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How the Night Sky Network can help
Use the free services of the Night Sky Network to facilitate club administration.
Streamlining and simplifying administrative activities go a long way toward making club jobs more manageable. The NASA Night Sky Network provides a variety of resources specifically designed to meet the needs of astronomy clubs and streamline club management.
For a video overview: http://NightSkyNetwork.org/about.cfm
The Night Sky Network (NSN) makes it easier to spread the club duties among several members. Using NSN to manage mailing lists, newsletter distribution, membership, outreach events, volunteer service, and your calendar can make almost any club job easier.
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Event Calendar with all info needed about an event: Location, directions, weather report, moon phase, time of sunset, basic sky map, Clear sky chart, member RSVPs
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Club event calendar widget you can snap into your website. It displays the events you added to the Night Sky Network. And it’s always up-to-date. You don’t need to burden your webmaster to keep your events current.
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Membership management including membership application, member roster, ability to keep records of membership dues paid, newsletter mailing list, event notifications, and message groups.
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Online form for the public to request events from your club (customizable with your own message)
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Free publicity for your events through widgets, apps on mobile devices, and social media. Example: Go StarGaze iPhone app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/go-stargaze/id380833895?mt=8
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Online tracking of volunteer hours
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Outreach Training Videos
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Online Astronomy Activities that illustrate concepts in astronomy clearly -- and include videos
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Online renewal of magazine subscriptions at the club discount rate
For the full manual on setting up and managing your club on the Night Sky Network: http://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/docs/HelpCoordinator.pdf
Ask one of the tech-savvy, online-oriented members in your club to help set up your club on NSN.
“With the Calendar function, Membership Roster, club look-up, and other resources, the Night Sky Network website is a ‘One Stop Shopping’ experience for club business. Further, I can attend to club business anywhere and anytime.”
For assistance with setting up your astronomy club on the Night Sky Network, contact: nightskyinfo {at} astrosociety.org
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Sharing the Universe videos are produced by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) from research conducted by the Institute for Learning Innovation, the ASP, and from astronomy clubs like yours. www.astrosociety.org/SharingTheUniverse
The Sharing the Universe project is funded by the National
Science Foundation and is supported by the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) of the National Science Foundation under Grant Number DRL 0638873. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in the material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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