Welcome to our first NetSquared Regional Ambassadors call!
We’ll be holding quarterly calls during this year (September 2013 – June 2014)

When: Monday, September 16. Noon PST (find your local time with time.is)
Where: Google+ hangout: http://j.mp/14MzYFX

Meeting notes: September 16 2013 meeting notes

Intro

• I’m Eli!
• Sheetal intros (has to leave meeting early)
• Quick intros by Ambassadors and TSG staff.

Include those who couldn’t attend, and include Glenn and Alicja and Joyce.

Eli gives background on the Regional Ambassador pilot

• history in Global Leadership Council
• 1 year pilot – we will be evaluating whether it works.
• Limited # of regions initially, but will offer additional support via TSG staff

Expectations

What is this gig? 🙂

• attend quarterly calls
• attend gathering in Washington. Book off the week of March 10, 2014.
  • Ensure you have traveling documents in good order.
• Outreach to organizers in your region by email, chat, video call, etc. (monthly)
  • see discussion below on what outreach will look like.
• Completion of six question evaluation survey (monthly)
• Be lead organizer for Net2camp event
  • Regional net2 organizers invited to participate (some travel support available)
• Identify and support new Net2 organizers in your region

How we can support you

• Eli to send you monthly prompt with suggestions for outreach to your organizers
• We’ll cover all expenses for March trip to Washington, DC and NTC admission
• Priority access to education and travel bursary fund
  • We want you to attend nonprofit tech conferences, events and trainings. We want you out there learning and recruiting and building your reputation!
  • $1,000+ set aside for each Net2 Ambassador. Funds need to be approved by TSG. Process to follow.
• Financial support for holding regional NetSquared Camp

We estimate that this should take about five hours/month on average (March and your Net2camp will be the exception!)

What does mentorship and outreach look like?

The big questions of this pilot are: does peer mentorship work for Net2 organizers and if so what kind of mentorship and support?

• More frequent low-touch outreach vs. heavy outreach
• face-to-face vs virtual

See our goals in the evaluation outline.

Documenting outreach
How do we keep a record by make things REALLY easy?

Suggestion:
I set us up with a shared Highrise CRM account. You just need to add a BCC address when you email and organizer and the note will be automatically added to their record.

How will we communicate?

• this wiki – I’ll post all core documentation here
• Email list?
  • propose a google group
  • Google+ community?
  • Facebook group?
  • other ideas?
• Quarterly chats
  • Google+ Hangout okay?
  • Conference call better? (Readytalk)
• how will we communicate status updates on the Regional Ambassadors to the Net2 organizer community?

Next Steps

Next call
Arranging a call time that will work for everyone will be next to impossible. I volunteer to take the hit next time.
Check your local time at time.is

Let’s agree on a time window and then I’ll circulate a doodle poll.

Agenda for December

• How’s your outreach going so far?
  • what works?
  • where do you need more support?
• What do you want to do when we gather in March 2014?
• Start planning Net2Camps