This is Amy Sample Ward's slide deck for the Ignite Sessions at 09NTC (http://nten.org/ntc) - Local is the new Global. NetSquared's Net Tuesday events and Challenges.

1. Amy Sample Ward Global Community Builder, NetSquared Local is the new Global http://netsquared.org/09ntc

2. What is NetSquared?

3. What is NetSquared? Content Community Challenges

4. What’s a Challenge?

8. Global vs Local Image: cafepress

9. The New Localism

10. How does local work? • Start a Net Tuesday • Host a local Challenge • Collaborate with Projects to localize their work

11. Why Net2 local? Local Context: Provides you with a clear lens into the local problems and the people, partners, organizations, and funders committed to developing local solutions.

12. Local Solutions

13. Where can I find a Net Tuesday?

14. What happens at a Net Tuesday? • Learn about social tech + social change • Find others interested in your ideas & projects • Find out what others are working on locally • Plan, prepare and launch efforts to find innovative local projects (hack days, Challenges, etc.)

15. Net Tuesday + Challenges

16. What’s your next Challenge? • What’s your problem? • Who do you want submitting ideas? • How will you decide which ideas to pick? • How do you move forward?

17. Let’s change the world

18. How do we keep this conversation going? Let’s connect: you, me, and everyone else! netsquared.org/09ntc

19. How do we keep this conversation going? Connect with your local Net Tuesday group! netsquared.org/share/meetup

20. Thank you! I really appreciate you giving me five minutes of NTC famousness  netsquared.org/09ntc