Amy Sample Ward Global Community Builder, NetSquared Local is the new Global http://netsquared.org/09ntc

What is NetSquared?

What is NetSquared? Content Community Challenges

What’s a Challenge?

Why participate in a Challenge? • Share Project ideas with a broad community of innovators, funders and developers Find the other partners, funders interested in my work, etc. Collaborate Get feedback to help inform your work Opportunity to meet others f2f at Net Tuesdays and the annual conference • Get funding

• Share Project ideas with a broad community of innovators, funders and developers

Find the other partners, funders interested in my work, etc.

Collaborate

Get feedback to help inform your work

Opportunity to meet others f2f at Net Tuesdays and the annual conference

• Get funding

How can I participate in a Challenge? • Submit a Project Collaborate with Projects you’re interested in “ Thank you so much for organizing such an awesome conference! I’m still speechless–and really excited to take the momentum we got from the conference and do some wild things with it.” - Joe Solomon & Team, 2nd place winner KnowMore.org

• Submit a Project

Collaborate with Projects you’re interested in

How can I participate in a Challenge? Attend the annual conference Be a Project Mentor “ Linking featured projects with mentors from the tech sector is an essential element. Mentors push projects towards sustainability, connect them to in kind support and funding, and help make real their vision of social change.” - Justin Massa, Net2 Program & Technical Coordinator

Attend the annual conference

Be a Project Mentor

Global vs Local Image: cafepress

The New Localism

How does local work? • Start a Net Tuesday • Host a local Challenge • Collaborate with Projects to localize their work

Why Net2 local? Local Context: Provides you with a clear lens into the local problems and the people, partners, organizations, and funders committed to developing local solutions.

Local Solutions

Where can I find a Net Tuesday?

What happens at a Net Tuesday? • Learn about social tech + social change • Find others interested in your ideas & projects • Find out what others are working on locally • Plan, prepare and launch efforts to find innovative local projects (hack days, Challenges, etc.)

Net Tuesday + Challenges

What’s your next Challenge? • What’s your problem? • Who do you want submitting ideas? • How will you decide which ideas to pick? • How do you move forward?

Let’s change the world

How do we keep this conversation going? Let’s connect: you, me, and everyone else! netsquared.org/09ntc

How do we keep this conversation going? Connect with your local Net Tuesday group! netsquared.org/share/meetup

Thank you! I really appreciate you giving me five minutes of NTC famousness  netsquared.org/09ntc