1. Group Manager Training? Presentation Hosted by: Ben Fowler, NEEA Summer Goodwin, BPA

2. How Conduit can help you facilitate your group?  Functionality Your group page Inviting others to join Put everything in one place: documents, meetings, agendas, group member lists Makes document collaboration easier  Best practices for groups Helps connect your group between meetings Find good meeting times Post slide decks and minutes from meetings Share relevant news stories Post agendas Use the calendar Ask for feedback on ideas/documents 2

3. Your Group Page The Group Page

4. Group Members

5. Managing Group Membership

6. Group Settings  Who should be group manager?  Should your group be public or private?  Group tags  resources you create from the group page inherit tags and properties

7. Group Managers  You should have more than one group manager on Conduit. 7

8. Inviting others to join  Personal email  Invitation functionality  What to do if they are Conduit users or not  Private groups: you can put people in the group 8

9. Best practices for groups  You need to keep a constant flow of activity  Use snappy titles  Ask questions  Acknowledge that comments are being read (rate and share)  Give recognition for Conduit activity  Use email to get the word out about what’s going on your grou ppage 9

10. Conduit Calendar Insert image of big calenda r and calenda r item

11. 11 Live Demo  Upload Agendas  Start a Discussion  Collaborate on Documents  Set up a poll

12. Common Question So are you saying that we shouldn’t send anything out via email to our group?  No. We recommend that you put your business on Conduit and also send links out via email to your group members. Not all of your members may be on Conduit right now and they might not see the Conduit alerts. 12

13. Membership Requests 13

14. 14 Contact Ben Fowler BFowler@neea.org 503-688-5413 Summer Goodwin sggoodwin@bpa.gov 503-230-3158 Thank you.

15. Check Out, Check In Conduit allows documents to have multiple authors. These authors can then edit their work in serial fashion (only 1 editor at a time). 15

16. Versioning of Documents  Conduit keeps a history of the 10 most recent versions. 16

17. Comments  Use Comments to notate milestones, or notes to go along with your new version. 17

18. Email Alerts  Co-Editors are notified when a new file is created, commented on, modified, or deleted. 18