This document summarizes the November 2010 meeting of the Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group. It lists the 2010 executive officers and volunteers. It also provides information on sponsors, goals for 2010 which were met, speakers for 2010 meetings, and announcements on upcoming events and job opportunities. The document concludes with information on elections for 2011 officers and a social hour following the meeting at a local brewery.
Petition To Win: Benefits & Best Practices for Online Petitions4Good.org
Pink Slime. The Boy Scouts of America. Trayvon Martin. Online petitions are all over the news these days, but the big news is that they really do work. In the information age, online petitions have become an important tactic for advocacy campaigns and a crucial channel for list growth to support direct email fundraising. Listen in to learn best practices for online petitions that Change.org has gleaned from hundreds of thousands of campaigns started on the world’s petition platform.
WIH Resource Group is a global leader and provider of comprehensive waste management, recycling and business solutions, specializing in, among other services, waste management operational performance assessments, transportation / logistics, alternative fuel use, solid waste planning, waste and recycling market studies and environmental services. Based in Phoenix, the company serves municipalities, commercial / industrial and both private and public sector clients throughout North America.
Reaching More Customers in 2015 With a Responsive Mobile Website DesignRichard Sink
B2B Web Optimization: 140% surge in mobile transactions through responsive design effort. When you're engineering a website design for today's technological terrain, it can't be "one and done." Consumers are browsing across differing devices including smartphones, desktops and tablets, so your website should be optimized for the whole spread.
Petition To Win: Benefits & Best Practices for Online Petitions4Good.org
Pink Slime. The Boy Scouts of America. Trayvon Martin. Online petitions are all over the news these days, but the big news is that they really do work. In the information age, online petitions have become an important tactic for advocacy campaigns and a crucial channel for list growth to support direct email fundraising. Listen in to learn best practices for online petitions that Change.org has gleaned from hundreds of thousands of campaigns started on the world’s petition platform.
WIH Resource Group is a global leader and provider of comprehensive waste management, recycling and business solutions, specializing in, among other services, waste management operational performance assessments, transportation / logistics, alternative fuel use, solid waste planning, waste and recycling market studies and environmental services. Based in Phoenix, the company serves municipalities, commercial / industrial and both private and public sector clients throughout North America.
Reaching More Customers in 2015 With a Responsive Mobile Website DesignRichard Sink
B2B Web Optimization: 140% surge in mobile transactions through responsive design effort. When you're engineering a website design for today's technological terrain, it can't be "one and done." Consumers are browsing across differing devices including smartphones, desktops and tablets, so your website should be optimized for the whole spread.
PISA 2009 evaluation results friendly explained.
"What students know and can do"
"Learning to learn"
"What makes a school successfull"
OCDE publication
Maximize Spring Fundraising and Maintain Donors Through 2020TechSoup
We may still be catching our breath after year-end craziness, but fundraising planning never stops, and the next fundraising push is right around the corner. The spring fundraising season presents a great opportunity to nurture current donors, leverage them to bring in new prospects, and help build a strong supporter pipeline through the end of the year. In this webinar, we'll discuss online fundraising and communications strategies like
New ways to cultivate donors during your spring fundraising push
How to maintain donors throughout the year
Re-engaging your supporters through year-end
Green Tech Tips From Microsoft For Small OrganizationsTechSoup
You can view the recording by clicking on the link to the right, under the speaker bios. You'll also see a link to the PowerPoint presentation and audio file. Please post questions to the Emerging Technologies Forum.
Green Tech Tips From Microsoft For Small OrganizationsTechSoup
You can view the recording by clicking on the link to the right, under the speaker bios. You'll also see a link to the PowerPoint presentation and audio file. Please post questions to the Emerging Technologies Forum.
The internet is a great tool for communicating and connecting. We now have a variety of ways to do so, but which one is best suited for your needs? Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn? Each serves its purpose and audience, but what if your needs aren’t served with these tools? Create your own! Ning is a powerful tool that allows you to not only create a dynamic, easy to update website, but its functionality allows your community to create accounts, share information, connect with you and other people in your community and work collaboratively.
We spend much of our time collecting and analyzing data. That data is only useful if it can be displayed in a meaningful, understandable way.
Yale professor Edward Tufte presented many ideas on how to effectively present data to an audience or end user.
In this session, I will explain some of Tufte's most important guidelines about data visualization and how you can apply those guidelines to your own data. You will learn what to include, what to remove, and what to avoid in your charts, graphs, maps and other images that represent data.
Analyzing big data is a challenge, requiring lots of processing power and storage.
Cloud Computing is an ideal platform to tackle this problem. HD Insight on Microsoft Azure deploys Hadoop and other open source big data tools to the cloud, making it easier to take advantage of the high scalability of this platform.
In this session, you will learn what tools are available in HD Insight and how to use them to store, process, and analyze large amounts of data.
We spend much of our time collecting and analyzing data. That data is only useful if it can be displayed in a meaningful, understandable way.
Yale professor Edward Tufte presented many ideas on how to effectively present data to an audience or end user.
In this session, I will explain some of Tufte's most important guidelines about data visualization and how you can apply those guidelines to your own data. You will learn what to include, what to remove, and what to avoid in your charts, graphs, maps and other images that represent data.
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10. Discounts for our members Manning www.Manning.com 36% off Enter discount code “UG367” MSDN Magazine 20% off subscription 1 Year (12 issues) $35.00 $28.00 2 year (24 issues) $60.00 $48.00 (866)‐293‐3194 Promo code: A0EUG1
11. INETA Offers Pluralsight Free Guest Pass into the Pluralsight On-Demand! Library tinyurl.com/PSGuestPass Wrox/Wiley 40% off select Visual Studio 2010/.NET 4.0 books to user group members through 6/30. See the list at ineta.org/offers U Use promo code WVS10 O’Reilly 50% off ebook purchases from O’Reilly for a limited time 40% off print book purchases for user group members Use discount code DSUG when ordering online oreilly.com/store Windows Azure Free One-Month Pass azurepassusa.cloudapp.net
14. 2010 GANG Goals Get members more engaged and involved Increase meeting attendance by 50% Increase supporting membership by 30% Continue to attract high-quality speakers Increase sponsorship by 100% Finish year in the black financially
15. 2010 GANG Goals Get members more engaged and involved Lightning Talks Network Time Social Hour at Copper Canyon Brewery Motor City Codeslingers Volunteers Membership Drive Food Drive
16. 2010 GANG Goals Increase meeting attendance by 50% 2009 Average: 34 / meeting 2010 Average: 54 / meeting Last 6 months Average: 65.5 / meeting
17. 2010 GANG Goals Increase supporting membership by 30% 2009: 27 Supporting Members 2010 (Jan-Oct): 23 Supporting Members
18. 2010 GANG Goals Continue to attract high-quality speakers Mike Amundsen Jamie Wright Jennifer Marsman Jeff McWherter Cameron Skinner Chris Marinos Bill Wagner Len Smith Randy Pagels Jim Holmes Chet Kloss Nino Benvenuti
19. 2010 GANG Goals Increase sponsorship by 100% “Upgraded” food Hundreds of thousands of dollars of SWAG
20. 2010 GANG Goals Finish year in the black financially 2009 No food for last few meetings December: -$300 2010 Paid off debt from last year December: >$1,500
21. Other 2010 Accomplishments MessageBox.Show Newsletter Monthly E-Mails Upgraded web site Personalized Name Badge Signage during the meeting Membership Drive Food Drive Increased Social Networking (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter) PayPal
26. Project Phoenix Win a free MSDN Universal subscription Unemployed and Underemployed Developers are eligible Propose a project for a non-profit Winner chosen each week in 2010 tinyurl.com/PhoenixMSDN
27. Some Good Programs BizSpark and WebSiteSpark Low-cost Microsoft software for small businesses Microsoft.com/BizSpark Microsoft.com/WebSiteSpark
30. December Social Event Thursday December 9 2010 Vote on location Plum Hollow Lanes Bowling Alley Copper Canyon TGI Friday’s
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33. Elections Elections are held after the tonight’s meeting All officer positions are open President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Must be a sponsoring member to vote Must be a sponsoring member to run
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35. Not a sponsored event!Copper Canyon Brewery and Restaurant 27522 Northwestern Hwy
36. Fabulous Prizes! “SWAG doesn’t kill people. People kill people (sometimes with SWAG).” -unknown