Higher Logic

AUGUST 17, 2016

Have you heard of Google’s nap pods ? What about Yahoo’s offer of free food for employees? These types of workplace perks are everywhere these days, but they may actually be harming your organization. What is the benefit of benefits? These perks are meant to reflect a culture that helps employers recruit and retain top-rate talent to their organizations.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 17, 2016

Astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly say the toughest challenges are the most rewarding. For associations, here’s a list of the “hard things” that will deliver membership success. Earlier this week, a pair of astronauts offered association executives advice and inspiration on how to “do the hard things.” As my colleague Emily Bratcher reported Sunday from the 2016 ASAE Annual Meeting & Expo in Salt Lake City, opening keynote speakers and former NASA astronauts Mark a

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Association Adviser

AUGUST 17, 2016

While at the ASAE Annual Meeting & Expo in Salt Lake City earlier this week, we had the chance to sit down with John Graham , president and CEO of ASAE , to talk about the meeting itself and how associations can better serve their membership. An excerpt of that interview appears below. Check back later this month for the full interview. ASSOCIATION ADVISER: Having two astronauts as opening keynote speakers was an intriguing choice for this type of gathering.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 17, 2016

Despite a link between cancer and the often-challenging work of being a firefighter, South Carolina had nothing in the way of data to show the potential health risks firefighters face. But an association in the state is looking to build a database of its own, thanks in part to a local news report. It’s clear to many that firefighters face some risk of cancer later in life, but at least in one state, that risk has never been properly analyzed.

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Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 17, 2016

Let’s face it! For too long we have settled for too little from our conferences and annual meetings. We have allowed our past planning procedures, our structures and outdated traditions to hinder and handicap our conference creativity, innovation and uniqueness. We have allowed our conferences to creak along unchanged, year after year. This webinar is for those conference professionals and meeting leaders that want to see their events become everything they can be.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 17, 2016

The Colorado Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association saw the bind new federal regulations were putting its members in and reacted accordingly: by holding mock FDA food safety inspections. The Colorado Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association (CFVGA) is holding mock inspections for members in the wake of sweeping new federal Food and Drug Administration regulations.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 17, 2016

Sensing an opportunity with The Angry Birds Movie to get children focused on exercise, the American Heart Association is teaming with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment to encourage kids to stay active. The Angry Birds Movie , released to theaters in May, was a decent-sized hit, but (like many kids’ movies) its real legacy is likely to show itself on home video in the years to come.

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