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How an Iowa Business Association Gets Members Prepped for the Caucus

Associations Now

With candidates taking over the state in the months ahead of the Iowa Caucus, the Iowa Association of Business and Industry has offered resources to help the employees of members understand the process. After months and months of buildup, we’re finally in the midst of the 2020 primaries, starting with the Iowa caucus on February 3.

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Association Brain Food: 12.8.23

Reid All About it

Mark Lowry at Association Analytics shares helpful member retention strategies. The Data Bunch will cover must-have insights and strategies from data governance to analytics. Explore practical tips and strategies to initiate your data hygiene journey. Bulletin describes how a member app helps you nurture member engagement.

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Opening the Door to Government Members

Associations Now

In some fields, associations can’t fully carry out their mission of guiding smart policy and facilitating information exchange if government employees aren’t part of their membership community. Some groups are reexamining their membership strategies to bring down that barrier.

Iowa 40
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These Conference Presentation Myths Cramp The Attendee Experience

Velvet Chainsaw

Most conference organizers see attendees as consumers of the conference’s information. Then secure speakers that provide a variety of presentation strategies including active attendee participation. In the call for speaker proposals, ask potential presenters to identify the type of learning strategies they plan to use.

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Five Myths Of Interactive, Participatory Learning For STEM Conferences

Velvet Chainsaw

Dr. Doug Jacobson, Dr. James Davis and Dr. Barb Licklider created a program called LEA/RN (Learning Enhancement Action/Resource Network) at Iowa State University in 1994. Cooperative, collaborative learning is learning in small groups, triads or pairs to ensure active cognitive processing of information during a lecture.

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Serving Your Professional Community for Impact

Association Adviser

If you’re Matt Loeb, CGEIT, FASAE, CAE, chief executive officer of ISACA (once known as the Information Systems Audit and Control Association), you begin with your association’s core values and a determination to do everything possible to personally support your community. What is an association to do?

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GR Pro: It’s Time for Associations to Gear Up for 2016

Associations Now

New for 2016 Advances in technology and social media made the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections seem like two completely different races strategy-wise. With the rise of things like Meerkat and Periscope, how are those kinds of tools going to be used to livestream different pieces of information?”

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