The Washington DC NetSquared May Meetup

Join our monthly convergences where we talk about the future intersection of tech innnovation and social change. Social changemakers and technological forerunners come to the DC NetSquared meetup to mix, swap stories and ideas, and build new relationships.

This month, JEFF REGEN, Vice President of Online Marketing & Communications at Defenders of Wildlife, will start us off by talking about Defenders' recent success with an innovative use of online petitions---an Earthday Virtual March that brought in over 100,000 signatures in a relatively short period of time. http://www.earthdayvi...

ROSALYN LEMIEUX of MoveOn.org will join the conversation with comparisons from MoveOn's recent Virtual March to End Genocide in Darfur, which also gathered over 102,000 supporters. http://political.move...

Both speakers will help us kick off a conversation about the future of petitions as a tool for online advocacy and organizing, and hopefully inspire ideas for other ways that petitions could be used to benefit nonprofit causes.

Also, our FIRST ROUND OF DRINKS is sponsored by Beaconfire! http://www.beaconfire...

Beaconfire Consulting is a technology consulting firm that works exclusively with nonprofits in the evaluation, design and implementation of Internet technology.

For more information, see http://www.netsquared...