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How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery

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We used a Harry Potter theme to give the session a fun feel. We began the session by polling the audience on training experiences. This post was originally published on the NTEN Blog. Andrea Berry had moved onto another job by then, and so Jeanne Allen took her place. The session slide deck is also available on Slideshare.net.

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Twitter: I think I get it. Now what do I tweet?

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note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. Consider setting up a weekly yes-or-no poll question that you send out every Thursday, or leave it open-ended and invite followers to message you with their replies.

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I had sooo much fun creating and delivering it. However, some webinar platforms have a real-time polling feature, the virtual equivalent of asking people to raise their hands if. The poll revealed that revealed 40% were beginners/novices and 60% intermediate or experts. I love the way NTEN does these sessions.

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Facebook User Names: On Your Marks, Get Set.

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Mashable addressed these concerns and posted a poll to gauge opinions.). And some fun: a future (fictional) timeline of events as a result of the new feature. There's already quite a bit of hub-bub about this move, with criticism over the process -- and even the decision to provide this feature at all.

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Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action

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These services are fun and useful. There would be no reason for Google to poll websites for changes over and over again. Tags: Data marshall kirkpatrick Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. They are like broad, topical, personalized blogsearch with good spam control.

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What is a Widget?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is both the hard and fun part of making web videos. For example, linking a poll to a post on the topic. The examples so far: Audience Feedback/Organizational Listening - Message/Comments - as seen on Life Kludger - A survey/Poll as seen on the Bamboo Project. What is a Widget? RSS widgets as seen on AFP Blog.

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Five Tools for Engaging Your Members Online (Easy, Inexpensive Ways to Make Your [Virtual] World a Better Place)

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Polling widgets are a fun and simple way to interact with visitors on your site. Visitors are directed to the server nearest them, which increases the speed of delivery of your website and decreases the load on your originating web server. Start a Conversation. On the Web, the best way to engage people is to ask a question.

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