Your NetSquared organizers are gearing up for Social Media September, a month of social media for social good-themed events. We’ll be hosting social media surgeries for local nonprofits and community activists. Social media surgeries are informal drop-in sessions where anyone from the voluntary and community sector can come and pick the brains of our ‘surgeons’ (helpful volunteers who understand the world of Twitter, Facebook, and the rest).

As a warm-up our organizers in Manchester and Cambridge are holding surgeries this August. The event format is a lot of fun. Don’t believe me? Amanda Levinson lists four (irrefutable!) reasons you should hold a social media surgery .

Find your local #nptech tribe and consider sharing your skills as a volunteer surgeon by joining a NetSquared Local group.

August’s NetSquared Events

Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. With meetups in 50 cities there’s probably an event near you!

Tuesday, August 13

Houston, TX: Social Media Reality Check - Are you Measuring the Right Data for Engagement?
Taipei, Taiwan: PC / Web site information security: proposal for non-profit organizations
San Francisco, CA: Watch the Black Girls Code Documentary, Problem Solve w/ BGC, & Converse w/ SAP!
Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup

Wednesday, August 14

Minneapolis, MN: August #NPTech Social Club
Victoria, Canada: Growing Your Digital Fundraising — E-Blasting 101
Vancouver, Canada: Video for Nonprofits: Finding your Story

Thursday, August 15

Cambridge, UK: Social Media Surgery

Tuesday, August 20

Woodstock, VT: Social Media Surgery for Nonprofits
Adelaide, Australia: Meet the Meetups! Get the good stuff in Adelaide
Washington, DC: NetSquared Meetup
Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Abidjan NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup

Wednesday, August 21

Morrisville, NC: Get your NPTech Resources!

Tuesday, August 27

Wellington, New Zealand: Is CRM software right for yr .org? #net2welly Aug meetup

Thursday, August 29

Melbourne, Australia: Dear : integrate don’t duplicate
Manchester, United Kingdom: Social Media Surgery

Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group? We’d love to help you start a new meetup.

Event Reports

What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently? Check out the blog to keep on top of the gossip from our community.

Ben Teoh in Adelaide looks at faith and international aid.
NCTech4Good’s Judy Hallman identifies the lessons learning during their recent conference.
The power of wikipedia to drive traffic to your nonprofit was the subject of Kate Bladow’s recent event report from Baltimore.

That’s all for now. Join us next time to learn what nonprofit techies are doing in your community.

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