The Washington DC NetSquared October Meetup

Social changemakers and technological forerunners come together at Net Tuesday events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and reinforce the online NetSquared (http://www.netsquared...) community.

This Month's speaker:
Marty Kearns, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Green Media Toolshed http://greenmediatool...

Topic: "Crowd-Sourcing"

This month's sponsor of drinks and snacks:
Turner Strategies/Internet Advocacy Roundtable http://www.turnerstra...

About the Speaker:
Marty Kearns, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Green Media Toolshed, joins us this month to speak about ?crowd-sourcing? and his media volunteer project (http://www.mediavolun...) which aims to pull 10 minutes of time out of 10?s of thousands of people to help maintain a high quality database of thousands of media contacts that nonprofits can access to get their stories covered efficiently.

Martin Kearns has been Co-Founder and Executive Director of Green Media Toolshed http://greenmediatool... since May of 2000. GMT is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the environmental movement communicate more effectively by offering a professional suite of communication tools, trainings and services. GMT offers the technology groups need along with the training and support to develop strategies that leverage those tools for the benefit member organizations and coalitions. Kearns is at the forefront of network-centric advocacy and theory. He has developed several papers on Advocacy in the Age of Connectivity and blogs on network-centric advocacy at www.network-centricadvocacy.net and projects based on the theory (http://www.mediavolun....

About the Sponsor:

Turner Strategies/Internet Advocacy Roundtable

From http://www.turnerstra... and http://www.internetad... "Turner Strategies has hard numbers to back up our services: over 40 pieces of legislation passed, organizational funding increased and millions of dollars worth of products sold..."

"The Internet Advocacy Center (IAC), a project of Turner Strategies, is a strategic resource for citizens, organizations, and coalitions seeking to integrate the Internet and other technologies into their advocacy and political campaigns. The resulting goal: to build a powerful organic community that supports the organizational objectives of our clients.