Every month, the NetSquared Community comes together offline at Net Tuesday events around the world to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate to help the local community. Our local organizers are volunteers dedicated to helping create local opportunities for learning, sharing and using technology to make a difference.   In this Organizer Spotlight series we bring you interviews with organizers from around the world.

We're happy to introduce: Jessica Dally!

Jessica is a co-organizer of the Net Tuesday group in Seattle, WA.   You can check out her profile and ways to connect on the Net Tuesday Organizer Team page.   Are you in Seattle?   Connect to the Net Tuesday group here!

Tell us who you are in less than 140 characters:

Founder/ED of Seattle Free School, Community Voice Mail Help Desk Monkey, Certified Master Canner, moto chick, doer of things and stuffs.

How do you spend your time when you're not organizing Net Tuesdays?

Yikes, four jobs- Community Voice Mail Help Desk Technician, Tech Soup Global Second Life consultant, Canning and Cheesemaking instructor, working on becoming an MSF certified motorcycle instructor.   As for the nonpaying gigs I'm the founder and ED of Seattle Free School and I regularly teach classes for the free school, I take long motorcycle trips when I can including a planned solo trip to Baja this October.   I read.   Alot.

What inspired you to organize local Net Tuesday events in your community?

I guess I heard about it from Susan Tenby whom I work with regularly in Second Life.   It just seemed like Seattle needed to have an active group what with all the techies and geeks and nonprofits here.

What's the hardest part of the job?

Well I'm brand new to it and as of yet haven't even been to a Net Tuesday so I guess the hardest part is knowing what it is and how to make it grow.   Not knowing the people involved and what they'd like to see happen makes planning at this stage a little tricky but I'm looking forward to meeting people soon and solving this issue :)

What is one of your secrets to organizing?

Don't listen to naysayers.   They are right of course, whatever they say isn't possible IS INDEED not possible for them.   I was told time and time again that Seattle Free School would have trouble finding space, wouldn't get any publicity, wouldn't have anyone know about it and all of those things are absolutely not true.   By not having to have certain outcomes Seattle Free School has been able to grow organically which helps keep up the motivation and momentum.   Stop being paranoid, stop always playing worst case scenario and just start doing it.   It's so much easier then you'd think.

What are some ideas you're brewing up for upcoming events?

Seattle Free School is working with the Social Networking guru at  icanhascheezburger.org  to teach a class on Twitter.   I'm hoping to pull him in to talk more about both twitter and other social networking ideas

How do you envision Net Tuesday events evolving over time?

Honestly I don't know but hopefully it will be the group as a whole that makes that happen in the way they'd like it to happen.

What's your change-the-world philosophy?

I'm really surfing the idea right now that social networking is the future R/Evolution.   If you think about it, who makes much of the news now?   We do.   We decide what's important and what isn't.   If we realize this power, the power to educate others about the issues we find important, the power to connect with people and care about people that you perhaps haven't seen in years or possibly haven't ever met, then we create a web of PEOPLE that will change the world.   Government will never be the change we seek, only we will and with these tools we have the ability to connect locally, regionally, nationally and globally in a way that has not been possible previously.

What music are you listening to now-a-days?

Everything, some Rammstein, some Fela Kuti, some Ravonettes.   I've been to over 30 concerts in the last year or two... everything from Itzhak Perlman to Earl Skruggs to Marilyn Manson to the Black Angels.   I tend to like most music.  

Learn more:

• Find Net Tuesday in your city
• Learn more about the Net Tuesday Organizers
• Start a group in your city