Austin NetSquared November Meetup

Who: People interested in finding the other people working on projects addressing real-world problems (Innovators, Community Groups/Nonprofits, Investors, etc.)

What: Designing Environments For Social Innovation

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Greetings everybody,
Gordon Montgomery (@gmeta) your organizer here with a quick word about the next event format.

In an attempt to lift-off from the fantastic energy and feedback of recent events,
this month's event will provide a forum for Social Innovators, Entrepreneurs and Technologists interested in contributing to the direction of future projects. Please be sure to read the agenda below and be prepared to participate.

Goals of the meeting:

1. Cultivate ideas for designing an environment to help accelerate
the development and lift-off of social-benefit Projects

The Meeting Format:

6:30pm: Open networking
1. Introductions
2. Self-organizing based on experience/expertise
3. What’s broken with the way we design, develop and launch our Projects?
4. Group Presos. Volunteer reports findings back to the group.
5. Summary:
Designing an environment for community-based innovation
-- What happens if we’re wildly successful in designing an environment for Pro-Social Projects
-- What’s unique about our particular environment here in Austin as it relates to our focus?
6. Defining Net Tuesday Community Roles
7. Easy Next Steps

Participation Guidelines:

1. Inclusion.
We’re committed to making sure we approach opportunities in an inclusive way.
A simple rule of thumb to help maintain this value throughout the event is to ensure your ideas and contributions allow for a broad range of community participation across both the private and public sector, and aren’t limited to any single constituency.

2. Impactful.
Does your suggestion/ideas create real social impact?

3. Achievable.
Are your suggestions achievable based on the current local resources, and our existing collective capacity?

4. Teachable.
Does your suggestion allow us to ‘teach’ as we go?

5. Scalable.
Everything doesn't need to scale, but it's important to think about scaleability as we brainstorm, as the ultimate goal here is to develop a model that can be distributed to cities beyond Austin.

What Net Squared is bringing to the party:

* 20 years of experience serving technology needs of nonprofits
* Relationships with >35 technology companies at TechSoup Stock, including Adobe, Microsoft, Business Objects, etc.
* ~ 15,000 people registered users at net2 from every continent, interested in the web’s impact on civil society
* A committed team http://www.netsquared.... to help make this work a success
* Access to Organizers of Net Tuesday events in more than 20 other cities around the globe who meet up face-to-face every month to work on similar problems and solutions
* Techsoup.org (site/resource) that currently reaches ~100k organizations via email, community forums and a blog

Who should attend?

Innovators. Building a project that has the potential to change the way your industry works in addressing a real-world problem?

Masters. Have you had success building an approach to solving real-world problems that managed to do good by employees, the local community, and your bottom-line? We want to hear your stories.

If you have suggestions for speakers at this event, or future events, please send your suggestions to Billy Bicket at [masked].

Background.
Net Tuesday is the face-to-face event series brought to you by NetSquared.org.
NetSquared is an initiative of TechSoup.org, a 501c-3 technology project based out of San Francisco, CA.

Currently, more than (21) cities are meeting up to discuss new ways to approach old problems.
Much needs to be learned about operating in a networked-era -- even more needs to be discovered -- and opportunities for new Projects await us.

For more about NetSquared.org, check-out the NetSquare site.

Questions? Bright ideas? Shoot. Send me an email at [masked] or connect via twitter @gmeta