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Finally! A book aimed at helping non-profits identify usable communication strategies for social media engage based on case studies (i.e. examples). Many congregations and schools forget to sets goals and plan for internal and external communications and nurture let alone plug into the potential of social media to grow the kingdom of the Lord. As I recall, "Engage!" isn't simply the command of a fictional Star Trek captain, it's the command of the real Captain of the stars . . .

Want to learn more about Diigo and social bookmarking? Here are some excellent resources from Intel

On this episode of The Forge we chat with Nancy Duarte about the concepts in her book 'Resonate.' Learn how to create powerful and engaging presentations. Nancy talks about how Steve Job's iPhone launch presentation and Martin Luther King's I have a dream speak have similar elements.

ntroducing a Hangouts app for Virtual Classrooms If you use Hangouts on air (or consider using them) for education, and miss any of the features below: - A full featured registration module to manage attendees - An all-in-one Event Planner/Scheduling/Conferencing app - A comprehensive e-mailing system with fully custom automatic invitation emails, reminder emails and follow up emails - Allow non-plussers attend your classrooms signing in with their Facebook or LinkedIn profiles - Run private HOAs (directly generate unlisted YouTube recordings) - Give the mic to a viewer on-the-fly and make them participant, the time of a question - Get fixed URLs for your permanent virtual classrooms (with or without scheduling) - View a map with geolocated attendees - View your attendees as avatars in a 3D virtual classroom , create a sense of presence, see who's raising hand,... - A unified & moderated chat for participants and viewers engaging in the same chat then you should look into +Business Hangouts : Business Hangouts is an app built for Google Hangouts by Altadyn using the Google Hangouts API (not built by Google ).

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Part of a series on how to use Google Apps in the classroom, both for students and teachers.

59 Tips - Results of a focus group discussion on how to create a great screencast - From TechSmith

I just started using this. I like you can add video, pictures and words. You can also use it with a 360 photo.