NPMA Special Interest GroupsNING Website

Cheri Cross, CPPM CFNPMA Director of SIGs & Chair, SIG Governing Board

Jessica Dzara, CPPANPMA VP Membership & Member, SIG Governing Board

Agenda

• About SIGs• About NING site• How to Get Started• Navigating the NING site

Special Interest Groups Benefits

• Specific discipline or organization knowledge• Networking• Sharing new methods• Problem solving

About Special Interest Groups• Participation is voluntary and complimentary• Currently six SIGs in organizational & functional areas

– Contract Property– Federal Property– State and Local Government– University, Colleges and Other Non-Profits– Property Inventory– Excess Property and Disposition

What is the NING site?

• New platform for SIG discussion forums.• Interactive forum that integrates with social

media.

Why Change?

• Previous forums had limited capabilities.• NING site offers more flexibility to expand our

SIG program.

Additional Features• Discussion forums with search capabilities• Polling• Resource pages• Email SIG group• Event posting• Chat feature• Accessible via mobile apps

What about the old forums?

• The previous forums will remain active in view only mode.

GETTING STARTED

1. Sign up at http://npma-sig.ning.com/

2. Enter email, password, and verification word.

3. Enter profile information and press Join button.

4. Click SIGS menu.5. Select the SIG you would like to join.

6. Click the Join button.

SIG PAGE NAVIGATION

Discussion forums for asking and replying to questions and comments.

DiscussionForums

Add Discussion

View Topic

“Like” Topic

Reply

View Responses

Resource pages for accessing reference documents.

Resource Pages

View links to available resource documents for your SIG.

Events listing for events that are related to the SIG program.

Events

View events related to the SIG program.

Send message option to email all members of the SIG.

Send Message

Send an email to all members of your SIG.

Invite button to invite new members to the SIG.

Invite

Invite new members to join your SIG.

Chat feature to communicate with other members that are online.

Chat

Click on a name to have conversations with other members that are currently online.

Polling feature available from the Home page to start and answer polls with real time results.

View a Poll

From the SIG Home page, click View Results.

Start a Poll

From the SIG Home page, click View VoxBox.

Click Add New Poll

Start a Poll (continued)

Enter Question

Enter Possible Answers

Click Add New Poll

Search feature to lookup information on a specific subject.

Search

Enter criteria

Press Search Again

View Results

My Page

View and update profile

View latest activity, friends, events, SIGs and more.

Mobile Accessibility

Download the NING mobile app to access the SIGs from any mobile device.

HTTP://NPMA-SIG.NING.COM/

Questions

Cheri Cross, CPPM CFcrosscl@ornl.gov

Jessica Dzara, CPPAjdzara@sunflowersystems.com