#net2chi #MMC2011 kickoff: Stewardship and Chicago

NOTE: this month we meet on the First Tuesday, not the Second Tuesday...

#net2chi is a monthly meetup for people using technology and new media for the social good

This month we kick off the Community Media Workshop's Making Media Connections (http://communitymediaworkshop.org/mmc2011/) conference (#MMC2011) with a fishbowl conversation on Stewardship and Chicago.

Chicago is entering upon a new era: what's our role and what's our opportunity? Together we work at the forefront of community and social issues employing and advancing new media technologies and social organization. How does adopting a stance of shared, open stewardship change how we collaborate?

Organizers:

Michael Maranda (http://wrythings.net) promoting digital excellence, media & social justice through purposive community and field-building.

Heidi Massey (http://www.nonprofitconnection.wordpress.com)is a nonprofit/community benefit organization specialist. She works with organizations to help them with outreach, diversity, volunteer recruitment/management and program/leadership/staff development.

Vincent McCaskill is an IT Service Professional that consults small business and non-profits on practical and innovative ways to use technology. He also provides technology training services to the same.

Dave Chakrabarti is founding a startup! Nonprofitable.org builds Drupal / CiviCRM solutions for nonprofits (http://nonprofitable.org). Prior to this, Dave built Drupal-based websites as a project manager for the Chicago Technology Cooperative and was an internet marketing consultant.

Gordon Dymowski (http://www.gordondymowski.com) has over ten years' experience in public health community mobilization, from working on tobacco control and clean air policy to working with chemical dependency and the homeless. Currently, Gordon has shifted to the corporate side, working as social media analyst/strategist and researcher. Gordon also has over fifteen years involvement in the online realm, starting with the Prodigy BB, and currently blogs about comics, television, and pop culture at http://www.blogthispa... (http://www.blogthispal.com), and also blogs about social media and civic engagement at metroshrink.com (http://www.metroshrink.com).