<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Hi, OST friends! I thought this would interest some of you...</div><div><br></div><div>For the first time, all five staff members of the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD) will be together on a webinar to give you a tour of the NCDD website and give you a better sense of what NCDD has to offer. You will learn about how to navigate the 3,000-item strong Resource Center, how to watch event archives, how to share YOUR news and info with the dialogue & deliberation community, how to search the member map and directory, and more.</div><div><br></div><div>I’m pasting our post about the webinar below. Sign up today at <a href="http://ncdd.org/signup-ncddweb-intro">http://ncdd.org/signup-ncddweb-intro</a> if you’re interested in joining us. We’ve already had 80 sign-ups so this is going to be a popular one!</div><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal;"><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Sandy Heierbacher</div><div>Director, National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation</div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal;"><a href="mailto:sandy@ncdd.org">sandy@ncdd.org</a> • <a href="http://www.ncdd.org">www.ncdd.org</a> • @ncdd & @heierbacher</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 11px;"><i style="orphans: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: auto; font-size: 12px;">Join us this October 14-16 in Boston for <a href="http://ncdd.org/20054" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">NCDD2016</a>! </i><i style="orphans: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: auto; font-size: 12px;">What are NCDD conferences like? See for yourself at <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/ncdd2014vid" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">www.tinyurl.com/ncdd2014vid</a>.</span></i></div><div style="font-size: 11px;"><i style="orphans: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: auto; font-size: 12px;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br></span></i></div><div style="font-size: 11px;"><i style="orphans: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: auto; font-size: 12px;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br></span></i></div><div style="font-size: 11px;"><h3 style="font-size: 2.2em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.2em;">Join Us for an Intro to NCDD’s Website April 20th!</h3><div class="bylinebox"><a href="http://ncdd.org/20320#comments" class="comments-link" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(139, 0, 0); float: right; margin: 0px 6px 16px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; height: 14px; background-image: url(http://ncdd.org/main/wp-content/themes/ncdd2011/art/tiny_bubble_dark_red.png); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">2 Comments</a><p class="byline" style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-style: italic; color: rgb(170, 170, 170);">Posted by <a href="http://ncdd.org/author/courtney-breese" title="Posts by Courtney Breese" rel="author" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(139, 0, 0);">Courtney Breese</a> <span style="font-style: normal;">|</span> April 7th, 2016 </p></div><div class="entry" style="line-height: 1.8em;"><p style="font-size: 1.3em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On Wednesday, April 20th, in one fell swoop, you can meet NCDD’s staff, tour the website, and get a better sense of what NCDD offers its members.</p><p style="font-size: 1.3em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For the first time, all five of us will be walking new members, not-so-new members and prospective members through the whole NCDD site. You will be floored at the amount of resources, opportunities, and information available to you that you weren’t aware of!</p><p style="font-size: 1.3em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20335" src="http://ncdd.org/main/wp-content/uploads/NCDD_Staff_Pics_2016-600px.png" alt="NCDD_Staff_Pics_2016-600px" width="600" height="119" srcset="http://ncdd.org/main/wp-content/uploads/NCDD_Staff_Pics_2016-600px-150x30.png 150w, http://ncdd.org/main/wp-content/uploads/NCDD_Staff_Pics_2016-600px-300x60.png 300w, http://ncdd.org/main/wp-content/uploads/NCDD_Staff_Pics_2016-600px.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" style="border-style: none; padding: 3px 0px; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin: 6px auto 12px;"></p><p style="font-size: 1.3em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://ncdd.org/community/signup-ncddweb-intro" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(249, 56, 0);">Join us</a> on <strong>Wednesday, April 20th at 1pm Eastern (10am Pacific)</strong> for this special one-hour webinar that will help you make the most out of your NCDD membership.</p><p style="font-size: 1.3em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The entire NCDD staff will participate in this event and discuss portions of the website related to their work with NCDD. NCDD’s staff includes:</p><ul style="font-size: 12px; margin: 6px 0px 12px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 36px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin: 6px 0px;"><a href="http://ncdd.org/member?pdb=820" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(249, 56, 0) !important;">Sandy Heierbacher</a>, Director<img class="size-full wp-image-4576 alignright" src="http://ncdd.org/main/wp-content/uploads/NCDD_Logo_v2010_XSmall_Grape.png" alt="XS Purple NCDD logo" width="150" height="88" data-pin-nopin="true" style="border-style: none; float: right; padding: 3px 0px 3px 3px; margin: 0px 0px 6px 6px; display: inline;"></li><li style="margin: 6px 0px;"><a href="http://ncdd.org/member?pdb=799" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(249, 56, 0) !important;">Courtney Breese</a>, Program Director</li><li style="margin: 6px 0px;"><a href="http://ncdd.org/member?pdb=819" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(249, 56, 0) !important;">Joy Garman</a>, Office Manager</li><li style="margin: 6px 0px;"><a href="http://ncdd.org/member?pdb=504" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(249, 56, 0) !important;">Roshan Bliss</a>, Blog Curator</li><li style="margin: 6px 0px;"><a href="http://ncdd.org/member?pdb=2248" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(249, 56, 0) !important;">Keiva Hummel</a>, Resource Curator</li></ul><p style="font-size: 1.3em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto;">The five of us will walk you through the various resources and tools available to NCDD members, including our news blog, resource center, events pages, the member directory and map, the listservs, our social media, and the myriad options you have for connecting and sharing information with other members. NCDD serves as a gathering place, a resource center, a news source, and a facilitative leader for this vital community of practice, and much of our work and offerings to the field are incorporated in our website.</p><p style="font-size: 1.3em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto;">New members are especially encouraged to attend, but the call is open to ANYONE who wants to learn more or get a refresher on how to get the most out of NCDD’s website. Be sure to <a href="http://ncdd.org/community/signup-ncddweb-intro" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(249, 56, 0);">register today</a>!</p><p style="font-size: 1.3em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto;"><a href="http://ncdd.org/community/signup-ncddweb-intro" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(249, 56, 0);"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://ncdd.org/files/form_buttons/register_now_purple.png" alt="" width="206" height="42" style="border: none; padding: 3px 0px; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin: 6px auto 12px;"></a></p></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>