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SUMMARY:Austin NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup
DESCRIPTION:Who: People interested in finding the other people working on
 projects addressing real-world problems (Innovators\, Community
 Groups/Nonprofits\, Investors\, etc.)\n
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 What: Designing Environments For Social Innovation\n
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 ****\n
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 Greetings everybody\,\n
 \n
 Gordon Montgomery (@gmeta) your organizer here with a quick word
 about the next event format.\n
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 In an attempt to lift-off from the fantastic energy and feedback
 of recent events\,\n
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 this month&#039\;s event will provide a forum for Social
 Innovators\, Entrepreneurs and Technologists interested in
 contributing to the direction of future projects. Please be sure
 to read the agenda below and be prepared to participate.\n
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 Goals of the meeting:\n
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 1. Cultivate ideas for designing an environment to help
 accelerate\n
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 the development and lift-off of social-benefit Projects\n
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 The Meeting Format:\n
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 6:30pm: Open networking\n
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 1. Introductions\n
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 2. Self-organizing based on experience/expertise\n
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 3. What’s broken with the way we design\, develop and launch
 our Projects?\n
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 4. Group Presos. Volunteer reports findings back to the group.\n
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 5. Summary:\n
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 Designing an environment for community-based innovation\n
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 -- What happens if we’re wildly successful in designing an
 environment for Pro-Social Projects\n
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 -- What’s unique about our particular environment here in
 Austin as it relates to our focus?\n
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 6. Defining Net Tuesday Community Roles\n
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 7. Easy Next Steps\n
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 Participation Guidelines:\n
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 1. Inclusion.\n
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 We’re committed to making sure we approach opportunities in
 an inclusive way.\n
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 A simple rule of thumb to help maintain this value throughout the
 event is to ensure your ideas and contributions allow for a broad
 range of community participation across both the private and
 public sector\, and aren’t limited to any single
 constituency.\n
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 2. Impactful.\n
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 Does your suggestion/ideas create real social impact?\n
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 3. Achievable.\n
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 Are your suggestions achievable based on the current local
 resources\, and our existing collective capacity?\n
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 4. Teachable.\n
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 Does your suggestion allow us to ‘teach’ as we go?\n
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 5. Scalable.\n
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 Everything doesn&#039\;t need to scale\, but it&#039\;s important
 to think about scaleability as we brainstorm\, as the ultimate
 goal here is to develop a model that can be distributed to cities
 beyond Austin.\n
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 What Net Squared is bringing to the party:\n
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 * 20 years of experience serving technology needs of nonprofits\n
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 * Relationships with &gt\;35 technology companies at TechSoup
 Stock\, including Adobe\, Microsoft\, Business Objects\, etc.\n
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 * ~ 15\,000 people registered users at net2 from every
 continent\, interested in the web’s impact on civil
 society\n
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 * A committed team http://www.netsquared.... to help make this
 work a success\n
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 * Access to Organizers of Net Tuesday events in more than 20
 other cities around the globe who meet up face-to-face every
 month to work on similar problems and solutions\n
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 * Techsoup.org (site/resource) that currently reaches ~100k
 organizations via email\, community forums and a blog\n
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 Who should attend?\n
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 Innovators. Building a project that has the potential to change
 the way your industry works in addressing a real-world problem?\n
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 Masters. Have you had success building an approach to solving
 real-world problems that managed to do good by employees\, the
 local community\, and your bottom-line? We want to hear your
 stories.\n
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 If you have suggestions for speakers at this event\, or future
 events\, please send your suggestions to Billy Bicket at
 billybicket@yahoo.com.\n
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 Background.\n
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 Net Tuesday is the face-to-face event series brought to you by
 NetSquared.org.\n
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 NetSquared is an initiative of TechSoup.org\, a 501c-3 technology
 project based out of San Francisco\, CA.\n
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 Currently\, more than (21) cities are meeting up to discuss new
 ways to approach old problems.\n
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 Much needs to be learned about operating in a networked-era --
 even more needs to be discovered -- and opportunities for new
 Projects await us.\n
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 For more about NetSquared.org\, check-out the NetSquare site.\n
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 Questions? Bright ideas? Shoot. Send me an email at
 gordon@gmeta.com or connect via twitter @gmeta\n
 When: Wednesday\, September 12\, 2012 at 6:30 PM\n
 Where: Panera on Bee Caves\n
 Attendees: 1 http://plancast.com/p/a47v
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CATEGORIES:Entrepreneur,Business Strategy And Networking,NetSquared,Just Start,Meetups
LOCATION:Panera on Bee Caves
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