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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. Conference organizing should be a collaborative effort with a few people from every department.

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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. Collaboration could take place on virtual or crowd-sourced projects. Collaboration could take place on virtual or crowd-sourced projects. Supervised or supported service. Recruitment is just the start. Fear of Failure vs. Fear of the Unknown.

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

NTEN

we accepted sessions with the clause that they collaborate. 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. So, we''re sharing these with both/all angles together.

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