Grinspoon Institute Webinar

March 17, 2009

Grinspoon Institute for Jewish Philanthropy

Making Reunions Work

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Agenda: Welcome and Introduction – Sue Kline Technology Overview (GoToWebinar) – Kevin Martone Making Reunions Work – Robin Rubenstein Online Event Registration Tools – Kevin Martone Feedback/Questions

B) Audio pane – Select audio format. Click Audio Setup to verify Speakers & Microphone.

C) Questions pane–Attendees can submit questions and review answers.

D) Type your question and click Send to submit it to the organizer

A) Grab Tab – Click double-arrows to open/close Control Panel. Click square to toggle Viewer Window between full screen/window mode. Click hand icon to raise/lower hand. Click mic icon to mute/unmute your audio

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Options for AudioYou have two options for audio:

o Check your audio settings:o Click on the Audio Setup link on the Audio panel ORo Go to File Preferences Audio. (Fig. 1.2)

o Under Speakers Setup, select the proper device. Be sure to uncheck the Mute box. Hit OK.

o If you continue to have problems, please submit a Question and we will assist you.

1) If you want to use the Telephone, select Use Telephone. Please call the number displayed and enter both the access code and audio pin provided.

2) If you would like to use your Computer Microphone & Speakers, select the Use Mic & Speakers button. (Fig. 1.1)

Fig. 1.1

Fig. 1.2

If you are having problems hearing the Webinar through your computer:

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Interacting with Presenters & Participants

During the Session We hope these sessions will encourage participants to ask questions and share

their own experiences relating to the topic at hand. To foster this interaction, we have enabled both the “Raising Hand” option and

the “Q&A” option. Raising Hand – use to respond to Q&A – please use this feature to submit questions (or problems) to the

organizers/presenters. They can then either pose the question to the group, respond immediately, or pull all the questions together and respond at the end of the presentation.

We may also offer polls during the session to get feedback from all participants about their experiences, how the webinar is going, or to gather other information.

After the Session Please join the discussion on this topic in our Discussion Forums at

http://forum.gijptech.org Please find all materials from this session (including a recording of the

presentation) on our Webinar page at http://webinar.gijptech.org

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Online Event Registration

Benefits Considerations Sample Tools EventBrite example – Surprise Lake Camp RegOnline example – URJ Camp Coleman Questions?

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Online Event Registration - Benefits

Streamlined event registration For attendees For staff – fewer phone calls, waiting for mailed-in registrations

Can accept credit card payments (optional) May be integrated with website (some tools) Easy to communicate

Linked from eNewsletters, blogs, Social Networks, website, etc.

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Online Event Registration - Considerations

Price Ability to customize the data requested Ability to accept payments for the event registration Ability to easily share the registered attendees list online

(with or without extra comments) Integration with your existing database Ability to integrate the online form with your website Ability to promote easily via social networks Other functionality?

Examples – accept phone registrations; easily print nametags

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Online Event Registration - Tools

Much more in-depth review of these tools on our website at http://gijptech.org

Go to Resources Tools Event Registration

Popular Tools

Used any tools not on this list? Let us know!

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Online Event Registration – Surprise Lake Camp

Surprise Lake Camp – Eventbrite Links to events at Eventbrite.com -

http://alumniovernight.eventbrite.com/ Offers multiple ticket prices Eventbrite fee added to ticket price explicitly

Still have PayPal fee for credit card processing Attendees given the option to share the information via email,

Facebook,Twitter, etc. Experiment – try it in addition to usual offline registration options

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Online Event Registration – URJ Camp Coleman

URJ Camp Coleman Alumni Reunion – RegOnline Links to events at Regonline.com -

http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=708256 Offers multiple registration prices List of attendees automatically created Many advanced back-office features:

Check-in Nametag creation Conditional attendee questions Detailed reporting

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Online Event Registration – Questions?

Photo by Xurble

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Grinspoon Institute Webinars – Feedback/Questions

How did we do? How was the level of detail? What topics would you like to learn about in this format? Is there a topic you’d like to share in a future Webinar? Any other suggestions?

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Save the Date! Next Webinar… Tuesday, April 21, 2009; 1 PM EDT Creative Alumni Outreach Strategies JC Cohen and Scott Price, URJ Henry S. Jacobs Camp

Are you struggling to find and stay connected with your Alumni? Unsure how to reach them? URJ Henry S. Jacobs Camp uses many tools and techniques to build

community with their alumni: Website Facebook Twitter Events Business Cards And more…

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For More Information

This presentation and recorded session will be available in our Webinar archives by the end of the week: http://webinar.gijptech.org

Tech Program Blog: http://blog.gijptech.org Tech Program eNewsletter Archives: http://

enewsletter.gijptech.org