First Toronto Net Tuesday Meetup Report

Hello Everyone,

Thanks to everyone that came out last night to our very first Net Tuesday Event. We had a wonderful mix of Web experts/developers, Power Users and those that are just getting their toes wet with technology.

The evening kicked off with a short "get to know you" social session where people got to connect with each other. We then had the opportunity to listen to three very impressive presenters. Marco from OCASI talked about the weMap mapping project experience, and lead a wonderful discussion on the importance and challenges to data harmonization. Lisa from DOC gave us an overview of her organization's experience developing an online social network for documentary film makers in Canada. Lisa pointed out the importance of making sure you have the proper resources when taking on an IT project (expertise, staff). Megan from TechSoup gave us an overview of the various web 2.0 technology that their organization is currently using to engage members of their online community. Her demo included a peek at TechSoup's presence in SecondLife. *I will admit that I went and downloaded the SecondLife client once I got home from the meeting.

After the presentations and discussions, we decided to continue our conversation at a local restaurant. Lots of interesting ideas were exchanged over yummy Vietnamese food and beer.

Now that we had our first session, we are eager to plan more, please feel free to give us some feedbacks and suggestions for our next event. We are hoping to plan one for July. If you want to help out, please let us know!


Jane

Congratulations Jane!

See you at Net Squared,

Fresh!