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LeveLLingUp Life in 2018 - Part 2

Principled Innovation

It is November 2017 and I am boarding a flight home from a conference in the USA. 2 - Get Published In 2001, we were newly arrived in New Zealand for my first CEO job and had with us our first born son. I was tired and feeling like s**t. This of course was impacting those around me too. Get in shape. Get published. Get a new job. #2

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A Spotlight on 10 Top Impact Investors Driving Social Change

NXUnite

You can also join impact investing conferences and networking events. It was founded as part of a United Nations initiative in 2001 as the first commercial manager of microfinance debt investment worldwide. Since 2001, they’ve invested in mission-driven solutions and now have $3.1

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Conferences Are Providing Inferior Education Through Lectures

Velvet Chainsaw

Conferences are providing inferior education if all they provide is didactic, presenter monologue lectures. If all your attendees do is sit and listen passively to speakers, you’re providing bad conference education! Conferences Need To Take The Lecture Research Seriously. But conferences have been slow to make the change.

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You’ve Got to Read This: January 18, 2011

Reid All About it

Manila protest January 2001 ~ flickr photo by M.a.c.a.r.o.n.i. Tagged: Association , Conference , Innovation , Marketing , Social Networking , Web and Social Media , Writing. His reasoning applies to more than only events, think organizations too.

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The Safest Time in Human History

Virtual

When we started implementing online collaboration solutions in 2001, they were expensive. Today, some annual subscription plans for online collaboration and networking solutions cost less than sending one person to an association conference on the other side of the globe. But not so any more.

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David Beckett Joins the Velvet Chainsaw Team

Velvet Chainsaw

From 2001 to 2018, he led the Registration and Housing teams for Experient/Maritz. VCC is laser-focused on serving large and complex conferences and tradeshows. He has never met a P&L, process map or spreadsheet he didn’t like. I trust him. In 2018, he relocated his family to Seattle and joined the leadership team at Eventcore.

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Amid Rural Broadband Weak Spots, Nonprofits Offer Last-Mile Help

Associations Now

Nonprofit groups working to change that include Native Public Media , which is taking part in an upcoming ICANN conference, and the Southern California Tribal Chairmen’s Association. SCTCA’s Tribal Digital Village program has been active since 2001 and has connected more than half of tribal lands in San Diego County to broadband.