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Planned Giving Design Center
Planned Giving Design Center
What is the Planned Giving Design Center?
www.pgdc.com
• National network of websites dedicated to advancing
philanthropy through education via the Internet
• The world’s largest website on the subject of planned giving
with thousands of pages of content: articles, news stories,
technical reports, case studies, calculations and discussion
forums
• Networking community for professional advisors
• Communications tool between charity and advisors
Planned Giving Design Center
What are the Benefits of Membership?
• Membership is FREE
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• Timely email news alerts on the latest updates concerning planned
giving
• Gift calculations
• Extensive research capabilities through advanced search engine
• Participate in Discussion Forums
• Comment on content and articles
• Email content to colleagues or donors
• Communicate with and learn more about our organization
• Market your services
• Print to PDF
• Personalize your user settings
• Register for local events
Planned Giving Design Center
Navigation and Search
• New ways to view and locate content
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• Review content by Type and Category
• Search content by the Category Cloud
• A Cloud Block links to a full page Category Cloud for
expanded view - it uses different size fonts to illustrate
the number of items in that category relative to all others
• Visually find all letter rulings in the site
and navigate to them with a single
mouse click
Planned Giving Design Center
Navigation and Search
• Advanced search engine allows
you to search tens of thousands
of pages of content quickly and
easily
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• Search for single words, groups
of words in quotes, exact
matches, multiple groups of
words in quotes and much more
Planned Giving Design Center
Forums
• Discussion Forums are more powerful than ever
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• All 26,000+ members opted in to forums
• The most active discussions are found on front page of
the site
• Forum questions and answers
are included in news alerts
• Post a new topic from the
General Discussion page
• Easily turn options on/off in
your member preferences
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Calculations
• PhilanthroTec’s planned giving calculator is now loaded into the PGDC website so you don’t have to leave the PGDC to perform calculations.
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Invite Friends & Befriend
• Invite associates to become members of the
growing PGDC community
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• When you invite someone to become a
PGDC member they will automatically be
added to your friends list
• Befriend another member and be
notified in your email when they make
comments, ask or answer questions
• You can befriend another member by simply clicking on the logo to the
right of their name above a comment
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Customize Your Profile
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• You can change your name, email address, password, biography and
many other options pertaining to your account
• Customize your personal signature that
appears when you add content to the site
• View all the comments you have made
since becoming a member
• Track where you’ve been on the PGDC
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Calendars
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• A calendar system provides members with dates and information on
local and national planned giving events
• Members can register for events allowing hosts to send reminder
emails
• Yellow highlight indicates there is an event
posted for that day
• Members will always know what is going
on in planned giving in our community
and throughout the nation
Planned Giving Design Center
Blocks
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Blocks are now used on the right side of the screen to aggregate or show various types of information:
• Monthly Archive of content history, dating back to 1998
• Active Discussions
• Active Forum Topics
• The most Popular Content
Planned Giving Design Center
Content Comments
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• Post comments of your own
• Reply to other member’s comments
• Vote comments up or down based on their value to you
• Below comments, you can see similar content based on keywords
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PGDC News Alerts
• All of the new articles, national and local news, calendar
events, comments on articles, forum questions and even polls
are sent to you in one convenient email
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• Click on any item in the news alert and you are automatically
logged into the site - no reason to remember your username
and password
• Choose to receive news alerts as they occur, weekly or never
through your member profile
Planned Giving Design Center
RSS Feeds
• Want the news right away? Really Simple Syndication
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• Simply click the orange RSS icon and you’re on your way
• Use Google Reader, iPhone, Blackberry or other smart phone
to receive PGDC news wherever you are, whenever it
happens
• RSS icons can be
found throughout the
site allowing you to
customize your feed
Planned Giving Design Center
Quick Recap
• Research thousands of pages of content multiple ways
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• Participate in the Discussion Forums - Ask and answer questions
• Stay up to date on the law, planning techniques and planned giving
events in our community and the nation
• Read what others have to say in content comments
• Invite friends, make new ones and find other professionals in the
national member directory
• And it’s all delivered to your door free of charge in the PGDC News
Alerts via email
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Summary
• Simply go to www.pgdc.com/XXXX and choose Create Account to
become a member for free
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• Customize your profile in the Member Activities section
• Join in the Discussion Forums
• Learn more about our organization on the Local Page and
Resources tab
• Have an idea for a feature on the PGDC? Email [email protected]
• Would you like to be a contributing writer? Email [email protected]
• Sponsorships of the PGDC is available, please speak with XXXXX