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Conference Circuit: Lights On

Associations Now

The National Association of Independent Lighting Distributors’ 2016 Annual Conference will begin in San Antonio this weekend. Lighting distributors and manufacturers are headed to San Antonio to network, share ideas and business tactics, and learn how advances in the industry will affect their businesses moving forward.

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Earning Media for Associations in the New Age

Association Adviser

For example, recently the American Marketing Association created its first Intellectual Agenda, in which it defined “The Seven Big Problems in the Marketing Industry”. Stacy Armijo is Senior Vice President for Pierpont Communications and General Manager of the firm’s Austin and San Antonio offices. About The Author.

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How Do I Get My Nonprofit’s CEO To Use Twitter or other Social Media?

Beth Kanter

Teach Them How To Be Twitter Literate: Your organization’s brand communication strategy will complement your CEO’s use of Twitter. “You have to show not just tell your CEO about social media”- @carolynsave “Create a tweetorial” – @kanter #afpshift pic.twitter.com/zKggoMllYB.

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Happy, Healthy 2016: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth Kanter

Published the Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook. Year in Review. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Why Can’t the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector Scale Generosity? #givedaylessons

Beth Kanter

We can’t let community foundations and nonprofits abandon giving days, online digital strategies, or trying to scale local giving. Technology experts offered their analysis (see the end of this article in the local San Antonio newspaper titled “ From Big Give to Big Crash “) Others offer their analysis.

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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth Kanter

I also gave a plenary talk at AFP in San Antonio, Texas. I worked with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to design, development and facilitate training on how staff can leverage professional networks for learning and in service of strategy, including a special session training your attention online.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 1.13.17

Reid All About it

It’s that time of year – your chance to participate in the industry’s most comprehensive study on membership marketing. For the ninth year in a row, Marketing General Incorporated (MGI) is conducting its Membership Marketing Benchmarking Survey. Host: Grit Marketing. 3 Strategies to Future-Proof Your Association.