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Key Takeaways from PCMA’s Convening Leaders 2020

Velvet Chainsaw

The Professional Convention Management Association’s Convening Leaders in San Francisco In early January served as an engaging and energizing way to kick off a new year and a new decade. The three stages placed in the Innovate + Elevate Arena featured sessions of various length and content. Show-floor Theaters.

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Four Community Newsletters You Need to Subscribe To

Higher Logic

Community management is a growing industry, with more resources than ever before - but sometimes it can be hard to find the golden nuggets within the ever increasing sea of content. Instead of wading through the internet to find useful information, newsletters offer a curated list of high quality content right to your inbox.

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Daily Buzz: Sky-High Inspiration for Your Next Conference

Associations Now

Also: standing out in a sea of content. The conference, which included 200 entrepreneurs, executives, and investors, started off with a special United Airlines flight from Newark to San Francisco—complete with champagne, spa treatments, high-priced giveaways, and plenty of time to mingle. “By The result? Other Links of Note.

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Florist Society’s Solution to Stress: A Little Flower Power

Associations Now

This week, SAF kicked off a new campaign with the help of an old Volkswagen bus—christened the “Flower Power Mobile”—in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, home of the 1960s hippie movement. The campaign is also making content and marketing resources available to florists who want to help their communities de-stress.

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Internet Archive Launches Program for Local Libraries

Associations Now

The Internet Archive , one of the most ambitious websites, has its eyes on the broader internet—saving sites and content, big and small, that highlight our digital history. But there are cases where librarians at the local level are simply better at saving things than the San Francisco-based archive is.

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Put Members in the Spotlight as Meeting Storytellers

Associations Now

You may want to consider a few simple storytelling strategies to create evergreen content featuring your members that will last well beyond the meeting. Its success hinged on a team of volunteer members, including one who is a podcast producer at a public radio station in San Francisco. Curated video testimonials.

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2015 Favorite Community Reads

Higher Logic

Not only does community increase member retention and growth, but it helps with content creation and humanizes your organization. If you’re like me, you were bummed not to make it to the most recent CMX Summit in San Francisco. And if they haven’t yet, they’re beginning to realize they should, since communities are here to stay.