Negotiation Tips & Distance Education for Meetings

Here are some of the best ideas and money saving tools generated from the Meeting Management Education Council meeting on 4.20.

• 35 Money Saving Meeting Tips
  
• Wufoo - use this free form builder for your meetings and events. Some uses include sending the form to speakers so they can upload session details (even speaker photos!), send to exhibitors to upload their logos and use to collect RFP's and speaker presentations. For more on Wufoo, visit the communications networking group blog post on Wufoo and Wufoo.com.
• Webinar Programs - if you're looking at hosting webinars for your members, here are a few programs to check out: GoToWebinar (MSAE members save with the Affiniscape Affinity Program), WebEx, Adobe Connect and AVEX's GoPortal (sign up for a free 30 day trial).
  

Animoto - Free Video Tool

Animoto was the featured discussion at MSAE's Communications Networking Group on September 14, 2010. Here are our top takeaways and recap:

What is it? Its a free site that lets you create professional looking videos and/or slideshows. You can import your pictures from online or from your computer, as well as choose music and which images to feature.

What it costs - Free for 30-second videos, $3 for full length videos and $30 for unlimited full-length videos for an entire year.

Animoto is very user friendly and easy to use. MSAE has recently purchased the $30 unlimited usage and love it! You can make a variety of videos for all things associations. Here are a few good ways to use Animoto for your organization:

• Event Promotion
• Pre-Event Presentation
• Statistics Presentation
• Thank You's
• Awards Presentation
• Annual Reports

I recommend you try using this software. You will be surprised what you can do with it!

Here is a sample video MSAE did for the 2010 Fall Leadership Conference, click here for video.