Volcanic ash clouds, uni exams and end-of-financial-year busy-ness couldn’t keep us from meeting! Even though the numbers were smaller than our past events, the conversation was rich and inspiring.

NetSquared Adelaide has been meeting now for four months, and each of the monthly meetings has had its own flavour and style. The community has been steadily growing over the months. The format of the first meet-ups were based around hearing from guest speakers, generating a bit of group discussion on the topics raised and then offer some time for networking.

This time around, the meetup was about us, as a community.

Our third NetSquared Adelaide event was a great success, attracting people from across the city to find out how technology is impacting the science world. Katie Hannan, from SAcommunity came along and shared her thoughts:

It's already a month since Adelaide's Inaugural NetSquared Event: Tech for Social Good and this month saw a different format, designed to be much more interactive. There were two main speaker sessions where the group was presented with:

On March 3rd, over forty people from around Adelaide gathered together to discuss how technology can be used for social good. The Inaugural Tech for Social Good Event in Adelaide, South Australia was held as part of the global NetSquared events, which are an initiative of TechSoup Global.

Guest speakers from the Women's and Children's Hospital Foundation and #Quiz4QLD presented compelling examples of how the rise in social media has the capacity to produces amazing results for social good. During the event, tweets were sent out via our @ConnectingUp account using the #Net2ADL hashtag. Participants also tweeted as the event progressed, drawing audiences from interstate and overseas.

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