Higher Logic

JULY 7, 2016

Whether you’re a community professional, or looking to hire someone to run your community, it’s important to reflect on what makes community managers successful. Sure, they need some inherent characteristics, like an interest in online communities and a comfort with technology. But, beyond the basics, what makes a community manager successful? Just as there are thousands of unique communities in the world, there are an equal number of unique community professionals making sure they work.

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Association Adviser

JULY 7, 2016

Eryn Underwood, Naylor Association Solutions. Despite popular sentiment that millennials are disinterested in joining traditional professional associations, young people are uniquely positioned to benefit from association membership in important ways. Many of the things millennials (those born between 1980 and 2000) value most, including connection, collaboration and community outreach, can be integral aspects of membership.

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Associations Now

JULY 7, 2016

For the first time ever, health groups agree that toxic chemicals in food, air, and everyday household products are putting children at risk for neurodevelopmental disorders. “This is truly an historic agreement,” said Irva Hertz-Picciotto, environmental epidemiologist at UC Davis and codirector of Project TENDR, in a press release. “It’s the first time so many leaders in public health, science, and medicine agree on the message from the scientific evidence: that toxic chemicals are

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Slice-Works

JULY 7, 2016

© Thinkstock. How often do you interact with creative firms? Do you outsource to a creative firm or agency for your business’ graphic and website design? How has your experience been, working with creatives? Do you find them unpredictable, inconsistent? Since 2004, we have polished an approach, called the Campaign Development Process , to take the mystery out of the creative.

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Associations Now

JULY 7, 2016

If you want more attendees at your next event, it’s important to lay the strategic groundwork. Also: a snazzy camera that could someday be a necessary design tool. Your events are awesome, but wouldn’t they be significantly more awesome if you had more people? If you want to grow your attendee list, you have to be thinking in terms of strategy, Amanda Simmons writes over at MemberSuite’s blog, The Modern Association.

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Associations Now

JULY 7, 2016

Rundown Attendees: 2,000. Breakout sessions: 150. The American School Counselor Association’s 2016 Annual Conference begins in New Orleans this weekend. About 2,000 K-12 school counselors, college professors, graduate students, and counseling supervisors will make their way to Crescent City to enhance their knowledge, improve their school-counseling programs, and network with colleagues to discover best practices in the field.

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Associations Now

JULY 7, 2016

The Historic Chicago Bungalow Association, a community group focused on keeping the look of Chicago’s historic houses in check, is taking on a developer who is renovating homes in a way unacceptable to the association. Just because your association is small and locally focused doesn’t mean you can’t launch a viral campaign. That’s an important lesson to take from #StopThePop, an initiative of the Historic Chicago Bungalow Association (HCBA), which recently launched a camp

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Associations Now

JULY 7, 2016

Recent actions in the northeastern U.S. suggest that momentum is growing against noncompete clauses, which critics argue unfairly limit employee mobility and career prospects. At least one labor group has started up specifically to challenge a Massachusetts tech company’s use of the clauses. The subscription-based legal news publication Law360 and the provolone-cheese-friendly sandwich chain Jimmy John’s seem to have little in common.

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