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Community Call meeting notes: May 30 2013

Last week's community call was really productive. Thanks to all *17* attendees (you know who you are!) who shared their insights on the NetSquared organizer guide and the recently published digital storytelling event guide.

**WHAT'S NEXT?**

Next call in early May. I will circulate a doodle poll next week.

Topics to be discussed:

* NetSquared Contract and Guide
* Digital Storytelling events and the the future of doing events simultaneously across the network
* The future of the Global Leadership Council and regional Leadership

**WHAT WE DISCUSSED**

**Organizer contract and guide**

NetSquared Contract and Guide
http://goo.gl/Eyy7r - please add your notes!
Next steps: hands up if you’d like to join a team to update the mission statement and build a strategic plan for Net2 local (not NetSquared.org)
People are okay with the 4/year frequency
Sarah: monthly is BEST! (Eli agrees)
Digital Storytelling events and the the future of doing events simultaneously across the network
Kind of amazing. TSG is abuzz
8 of 11 tweet chats were Net2 local organizers
10 events with ~ 360 attendees
Future events
3 months ahead SVP
Generally folks are keen
Social Media Week
Eli to send over proposal to list
Future shared events
Online fundraising tools
Social media for nonprofits
Software evaluation - get hands-on with a vendor
How do organizers feel about vendor demos
need to have an educational component / can’t be sales-y
TSG can help make these vendor connections
hands-on demos needed!
Impact report
How is the data collected
We need to STANDARDIZE to do data collection (Sheetal)
all attendees are surveyed after each event
they have templates and guides
part of the funding relationship with Foundation
they have staff and interns!
Sharing your events
Portland: Audio and slides synced up - then tapped out!
Interviews with Net2 organizers okay
Needs to be short: 10 minutes
Template of questions (audio or written)
Organizer interviews - annually? - Net2 organizer profiles used to happen on blog
NEED: clearer guide for events.
Ivan okay with more guidance, but doesn’t need it himself
Hannah - need to identified the prefered - overwhelmed by the options.
pictures, impact stories, # of volunteer hours, etc. 
see example from Startup Weekend (.pdf): http://goo.gl/M7ouK
Next steps?
ask for your story of impact from community member
share your BEST photos!
should we estimate # of volunteer hours?
How we can communicate more effectively
weekly updates from Eli on events, blog posts, etc.
Regional lists?
twice-monthly Google+ hangout
Net2 organizers - crosspost on site
short meetings on specific topics
repeat for time zones.
Hanah - google group
digest: clearer subject lines. No fluffy intros.


**KEY LINKS**

* [Organizer's contract](http://goo.gl/1V4x5)
* [Organizer's guide](http://goo.gl/Eyy7r)
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P.S. If you like to see things *raw* you can check out the live, [collaborative notes](http://goo.gl/Ou2m2) in google drive.

Anything else I missed?