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#NTCFail: When Things Don't Go as Planned (or Your Plan Stinks)

NTEN

NTCFail 2: Name Badges. This is the second year in a row that we were missing a bunch of name badges. It's kind of hard to know if you're missing 100 name badges out of 2,000, so we clearly need a new system. In addition, even when we have a name badge for you, sometimes you want to change the information.

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11 Ways to Make Conference Planning Easier

Care2

Be helpful to “future you” - Keep a working Google Doc on hand for all conference planners to provide notes and recommendations about what to improve and do differently next year. This means that you won''t be frantically scrambling to tweet what session is coming up next or that it''s lunchtime.

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Case Study: Tools for Community Engagement

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According to the Twibbon profile for TMWL, 667 users added the badge to their pictures. When it came to blogger outreach, a Google Doc was the preferred and successful tool. Epic Change used four planning tools, but much of the work was really in just two: a private Facebook group and Google Docs. Information for bloggers.

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How Can Volunteer Coordinators Help Their Organizations Become Networked Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Training could also be done virtually with videos or through shared docs on a wiki. VCs could help volunteers share milestones and accomplishments with badges, banners, or widgets that can be shared with the volunteer’s personal network. Supervised or supported service. Recruitment is just the start.

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2014 NTC Report: The Wins, The Fails, The Ideas for 2015

NTEN

We had 2,120 attendees - that''s a lot of name badges, tote bags, and "welcome to the NTC"s. We''ve heard great feedback about the ability to scan, print your badge, and head off to sessions or food or networking. It also was down for the computers at registration (though not the badge printers!). Talk about generosity.

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