizer, JD Godchaux, to find out more.  Phoenix would love to have you!

NFPTweetup: Nonprofits + Twitter in London

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on November 25, 2008
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Last night was the NFPTweetup - or the Not-for-profit Twitter-users gathering.  Essentially, many great people in nonprofit organizations and serving nonprofit organizations that are connected on Twitter, the micro-blogging tool, wanted to get together offline and really hang out with each other without computers in the way.  There certainly were computers and gadgets floating around the room, but it was mostly just people and drinks and lots of great conversation.

You can see who was there and how it was organized on the NFPTweetup wiki if you are interested in organizing one in your area!

Collaborative Presentations

To add to the educational side of the meetup, Rachel Beer (the woman who wrangled the event together completely) organized a collaborative presentation.  Each of us created a slide about nonprofits using Twitter and sent it to her.  The topic was pretty broad and the slides covered all kinds of information.  Plus, none of us saw the slides, but our own, until the event!  It was great fun to see a new slide pup up and someone surprised to see their work on the wall.  We each took a minute or two to quickly explain our slide and got a lot of discussion going.  Today it was even featured as a Top Presentation of the Day on SlideShare!

NFPtweetup Collaborative Slideshow

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: collaboration socialmedia)

My slide is the one focused on The Womens Museum’s use of Twitter.  Here’s what I did:

A bit of Twitter Metrics:

I visited The Womens Museum’s twitter page online at http://twitter.com/thewomensmuseum

I created some categories and tallied the messages into the applicable categories to measure how balanced the messages were.  Here were the results:

Self Promotion with Links: 6
Self Promotion without Links: 6

Questions with Links: 4
Questions without Links: 3

Fundraising with Links: 1
Fundraising without Links: 0

Affinity Promo with Links: 4
Affinity Promo without Links: 0

Information with Links: 0
Information without Links: 3

I think the numbers are quite balanced!  The messages are true to mission/vision of the museum by including retweets (or forwarding on the messages of others), links to websites other than their own, compliments, transparency, and inclusion.  If you use Twitter for your organization, try measuring the messages with the above categories and see how balanced your messages are!

Congrats to the NFPTweetup for a tons of fun, connections, and a great way to share information!

Net Tuesdays arrive in London!

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Amy Sample Ward
on October 16, 2008
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I’m thrilled to announce that the London Net Tuesday is officially here! The community in London and around the UK is ready for a solid, monthly event that brings together social changemakers (whether a nonprofit organization in the traditional sense, a group of interested citizens, social venture capitalists or an individual with an idea) and technological forerunners together to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate on new projects.

Join the fun!

Details for the first event:

  • Date: 4 November, 2008
  • Time: 5:30-7:30 pm
  • Topic: Head-to-head Blogging (see below)
  • Location: CTT, 1 London Bridge
  • Provided: Snacks and coffee/tea
  • Bring: Your brain, your energy, your business cards
  • RSVP: London NetSquared Group

The 4 Nov. event topic is blogging. But not just some folks talking about blogging who already use it, or only want to talk about their own blog. This is going to be a bit more fun: we will have a select group ‘representing’ their preferred blogging platform go head-to-head over the capabilities, functionality, and general goodness of their chosen platform. This way we can hear the ins and outs of platforms in a way we may not usually experience. This discussion will be followed by a conversation with questions and answers about the various ways nonprofit organizations can introduce and utilize blogs to connect with communities.

We hope to kick these monthly events off right with a great group of people, some lively presentations/conversation, and lots of networking - come join us on the 4th!

What is Net Tuesday?

Every month, social changemakers and Web innovators come together at Net Tuesday events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and reinforce the online NetSquared community. Net Tuesdays take place in 22 cities around the world with more cities joining in every month. Find out more and check out other Net Tuesdays here.

Join in!

Here are some simple steps to participating in London Net Tuesday:

  1. Join the Meetup.com group for free, to stay up to date, network with other participants, and more!
  2. Mark 4 Nov on your calendar for our first event!
  3. Spread the word and invite your friends and colleagues along!

I’m so excited to be part of the London Net Tuesday and think it is really going to be something special. Nonprofits and social changemakers, see you on the 4th!

Women Who Tech - in Portland!

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on May 22, 2008
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Join with other ‘women who tech’ from the Portland area on Sunday, June 22, to meet new friends, hang out with old friends, collaborate on ideas, share stories, and enjoy the plethora of potluck picnic foods. This is a great opportunity to create a local, supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving you all an open platform to share talents, experiences and insights.

An off-line extension of the Women Who Tech online network, this picnic hopes to bring together women from many industries that use technology to do their jobs or to help their organizations. You can learn more about the national network of women and join in by visiting the organization’s website: http://womenwhotech.com

DETAILS:

  • When: Sunday, June 22, 11 am - 2 pm
  • Where: Laurelhurst Park, picnic area A
  • Why: Join with the growing community of women in technology
  • What to bring: A potluck item to share (beverages will be provided)
  • Who to invite: Other women colleagues and friends using technology in their work

We look forward to meeting you in person, igniting friendships, and sharing an afternoon and a meal.  (Check out the event page on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=14414677220 or UpComing - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/710176/?ps=5 )

If you have any questions about the organization, the event, or anything else, please don’t hesitate to contact either organizer.

Amy Sample Ward (amyrsward@gmail.com) & Carolina Velis (carolinavelis@gmail.com)

New media trainings and gatherings starting in Portland

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on January 8, 2008
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I am still so thrilled at the high turnout and positive response we received from our three-part series on Communicating in the Age of New Media from 2007. While I hope that your year is off to a great start so far, I also hope that continuing your new media education is on your resolution list! There are two monthly gatherings starting this month to help you meet that resolution and stay connected to others in the area involved with using new technologies in nonprofits.

501 Tech Club - Brown Bag Series
I am working with NTEN to build a 501 Tech Club (http://nten.org/techclub) and make it the hottest new place to learn, connect, and CHANGE within the Portland community! To get started, you can join the Portland 501 Tech Club online to connect with all the other local folks who are talking about technology in nonprofits. The first event is coming soon: January 14th.

  • Topic: Organizing your Information: RSS readers!
  • Presenter: Marshall Kirkpatrick
  • Location: Northwest Health Foundation, 221 NW 2nd Ave, Suite 300 (in Bamboo room) Portland, OR 97209
  • Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
  • Food: Bring your own lunch and we’ll bring some goodies!

Portland Net Tuesdays
A friend and I have teamed up to sprout a Net Tuesday monthly event here in Portland. The fourth Tuesday of each month, social changemakers and web innovators can get together to network, mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships and learn at these Net Tuesdays, produced by NetSquared, http://www.netsquared.org a project of TechSoup, http://www.techsoup.org. All those interested, involved, or employed in nonprofits and that recognize the importance and utility of technology in the sector are invited to join us for discussion and exchange. The first event is this month: January 22nd.

  • Topic: Introductions, goals, topics, and open source
  • Presenter: Everyone!
  • Location: AboutUs.org, 107 SE Washington, 5th Floor (SUite #520), Portland, OR
  • Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Food: We’ll see what we can do, feel free to bring something to share!

I hope that you will be able to attend both and I can’t wait for these engaging monthly events to start!

Let me know if you want more information on either event. I hope you are as excited as I am!