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Building community in your area? Check out the Community Organizers Handbook. Includes everything you need to start and grow a NetSquared Local group or any other community-powered program.

Organizer Bios and Interviews

 

Every month, the NetSquared community comes together offline at NetSquared Local events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate. These gatherings provide a chance to connect for all those interested in the intersection of social technologies and social change, whether you're part of a nonprofit organization or a for-profit organization, a funder or a consultant, a developer or an entrepreneur.

We now have organizers nearly 80 cities worldwide volunteering their time to run these groups. They are a truly inspirational group of leaders! Learn more about many of the local organizers powering the groups in the bios below, and check out our interviews with organizers.

Learn more about the local organizers powering NetSquared Local events around the world!

Abidjan | Asheville | Atlanta | Austin | Baltimore | Cape Town | Charleston | Chicago |Concord | Douala | Guayaquil | Hamburg | Guatemala City | Houston | Istanbul | Lafayette | Lome | Los Angeles | Madrid | Manchester | Montreal | Nairobi | New Haven | New Orleans |New York | Paris | Philadelphia | Phoenix | Portland, ME | Portland, OR |San Francisco |Seattle | Silicon Valley | Taipei | Triangle, NC | Traverse City | Vancouver, BC |Washington DC | Wilmington

Abidjan, Cote d`Ivoire

net tuesday ivory coastYudi Emmanuel

Yudi Emmanuel owns Dixon Consult, as an enterpreneur he is mostly involved in the sale and distribution of I.T. products and services. A graduate of the University of Portharcourt Rivers, Nigeria. Worked as a marketing manager in Prime Technologies and company representative of SNL Technologies in Cote d`Ivoire. Presently Yudi is involved in the Net2 in Abidjan Cote d`Ivoire and also have motivated a lot of young Africans to join the enterpreneur movement where many young Africans are encouraged to start up business by sharing of ideas and resources.

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Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Kate Bladow NetSquared local Baltimore MarylandKate Bladow

Kate Bladow grew up in Mayville, North Dakota and graduated from North Dakota State University with a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics. Attempting to escape North Dakota's bitterly cold winters, Kate moved to Montana and worked for Montana Legal Services Association, where she helped to launch MontanaLawHelp.org, a legal information website for the public, and MontanaProBono.net, a website that supports legal aid and pro bono advocates, and coordinated several other technology projects that enhanced client services and increased the public's access to self-help information. Currently, Kate is employed by Pro Bono Net as the LawHelp Interactive Project Coordinator and helps access-to-justice communities develop document assembly projects. She currently lives in Baltimore and misses snow.

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Cape Town, South Africa

marlon parker net tuesday cape townMarlon Parker

Marlon Parker is a Social Entrepreneur and an Information Technology Lecturer at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) since October 2000. He obtained his Masters degree in Information Technology (Cum Laude) and is currently busy with his PhD. He is often invited by many organisations and institutions across the country and internationally as a guest speaker on ICT for Community Empowerment. Marlon also produced several research academic papers, supervises post-grad students and co-authored in a published book called "The social and economical impacts of e-commerce". His passion for community development has influenced his research interests and he is currently working on a project titled "Using ICT as a change agent to empower citizens in a Community in Tension (CiT)" of which the Advice Support Network was birthed. He recently made the Mail and Guardian list for the Top 300 Young South Africans and he is the organiser of the NetTuesday Cape Town Meetup.

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Chicago, IL, USA

justin massa net tuesday chicago Justin Massa

Justin's time is split between NetSquared.org (where he is the Program and Technical Coordinator) and MoveSmart.org (where he is the executive director)). MoveSmart.org, which he co-founded, is a start-up organization dedicated to fostering vibrant and diverse neighborhoods by empowering housing seekers through technology to move to opportunity. Justin is a member of the National Advisory Board of  NeighborScapes, the Reader's Bureau of the  Chicago Reporter, and the Program Committee of the  Community Media Workshop. He is also a co-convener of  Chicago Net Tuesdays  and helps organize  Illinois Data Exchange Affiliates.

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Kara Carrell net tuesday chicagoKara Carrell

Kara is an active member of the Chicago Tech community, seeking a Social Media role within an organization that appreciates the convergence of Technology, Communications, and Social Justice. She is the consummate early adopter who is obsessively up-to-date on emerging technologies and tools in the Social Media space. She is an advocate for Community engagement among companies and their customers, as an integrated element of everyone's position within an organization.

In other capacities in her life, Kara works as a Board Member, Community organizer, and Dog Owner. She is also an avid participant in game nights, and Team Trivia. She hopes one day to own a Cereal Bar, named Cerealmente.

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Gordon Dymowskinet tuesday chicagoGordon Dymowski

Gordon has over ten years' experience in community organizing, advocacy, and outreach, with an emphasis on public health social services. Currently, he is working in the public sector driving word of mouth with social media. His professional experience ranges from small community-based agencies to larger non-profits such as the Salvation Army. He has an extensive experience in online and offline community building, and currently not only serves as co-organizer of Chicago Net Tuesday, but is an avid comic/pop culture blogger.

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Concord, NH, USA

Patricia Vincent-Piet NetSquared local ConcordPatricia Vincent-Piet

While searching for innovative ways to advocate for people with disabilities, Patricia Vincent-Piet discovered the power of new web technologies to educate people and stir them to action.

Now she is working to educate New Hampshire non-profits about these tools and their potential to help mission oriented organizations achieve their goals.

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Douala, Cameroon

net tuesday douala cameroon africaValery Colong

Colong has a first degree in Physics with a minor in Computer Science at the University of Buea, Cameroon. He is also a Sun Certified Java Programmer(SCJP6.0) and has been working on computer systems since 2004. His current job involves Administering Ubuntu Systems at IVERMAX Co. Ltd.

Colong is a computer aficionado and likes everything techie. His farming experience and his involvement with computers, inspired his contributions to the AMISPROJECT (N2Y4 featured) and his aspiration to help combat the difficulties of cameroonian farmers.

His key areas of interest include Community building, helping society's undeserved, networking, programming, animation, and compositing. Lately, he joined the NetSquared community, serving as a co-organiser for the Douala NetTuesday to continue his work on community building and expanding the NetSquared community in Cameroon.

Other projects he aspires to include: Open Source Movement for Africa(OSMA), Akoh'den Animation Studio, Academia, Common Hygiene Malpractice(CHM), Health Catalogue, Planet in Peril and You: The mind set.

During his spare time, you can find him watching movies, programming, reading technology books or admiring nature's gifts.

His fervent desire is that one day he'd be knighted and be called Sir Nyiwung Valery Colong.

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net tuesday cameroon Asama Abel Excel

Founding President and CEO of i-Vission International; an International NGO with headquarters in Douala Cameroon. The mission of the organisation is to empower computer literacy and break the digital divide between the North and the South.

Graduate, holder of a Certificate on Conflict Analysis from the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and Information System Engineer by profession.   Held many key functions for many years including: Administrative Assistant and Translator with the United Nations (MINURCA), Manager of World Business Consulting...

Present organizer of the Douala Netsquared Meetup and is extending the network nation wide.  

Excel is convinced that we are in the information age, and whosoever is not informed is deformed. He is   motivated and dedicated in empowering people with the ICT. He has organized many seminars, workshops, radio and TV programs on ICT, written books including, "i-Power (Getting the best out of the internet)" and "7 Keys to Successful Building."

His top priority for 2009/2010 is to setup a network in Cameroon, to combat cyber crimes.   Any one updated in this issue is free to contact him for future collaboration.   In a nut shell, Excel will like to meet new people and organisations who have the ambition to live in a more secure and just world, and possess the required passion to make it happen.

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Guatemala City, Guatemala

Maria Zaghi

Maria Zaghi is in charge of the Business Development for Campus TEC, which is one of the first technology parks in the Central American region. She has a 20-year experience in the implementation of projects and entrepreneur efforts related to ICTs in Latin America. She has been the leader for several ICT agendas in Guatemala including the e-guatemala strategy in the National Science Council, the National E-commerce and is also a professor in ICT programs for Universidad Del Valle, Francisco Marroquin University, Landívar University and Universidad Galileo in Guatemala.
                                  
Ms. Zaghi has an MBA degree from the University of Maryland in College Park, with a specialization in MIS and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala.
 
She has been a senior consultant for local and international organizations related to financial systems, energy sector financial systems, Internet, e-commerce, e-education, e-inclusion, among others.

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Houston, TX, USA

Ed Schipul net tuesday houstonEd Schipul

Ed Schipul, co-founder of the Houston NetSquared chapter, is a passionate geek, Web technologist and student of sociology with over 20 years experience in marketing and software programming.

By day, Ed is CEO of Schipul - The Web Marketing Company (www.schipul.com) a Web design, marketing, software and Social Media consulting firm with the vision of Doing Good.  His firm works with over 400 organizations, both for profit and non profit, most of whom are empowered online with Schipul’s membership management software Tendenci (www.tendenci.com). 

By night, Ed is a fanatic supporter of the arts, avid reader and is working on one heck of a cool robot with his sons at home. 

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Istanbul, Turkey

Aysegul Guzel Net Tuesday IstanbulAysegul Guzel

Aysegul Guzel is a dreamer, thinker, listener, action taker, social entrepreneur, strategic and innovation consultant. She just moved from Barcelona to Istanbul, to launch her new web page: an innovative sharing platform which uses time banking & social media. She is eager to start her new life by doing additionally an empathic research project to discover opportunities to provide economic and social development in Turkey. She is planning to start NetSquared meetings in Istanbul on February 2010.

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Lafayette, LA, USA

mike baldwin net tuesday lafayetteMike Baldwin

Mike Baldwin is an IT professional and video editor residing in Lafayette, Louisiana. He is currently completing his AAS in Network Technologies at Louisiana Technical College. Mike started attending the NetSquared New Orleans meetings in December 2008 and decided to start a Lafayette chapter in September 2009. In the past, he has worked as a Systems Administrator for a nonprofit community access television station and presently edits video for the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Department. In his spare time, Mike enjoys playing and listening to music, creating podcasts with friends,  and photography.

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Lomo, Togo

olivier Olivier Kumedjro

I am a telecommunication engineer and computer system support specialist by profession. I'm also a co-founder and chair man of the non profit organization called Strategie D'Actions Pour L'Integration et le Developpement, which aims to demystify and promote the use of ICT for youth especially for the deprived people (craftsmen). This is to initiate the youth to the good use of ICT.

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Madrid, Spain

Net2Madrid OrganizersThe NetSquared local group in Spain, Net2Madrid, is a project developed by 5 Spanish Engineers with passion about innovation and social change:

Adrián González Álvarez

Telecom. Engineer UPM with growing interest in the business administration and innovation areas.  "Creativity is the result of the hard and sistematic work" is one of his favourite quotes. Twitter: @adriangonalv

Álvaro Sanmartín Cid, Telecom. Engineer UPM with international experience in Berkeley and Harvard universities, is a passionate of business strategy, teamworking and social development. "The most dificult problems you deal with in your life are not technical, but social" repeats again and again. Twitter: @AlvaroSanmartin

Carlos González de Villaumbrosia González, Industrial Mgmt. Engineer and Computer Engineer, is always willing to participate in innovative projects as NetSquared. "Good Luck always comes while I am working" likes to say. Twitter: @cvillaumbrosia

Javier Eroles Matallana, Telecom. Engineer UPM specialised in electronics, currently works in aerospace projects dealing with satellite technology.  His favourite quote "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn" Twitter: @AgioKratos

Pablo del Campo, Telecom. Engineer UPM, is an Strategic consultant at Deloitte in the Banking area. He firmly believes in the ability of the organizations to develop the individual and the society via innovative solutions and responsible attitude to the environment.

Now you know something about each one of us, but you should see how we work together... there you will see that the possibilities of 5 guys working toghether is unlimited, bright and fulfilling.

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Manchester, United Kingdom

Steven Flower Manchester Net2 Local Steven Flower

 

Steven has worked in and around technology for social good his whole working life, from installing and fixing computers, through to building large data systems and web projects. Over this period, Steven has slowly understood that computers are just bits or metal and that real value comes from focusing on the goals and needs of an organisation before anyone touches a keyboard.  Obviously, Steven likes post-its. And drinking tea.

I also have one of those web-page things that links to other stuff: www.stevieflow.net

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Montreal, QC, Canada

peter deitz montreal net tuesdayPeter Deitz

Peter Deitz is a blogger, social media consultant, and the founder of Social Actions -- a website that helps people find and share opportunities to make a difference. He has worked in the nonprofit technology sector for the last 5 years and is based in Montreal, Quebec.

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Nairobi, Kenya

David Kandie

My name is David Kandie, the NetSquared Organizer in Nairobi Kenya. I work for a Social Non-profit known as KickStart (www.kickstart.org). I also volunteer in helping rural women set up sustainable businesses in the areas of micro-irrigation, tailoring etc. I do this by linking them to funding opportunities, registration and training. Five years ago I studied Bachelor of Mathematics major and later joined KickStart to do Monitoring & Evaluation. I later joined IT department as a Data/Business Analyst and Business Change Professional.

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New Haven, CT, USA

J.R. Logan net tuesday New Haven J.R. Logan

J.R. is currently the Director of New Media Strategies for United Way's New Media Partnership of United Way of Greater New Haven and United Way of Coastal Fairfield County. In this role he works to foster an organizational culture of knowledge and learning that empowers employees to effectively participate in online and new media outreach activities.

J.R.'s work includes: web 2.0, online video, e-mail marketing, online communities, web advertising, content management and web analytics. In this role J.R. has provided advice and assistance to several nonprofits interested in new media and has presented best practices for nonprofits in various forums. Previously J.R. severed as Director of Leadership Giving, responsible for cultivating stronger relationships with major donors. Prior to joining United Way of Greater New Haven he completed United Way of America's Community Fellows program. JR holds a masters of Public Affairs from Indiana University, a Certificate in Fundraising Management from the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University and an undergraduate degree in political science from Alma College. J.R. has been recognized in the New Haven Business Times: 40 Under Forty.

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New Orleans, LA, USA

Damien LaManna

I am a recent transplant to New Orleans from Washington, D.C. by way of Buffalo, New York, my hometown. In ole Washington I went to grad school for political communications and worked for a public affairs firm doing online advocacy and had the great pleasure to be a member of the D.C. Net2. I came to Nola to take a position as the Digital Media Director for Morgan + Company, a local communications/marketing agency. It didn't take me long to see what a vibrant burgeoning tech and social entrepreneurial community this town had so Net2NO was a perfect fit. In less than one year, we are over 250 members proud and continue to grow.

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New York, NY, USA

amy sample ward New York net tuesday Amy Sample Ward

 

Amy Sample Ward is a blogger, facilitator and trainer focused on leveraging social technologies for social change.  In 2009, she co-authored Social by Social, a handbook in using social technologies for social impact, and has contributed to various other publications about social media.  She is a conversation-starter and thought-leader, writing about strategic uses of new technologies for communities and organizations on her blog and the Stanford Social Innovation Review.  

 

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Paris, France

camilla burg wiser earth net tuesday parisCamilla Burg

Camilla Burg is new to Net2 having just launched the first Wiser Tuesday group in Paris (a collaboration between Netsquared and WiserEarth). She was born and raised in the North of England. She has lived in London, Sydney and San Francisco where she has worked as a marketing professional in the technology, finance and nonprofit sectors. She has spent the past 3 years working as a communications and outreach consultant with WiserEarth an international directory and social networking website that brings together sustainability and nonprofit professionals. She is now based in St Germain en Laye, just outside Paris where she gets to imbibe local café culture while working on some fantastic projects.

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Philadelphia, PA, USA

seth horwitz philly net tuesday Seth Horwitz

At 52, I'm older than most Net Tuesday organizers and enthusiasts, and I've gotten here through a different path… In terms of passion, I was asleep until 1976 when, as a junior at Penn State, I wandered into the "Free University" (which I later directed). The Free U was a student organization through which anybody (town or gown) could offer a course in anything, and we acted as the neutral facilitators to schedule rooms, register people (if desired), publish a catalog, etc. We had 100 courses/quarter, from anthropology to arthropod cuisine (eating bugs). This opened up my eyes to the fact that ANY community has a tremendous wealth of resources, but very limited ways to reveal and share those resources. And, more importantly, that helping people to connect to one another based upon what they find personally meaningful is a radical and profound role that I want to play in my life.

Fast forward. After working and living with Movement for a New Society in the early 80's, I got a Masters in Library and Information Science (Drexel). Then, as a Reference Librarian in a suburban public library (Ridley Twp., PA), I started a "learning network". Patrons could declare a desire to learn, teach or share something (anything). Then I cataloged these interests and interfiled them in the card catalog (remember card catalogs?). Again, the community's hidden resources came to the surface. My favorite: a lonely woman from Quebec invited people to lunch to practice their French.

Fast forward. After 17 years(!) at Telebase (an online information company), I started CommuniShare in 2002, an early social networking experiment, now defunct (http://communishare.org/communishare). Since 2005, I've had a long-term consulting gig with the American Friends Service Committee (http://afsc.org), working on knowledge management and online collaboration for peace and social justice activists around US and the world.

So, I've been passionate about social networking since well before it was popularized by Web 2.0 capabilities. Years ago, I could hardly find anyone who shared my interest; nowadays, I'm trying to keep up with the technical tsunami that has made it ubiquitous.

On the personal side, I'm married to a molecular biologist turned high school science teacher (http://mscearce.edublogs.org). I have a 19 daughter at Hampshire College, who's into making political documentary films (http://hhspeaking.blogspot.com). And I have a 16 year old son with autism and mental retardation. I enjoy hiking, good food, conversation and Tolkien.

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Portland, ME, USA

alex steed net tuesday portlandAlex Steed

Alex Steed has lived in Portland, Maine, which has more or less been his base for 8 years. He has lived in Burlington, Vermont, Boston, Massachusetts, and Brooklyn, New York in the past handful of those years, but Maine keeps calling him back.  

Steed has worked for or with Change.org, The Democratic Party, The Point, NetSquared, and a couple of handfuls of amazing local and national nonprofits. Between October and December of 2008, he traveled to over 30 cities throughout the United States as a part of a self-initiated research tour to find out what the hell this so-called Millennial Generation is and how they are using the Internet to affect social change. The tour changed his life.

In the Fall Steed will be teaching a media literacy class to high school students in rural Southern Maine. In the Spring, he will be co-teaching a class about the history and methodologies of Internet activism with Professor Dusan Bjelic at the University of Southern Maine.  

He graduated with a degree in political philosophy from the University of Southern Maine and he thanks the Universe daily that - even after doing something so seemingly foolish - he is able to find a jobs.

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Portland, OR, USA

anna richter nten portland net tuesdayAnna Richter

As NTEN's Program Director, Anna is able to fulfill her desire to help the good causes of the world through better use of technology. She makes a direct and profound impact by coordinating NTEN's online trainings, webinars, and the Nonprofit Technology Conference.

Prior to her work in the nonprofit technology community, Anna lived and worked for three years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras. She used her engineering skills to design gravity-fed water systems and honed her tech-for-good skills as the director of a local nonprofit, Guaruma, which focuses on environmental education through computer and photography training. By using technology to help meet her mission inthe developing world, Anna gained a true appreciation for its power when used for good.

Anna graduated from Michigan State University with a BS in Applied Engineering Science. She also serves on the board of Focus the Nation, a nonprofit empowering a generation to power the nation. When she's not changing the world through nonprofit technology, Anna may be found implementing low-tech methods for a more sustainable planet in her garden with her chickens, on her yoga mat, or pedaling her bicycle.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

Sarah Kennon NetSquared San FranciscoSarah Kennon

Sarah is dedicated to exploring the intersection of product/service ecosystems, community building and social change. Equally inspired by storytelling, humanism, Jungian psychology, Integral theory, systems thinking, buddhism and yoga; she has brought these diverse influences to bear through her 20 years of experience working in a variety of product development and experience design leadership positions for technology startups, large organizations and increasingly, social enterprises -- not to mention forays into intentional community at Esalen, a summer spent with the Bread & Puppet Theatre, exhibiting artwork at the National Craft Museum in Manhattan, five years as a somatic bodyworker and a member of on-location production crews for public television at WGBH in Boston, MA and KNME in Abququerque, NM. Sarah is the founder of It's Contextual, a design firm that helps clients shape ideas into great digital experiences, creates social media strategies and specializes in online community platforms that promote emergent action networks.

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Pamela Hawley

Pamela is founder and CEO of UniversalGiving™. UniversalGiving (UG) is an award-winning nonprofit that helps people give and volunteer with vetted, quality opportunities all over the world. UniversalGiving™ offers a variety of ways to become involved through Projects, Gift Packages, and Volunteer Opportunities. Visitors simply choose a region (such as Africa) and an issue (such as education or the environment) and receive a list of quality ways to give and volunteer. 100% of your donation goes directly to the project. UniversalGiving™ performs due diligence on all its projects through its unique, trademarked Quality Model™. We make ourselves sustainable via UniversalGiving Corporate, customizing our service for companies. UniversalGiving is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, whose vision is to "Create a World Where Giving and Volunteering are a Natural Part of Everyday Life."™

UniversalGiving™ has been profiled on CBS and in Fox Business Network, and has also been featured in BusinessWeek, and WomenEntrepreneur. UniversalGiving is a winner of the Jefferson Award and a Colburn S. Wilbur Fellowship, as well as a Finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award. UniversalGiving is also a Webby Award Honoree and winner of eTown's E-chievement Award and the Silver Award for W3 Creative Excellence on the Web.

Pamela was a co-founder of VolunteerMatch, which has matched more than 4 million volunteers with nonprofits. Pamela's global experience includes volunteering in microfinance in remote villages of India; crisis relief work in the 2000 El Salvador earthquake; sustainable farming in Guatemala; digital divide training in Cambodia; and indigenous community preservation in Ecuador. Pamela has a political science degree cum laudé at Duke University and a Masters on scholarship at the Annenberg School of Communications, USC, in International Communications. Pamela speaks on a number of topics including global philanthropy and volunteerism, corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship and revenue generation, and leadership at Harvard, Stanford, and USC Business Schools.

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Seattle, WA, USA

Jessica Dally

Jessica Dally splits her time between working four jobs and volunteering for two nonprofits.   Her primary position is working the help desk at Community Voice Mail where she also acts as CVM's Second Life guru.

Jessica works with Tech Soup Global in their Second Life presence helping to manage and maintain their different Islands and bring other nonprofits into the vibrant world of Second Life.   On top of that she's currently training to become a motorcycle safety instructor and often teaches canning and cheese making classes all over the city of Seattle.

For unpaid employment Jessica is the founder and executive director of Seattle Free School, an educational nonprofit that operates without cash donations of any kind from anyone ever. She keeps busy managing the school, teaching classes, finding and mentoring volunteers, getting press for free and getting classes arranged for the approximately 1200+ people on the email listserve.   She thinks the most interesting part of Seattle Free School is figuring out how to make things work for free.   Thus far the school has been in virtually all print publications in the city of Seattle.   Not bad for having no marketing budget!

Finally Jessica coorganizes Seattle Net Tuesdays.   When she's not doing all this she's usually out riding her motorcycle on the street or in the dirt, going to concerts, hanging out with friends or just sleeping.

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sarah schacht seattle net tuesdaySarah Schacht

Sarah Schacht is a political entrepreneur who searches for simple technology solutions to complex social problems. Eagerly involved in politics from an early age, she's been a conservative and a liberal, working for a range of causes and campaigns. In 2003, she left college to work on Howard Dean's presidential campaign, working in New Hampshire, Dean's national headquarters, Iowa, and Washington State. She specialized in youth outreach, crafting technical plans, online organizing, and field work.

In 2004, she was one of the youngest delegates to the Democratic National Convention, and in 2005 she interned for Congressman Jay Inslee's office, where she researched the the communications technology systems within Congress. Returning home to Washington State, she founded Knowledge As Power, a 501c3 nonpartisan organization which provides Washingtonians online tools to track legislation on any issue and communicate effectively with their legislators. Sarah is a 2008 Echoing Green Semi-Finalist, a Sunlight Foundation grantee, and a contributor to O'Reily's upcoming open government book.

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Silicon Valley, CA, USA

justine lam net tuesday silicon valleyJustine Lam

Justine Lam is the Internet Strategist at the Myelin Repair Foundation. She spreads awareness and interest in myelin repair and MRF's research model, engages supporters, activates them as volunteers and expands MRF's grassroots donor base through the application of new media strategies.

Prior to joining MRF, Justine was responsible for spearheading the Ron Paul presidential campaign's online efforts. Her decentralized online strategies empowered and encouraged supporters to self-organize and generate an extensive web presence to spread the candidate's message which encouraged a community of support that led to the ground-breaking fundraising achievements in 2007.

Justine is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in Development Studies.

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Moorthi PV net tuesday silicon valleyMoorthi PV

Moorthi PV is a typical geek of greater Silicon Valley. Moorthi has a BS in Computer Science and works with several start ups and enterprises in Silicon Valley. Moorthi is also interested in film making. Apart from organizing Netsquared SV, he also works closely with other meet up groups in the same interests like start ups, and developer for non profit. He has a start up on the development as of April '10.

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Taipei, Taiwan

Shufang Tsai Taipei Taiwan NetSquared LocalShufang Tsai

Shu-fang Tsai graduated from National Taiwan University Graduate School of Social Work. She had been the director of Social Service of Kaohsiung Medical College for 6 years, lecturer of departments of psychology and social work for various colleges and universities. She had been leading departments of government, IT & Internet company and non-profit organizations. She is now the director of Frontier Foundation, Taiwan. In the past decade, she has led the team to establish various web service information portal, including the first female service information network, female Internet forum, female mailing list, disability information network, aboriginal e-tribe, and TechSoup Taiwan.

She started the group facilitation expertise, devoted into Open Space Technology (OST) promotion and training since 2001. She has established the website and official blog of Open Space Technology.

Frontier Foundation is an organization to aggregate the care and love toward Taiwan and to transform that into the practical ground level, community and social action. From policy research, training for community organizers, media watch, to information society practical action plan, Frontier Foundation is devoted to facilitation of the connection among minorities and Internet, and the participatory discussion within organizations.

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Triangle, NC, USA

judy hallman raleigh net tuesday Judy Hallman

My Interests: Online communities, Drupal, CiviCRM, helping to provide online instructions. I retired from UNC-Chapel Hill ITS in 1999 after 32 years service. When I retired, I was campus Webmaster. Now I work mostly as a volunteer with RTPnet.org. I started working with RTPnet in 1989.

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Paula Jones

Paula Jones is the technology director at the N.C. Center for Nonprofits. She interned at the Center while she attended N.C. State University, where she graduated cum laude and received a BS in biological sciences and science education. Paula taught high school in Raleigh for three years before returning to the Center in 2003. With her love of science and all things analytical, she enjoys administering the Center's information technology. Paula has more than 7 years of experience in website development, database management, and network administration. She serves as an organizer for the Research Triangle NetTuesday and the Triangle 501 Tech Club.

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Traverse City, MI, USA

David krumlauf NetSquared Local Traverse City Michigan David Krumlauf

I'm a born and raised Michigander. Graduated from University of Michigan in 1973, taught high school science in Australia for 7 years and ran the Astronomy Education Center at the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope for 3 years - watch the movie "The Dish". I've been an owner of 2 ISP businesses in Traverse City, MI. We started the first dialup ISP business here back in 1994. I spent a lot of time teaching people what the Internet was and how to use it. In 2000 we started a microwave MMDS ISP business to reach the outlying areas. After selling the last business in 2006 I did local IT consulting then in 2007 I helped my longtime friend Denis Pierce start his foundation.

I'm married to the lovely and talented Joan D'Argo, am a very proud grandfather of the cutest granddaughter of all time Jade Lynn Krumlauf. My son Zeb and his wife Melinda live nearby which is a real blessing.

Joan and I live in an intentional community just north of Cedar, MI on an 88 acre farm with a 6 acre vineyard. We built our dream home 4 years ago and couldn't be happier. It's a green-built, Energy Star rated home with straw clay walls, solar hot water system and amazingly energy efficient.

I am the Chief Technologist at the Pierce Family Charitable Foundation. I do IT planning and implementation for 7 Chicago-based NPOs focused on homelessness. They are all wonderful, kind, loving people doing amazing work. It is a real pleasure and privilege helping them fulfill their missions.

Traverse City has a lot of small NPOs that are doing great work but could use some help. Being connected to the NPO and technology world made NetSquared a natural fit for me. There is already a talented, diverse membership. There is a very strong sense of community here. A lot of people have been working on local issues together for many, many years. This made my job of pulling people together for the NetSquared group an easy and fun task.

I love my job! I have made so many terrific people through NTEN and the Chicago NetSquared group. I am impressed daily with the information sharing and help that the NPTech community provides. It is truly an honor to be part of this amazing group of people.

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Vancouver, BC, Canada

Elijah van der Giessen Vancouver NetSquared Local Elijah van der Giessen

Eli fell in love with volunteers in 2000, and has been working to build community ever since.

He'll take any title: Production Manager, Tour Director, Volunteer Wrangler, Wagon Master, Outreach Coordinator... even "Marketer"...just as long as he gets to hang out with enthusiastic people who are working together on a project because of a consuming passion.

Lately Eli has been assisting the David Suzuki Foundation with their online campaigns and community development.  The internet is fun!

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Washington, DC, USA

Gabriela Schneider Washington DC NetSquared Local Gabriela Schneider

I am the Communications Director of the Sunlight Foundation, a non-partisan non-profit dedicated to catalyzing greater government transparency using the power of the Internet. Prior to joining the Sunlight Foundation, I was the Media Relations Manager for the Council on Foundations, where I secured media coverage for the philanthropic sector. Previously, I organized grass roots campaigns for the Public Policy Office of the American Psychological Association and worked to protect children's online privacy as Senior Policy Analyst for the Center for Media Education. I earned my Masters of Arts in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and my Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Lehigh University.

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Matt Stempeck Washington DC NetSquared Local Matt Stempeck

Matt Stempeck is the New Media Director at Americans for Campaign Reform (http://youstreet.org). He graduated from the University of Maryland with High Honors, where he wrote his thesis on the role of blogs in the evolution of political journalism. At EchoDitto, Matt leveraged cutting edge technologies to empower online communities and create lasting offline change on behalf of Americans for Campaign Reform, the SEIU, Seventh Generation, GeniusRocket, and Brighter Planet. Matt has also worked as a Production Assistant for OnPoint, a groundbreaking webcast program and Capitol Hill's leading source of energy and environmental news. Matt co-hosts the popular monthly NetSquared event in Washington, DC that brings together innovators from the tech and nonprofit worlds.

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Noah Kunin

Noah Kunin is the Multimedia Content Producer for the Sunlight Foundation. He leads the conceptualization and production of high-quality, creative and persuasive visual content that works in concert with articles and initiatives across the Sunlight Foundation's network. He also works with the latest technologies and open video community to connect government data to video content.

Noah has an eclectic background in video journalism, government, genetic engineering and non-profit technology management. Before Sunlight, he was the Senior Political Correspondent for The UpTake, a citizen-fueled, online video news gathering organization known for its exhaustive live-streaming coverage of the 2008 Recount and Election Contest Trial between Norm Coleman and Al Franken.

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Wilmington, NC, USA

net tuesday wilmington ncSean Watson

Sean Watson is a consultant with netCorps, a 501c3 nonprofit founded in 1996 that has provided technology planning, assistance, and support to hundreds of environmental, social justice, and community-based organizations. He provides technology assessments and coaching to support organizations in being more effective at meeting their mission. He also does design, analysis, and implementation of complete website and database solutions, as well as network infrastructure installation and maintenance. He graduated from UNCW with a BS in Computer Science and continues to attend seminars and trainings to stay on the bleeding edge of technology. Over 13 years in the industry, he has worked for multiple Fortune 500 companies, including Corning and GE, as well as several small businesses and nonprofits.

Sean believes in one simple equation: Technology + Citizenship = Infinite Possibilities. By empowering organizations and engaged citizens with technology solutions, he achieves all of his goals at once: be a computer nerd, save the environment, promote human rights, create world peace. My vision is a world in which we all work together to meet the challenges facing humanity in a cooperative, solution-focused, possibilities driven, powerful, and awe-inspiring way; a group of world citizens, harnessing the enormity of human potential, to create a continually better world.

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Submitted by Amy Sample Ward on April 7, 2009 - 6:45am

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