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Kids Skate Free: Association-Managed Cause Marketing Campaign

SCD Group

Kids Skate Free represents a great example of a locally-initiated, association-managed cause marketing campaign that benefits a struggling industry. And six skating centers started the Kids Skate Free program which Roller Skating Association International acquired in 2015. (“We I love the strategic thinking behind Kids Skate Free!

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Leveraging strategy to amplify education initiatives

Aaron Wolowiec

Despite bad press, Detroit offers countless examples of what’s working. Case in point, the “Super Bowl of Conferences” will be held here in 2015. For starters, meetings are not only safe and thriving, a transformation is happening here more rapidly than at any other time in history.

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

Facebook (founded 2004), LinkedIn (2002), and Twitter (2006) were still in their infancy at the point when we founded Tagoras, and sites like Instagram (2010) and TikTok (2016) had yet to come along. Google introduced Google Cardboard—basically a no-cost virtual reality headset—in 2015. billion acquisition in 2015.

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