Ideas from Net Tuesday conference call August 20, 2009 , http://n2tuesdayorganizers.pbworks.com/Monthly-Organizer-Discussion-Calls:
- Promote interaction. Meetings are more than a presenter and slides.
- Focus on an issue and wrap tech around it. Perhaps we could have some meetings focused on a service area. For example, a few people who work with health oriented nonprofits. What are they doing with technology? What are they doing well? What do they want to do better? Other meetings on nonprofits and the arts, environmental nonprofits, churches, crisis response.... A positive side benefit would be putting people in touch with others who have very similar interests.
Possible topics:
- Recap of the 2009 NetSquared Conference: Justis Peters -- August 19 -- reschedule to September 16
- Constructing sites with WordPress: Leandra (volunteered), Nancy, Sean (NetCorps newsletters, Winter 2009, http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=49970442374&h=kCVD7&u=N5Pxg)
- Payment Processors -- how do you chose between Google Checkout, PayPal, Network for Good, ... Can you use more than one?
- How to publicize events What a news release should look like and where and how it should be sent. Post on LinkedIn, Facebook, NTEN's events calendar, Carolina Newswire: http://carolinanewswire.com/submitnews.php, dbusinessnews: http://www.dbusinessnews.com/, triangle.com, Independent Weekly (by Wednesday of the preceding week), http://www.SocialCarolina.org. http://nccommunities.org/media-list-triangle. Perhaps include something about ical/icalendar. Is there a way to feed one post into multiple sites? Perhaps also include places to hold meetings -- http://nccommunities.org/meeting-places.
- Google Wave: From UNC Support list 6/2/2009: "Wave is a complete collaboration tool that integrates email, instant messaging, web discussion boards, document management, wiki-like document editing, and social networking all in real-time, even on your iPhone and Android phones. Google is also releasing the Wave platform as open source so that anyone can run a Wave server much like we run email systems now. There is also a Wave API for building extensions like those for Firefox, and a protocol for interfacing with Wave servers so that you can write your own client. I haven't seen a technology with quite this much potential in some time and I highly encourage everyone to check it out. It is well-thought-out and quite intuitive (particularly for those users of Gmail right now). Watching the video last night, I had quite a few "that's so awesome" and "wish I had thought of that" moments. Wave is expected to be released sometime later this year.
- What resources do you use to keep informed? We could compile useful email lists, blogs, Web sites. Based on conversation about Idealware -- http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Information_Systems_Forum/message/10480 is about the third message in. In email to the organizers list 2/24/09, Sean Watson said: "You might want to also include what mailing lists are people on/should they be on. I know in Greensboro the non-profit coalition has a wonderful listserv that is highly active. Do we have one in the triangle? And what other ones might be good as well that people know about?"
- CSS: Leandra Ganko has offered to do in October or later (email message to Judy 2/10/2009)
- Overview of IT management issues
- Social Networking 101
- Sprout -- bringing widgets to the masses (reference: http://nten.org/uploads/newsletter_archive/december_2008.htm#like #14)
- Email from Trish Perkins 3/19/200:
We can think up some other stuff I can do, too. I do a blogging/keeping the folks back home prez every year for the Rotary Club's Ambassadorial Scholar program. I woundn't call it "Social Media" or "Web 2.0" or anything, but I do know quite a bit about blogging, blogging platforms, links with Flickr, links with video sites, YouTube and others.
And I've just finished giving a digital storytelling course for low-income and disabled folks.
And I like coming down to "the big city."
- Cloud computing -- what is it?
- Open source -- perhaps focused on http://www.opensourceforamerica.org/. Perhaps a panel of experts, attendees ask questions. We should be able to get panelists from Triangle Linux Users group, Red Hat, ibiblio.org -- lots of places.
- Semantic Web: Phillip Rhodes gave a presentation for TriLUG July 9, 2009. There's a description of Semantic Web and links to his slides and other resources at http://www.fogbeam.com/semantic_web.html. Also see Terry's new member comment at http://www.meetup.com/NCTech4Good/members/8547230/
- Lightning Talks: Saving Time and Money: Some tools you may have missed or forgotten. TriLUG topic for April 9, 2009
- Using a Wiki internally for documenting procedures, release documents, test plans, ... Suggested by Mike Rulison from email from David Spaulding, Sat, 24 Mar 2007.
- A source of ideas for meetings: www.p2pfoundation.net/Main_Page particularly www.p2pfoundation.net/Category:Movements which is a directory containing organizations and people like Creative Commons, NetSquared, Internet for Everone, OpenID Foundation, and many, many more.