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: Paula Jones!

Paula is a co-organizer of the Net Tuesday group in the Triange area of NC.   You can check out her profile and ways to connect on the Net Tuesday Organizer Team page.   Are you in the Triangle?   Connect to the Net Tuesday group here!

 How do you spend your time when you're not organizing Net Tuesdays?

Besides working for the N.C. Center for Nonprofits?!? I love the opportunities I get to educate nonprofits across North Carolina about ways they can use technology to help them with their work.

What inspired you to organize local Net Tuesday events in your community?

My love of technology and for hearing what other nonprofits are doing.

What's the hardest part of the job?

We've had the hardest time finding a central place to meet, but I think our problems are now solved!

How do you measure the success of your events?

This is a two-part answer. 1. We're successful if folks are engaged in what we hope are thought-provoking conversations. 2. If participants take the ideas and share them or do something different in their work as a result.

Tell us about the best Net Tuesday event.   What did you learn from that experience?

Each one is the best in someway or another.   I always take back new resources or tools I can use.

What is the local social-web-tech scene like in the Triangle?

It's a little of everything from those that are just getting their feet wet to those that have been swimming for years!

How do you envision Net Tuesday events evolving over time?

I hope that we can continue to draw a diverse crowd of folks from local businesses and nonprofits alike.   I think this fuels the conversation and makes it more valuable.

What's your change-the-world philosophy?

I'm going to have to steal one of Clay Shirky's quotes from the 09NTC: "Once one person solves the problem once, the problem stays solved for everybody."

What music are you listening to now-a-days?

Just about anything.

Learn more:

• Find Net Tuesday in your city
• Learn more about the Net Tuesday Organizers
• Start a group in your city