Associations Now

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Could exhibiting costs be keeping smaller companies and startups from your tradeshow? Some thoughts on wooing these exhibitors, who may offer ideas and innovations that your members need to be successful long term. After all, tradeshows are a huge source of nondues revenue. percent from booth fees.

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Associations Now

JULY 26, 2017

For those who haven’t been paying attention, video gaming is on the brink of becoming a super-fandom e-sport , and it’s an excellent case study in how organizations can tap fans and turn them into influencers. “We Williams defines influencers as people who can create a movement based on the passion and support of the community around them.

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Association Briefings

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Then, it starts to serve up similar articles in subsequent publications, specific to their learned “interests.” In an AI-driven world, one of your board members, who happens to have clicked on a number of benchmarking articles in the last few weeks, is delivered an article on “Benchmarking Your Business During a Global Pandemic.”

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Wayman, who died earlier this month at 92, was the person who did the most to spearhead the modern Consumer Electronics Show, one of the world’s most celebrated tradeshows. Wayman, who died September 2 at the age of 92, was one of the key figures in the rise of the tradeshow as a massive, industry-scoping event.

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Associations Now

JULY 7, 2014

With a large-scale post-event donation to food banks across New York City and the launch of a new foundation, the Specialty Food Association is using its members’ upscale feasts to help feed those who struggle to make ends meet. We normally don’t deliver $30-a-pound cheese or pate. The upscale leftovers found a good home.

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Association Briefings

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Social channels have become the one-stop shop for someone to catch up with family and friends, read the latest news, engage with like-minded individuals, and interact with advertisers who know their buying habits. Capture the excitement on a tradeshow floor or various networking events. How Can We Help? You get the picture.

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Associations Now

APRIL 18, 2013

A company targeting tradeshow attendees with fraudulent mailings and invoices is under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission after ASAE and other organizations brought the scam to the agency’s attention last summer. Those who challenge the invoice are told the order cannot be canceled. Graham IV, CAE. “We

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Associations Now

JUNE 7, 2013

And for those in the meetings or event industry, I’m sure there’s been a time when you’ve been onsite somewhere and thought, “Wow, if only I add this staff position, it would make a huge difference and really allow us to serve attendees and exhibitors better.”. Last week I blogged about how tradeshow design drives connections for attendees.

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Reid All About it

MAY 29, 2020

WBT shares ideas for using what you learn during reboarding to better serve members. Quick hits before we get to the list of this week’s free education: A funny one (or scary one, depending on your employment situation) from S**t Nonprofits Say on Twitter. We’ll also touch on the tech because we know it’s on your mind!

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.orgCommunity

DECEMBER 6, 2017

We are in a period of major disruption that requires more robust responses to change. Those with digital offices embrace processes that connect data and people who transform that data into useful information to enable decisions. There’s a rising tide of younger association members who embrace rapidly evolving media technologies.

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

As we considered how to build a digital platform, it became clear there were two paths to choose from: build it or buy it,” PMMI President and CEO Charles D. We didn’t go into the process thinking about acquiring a publishing house. We went in thinking about supporting our strategic plan, our members, their customers, and our industry.

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Associations Now

MAY 4, 2015

It was surprising to see this action taken, and certainly for the folks who are first on the list,” he says. Within that event, you’re out in the open—you have consumers, you have developers, you have [managers of] current courses, doing things that you might see at a regular tradeshow domestically,” he says. “At

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Associations Now

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Revisiting a story he shared with Associations Now in 2008, he describes a nonprofit that wanted to boost its fortunes by pouring half its reserves into tradeshow that would compete with the biggest competitor in its industry. But the story suggests that we need a different way of thinking about competitiveness. OK, not quite.

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Associations Now

MAY 15, 2015

How one Orlando tradeshow became host to a world-record attempt that involved a lot of mattresses—as well as an important cause. “Thanks to the help of our friends in the industry, today, we made history for a purpose,” Serta CEO Gary Fazio said in a news release. Also: Mitt Romney, charity boxer. Other Links of Note.

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Associations Now

JULY 26, 2013

It’s just as important for any other staff member, including those who are holding down the fort back at the office, to have the meeting details they need to keep customer service at the highest level possible. I fully admit that one or more of these are things we do here at ASAE.). Hold a pep rally. Arm staff with information.

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Association Briefings

JUNE 22, 2021

The company’s 16-episode “ Open for Business ” podcast is told in a journalistic/interview style, and focuses on entrepreneurs who grew their business from an idea to a full-fledged company. Seriously, who better to tell your association’s story than your members? How Can We Help? Take a page out of eBay’s podcasting book.

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Delcor

OCTOBER 3, 2018

It’s a viable option for people who would rather attend an event remotely instead of spending time and money flying to a conference or tradeshow. We shipped the Beam to the event site in Chicago. Many exhibitors at this event serve drinks. The telepresence experience is nothing like attending a virtual conference.

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Associations Now

APRIL 17, 2015

Groups that represent members, advocate for industries, and give a collective voice to those who need one are pretty common these days—but they had to start somewhere. You probably know your association’s history like the back of your hand, but do you know the history of the tradeshow? The history of tradeshows in the U.S.

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Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 9, 2013

To make sure we are all on the same page, here are the definitions of outboarding and suitcasing as defined by IAEE: Outboarding : The result of a third party’s organization of an event in proximity to but not sanctioned by an existing exhibition. It’s not just small businesses who are guilty of suitcasing and outboarding!

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Associations Now

AUGUST 30, 2013

New technology not only helps attendees better navigate your conferences and tradeshows but also helps your association deliver an enhanced attendee experience now and in the years ahead. We think the association could recuperate its costs at the very least, and quite possibly add positive revenue.

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Reid All About it

JULY 15, 2022

Over the last couple of years, we have seen #ShopSmall get the attention it deserves. Watch presentations from a limited number of industry partners who offer mobile platforms. Get a behind-the-scenes look at how the ISCB team conceived and developed Nucleus to serve its community between events. Mon 7/18 at 1 p.m. – Host: ASAE.

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Associations Now

JULY 20, 2016

This triggered some cost comparisons among users between Evernote and its emerging competitors , but a more critical reaction came from Tom Petrocelli at CMS Wire , who argued that Evernote’s changes reveal the fundamental faults in the freemium business model itself. It’s a built-in problem. …. It’s a built-in problem. ….

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 10, 2013

We are rethinking and reimagining all of our traditional institutions. Our conferences are being reinvented by people who don’t follow the accepted practices and unspoken rules. We have no control over the outcomes. This includes the meetings industry’s traditional conference. They are moving meetings’ cheese!

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 7, 2013

Yet, our conferences still serve up generic content for the masses. We Notice When Personalization Is Absent. Three millennials (two males and one female) also served on the committee. We have to change the dialogue from “It can’t” to “What will it take to make this happen? Change The Dialogue.

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Velvet Chainsaw

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Conference hosts and organizers try to minimize transition time and frown upon speakers who request more collaborative room sets that allow attendees to interact and move about in the room. We line up attendees in theater room sets like cans on grocery store shelves. In short, we have fostered the civic empowerment gap.

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Associations Now

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

“When we study the number of benefits that are essential to the decision to join or engage, most of our clients are astounded by how small the number is,” West wrote in a post in ASAE’s Collaborate discussion forum two weeks ago [member login required]. It becomes the new “way we’ve always done it.”

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Associations Now

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Like everybody who begins working at an association, I quickly learned that meetings are an essential part of what an association does. “It has a very high return on investment because we are a convener of these great minds, and that’s great brand positioning.” ” Everything you do has a value attached to it.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 11, 2013

They were work friends and we had deep bonds. We picked right back up where we left off and it was if we had never stopped communicating. Most of the time we walk away from networking sessions with a handful of business cards thinking about who we can pounce on to get our next business.

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Association Adviser

JULY 16, 2013

“Even exhibit staffers who are well-versed in your products and services do not know everything about the exhibition, the attendees, the exhibit hall, the target market, and the finer points of the exhibit layout and promotional props available for their use.” So we delivered sessions that provided solutions to those areas.”

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Reid All About it

JUNE 15, 2018

As a result, many colleges are turning their attention to the adult/lifelong learning market—the same market associations serve. Another smarty pants who says GDPR has a silver lining —this time it’s Robert Rose from the Content Marketing Institute. The company had been a supporter for many years and serves many of you members.

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AMR Management Services

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Boiled down, the same is true when we look at ASAE studies like Decision to Join. Associations serve as platforms, vehicles for like-minded people with specialized interests to interact and learn. In March 2006, a small team of people started working on a prototype of the service that we now know as Twitter.

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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

I served it over brown and Japonica black rice that I made in the pressure cooker with chicken broth and sautéed onion and garlic. Membership Mondays: Renewals and Lapsed Member Win-Back Join us as we hear from two guest speakers that they have been successful in renewal and lapsed member win-back campaigns. More info/register.

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AssociationChat

JUNE 28, 2020

While I am no longer updating this list daily, I will continue to update this list with helpful links to news and resources I’ve found that could impact how association and events professionals make decisions as we look to the horizon. We hope you can leverage this data to design strategies that add value to both you and your customers.

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AssociationChat

APRIL 15, 2020

Obviously, since that time, we now have no gatherings at all as we weather the storm of COVID-19. I will continue to update this list with helpful links to news and resources I’ve found that could impact how association and events professionals make decisions as we look to the horizon. Harris, M.D., Nobody knows anything.

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Executive Connections

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Today we vote on a proposed new name, the Association for Strategic Knowledge Professionals.  The first said he, “could not do his job without the help of the information professionals" who, in their company, are intentionally titled researchers and not librarians.  Today is the beginning of an historic vote for SLA.

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BlogClump

AUGUST 27, 2010

I was asked by my company to act as Tradeshow Manager this time around which means I found myself responsible for all booth logistics. As someone outside of DC, I see those postings on the list serve and I'm always envious of those who have the chance to go. trust me, trust me, trust me -- we are listening.

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