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What Happens When Digital Education Reaches Your Profession/Industry?

SCD Group

Massive open online courses, which are free and have attracted hundreds of thousands of learners but offer no degree, already have forced traditional higher education to re-examine how to reach more students at lower cost.

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Conscious Computing: 7 Apps and Tips That Help You Focus, Reduce Stress, and Get Work Done

Beth Kanter

I’m facilitating and presenting on a panel session at the Opera America National Conference taking place in San Francisco this week with Guillaume DeCugis, CEO of Scoop.It and Sean Waugh, San Francisco Opera. We will, of course, share the tools in the context of best practices.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.5.20

Reid All About it

Will they have online courses instead? They’ll discuss meals, getting in and out of show floors and meeting rooms, and what the cost structure will look like for all the precautions that will be put into place. Associations’ role in the COVID-19 gap year. Will their campus be open? What other options do they have? 1 CMP credit.

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A Few Ideas to Score More Member Loyalty

Associations Now

Last month, Knowledge@Wharton shared GameStop’s story after Eric Oria, senior director of marketing strategy at GameStop, spoke at the second annual Customer Centricty Summit in San Francisco. PowerUp Pro membership costs $14.99 GameStop launched PowerUp in 2010. Before that, its predecessor loyalty program, even with 1.9

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Association Brain Food: 7.8.22

Reid All About it

If you don’t, you can cost your association a lot of time and money. We saw nearly 2,000 registrants for WEC 2022 in San Francisco in-person and online. A course to help develop practical creative and copywriting skills, professional critique techniques, and balanced brand stewardship. More info/register. Host: Fridays@4.

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Budgeting for Travel, Part 2 : Off Stage

Off Stage

Know what your members will spend in Washington, DC or San Francisco or Orlando. And of course the list of meetings and educational events goes on and on. Realtors have a lot of meetings and, fortunately for the member associations, also offer a lot of low cost training and support for association staff.

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Coronavirus Updates for Association and Events Professionals – What You Need to Know

AssociationChat

China May Be Beating the Coronavirus, at a Painful Cost (source: NY Times) March 8, 2020 – Beijing says its heavy-handed measures are working. Its campaign has come at great cost to people’s livelihoods and personal liberties. Each of the 26 future doctors under observation touched their faces an average 23 times per hour.