For the past 12 months or some friends of mine from the NGO web world and I have been meeting up for an informal get-together every month or two to chat about the web and social change.
The group has been growing as friends have been invited and word of mouth has worked its magic, but at the last meetup there was a bit of a discussion about expanding the network and spreading the word a bit further.
In Sydney, the group will be meeting the first Tuesday of each month at The Rose in Chippendale (on Cleveland Street, near City Road). That means the next meetup is on Tuesday night (6pm kick-off in the front bar). The topic this month is “Social media and government”.
If you’re working for an NGO or on a project related to social change and the web, or interested in meeting folks who are, come down and join us there.
(We’re in the process of creating a blog to announce meetings and extend the discussions beyond the Facebook group – I’ll post more on that once it’s up and running.)
Hey Grant…I missed the May get together but def keen for future gatherings.
BTW..are you or anyone you know going to ‘Connecting Up in Brissie? http://connectingup.org/
Cheers,
Nigel
Hi Nigel – great to hear from you.
I hadn’t heard about the Connecting Up conf, but I’m at the Web Directions South Gov’t conf/workshop those days anyways. If you’re going, ‘twould be great to get see your writeup…
Sure thing…happy to provide write-up.