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Net Tuesday Organizer Team

Submitted by Amy Sample Ward on April 7, 2009 - 5:45am

Every month, the NetSquared community comes together offline at Net Tuesday events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate. These gatherings provide a chance to connect for all those interested in the intersection of social technologies and social change, whether you're part of a nonprofit organization or a for-profit organization, a funder or a consultant, a developer or an entrepreneur. Below, learn more about the local organizers powering Net Tuesdays around the world!

 



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Abidjan | Asheville | Atlanta | Austin | Beirut | Canberra | Cape Town | Charleston | Chicago | Douala | Guayaquil | Hamburg | Houston | Istanbul | Lafayette | Lome | London | Los Angeles | Melbourne | Minneapolis | Montreal | Nairobi | New Haven, CT | New Orleans |New York | Paris | Philadelphia | Phoenix | Portland, ME | Portland, OR | San Francisco | Seattle | Silicon Valley | Sydney | Triangle, NC | Traverse City | Vancouver, BC |Washington DC | Wilmington, NC

Abidjan, Cote d`Ivoire

net tuesday ivory coastYudi Emmanuel

Yudi Emmanuel owns Dixon Consult, as an enterpreneur he is mostly involved in the sale and distribution of I.T. products and services. A graduate of the University of Portharcourt Rivers, Nigeria. Worked as a marketing manager in Prime Technologies and company representative of SNL Technologies in Cote d`Ivoire. Presently Yudi is involved in the Net2 in Abidjan Cote d`Ivoire and also have motivated a lot of young Africans to join the enterpreneur movement where many young Africans are encouraged to start up business by sharing of ideas and resources.

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Cape Town, South Africa

marlon parker net tuesday cape townMarlon Parker

Marlon Parker is a Social Entrepreneur and an Information Technology Lecturer at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) since October 2000.   He obtained his Masters degree in Information Technology (Cum Laude) and is currently busy with his PhD. He is often invited by many organisations and institutions across the country and internationally as a guest speaker on ICT for Community Empowerment. Marlon also produced several research academic papers, supervises post-grad students and co-authored in a published book called "The social and economical impacts of e-commerce".   His passion for community development has influenced his research interests and he is currently working on a project titled "Using ICT as a change agent to empower citizens in a Community in Tension (CiT)" of which the Advice Support Network was birthed.  He recently made the Mail and Guardian list for the Top 300 Young South Africans and he is the organiser of the NetTuesday Cape Town Meetup.

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Chicago, IL, USA

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Jean Russell

Jean Russell, founder of Nurture.biz, is a certified NLP Coach. Jean is dedicated to restructuring institutions so as to bring out the best in humans. She has worked with grassroots co-ops and traditional corporations alike, helping them understand how communicating, fundraising, and publishing can be redesigned to embrace human values like warmth, clarity, and faith in others' potential and good will.

Jean has facilitated social benefit conferences, cooperating with colleagues in fields ranging from technology (esp social media), to philanthropy, currencies, green/sustainable design, community development, international development, and human rights. Jean co-founded Inspired Legacies, Guildsmiths LLC, and Navigator's Guild.  

She also sits on the board for Catalytic Communities, advises the wagn.org project, and co-organizes Chicago Net Tuesdays.

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 justin massa net tuesday chicago

Justin Massa

Justin's time is split between NetSquared.org (where he is the Program and Technical Coordinator) and MoveSmart.org (where he is the executive director)). MoveSmart.org, which he co-founded, is a start-up organization dedicated to fostering vibrant and diverse neighborhoods by empowering housing seekers through technology to move to opportunity. Justin is a member of the National Advisory Board of  NeighborScapes, the Reader's Bureau of the  Chicago Reporter, and the Program Committee of the  Community Media Workshop. He is also a co-convener of  Chicago Net Tuesdays  and helps organize  Illinois Data Exchange Affiliates.

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 Kara Carrell net tuesday chicago

Kara Carrell

Kara is an active member of the Chicago Tech community, seeking a Social Media role within an organization that appreciates the convergence of Technology, Communications, and Social Justice. She is the consummate early adopter who is obsessively up-to-date on emerging technologies and tools in the Social Media space. She is an advocate for Community engagement among companies and their customers, as an integrated element of everyone's position within an organization.

In other capacities in her life, Kara works as a Board Member, Community organizer, and Dog Owner. She is also an avid participant in game nights, and Team Trivia. She hopes one day to own a Cereal Bar, named Cerealmente.

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Douala, Cameroon

net tuesday douala cameroon africaValery Colong

Colong has a first degree in Physics with a minor in Computer Science at the University of Buea, Cameroon. He is also a Sun Certified Java Programmer(SCJP6.0) and has been working on computer systems since 2004. His current job involves Administering Ubuntu Systems at IVERMAX Co. Ltd.

Colong is a computer aficionado and likes everything techie. His farming experience and his involvement with computers, inspired his contributions to the AMISPROJECT (N2Y4 featured) and his aspiration to help combat the difficulties of cameroonian farmers.

His key areas of interest include Community building, helping society's undeserved, networking, programming, animation, and compositing. Lately, he joined the NetSquared community, serving as a co-organiser for the Douala NetTuesday to continue his work on community building and expanding the NetSquared community in Cameroon.

Other projects he aspires to include: Open Source Movement for Africa(OSMA), Akoh'den Animation Studio, Academia, Common Hygiene Malpractice(CHM), Health Catalogue, Planet in Peril and You: The mind set.

During his spare time, you can find him watching movies, programming, reading technology books or admiring nature's gifts.

His fervent desire is that one day he'd be knighted and be called Sir Nyiwung Valery Colong.

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Asama Abel Excel

Founding President and CEO of i-Vission International; an International NGO with headquarters in Douala Cameroon. The mission of the organisation is to empower computer literacy and break the digital divide between the North and the South.

Graduate, holder of a Certificate on Conflict Analysis from the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and Information System Engineer by profession.   Held many key functions for many years including: Administrative Assistant and Translator with the United Nations (MINURCA), Manager of World Business Consulting...

Present organizer of the Douala Netsquared Meetup and is extending the network nation wide.  

Excel is convinced that we are in the information age, and whosoever is not informed is deformed. He is   motivated and dedicated in empowering people with the ICT. He has organized many seminars, workshops, radio and TV programs on ICT, written books including, "i-Power (Getting the best out of the internet)" and "7 Keys to Successful Building."

His top priority for 2009/2010 is to setup a network in Cameroon, to combat cyber crimes.   Any one updated in this issue is free to contact him for future collaboration.   In a nut shell, Excel will like to meet new people and organisations who have the ambition to live in a more secure and just world, and possess the required passion to make it happen.

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Houston, TX, USA

maggie mcdonald net tuesday houstonMaggie McDonald

Maggie McDonald is a Public Relations and Operations Gal at Schipul The Web Marketing Company (www.schipul.com) and loves nothing more than helping and teaching others. She is a graduate from the University of Houston and a former wedding planner so she rocks a crazy combination of event planning, public relations and technology skills. The best thing about her job at Schipul is that it allows her to plan events and execute strategies online geared towards pushing amazing people and their projects into the spotlight.

Maggie's favorite books are Twilight and PR 2.0. She loves playing on her computer with her cat on her lap and some loud music coming from her speakers. When she's not geeking out, she's probably attempting to save the world with her ninja skills or drinking boxed wine. Little known Maggie fact? She used to play the Tuba. Check out her blog (www.magsmacncheese.com) and friend her on Twitter at twitter.com/magsmac for more from Maggie's brain!

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Ed Schipul net tuesday houstonEd Schipul

Ed Schipul, co-founder of the Houston NetSquared chapter, is a passionate geek, Web technologist and student of sociology with over 20 years experience in marketing and software programming.

By day, Ed is CEO of Schipul - The Web Marketing Company (www.schipul.com) a Web design, marketing, software and Social Media consulting firm with the vision of Doing Good.  His firm works with over 400 organizations, both for profit and non profit, most of whom are empowered online with Schipul’s membership management software Tendenci (www.tendenci.com). 

By night, Ed is a fanatic supporter of the arts, avid reader and is working on one heck of a cool robot with his sons at home. 

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jason

Jason McElweenie

Jason studied web and graphic design in his home country of Canada and shortly after arriving in Texas on business met his wife Tiffany. A man of varied interests, Jason produces a monthly music podcast (Low End Theory), is an avid photographer and is an active member of the  Houston chapter  of non profit technology organization  NetSquared.

Thanks to his Canadian heritage, Jason spells words funny (some might say 'correctly'), loves Stompin' Tom, Poutine and hockey. Jason can usually be found off the beaten path with cameras in tow when not in the office playing with search engines.




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Istanbul, Turkey

Aysegul Guzel Net Tuesday IstanbulAysegul Guzel

Aysegul Guzel is a dreamer, thinker, listener, action taker, social entrepreneur, strategic and innovation consultant. She just moved from Barcelona to Istanbul, to launch her new web page: an innovative sharing platform which uses time banking & social media. She is eager to start her new life by doing additionally an empathic research project to discover opportunities to provide economic and social development in Turkey. She is planning to start NetSquared meetings in Istanbul on February 2010.

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Lafayette, LA, USA

mike baldwin net tuesday lafayetteMike Baldwin

Mike Baldwin is an IT professional and video editor residing in Lafayette, Louisiana. He is currently completing his AAS in Network Technologies at Louisiana Technical College. Mike started attending the NetSquared New Orleans meetings in December 2008 and decided to start a Lafayette chapter in September 2009. In the past, he has worked as a Systems Administrator for a nonprofit community access television station and presently edits video for the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Department. In his spare time, Mike enjoys playing and listening to music, creating podcasts with friends,  and photography.

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Lomo, Togo

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Olivier Kumedjro

I am a telecommunication engineer and computer system support specialist by profession. I'm also a co-founder and chair man of the non profit organization called Strategie D'Actions Pour L'Integration et le Developpement, which aims to demystify and promote the use of ICT for youth especially for the deprived people (craftsmen). This is to initiate the youth to the good use of ICT.

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London, United Kingdom

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Amy Sample Ward

Amy is dedicated to supporting and educating nonprofits and the progressive social change sector about evolving technologies that cultivate and engage communities.   She is NetSquared's Global Community Builder and organizes the London Net Tuesday group.

She has worked in social media with the nonprofit sector for over six years and has a background in New Media Journalism.   Her work focuses on strategies that ignite and empower communities, collaboration, and conversation via technology.   Amy has spoken at conferences, workshops, and training days in the US and the UK and hosts a blog on nonprofit technology.

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Melbourne, Australia

jasmin melbourneJasmin Tragas

Jasmin lives in Melbourne with her husband and three young children. She writes about using social media to make a difference on her blog Wonderwebby, and has raised money as a volunteer this way for Opportunity International Australia (microfinance for the Philippines) and for Tweetsgiving. Jasmin works part time at IBM as a marketing manager and has a background leading online projects for advertising and training purposes. She is passionate about innovative technology and is a member of IBM's Technical Experts Council. She also has a strong interest in the arts and community cultural development, and is a member of the Advisory Committee for the VCA Centre of Cultural Partnerships (Melbourne Uni.)

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Montreal, QC, Canada

peter deitz montreal net tuesdayPeter Deitz

Peter Deitz is a blogger, social media consultant, and the founder of Social Actions -- a website that helps people find and share opportunities to make a difference. He has worked in the nonprofit technology sector for the last 5 years and is based in Montreal, Quebec.

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Nairobi, Kenya

David Kandie

My name is David Kandie, the NetSquared Organizer in Nairobi Kenya. I work for a Social Non-profit known as KickStart (www.kickstart.org). I also volunteer in helping rural women set up sustainable businesses in the areas of micro-irrigation, tailoring etc. I do this by linking them to funding opportunities, registration and training. Five years ago I studied Bachelor of Mathematics major and later joined KickStart to do Monitoring & Evaluation. I later joined IT department as a Data/Business Analyst and Business Change Professional.

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New Haven, CT, USA

 J.R. Logan net tuesday New Haven

J.R. Logan

J.R. is currently the Director of New Media Strategies for United Way's New Media Partnership of United Way of Greater New Haven and United Way of Coastal Fairfield County. In this role he works to foster an organizational culture of knowledge and learning that empowers employees to effectively participate in online and new media outreach activities.

J.R.'s work includes: web 2.0, online video, e-mail marketing, online communities, web advertising, content management and web analytics. In this role J.R. has provided advice and assistance to several nonprofits interested in new media and has presented best practices for nonprofits in various forums. Previously J.R. severed as Director of Leadership Giving, responsible for cultivating stronger relationships with major donors. Prior to joining United Way of Greater New Haven he completed United Way of America's Community Fellows program. JR holds a masters of Public Affairs from Indiana University, a Certificate in Fundraising Management from the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University and an undergraduate degree in political science from Alma College. J.R. has been recognized in the New Haven Business Times: 40 Under Forty.

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New Orleans, LA, USA

Damien LaManna

I am a recent transplant to New Orleans from Washington, D.C. by way of Buffalo, New York, my hometown. In ole Washington I went to grad school for political communications and worked for a public affairs firm doing online advocacy and had the great pleasure to be a member of the D.C. Net2. I came to Nola to take a position as the Digital Media Director for Morgan + Company, a local communications/marketing agency. It didn't take me long to see what a vibrant burgeoning tech and social entrepreneurial community this town had so Net2NO was a perfect fit. In less than one year, we are over 250 members proud and continue to grow.

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Paris, France

camilla burg wiser earth net tuesday parisCamilla Burg

Camilla Burg is new to Net2 having just launched the first Wiser Tuesday group in Paris (a collaboration between Netsquared and WiserEarth). She was born and raised in the North of England. She has lived in London, Sydney and San Francisco where she has worked as a marketing professional in the technology, finance and nonprofit sectors. She has spent the past 3 years working as a communications and outreach consultant with WiserEarth an international directory and social networking website that brings together sustainability and nonprofit professionals. She is now based in St Germain en Laye, just outside Paris where she gets to imbibe local café culture while working on some fantastic projects.

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Philadelphia, PA

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Seth Horwitz

At 52, I'm older than most Net Tuesday organizers and enthusiasts, and I've gotten here through a different path… In terms of passion, I was asleep until 1976 when, as a junior at Penn State, I wandered into the "Free University" (which I later directed). The Free U was a student organization through which anybody (town or gown) could offer a course in anything, and we acted as the neutral facilitators to schedule rooms, register people (if desired), publish a catalog, etc. We had 100 courses/quarter, from anthropology to arthropod cuisine (eating bugs). This opened up my eyes to the fact that ANY community has a tremendous wealth of resources, but very limited ways to reveal and share those resources. And, more importantly, that helping people to connect to one another based upon what they find personally meaningful is a radical and profound role that I want to play in my life.

Fast forward. After working and living with Movement for a New Society in the early 80's, I got a Masters in Library and Information Science (Drexel). Then, as a Reference Librarian in a suburban public library (Ridley Twp., PA), I started a "learning network". Patrons could declare a desire to learn, teach or share something (anything). Then I cataloged these interests and interfiled them in the card catalog (remember card catalogs?). Again, the community's hidden resources came to the surface. My favorite: a lonely woman from Quebec invited people to lunch to practice their French.

Fast forward. After 17 years(!) at Telebase (an online information company), I started CommuniShare in 2002, an early social networking experiment, now defunct (http://communishare.org/communishare). Since 2005, I've had a long-term consulting gig with the American Friends Service Committee (http://afsc.org), working on knowledge management and online collaboration for peace and social justice activists around US and the world.

So, I've been passionate about social networking since well before it was popularized by Web 2.0 capabilities. Years ago, I could hardly find anyone who shared my interest; nowadays, I'm trying to keep up with the technical tsunami that has made it ubiquitous.

On the personal side, I'm married to a molecular biologist turned high school science teacher (http://mscearce.edublogs.org). I have a 19 daughter at Hampshire College, who's into making political documentary films (http://hhspeaking.blogspot.com). And I have a 16 year old son with autism and mental retardation. I enjoy hiking, good food, conversation and Tolkien.

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Portland, ME, USA

alex steed net tuesday portlandAlex Steed

Alex Steed has lived in Portland, Maine, which has more or less been his base for 8 years. He has lived in Burlington, Vermont, Boston, Massachusetts, and Brooklyn, New York in the past handful of those years, but Maine keeps calling him back.  

Steed has worked for or with Change.org, The Democratic Party, The Point, NetSquared, and a couple of handfuls of amazing local and national nonprofits. Between October and December of 2008, he traveled to over 30 cities throughout the United States as a part of a self-initiated research tour to find out what the hell this so-called Millennial Generation is and how they are using the Internet to affect social change. The tour changed his life.

In the Fall Steed will be teaching a media literacy class to high school students in rural Southern Maine. In the Spring, he will be co-teaching a class about the history and methodologies of Internet activism with Professor Dusan Bjelic at the University of Southern Maine.  

He graduated with a degree in political philosophy from the University of Southern Maine and he thanks the Universe daily that - even after doing something so seemingly foolish - he is able to find a jobs.

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Portland, OR, USA

anna richter nten portland net tuesdayAnna Richter

Anna supports the nonprofit technology community as the Program Manager at the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN), where she coordinates online trainings and the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference. Prior to NTEN, Anna served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras, working as the Director of a local non profit, Guaruma, focusing on environmental education through computer and photography training. Through working with technology in the developing world, Anna gained a true appreciation for the power it can have when used for good.

She connected with the NPTech community in Portland through the NTEN 501 Tech Club and began collaborating with the PDX Net Tuesday group on a few events, and now helps coordinate joint events. In a new effort, the groups have been working with Day On, trying to bring together the strong geek and nonprofit communities in Portland.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

sarah kennon net tuesday san franciscoSarah Kennon

Sarah has explored the power of words and images to tell stories, build community and inspire action throughout her professional life. Since 1997, she has led and worked with teams of individuals to vision and create online experiences across diverse industries.

Most recently, Sarah has been providing experience strategy & design consulting for mission-driven social enterprises including NetSquared, Skoll Foundation, Social Capital Market conference and DreamBank, amongst others. Prior to that, Sarah was Senior Vice President of Product Development at FORA.tv, a leader in smart video online. At FORA.tv Sarah was responsible for building and leading the team that re-designed the site to its current experience. FORA.tv was named one of the Top 50 best websites 2009 by TIME and a Top Educational website by the London Telegraph.

In her early career, Sarah worked in video, public television and theatre production at WGBH-TV Boston, Massachusetts, KNME-TV, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Sanborn-Perillo in Manhattan and the White Barn Theatre in Westport, Connecticut. Sarah has performed with The Bread & Puppet Theatre, is a certified yoga teacher, and a nationally exhibited artist.

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Seattle, WA, USA

Jessica Dally

Jessica Dally splits her time between working four jobs and volunteering for two nonprofits.   Her primary position is working the help desk at Community Voice Mail where she also acts as CVM's Second Life guru.

Jessica works with Tech Soup Global in their Second Life presence helping to manage and maintain their different Islands and bring other nonprofits into the vibrant world of Second Life.   On top of that she's currently training to become a motorcycle safety instructor and often teaches canning and cheese making classes all over the city of Seattle.

For unpaid employment Jessica is the founder and executive director of Seattle Free School, an educational nonprofit that operates without cash donations of any kind from anyone ever. She keeps busy managing the school, teaching classes, finding and mentoring volunteers, getting press for free and getting classes arranged for the approximately 1200+ people on the email listserve.   She thinks the most interesting part of Seattle Free School is figuring out how to make things work for free.   Thus far the school has been in virtually all print publications in the city of Seattle.   Not bad for having no marketing budget!

Finally Jessica coorganizes Seattle Net Tuesdays.   When she's not doing all this she's usually out riding her motorcycle on the street or in the dirt, going to concerts, hanging out with friends or just sleeping.

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sarah schacht seattle net tuesdaySarah Schacht

Sarah Schacht is a political entrepreneur who searches for simple technology solutions to complex social problems. Eagerly involved in politics from an early age, she's been a conservative and a liberal, working for a range of causes and campaigns. In 2003, she left college to work on Howard Dean's presidential campaign, working in New Hampshire, Dean's national headquarters, Iowa, and Washington State. She specialized in youth outreach, crafting technical plans, online organizing, and field work.

In 2004, she was one of the youngest delegates to the Democratic National Convention, and in 2005 she interned for Congressman Jay Inslee's office, where she researched the the communications technology systems within Congress. Returning home to Washington State, she founded Knowledge As Power, a 501c3 nonpartisan organization which provides Washingtonians online tools to track legislation on any issue and communicate effectively with their legislators. Sarah is a 2008 Echoing Green Semi-Finalist, a Sunlight Foundation grantee, and a contributor to O'Reily's upcoming open government book.

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Silicon Valley, CA, USA

justine lam net tuesday silicon valleyJustine Lam

Justine Lam is the Internet Strategist at the Myelin Repair Foundation. She spreads awareness and interest in myelin repair and MRF's research model, engages supporters, activates them as volunteers and expands MRF's grassroots donor base through the application of new media strategies.

Prior to joining MRF, Justine was responsible for spearheading the Ron Paul presidential campaign's online efforts. Her decentralized online strategies empowered and encouraged supporters to self-organize and generate an extensive web presence to spread the candidate's message which encouraged a community of support that led to the ground-breaking fundraising achievements in 2007.

Justine is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in Development Studies.

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Syndey, Australia

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Patrick Kelso

Patrick Kelso is the Director of Communications and Promotions for Engineers Without Borders New South Wales. Patrick has held that role since June 2008. With over 10 years experience in information technology & communications, including several years experience in online communications & web 2.0 technologies, Patrick has a wealth of knowledge in empowering communication and collaboration for little or no expense. In 2008 Patrick was elected to Ashfield Council and has used his position to encourage the entire Council organisation to adopt electronic papers and communications as the standard to reduce paper usage and looks forward to productivity increases as a result.

Currently in the process of starting his own business helping Third Sector organisations leverage their current IT assets for greater deeds and strategically planning the next steps in their IT and Communications plan. It is not unknown for Patrick to speak with an organisations marketing manager before the IT manager to find out what they want. For the past four years Patrick has worked at EMC ² in working with several of EMCs flagship document and information management products.

When not at work, a council meeting or out shouting the Engineers Without Borders tune, Patrick can be found reading a book (usually on his PDA [nerd]), gardening, dancing, drinking (responsibly of course), playing with his son, (you'd think he'd be bored of the swings by now) & putting silly comments in brackets after each sentence fragment(no really!).

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simon hilton net tuesday sydenySimon Hilton

Simon likes to see good things happen.

In his role as the Marketing Technology Manager at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, this means making sure that JDRF's direction is aided by effective technology and process. The key to good technology is its application. It is this focus that drives Simon to implement change that is relevant and allows people to focus on real human outcomes.  

Simon has been working in the web technology industry for the last 10 years with major telcos, web agencies and the Vanuatu government.

When Simon isn't working on bettering where he is he is trying to better himself by through reading, running and meditating.

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Triangle, NC, USA

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Judy Hallman

My Interests: Online communities, Drupal, CiviCRM, helping to provide online instructions. I retired from UNC-Chapel Hill ITS in 1999 after 32 years service. When I retired, I was campus Webmaster. Now I work mostly as a volunteer with RTPnet.org. I started working with RTPnet in 1989.

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Paula Jones

Paula Jones is the technology director at the N.C. Center for Nonprofits. She interned at the Center while she attended N.C. State University, where she graduated cum laude and received a BS in biological sciences and science education. Paula taught high school in Raleigh for three years before returning to the Center in 2003. With her love of science and all things analytical, she enjoys administering the Center's information technology. Paula has more than 7 years of experience in website development, database management, and network administration. She serves as an organizer for the Research Triangle NetTuesday and the Triangle 501 Tech Club.

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Traverse City, MI, USA

David Krumlauf

I'm a born and raised Michigander. Graduated from University of Michigan in 1973, taught high school science in Australia for 7 years and ran the Astronomy Education Center at the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope for 3 years - watch the movie "The Dish". I've been an owner of 2 ISP businesses in Traverse City, MI. We started the first dialup ISP business here back in 1994. I spent a lot of time teaching people what the Internet was and how to use it. In 2000 we started a microwave MMDS ISP business to reach the outlying areas. After selling the last business in 2006 I did local IT consulting then in 2007 I helped my longtime friend Denis Pierce start his foundation.

I'm married to the lovely and talented Joan D'Argo, am a very proud grandfather of the cutest granddaughter of all time Jade Lynn Krumlauf. My son Zeb and his wife Melinda live nearby which is a real blessing.

Joan and I live in an intentional community just north of Cedar, MI on an 88 acre farm with a 6 acre vineyard. We built our dream home 4 years ago and couldn't be happier. It's a green-built, Energy Star rated home with straw clay walls, solar hot water system and amazingly energy efficient.

I am the Chief Technologist at the Pierce Family Charitable Foundation. I do IT planning and implementation for 7 Chicago-based NPOs focused on homelessness. They are all wonderful, kind, loving people doing amazing work. It is a real pleasure and privilege helping them fulfill their missions.

Traverse City has a lot of small NPOs that are doing great work but could use some help. Being connected to the NPO and technology world made NetSquared a natural fit for me. There is already a talented, diverse membership. There is a very strong sense of community here. A lot of people have been working on local issues together for many, many years. This made my job of pulling people together for the NetSquared group an easy and fun task.

I love my job! I have made so many terrific people through NTEN and the Chicago NetSquared group. I am impressed daily with the information sharing and help that the NPTech community provides. It is truly an honor to be part of this amazing group of people.

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Vancouver, BC, Canada

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Elijah van der Giessen

 

Eli fell in love with volunteers in 2000, and has been working to build community ever since.

He'll take any title: Production Manager, Tour Director, Volunteer Wrangler, Wagon Master, Outreach Coordinator... even "Marketer"...just as long as he gets to hang out with enthusiastic people who are working together on a project because of a consuming passion.

Lately Eli has been assisting the David Suzuki Foundation with their online campaigns and community development.  The internet is fun!

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Washington, DC, USA

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Gabriela Schneider

I am the Communications Director of the Sunlight Foundation, a non-partisan non-profit dedicated to catalyzing greater government transparency using the power of the Internet. Prior to joining the Sunlight Foundation, I was the Media Relations Manager for the Council on Foundations, where I secured media coverage for the philanthropic sector. Previously, I organized grass roots campaigns for the Public Policy Office of the American Psychological Association and worked to protect children's online privacy as Senior Policy Analyst for the Center for Media Education. I earned my Masters of Arts in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and my Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Lehigh University.

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Matt Stempeck

Matt Stempeck is the New Media Director at Americans for Campaign Reform (http://youstreet.org). He graduated from the University of Maryland with High Honors, where he wrote his thesis on the role of blogs in the evolution of political journalism. At EchoDitto, Matt leveraged cutting edge technologies to empower online communities and create lasting offline change on behalf of Americans for Campaign Reform, the SEIU, Seventh Generation, GeniusRocket, and Brighter Planet. Matt has also worked as a Production Assistant for OnPoint, a groundbreaking webcast program and Capitol Hill's leading source of energy and environmental news. Matt co-hosts the popular monthly NetSquared event in Washington, DC that brings together innovators from the tech and nonprofit worlds.

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Wilmington, NC, USA

net tuesday wilmington ncSean Watson

Sean Watson is a consultant with netCorps, a 501c3 nonprofit founded in 1996 that has provided technology planning, assistance, and support to hundreds of environmental, social justice, and community-based organizations. He provides technology assessments and coaching to support organizations in being more effective at meeting their mission. He also does design, analysis, and implementation of complete website and database solutions, as well as network infrastructure installation and maintenance. He graduated from UNCW with a BS in Computer Science and continues to attend seminars and trainings to stay on the bleeding edge of technology. Over 13 years in the industry, he has worked for multiple Fortune 500 companies, including Corning and GE, as well as several small businesses and nonprofits.

Sean believes in one simple equation: Technology + Citizenship = Infinite Possibilities. By empowering organizations and engaged citizens with technology solutions, he achieves all of his goals at once: be a computer nerd, save the environment, promote human rights, create world peace. My vision is a world in which we all work together to meet the challenges facing humanity in a cooperative, solution-focused, possibilities driven, powerful, and awe-inspiring way; a group of world citizens, harnessing the enormity of human potential, to create a continually better world.

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