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How One Association Handled an Active Shooter Incident in Conference City

Associations Now

RIMS sent out emails, and LaBranche recorded a video that was posted to the conference homepage. Another step it’s taken is tightening security around next year’s conference in San Diego, hiring extra security to ensure that only conference badge holders have access to the facility. We’d only use it for an emergency situation.”

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How a Local Restaurant Association Is Making Taco Tuesday for Everyone

Associations Now

That’s part of our agenda here, is to really illuminate the Orange County restaurant industry, which can be challenging when you’re sandwiched between Los Angeles and San Diego,” Waitt said. In a news release, Waitt characterized the group’s role as “peacemaker.”.

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2016: An Association Blogging and Podcasting Odyssey

Spark Consulting

I remember participating in my first bloggercon at ASAE in a sunny plaza in San Diego in 2008, shortly after I’d launched Thanks For Playing, the precursor to the Spark blog, with about 30 other association professionals, sharing our thoughts about how to use this new platform to strengthen our industry and our community.

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10 Secrets of Online Course Design from Award-Winning MOOCs

WBT Systems

Typically, a MOOC features a course syllabus, in this case, a ten-week lesson plan with assigned reading (poems), instructor-created video content, discussion forum, peer-reviewed writing assignments, and quizzes. 3 – Feature unscripted video group discussions. Barbara Oakley of UC San Diego.

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BIO International Convention 2020: Taking an International 17,000 Attendee Conference Virtual in Under 8 Weeks

Achurch

This year’s convention was scheduled to take place in San Diego, June 8-11, 2020. They had the text communication box open and many of the speakers were online live while the video was playing to interact with attendees and answer questions. HUBB offered functionality whereby attendees could not fast forward through the “ads.”

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Carole Baskin is killing it in marketing: How the non-profit in ‘Tiger King’ dominates digital strategy

Association Success

Cat videos were always among the viral hits on the Internet, so it’s no surprise that big cats also drive people wild. Did you know you can upload a video to your Facebook cover photo ? Well, how about this: The San Diego Zoo is literally the No. Wait, but they are professionally produced videos ,” you say!

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5 ways to communicate the value of your membership

Optimist Consulting

The Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego has a visually appealing grid to help members understand the different levels. Use your members the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the Society for Technical Communication both offer great videos of members talking about the value of membership. Try something different.

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