1. Nomination for Forrester Groundswell Awards - Engage365 has been nominated in the “Energize” B2B category representing excellent and effective use of social technologies to advance an organizational. Cast your vote, comment and rate the Engage365 nomination… it takes just a few seconds.
2. RSS Feed Now Available - For those who love RSS feeds. Get your fix by clicking the RSS link in the upper right corner.
3. Bookstore – Buy a copy of Beth Kanter’s new book, “The Networked NonProfit” at the Engage365 store. Beth’s book is being offered below retail value. To make your life easy, we’re starting with just one book (for now).
4. Recorded Webinars – We’re making it easier to find past webinars you missed. Be sure to check back as we add more webinars to the mix.

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Engage365 is an online knowledge community where association and corporate meeting professionals can network with each other and learn proven concepts and strategies to help their organizations maximize the use of social media for their events… yada yada yada.

What comes to your mind when you think about the words – social, innovation and collaboration?

If you’re anything like me, you probably have many different ideas buzzing around in your head, on your blog and Twitter stream.

We’ve been listening to industry thought leaders via webinars, reading blog posts, participating in Engage365 water cooler chats and conversations for quite awhile now. We think it is about time that we get together face-to-face to talk about how to bring more social media principles (think: two-way communication) into events.

Where? At EventCamp Twin Cities in Minneapolis on September 8-9, 2010?

One thing that we really like about EventCamp is that it is an innovation laboratory. The Event Camp Twin Cities team has pulled together several new collaboration experiences, the latest in event technology and some of our own Engage365 members to spark discussions.

To be honest, this is an ambitious topic that we don’t expect to be resolved in one day. Yet, it’s a discussion we think is important. Join me and other Engage365 members at EventCamp Twin Cities. Tune into Event Camp Twin Cities on Twitter #ECTC10 or follow the ECTC Blog.

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Beth Kanter is Back in the House – Free Webinar

Beth Kanter, co-author of the book, “The Networked Nonprofit” will be presenting a free webinar on August 18th at 1pm ET on how to understand social networks through social network analysis, do more with less by leveraging your network, create a social culture at your nonprofit.

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This Week’s Reading Assignment

• 19 Tech Tools for Meeting Planners and Attendees – Jessica Levin (recorded session and links)
• A Social Media Guru Farewell for WEC 2010 (Part 5) – Vanessa LaClair
• How to Create Content That Engages at Face-to-Face Meetings (part 1) – John Nawn

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Engage365 is an online knowledge community where association and corporate meeting professionals can network with each other and learn proven concepts and strategies to help their organizations maximize the use of social media for their events.