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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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Put Members in the Spotlight as Meeting Storytellers

Associations Now

Face-to-face communication has grown scarcer in this digital age, when emails, texts, and social media posts often replace direct, two-way conversation. You may want to consider a few simple storytelling strategies to create evergreen content featuring your members that will last well beyond the meeting. Instagram takeovers.

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A New Strategy for Event Social Media

Associations Now

At events, we use social media to engage with our attendees and to keep the hashtag flowing. Should event social media be a deeper part of the process? A new startup makes the case for social strategizing months before the event. An area where attendees can get help with social media.

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Social Media Integrated Campaign Case Study Slam: SSIR Social Media on Purpose Conference

Beth Kanter

Last week, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating the ultimate social media practitioner panel at the Social Media on Purpose Conference hosted by Stanford Social Innovation Review. James Nickerson , Social Media Strategist, San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. ” Yes!

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L&M website on social media platform

L&M Association Management

Following the successful launch of one of our clients ( IIIP ) on Movable Type (MT), we continue our learning on this robust social media platform by upgrading our own site to MT. As with the IIIP site, we needed to reevaluate our content for the expanded capabilities of this context-based social media environment.

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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.

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Better Connected: Engaging Virtual Meeting Attendees

Associations Now

What we found with the online community is they get great content, but they don’t get to see the hands-on stuff, and that’s often what’s most inspiring for these folks.”. So we’re doing this as an experimental thing to try to get more engagement on the non-session content.”