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Higher Ed Boot Camp: Successful Event Landing Pages
- 1. Successful Event Landing Pages
Margo Anderson – Internet Solutions Client Manager
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- 2. Remove distractions from your environment
Close mail or other programs you may have opened other
than Live Meeting
Respond to the polls and questions
Raise your hand electronically to ask a question
“Netiquette”
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Raise your hand electronically to ask a question
Mute your phone
- 3. Today’s Session Agenda
• Introductions
• Top Ten Must Haves
• Rivalry Match Up!
• Demonstration
• Questions
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• Questions
- 4. About the Host
Margo Anderson
Internet Solutions Client Manager
• Manager of Blackbaud’s internet solutions
service bureau offering (Data Management
Services for Internet Solutions)
Passionate about online fundraising
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Passionate about online fundraising
and email marketing
5 years of experience working with
Blackbaud NetCommunity
Loves the outdoors!
- 6. Facebook Like Box
The Like Box is a social plugin that enables Facebook Page
owners to attract and gain Likes from their own website.
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Create the code here:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box
Copy and paste into Formatted Text & Images HTML view
on Page Level
You must create a new one for each page that you would
like to “like” or “recommend”
- 8. Social Networking Links
If you don’t already of account setup, create one today!
Create or Find Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube,
Picasa, Vimeo, Flickr, etc. logos
“How can you squander even one
more day not taking advantage of
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more day not taking advantage of
the greatest shifts of our generation?
How dare you settle for less when
the world has made it so easy for
you to be remarkable?”
– Seth Godin
- 10. ShareThis
Create the code here:
http://sharethis.com/publishers/get-sharing-button
Copy and paste into Formatted Text & Images HTML view
on the Template level
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on the Template level
- 12. Calendar/Schedule
Make sure there is a clear path to
the calendar of events
If you are not utilizing the calendar
part, organize the events in
chronological order and use tables
to assist with formatting
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to assist with formatting
Include export or printer friendly
versions
- 14. 5. Recap of Last Year
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- 15. Recap of Last Year
What to Include:
Include photo album of last year’s events
Surveys and Polls to gather feedback from attendees
Include news articles and summary of events
Send email to attendees
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Send email to attendees
- 19. Blackbaud NetCommunity Friendly URL
Sign in with Edit Rights > Edit the Page > Page Properties
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- 21. Attendee List
Create a “Look Who’s Coming” list to encourage other
alumni to sign up
Use the Blackbaud NetCommunity directory part to create
the functionality
• Base the directory part list on a registrant query in The Raiser’s
Edge
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Edge
• Load the results automatically
- 24. Examples
Great way to engage your alumni and gather great information!
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- 26. Online Registration
Why track?
Opportunity to gain updated contact information
Allows the ability to create a “Look Who's Coming” page
Chance to reconnect with lost alumni
Capture email addresses for follow up opportunities
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Capture email addresses for follow up opportunities
• Thank you email with appeal
• Survey to share Homecoming recommendations
And many many more!
- 27. Ways to Track
Blackbaud NetCommunity Events Registration Part
• Allows the use of the Events Module for reporting and
historical purposes
• Records t-shirt size, meal preferences, etc. via participant
attributes
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attributes
• Captures guest information
• Handles capacity settings
• Allows the ability for online/pledge payments
- 32. Ways to Track
Blackbaud NetCommunity Poll
• Quick and easy for alumni to respond
• Stores information as constituent attributes if the user is logged in
• Respondents can view a pie chart/bar graph of the responses
Blackbaud NetCommunity Survey
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Blackbaud NetCommunity Survey
• Ability to query/export survey result information for logged in users
• Query can be used for email lists
• Does not store information on constituent’s record
Blackbaud NetCommunity Common Form
• Will be covered during Thursday’s seminar
- 33. Ways to Track
Facebook Events
• Quick and easy for alumni to RSVP
• No integration with backend databases
• Manually tag each alumni's record
• It’s on Facebook!
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- 34. Top Ten Must Haves
10. Facebook Like Box
9. Social Networking Links
8. ShareThis
7. Link to Calendar/Schedule of Events
6. Snazzy Alumni Photos
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6. Snazzy Alumni Photos
5. Recap of Last Year
4. Specific OR Friendly URL
3. Look Who’s Coming (Directory Part)
2. Survey/Poll
1. Online Registration/RSVP Functionality
- 37. Florida State University
Schedule
Link to Photos
Snazzy Alumni Pictures
Unique URL
Link to Survey
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Link to Survey
ShareThis
Social Networking Links
**Bonus Points**
Fight Song!
Celebrity!
- 39. A Word From Our Sponsor
DMS for Internet Solutions allows nonprofits with our Internet products to offload recurring, ongoing functions
associated with web/email management and day-to-day operations.
Data Services Email Management
• Assistance in processing Blackbaud
NetCommunity transactions within The Raiser’s
Edge.
• Configuring The Raiser’s Edge to support new
Blackbaud NetCommunity parts
• Reporting and List Generation Services
• Segmentation and list preparation
• Split testing
• Copy editing (including conditional email
content)
• Email template development
• Email testing
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• Reporting and List Generation Services • Email testing
• Opt-out and Bounce management
Content Management Online Strategic Oversight
• Copy editing
• Create new pages and templates
• Configure and style Blackbaud NetCommunity
parts
• Maintain and update information architecture
• Refresh content and images (i.e., replace
expired content)
• Share Blackbaud NetCommunity best practices
in relation to the organization’s audience and
organizational priorities
• Provide quarterly updates of internet trends
and evolving technologies that impact the
organization’s business objectives
• Maintain web presence on the leading-edge of
solution functionality
• Distribute monthly analytics reports of relevant
web and email metrics