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Women’s Hockey Association Launches Dream Gap Tour

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Starting next month, PWHPA will head to Toronto, Chicago, and New Hampshire where 80 of its players to compete against one another in four-team tournaments, with more potential events planned in other hockey hot spots such as Buffalo, New York, and Southern California.

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Wednesday Buzz: Facebook Ups Its Events Game

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“You can think about it like a weekend or weekly digest of cool stuff that you can do in your city,” Facebook Events Product Manager Aditya Koolwai explained to TechCrunch. Following the trending topics controversy , Facebook will likely be careful in its selection of events. Are we seeing the democratization of event planning?

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Friday Buzz: How McDonald’s Scored Big With Its Corporate Event

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That inventiveness extends to its event planning. Every two years, the company puts on a Worldwide Convention in Orange County, California, and it tried a new approach to promote the event this year: Rather than simply launching an event site on its intranet, it created a content-heavy Facebook-style news feed.

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Compare Association Management Software Platforms

GrowthZone

Headquartered in Austin, TX with other locations in Chicago, IL, Maitland, FL, McLean, VA, Atlanta, GA, Boston, MA. Software includes membership management, event registration, website, and community features. Additional features include: Fundraising/CRM, Accounting Software, Web Hosting, and Learning Management System (LMS).

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 3.25.22

Reid All About it

Because I used 3 pounds of boneless pork shoulder (aka Boston butt), I doubled the marinade/sauce ingredients—and added a hefty amount of spicy sambal oelek to the mix. Before embarking on your hybrid event planning journey, you need to ask yourself a few key questions: What is the goal of your event? 1 CMP credit.

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Social Media Roundup: Avoid These Marketing Mishaps

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Here are a few non-tech event trends to expect in 2014. And when you’re looking to improve your event planning or marketing—as well as identify what not to do—where better to look than at some of 2013’s biggest marketing mishaps? Plus: Roll out the red carpet! There’s a something important to be learned from every oops.

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3 Tech-Savvy Tips for Nonprofit Virtual Fundraising Events

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From posting event news to sharing information regarding your cause, a mobile event app easily facilitates this transfer of information. . There are also a few trendier event technologies that are currently taking the event planning world by storm. adding a new dimension to attendees’ digital event experience.

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