Thus, if you can design a trivia night fundraiser such that it raises money and is exciting enough that people would choose to participate in it even if they didn’t support your cause, it can become a successful recurring fundraising event. If you’ve never attended a trivia night, check out the video below (skip to 0:51) to see how one English pub in Los Angeles, California, successfully runs its trivia night. Lots of bars and pubs hold trivia nights. For those who are unfamiliar, these are events in which teams of people gather to socialize, eat, drink

The four 60-minute webinars (at 11 am Pacific time) are: October 22 - Designing a Social Media Strategy for Change October 29 - Blogging and Beyond: Tools to Build Your Movement November 12 - Twitteracy for Social Marketers November 19 - Monitoring and Evaluating Social Media If you are interested, but can't make a particular event live, you can always view the archived events and ask me any questions afterward. For more information about the webinars and to register, see the Social Marketing University Online page. Recently, more attention is being paid to applying design

One that was just held just last week in Austin, Texas, the Graphical System Design Achievement Awards at NIWeek, included categories such as Mechatronics, Robotics and Control; Embedded Design; and Communications and Wireless. big congratulations goes out to TREW customer Cal-Bay Systems of San Rafael, California, for taking first place in the Production Automated Test Equipment (ATE) category. In technical B2B markets, oftentimes through manufacturer and industry conferences, there are associated technical paper contests that recognize outstanding applications in a variety of categories.