As part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month, the November issue of NTEN Connect will be compiled from Member submissions, which are beginning to flow in.

Amy Sample Ward, Communications and Learning Associate for the Meyer Memorial Trust, says,

"Readytalks's free online tutorials are a great resource for nonprofits to jump on board with great new media tools like podcasts!"

Marc Baizman, Project Manager for NPower NY, offers two suggestions:

• Yugma: "It's free web conferencing that just works. I use it with clients and team members all the time. No heavy client installers, and it's FREE."
• Jing: "Screencasting for the rest of us. Instead of writing long documents that no one reads, I do a 5 minute jing and it's done. Time limited (5 min max) and only in beta, but seems to work very well."

Finally, Dr. Jerry Field, of the Illinois Institute of Technology, thinks that many IT professionals may be closer to earning a degree than they might think:

"Many IT professionals may not have completed their bachelor degree and would like to do so. IT professionals have a number of certifications and may qualify for this [IIT] special program."

You can start the process with an e-mail to Dr. Field.

Send submissions of your own to editor@nten.org.