The San Francisco NetSquared organizer team needs help on two fronts: Logistics and sponsorships.

Details:

Logistics: We need help prior to, during, and after each Meetup. Prior to the event, we need a point person to coordinate with the hosting venue. At the event we need help with setup of drinks/snacks, chairs and any tech support resources (livestream crew, projectors, etc.). After the event we need help breaking down and making sure everything is squeaky clean before we turn the lights out and call it a night. If you're the party host type, you will love this gig.

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: Sarah Kennon!

Meet Rachel.

 

I met Rachel Weidinger nearly a year ago at N2Y3 and we've been in relatively close touch ever since. Since our initial meeting, she became the organizer of Net Tuesday San Francisco, taking over organizational duties upon Brit Bravo's departure. She's been doing a bang-up job since.

Plone Bootcamp Series in April 

Joel Burton, Plone teacher galore and frequent presented at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in the US and abroad, has begun announcing dates for his Plone Bootcamps series. The class, a fantastic introduction to the Plone open-source CMS platform, will be held in San Francisco the week before NTC in San Francisco this April:

Get ready for the next San Francisco Net Tuesday—it looks to be a great event! 

Net Tuesdays are free monthly gatherings for social changemakers and web innovators to network, socialize and share ideas about how nonprofits and social benefit organizations can use the social web for social change.

SF Net Tuesday - November

DETAILS:

Date:  Tuesday, November 11th
Time:  6 pm
Location: TechSoup/CompuMentor

Last month's Net Tuesday San Francisco featured Nikki Serapio, the Director of Community Marketing for Involver, talking about how nonprofits can use Involver to create a video campaign for social networks.  Chirag Shah, Special Projects Manager for Kiva.org, also spoke about Kiva's experience using Involver.

Below is a video interview with Nikki Serapio by David Collin of FI Space.  Enjoy!

The San Francisco Halloween Festival committee has enjoyed an organic community growth around the planning process for the city's October 31st celebration, but now needs help making a website. Following the closure of Castro Street last year for the annual celebration, the SF Halloween Festival committee plans to bring together all ages, all cultures, and people from SF and around the world in both free and ticketed activities and celebrations all afternoon and evening in Lot A, next to SF Giants AT&T Ballpark, and Terry Francois Boulevard.

We've got six Net Tuesdays meeting next week all over the country, and in Canada:

Austin, TX NEW!
Topic: Launch party

Chicago, IL
Topic: Pimp My Non-Profit

Houston, TX
Topic: Project LIFT Houston

For those of you who live in the San Francisco Bay Area, our next Net Tuesday San Francisco will be on August 12th and feature Tara Kirchner, Senior Marketing Manager for Yahoo! Inc.

Tara will talk about how nonprofits can use the Flickr for Good program. Flickr for Good (in partnership with TechSoup) will donate 10,000 Flickr Pro accounts to be distributed to qualifying nonprofits in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Hong Kong.

For more information, and to RSVP go to Meetup, Upcoming, and Facebook.

Photo: Tara Kirchner

 "You have to be experimental." Deb Levine, Founder, I.S.I.S., Inc.

Over fifty people showed up for Net Tuesday San Francisco on July 8th.  Our topic was, Mobilizing Generation 2.0: How Nonprofits Can Use Technology to Engage Youth, and the speakers were Ben Rigby, the Founder and Co-Executive Director of Mobile Voter, and the author of Mobilizing Generation 2.0, and Deb Levine, Founder of I.S.I.S., Inc. (Internet Sexuality Information Services).  Audio recordings of both presentations will be available in a few weeks on the NetSquared Podcast.  Our next Net Tuesday San Francisco will be on August 12th with Tara Kirchner of Flickr for Good. Below are my notes from the event.

Ben started the evening off by saying, "We're not going back to 8-Track."