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What Have We Learned About Creating Engaging Meetings from Virtual Conferences?

The MatrixFiles

Worked with their speakers to add interactive elements, from polls to contests. With virtual, we worked closely with clients to make sure attendees always knew where to go next, using tools like: Welcome and tutorial videos that explain the virtual platform and highlight the “not to be missed” parts of the meeting.

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Free Webinar: Sharing Trainer's Social Media Bag of Tricks and Secrets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She is going to share with you all her secrets, her tool bag, and other tips for using social media to create instructional materials, research your audience, deliver your workshop and follow up. If I'm doing a Webinar, I might use the poll feature and do my research in real time. Share Your PowerPoint Deck with SlideShare.

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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 got an email from hosts Chris Uschan and Tony Veroeven who shared some numbers, "We had 190 attend and ask 140 questions in a back channel that looked like Clark Griswald 's House at Christmas!". This online community, Engage365 , is a place to network and share knowledge about how to integrate the use of social media for events.

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Get the Tools to Train and Educate

Tech Soup

And, organizations that provide workforce and job skills training can share easyLearning courses with constituents. In addition to having all of the functionality of GoToMeeting , GoToWebinar lets you keep track of webinar registration and attendance, and its polling and survey features help you get audience feedback.

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ArtsLabSF: Reflections About Social Learning With Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. The last face-to-face session, in fact, is participants sharing the results of their experiments. I do a lot of small group and share pair exercises. Social Learning: Face-to-Face.

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Reflections on Extension 2.0 Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I saw a black board in the corner of the room, wheeled it over and wrote the key words of the presentation and shared my favorite advice about issues of incorporating technology into your instructional practice: "It isn't a matter of if technical glitches will happen, it's what are you going to do when they happen. What did I do?

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5 Reasons You Should Use Social Media to Grow Your Small Business

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

For example, an advert for a make-up brand might only be seen by females who are under 45 and who have recently watched a make-up tutorial on YouTube. Being visible online goes a long way to convince prospective customers you’re a reliable business and to be able to share your values with them. It can directly increase profit.