Nonprofits are typically TERRIBLE at technology and digital marketing. Can you help? We're assembling a team of community leaders to host a monthly nonprofit technology meetup in Amsterdam.
I'm Eli and 'll be visiting from Vancouver Canada to see family... but while I'm in town I'd love to meet with you to talk about how we can create a NetSquared chapter in Amsterdam. There are 105 chapters in 34 countries, but nothing in Amsterdam....yet!
Join me to drink a beer and tell me more about the local #Tech4Good community.
Hi, I’m Eli. I’m the NetSquared community manager.
TechSoup's network of global #Tech4Good meetups.
As nonprofit techies we have hard jobs.
Sometimes we’re incredibly frustrated because nobody understands us. Or we’re isolated wizards who don’t have anyone we can talk to.
As nonprofit techies we have hard jobs.
Sometimes we’re incredibly frustrated because nobody understands us. Or we’re isolated wizards who don’t have anyone we can talk to.
TechSoup’s here to help you with software donations and then supports you through our blog posts, forums, e-learning courses and webinars. But sometimes the best way to learn is face-to-face.
But ultimatley
That’s where NetSquared comes in. We hold free events for nonprofit techies across he global.
Last year our local volunteers held 825 events with 12,943 event RSVP from nonprofit staffers..
NetSquared formats: informal conversations
NetSquared formats: Hands-on help and Social Media Surgery
NetSquared formats: formal presentations and lectures
NetSquared formats: socials
Why do people participate? They want to learn and they want a community.
Why attend NetSquared events?
Community
Why attend NetSquared events?
Hands-on tech help
Social media
Email marketing
Google Adwords
Office 365 and Google Apps/G Suite
Plus website design and content management systems, fundraising, CRM and more.
Now I’ll pass to Roshani our NetSquared organizer in DC, who will talk about her experience running a #Tech4Good group and why you might want to start your own group.
Serving significant portion of society: Worldwide third sector comprised of and estimated 10+ million organizations employing a workforce of 47.6M contributing 5.9% of total GDP.
A large portion are the digitally and socially excluded. They understand the digitally and socially excluded.
Economic crisis, changes in technology and lack of in-house technology management elevate need for affordable technology solutions with appropriate context
Several factors elevate their need for help with technology: economic crisis, fast paced and confusing changes in technology (the Cloud, mobile, so many options), and it really takes solutions. How do you figure out what really works when you are an expert in mental health issues or elder care and you have no in-house IT expert on staff?
Gap exists between nonprofit needs and technology product donor capabilities
Private technology companies, it turns out, are willing to donate. They know this isn’t a market for them due to its inability to pay and its costs to serve (fragmentation, level of support needed).
Access required but context is key: local tech “know-how” and support
The contributions of many are leveraged to create “solutions” that work and are easy to share, replicate and scale – and the technology is used to develop services which promote digital inclusion aims