Local NetSquared Meeting Postponed
Published October 19, 2011 | 
The First Local NetSquared Meeting, planned for Tuesday, October 18th, has been postponed since not many interested people could actually make it to the event.
We will keep in touch with some of them on individual basis until another date brings us together.
Please, take a look at the presentation of the Local NetSquared Agenda Building and do not hesitate to contact us in the meantime if you have questions, projects of partnerships in mind!
And spread the word!
Local NetSquared Group Meeting
Published October 7, 2011 | Exploring Potential
This is an announcement of the first get-together of people interested in supporting local nonprofits and community groups in their meaningful use of new technologies.
October 18th, 7PM
at the Social Planning Council KW
151 Frederick Street, Kitchener,
3rd floor, # 300
The Survey of Interest has been up for about a month and just a few people responded. The outreach to small and medium nonprofits, most needing support, has been limited for now and I hope that it would improve after this first meeting.
Those who responded agree that a support group for nonprofits is needed. Obviously, there are many IT user groups and it is well know that they most enjoy mind-bending presentations that are too technical for non-tech-savvy. Are there engaging ways to put the two worlds together?
Small nonprofits benefit most from IT volunteers but those volunteers would need support too, and to join with dedicated staff, developers and agencies to work on larger and more inclusive projects. How can a common language develop so that both technical and community development side of the social transformation work gets recognized and valued?
And most of all, I wish to call out to those voices from the community that have projects in mind but do not know how to find collaborators and partners in putting them into practice. Don’t know where to start? How to find reliable and affordable developers and IT specialists? How to put their ideas into words and images? How to ask for support when there isn’t much money to put into those projects?
If you see the potential, come and join us!
Survey of Interest – Waterloo Region NetSquared Group
Published August 29, 2011 | As announced, I am excited to launch this Survey of Interest as an invitation for co-organizers and members of a Waterloo Region NetSquared Group.
My wish is to create opportunities for community web development with nonprofit groups and associations, all those that could benefit from accessible web-based technologies. My wish as well is to build together with long-time active initiatives and socially minded technology professionals, such as ConnectKW Project.
Local NetSquared groups are interested in technology for social change. They usually hold monthly offline events as an opportunity to convene locally to share ideas, learn from one another, and collaborate on projects for real world impact. Each group chooses its purpose and points of interest.
The usual suspects are staff and volunteers from local nonprofits and community groups; foundations and funding agencies; web developers and IT consultants; innovators and social entrepreneurs.
Would you like to be a part of it?
NetSquared Local
Published July 28, 2011 | If you haven’t heard so far of NetSquared Local, now is the right time. I myself have heard about it recently. I heard that there is a Montreal NetSquared Meetup Group only when I have already physically moved from there!!!
NetSquared Local is an initiative of the TechSoup Global and it has grown to be a strong community of support for all interested in technologies and social change. I found out they were just an email and a skype-call away and I will grab the opportunity to get in touch with like-minded people locally and around the world to learn, support and get support for the community web development initiatives and projects.
How does it work?
Posted in Community Web Development, NetSquared | 
community web development, linkedin, NetSquared | 
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