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Douala, Cameroon
Washington, DC
Montreal, QC
Find out if there is a Net Tuesday in your city, or start your own!
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Network Neutrality and Nonprofits
Tech Soup, the "mother" of NetSquared, has just launched a Net Neutrality toolkit to help you get more info. about both sides of the issue. You can also discuss Net Neutrality in the Tech Soup forums.
if you are for Net Neutrality, Save the Internet, has lots of actions you can take as well as a map that tell you which Senators are for or against Net Neutrality.
A Wiki to Talk about Wikis
In preparation for, and as part of Tech Soup's Wikis and Nonprofits online event, they've set up a wiki where you can ask Adam Frey of Wikispaces questions before the event, and experiment with using a wiki.
You can also hear Adam on the NetSquared Conference panel, "Hey, Teacher, Leave Those Kids Alone: The Decentralization of Expertise and the Creation of Community Knowledge Bases," on the NetSquared podcast.
Susan Tenby & Salvador Luna Talk about Second Life & Tech Soup
Want to know more about how TechSoup is working in Second Life, and how they produced the "mixed-reality" Net Tuesday that took place in Second Life and in San Francisco? Check out David Collin's interview on the NetSquared podcast with Tech Soup's Online Community Manager, Susan Tenby, and Salvador Luna, Desktop Support at CompuMentor.
Photo by Beth Kanter
Learn How to Use Social Networking Applications in Your Nonprofit
Just a reminder that April 19th and 20th Tech Soup will be hosting a free, two-day online event about Using Social Networking Applications at Your Nonprofit.
The discussion will be hosted by Chris Law, co-founder of Tribe.net, Neal Gorenflo, Director of Business Development for Care2Connect.com, Alex Mouldovan, founder of CrowdFactory.com and John Lorance, Associate Director of CompuMentor's TechCommons program, and will feature representatives from LinkedIn.com, Gather.com and others.
You'll learn stuff like how to promote your organization's services through a social networking application and how an online social network can help your organization find volunteers and raise funds.
Net2Builders Call to Action: Online Event & Social Web Tools Survey
Every Wednesday I post a Call to Action on our Net2Builders group and to the Net2 blog so check it out, and answer the call!
Tech Soup is going to be hosting a free, two-day online event called,"Using Social Networking Applications" April 19th and 20th at http://www.techsoup.org/fb/index.cfm?fuseaction=forums.showSingleForum&forum=2033&cid=117
. I've posted more info. below.
