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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. Nail down the photo plan - will you be using Instagram? Is everyone at the conference comfortable having their photo taken?

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How Can Volunteer Coordinators Help Their Organizations Become Networked Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Swedish-Lesson - (Photo: International Federation of Red Cross/Hakan Flank/VolunteerMatch). 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.

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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. With all of your check-ins and photos, work email and online agenda checks, there''s never enough bandwidth.

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