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Bridging The Education to Employment Gap Will Take An Industry-Wide Movement

Association Success

My interest in this topic was piqued in 2012 when the McKinsey Center for Government released a report entitled Education to Employment: Designing a System That Works. Shelly Alcorn, who was producing a vodcast at the time, invited me to talk about how the findings of the report might affect associations.

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Eric Lanke: The Mind of the Community

Eric Lanke

Monday, January 30, 2012. The Mind of the Community. At a recent WSAE meeting I was asked to explain what we meant in our white paper on Innovation for Associations when we referred to the "mind of community." Had I had a copy of the white paper with me, I could have quoted from it directly.

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Transforming your community into a collaborative learning environment

Aaron Wolowiec

4, I had the pleasure of presenting a breakout session on collaborative learning environments during the 2012 Higher Logic Super Forum. Discussion boards/online communities. Program outlines/white papers. You must then communicate and share this content with others. Online community. Audio/video recordings.

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Why aren’t members opening your emails?

Higher Logic

Especially when a big part of your job is communicating to members through email -- depending on your industry and the types of emails you send, what’s considered good open rates can look pretty low. Real-life example: “Hey” -- Obama for America, 2012. Getting people to open emails can be a frustrating, fruitless task. Keep it short.

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Study: Federal Employees Skipping Conferences More Often

Associations Now

“Connecting With Government Customers in an Era of Event and Travel Restrictions,” a new white paper by Market Connections and Boscobel Marketing Communications, reports that federal employees are going to fewer events, agencies are running fewer events, and contractors and other stakeholders are feeling the effects.

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SCD Group: Why Content is Gold for Associations & Nonprofits

SCD Group

Sunday, August 12, 2012. In fact, from a marketing communications perspective, investment in quality content is better than gold because, unlike gold, the value of quality content to your communications efforts rarely fluctuates or goes down. September 4-6, 2012. Causeaholic. AMR Management Services. Columbus, Ohio.

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The Hourglass Blog: Association Advantages for Innovation

The Hourglass Blog

Heres part three of the "innovation for associations" white paper Im helping to write while chairing the Innovation Task Force for the Wisconsin Society of Association Executives. Communication. ► 2012. (1). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Saturday, August 28, 2010. Association Advantages for Innovation. at 8:22 PM.