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: Olivier Kumedjro!

Meet Rachel.

I met Rachel Weidinger nearly a year ago at N2Y3 and we've been in relatively close touch ever since. Since our initial meeting, she became the organizer of Net Tuesday San Francisco, taking over organizational duties upon Brit Bravo's departure. She's been doing a bang-up job since.

Every month, the NetSquared community comes together offline in cities around the world at Net Tuesday events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate.  There are 6 new Net Tuesdays to introduce, and I hope you'll join me in welcoming: Abidjan, Asheville, Charleston,

Joshua Glinert, a participant in the London Net Tuesday group, received a free copy of Clay Shirky's new paperback edition of "Here Comes Everybody" for his participation at Clay's London presentation in February.  He is working on a start-up project, Civic Agora, which will be a platform for collaborative deliberation and problem-solving.  Below is his thoughtful review and conversation starter from "Here Comes Everybody." Enjoy!

The New Orleans Net Tuesday is coming to SXSW and doing so with a bang!  They will be driving into town in style in a bus that will be repurposed during the event as a free shuttle for attendees.  They will be at Booth #811, with daily drawings for prizes. Plus, they're throwing an after party and you're invited!

Learn more and connect at SXSW!

Net2NO After Party

Net2NO is brining you a party at SXSW and hopes all your Net Tuesday and NetSquared community members who are in Austin will stop by.

A few months back I was forutnate to talk with Jacob Colker about his experience as cofounder (along with Ben Rigby) of The Extraordinaries. We talked specifically about what he had learned since bringing the idea to last year's Mashup Challenge (the project was then called Volunteer Now).

The next San Francisco Net Tuesday is March 10th!

Join in for a night with Tara Hunt, author of The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business. Tara's no stranger to Net Tuesdays--she first spoke in the winter of 2005.

What is the Whuffie Factor?

From Tara Hunt's blog, HorsePigCow

Seattle Net Tuesday's online membership keeps growing, and the last event was another success.  Stephen and Sarah are organizing the events and are really glad to see the steady growth amongst this network of people who use technology for good in our communities and world.  With all of this growth comes new opportunities: Do you want to help organize Seattle Net Tuesday?

These varied social media suggestions make up the third part of my on-going case study of and strategy suggestions for the United Church of Christ's social media strategy, it's attempt to resonance with young people (Millennials in particular), and its potentially forward-moving direction.

I was fortunate to spend the past week on a guest-couch belonging to Ben Rattray, founder of Change.org. At present, Change is trying to figure out what to do with all of that "now what?" energy that is surrounding post-election excitement. Also - you might have heard of this little site called Change.gov, right?