Triangle Net Tuesday/501 Tech Club: September 9, 2008
Online communication and conferencing tools: Ways to use technology to collaborate, meet and communicate! We'll explore tools that allow you to share your desktop, documents, and presentations and look at options for audio/web conferencing too.
You'll walk away with new ideas and tools to help you reach your constituents without having to spend hundreds at the gas pump.
Speakers:
- Paula Jones, Technology Director for the N.C. Center for Nonprofits
- Nancy Shoemaker, Consultant at Shoemaker Group
Website: http://netsquared.meetup.com/22/calendar/8531385/
The handouts (all Google docs):
References:
Location: Wake County West Regional Library, 4000 Louis Stephens Rd, Cary, NC 27519, 919-463-8500.
Attendees: There were about 23 people. RSVPs showed 20 "Yes." Some who RSVPed "Yes" didn't make it. About 5 came who hadn't RSVPed.
Evaluations: About 15 forms collected.
Name and contact info: Names and contact information omitted
How did you hear about this meeting:
- NetTuesday site/email list: 2
- 501 Tech Club site/email list: 3
- Another email list (please specify): meetup.com, TriLUG (Linux), 3 RTPnet list
- A friend/colleague: 4
- Other (please specify):
Suggestions for future meetings:
- Topics I Could Present On:
- Nonprofit case study (website redesign + marketing plan)
- Social Marketing for nonprofits (Not social-networking, but the field created by Kotler-Zaltman). Also using e-tools for health - public health.
- Topics I'm Interested In:
- Marketing, social media, eNewsletters
- Efundraising, services for nonprofits
- Wikis, CMS comparison
- Anything along these lines. Uses of blogs, social networking, widgets, etc. Also, how to deal with supervisors, boards, etc. to approve use of these.
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- I'd like to join the organizers group to help plan meetings:
- Good meeting places:
- West Regional Library
- W.E.B. DuBois CDC (919) 556-7009 x152
- Here [West Regional Library]
- Other suggestions:
- Next time I might bring my laptop, or do you discourage that?
Evaluation of this meeting:
- Previous knowledge of the topic:
- I was unaware of this technology before hearing about this meeting.
- I've heard of the technology, but don't use it yet. 7
- I use this technology. 5
- I could give this talk.
- Other
- Medium. 1st time about free conference call. Uses "go to meeting"
- Was the meeting what you expected? 10 Yes
- A little basic, I am aware of most of these programs
- I wasn't sure what to expect
- I thought it would cover more collaborative document options (like BaseCamp etc.) Not sure why I thought that.
- Was the meeting worth your time? 11 Yes
- Do you expect to use the info from this meeting: immediately within six months? 6 Yes 1 Soon 1 Hopefully 1 I don't know.
- Currently using these things
- Google docs immediately, web conferencing within six months
- Do you want to learn more on this topic? 4 Yes, No Thanks
- Yes, I'll check it out more
- Unsure
- Would like to play around to see if I can use it.
- Comments:
- Interesting - I can imagine many uses for these technologies
- Great intro! I look forward to figuring out more on my own
- Lots of good tips, well prepared
- Everything was great. Lots of good info.
- I thought the Google application features (i.e. revisions, etc.) was interesting. A lot of this I already know/use.
- Very good - I like that it was interactive instead of people just talking (sorry if I asked too many questions)
Personal section
This section is optional, but if this is your first meeting or your info has changed, we'll use it to add it to our contact list:
- Address: I combined this with name and email
- Phone daytime:
- Phone evening:
- Employer:
- Employment position:
- Skills, areas of interest:
- Photoshop, Adobe stuff -- design software, Solidworks
- Social Network/Video/AudioConference/Network Infrastructure
- PC repair and hardware
- Social Marketing, strategic planning, use of e-tools by government and nonprofit agencies, use of marketing code bases for audience selection and segmentation.