Last month's Net Tuesday San Francisco featured Nikki Serapio, the Director of Community Marketing for Involver, talking about how nonprofits can use Involver to create a video campaign for social networks.  Chirag Shah, Special Projects Manager for Kiva.org, also spoke about Kiva's experience using Involver.

Below is a video interview with Nikki Serapio by David Collin of FI Space.  Enjoy!

The San Francisco Halloween Festival committee has enjoyed an organic community growth around the planning process for the city's October 31st celebration, but now needs help making a website. Following the closure of Castro Street last year for the annual celebration, the SF Halloween Festival committee plans to bring together all ages, all cultures, and people from SF and around the world in both free and ticketed activities and celebrations all afternoon and evening in Lot A, next to SF Giants AT&T Ballpark, and Terry Francois Boulevard.

We've got six Net Tuesdays meeting next week all over the country, and in Canada:

Austin, TX NEW!
Topic: Launch party

Chicago, IL
Topic: Pimp My Non-Profit

Houston, TX
Topic: Project LIFT Houston

For those of you who live in the San Francisco Bay Area, our next Net Tuesday San Francisco will be on August 12th and feature Tara Kirchner, Senior Marketing Manager for Yahoo! Inc.

Tara will talk about how nonprofits can use the Flickr for Good program. Flickr for Good (in partnership with TechSoup) will donate 10,000 Flickr Pro accounts to be distributed to qualifying nonprofits in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Hong Kong.

For more information, and to RSVP go to Meetup, Upcoming, and Facebook.

Photo: Tara Kirchner

 "You have to be experimental." Deb Levine, Founder, I.S.I.S., Inc.

Over fifty people showed up for Net Tuesday San Francisco on July 8th.  Our topic was, Mobilizing Generation 2.0: How Nonprofits Can Use Technology to Engage Youth, and the speakers were Ben Rigby, the Founder and Co-Executive Director of Mobile Voter, and the author of Mobilizing Generation 2.0, and Deb Levine, Founder of I.S.I.S., Inc. (Internet Sexuality Information Services).  Audio recordings of both presentations will be available in a few weeks on the NetSquared Podcast.  Our next Net Tuesday San Francisco will be on August 12th with Tara Kirchner of Flickr for Good. Below are my notes from the event.

Ben started the evening off by saying, "We're not going back to 8-Track." 

For the past couple weeks there has been a long discussion thread happening on the Net Tuesday San Francisco Meetup list serv about people wanting to form a Drupal for Good group in the Bay Area.

Joshua Wiese set up a Drupal for Good San Francisco Bay Area Google group to help get it organized.  You can join the group by clicking here, and anyone can view any of the group's activity, without joining, by clicking here.

Not in the Bay Area?  Here is a link to the Drupal for Good discussion group that anyone can join wherever they live.  You also might want to check out the Drupal Dojo.

Net Tuesday SF Vlogger, Ross Chapman, posted videos of the presentations from our February and May Net Tuesdays on NetSquared's Blip.tv Channel:

Building Nonprofit Online Community with MyBlogLog, Yahoo! Groups and Upcoming
How Nonprofits & Educators Can Use Wikis

Check 'em out and help us thank Ross for volunteering his time by giving his web site a click.

Maryrose Dunton, the Head of User Experience at YouTube, spoke to Net Tuesday San Francisco this week about the YouTube Nonprofit Program (be sure to check out the new look of their landing page).

Here are a few notes from her presentation:

The April 8th Net Tuesday San Francisco will feature The YouTube Nonprofit Program. Maryrose Dunton, the Head of User Experience at YouTube, will present. The event will be from 6-8 PM at the TechSoup/CompuMentor offices at 525 Brannan St., Ste. 300 in San Francisco.

Please RSVP on Meetup, Upcoming or Facebook.

Last month's Net Tuesday San Francisco, "Creating Successful Web Campaigns for Your Nonprofit," featured David Taylor of Radical Designs and Jon Warnow of Step It Up .

We'll be posting a recording of the session later this month on the NetSquared Podcast, but in the meantime, here are a few notes from the session.

David spoke first (pictured left). He condensed several presentations into one 15-minute one for our Net Tuesday. You can find the original presentations, with tons of useful information, at: aspirationtech.org/training/eadvocacy

"Before you create an online campaign, you have to have a campaign."

When creating an online campaign you need to:

* Define your overall campaign goals and tactics.

* Define your online campaign goals, and define how they support your overall campaign
goals and tactics.

* Identify your online campaign target.

* Identify your online audience.
He divided the people who use online tools into two categories: online activists who spread messaging via email, online communities and online actions, and field organizers who use online tools for traditional organizing activities.

* Identify your online tactics/tools. Choose your tools based on your goals.
Online tools can be used to influence decision makers, mobilize people for events, build
community, educate, raise money and build your base.

* Pick the simplest solution.

* Engage supporters in real activities that have impact.

* Ideally, your tactic/tool is part of your strategy, and will get you exposure.

* Develop a campaign calendar that places your goals and tactics on a timeline.