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Association Brain Food: 8.25.23

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. Too much has changed, including what you’re really selling, attention spans, the need for keynotes, and new abnormal patterns. Oprah Winfrey Online programs. AI prompts.

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Say Goodbye to These Conference Elements

Associations Now

For the past few years, I’ve focused my end-of-year blog post on what issues meeting planners should keep in mind or trends they should consider implementing as they go about the next 365 days. At RSA Conference, a major cybersecurity event in April, 19 of the 20 keynote speakers were men. Shiny New Technology” Syndrome.

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Thanks For Playing: You Say You Want a Revolution

Thanks For Playing

Theres a bit of a fracas currently occurring around the selection of James Carville and Karl Rove as opening keynoters for the 2012 ASAE Annual Meeting. In every protest movement, from the largest (the Occupy movement , justice for Trayvon Martin ) to the current ASAE contretemps, theres the initial, "Im outraged!

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Thanks For Playing: Sections Instead of Breakouts

Thanks For Playing

On the other hand, we all gripe about conferences we attend where all the speakers are volunteers. Some of the speakers arent very good, and a lot of the content is shallow or too basic, people seem ill-prepared, the slides are bad, etc. It's really nice for a half-day or one-day event. Top association management Blogs.

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Tuesday Buzz: Fix Your Event’s Gender Balance

Associations Now

Apple took a big step toward boosting diversity at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) yesterday, but the event industry as a whole has a long way to go. Jennifer Bailey and Susan Prescott were actually the first female Apple execs to show up on a WWDC stage since t he launch of the first iPhone. Blogging on Frank J.

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