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Association Subculture: Suicide and Generation X - The Association.

Association Subculture

Suicide and Generation X - The Association Management HR Dilemma. However, in 2006, rates of suicide among persons aged 45--54 years in the United States surpassed those for persons aged ≥80 years. Shelly kept up the fast pace by diving head-long into her career in the world of association management.

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The Hourglass Blog: Learning Innovation from the Mayo Clinic

The Hourglass Blog

Born in 2006 as the brainchild of Dr. Nick LaRusso, the CFI was first called the SPARC Lab (with the acronym standing for its methodology: see, plan, act, refine, and communicate). It seems that more and more of the typical associations products and services are being outsourced these days. Association Management.

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The Hourglass Blog: The GenX Bridge

The Hourglass Blog

What follows is a guest post from the first such professional to take me up on that offer-- Je nnifer Alluisi , Director of Educational Programs at Custom Management Group , an accredited association management company in Charlotteville, Virginia. I’ve seen these attitudes recently in one of the associations I work with.

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The Hourglass Blog: A Prescription for Innovation

The Hourglass Blog

One thing we discovered early on was that everyone in our self-selected group of volunteers that make up the WSAE Innovation Task Force—all association execs and staffers of one stripe or another—had a slightly different perspective on what innovation was and what it should be doing inside their associations. Management.

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

billion in 2006—about a year and a half after YouTube was founded—we all should have known something big was a foot. The Spread of Social. What’s happened over the past 15 years, of course, is that social media has become a deeply ingrained part of everyday life for billions of people globally. The Surge of Video.

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Stronger by Association: Battle for Relevance: How Twitter, HBR and.

AMR Management Services

So if a platform comes along that can provide professional networking and knowledge sharing as a benefit, that might be a threat to the association model? Although I think we’re all tired of hearing the fear and dread about how social media will kill the association – I don’t think that’s true.

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The Hourglass Blog: We're All Millennials Now

The Hourglass Blog

The article defines the generations this way: Veterans: Workers who preceded the baby boomers tend to be authoritarian and loyal, and they value wisdom gained from experience over technological expertise. They have no problem using technology, having entered the work force just as computers were becoming mainstream. Management.