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Group Offers Benchmarking Benefits Through Tiered, Online Program

Associations Now

The TCA Profitability Program, run using the inGauge online platform, is an outgrowth of the organization’s Best Practice Groups, which were established in 2002 to connect eight to 14 peer companies and allow them to share their successes and challenges to help each other improve.

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Facilitation Friday #9: Build Capacity to Accomplish More

Idea Architects

Facilitators see structure as a means to an end not as the end itself or a turf to be protected at all costs. ” Engaging in this process allows individuals to see boundaries between departments, positions, and functional areas as permeable, something that must be regularly evaluated for their impact and effectiveness.

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Opening the Door to Government Members

Associations Now

Right now, we are in the process of creating a group model or structure that would more closely resemble a hybrid membership,” Adams says. “We In 2002, NIDA set a goal to bulk up government membership by piloting a free, three-year government membership category with the option to renew as a dues-paying member.

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Expos Returning to Philadelphia After Labor Contract Changes

Associations Now

The prior agreement, passed in 2002 and extended in 2013, had raised concerns for organizations holding events, many of which had given the convention center low marks. The new customer satisfaction agreement is meant to do two things: rein in the high labor costs associated with the venue and drum up new convention business.

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How to Produce Association Rock Stars for 100 Years and Beyond

Association Adviser

We want to cultivate an army of members who can teach their colleagues what they learn through GSAE, so that in the process of becoming better storytellers, their peers don’t just hear about the value of GSAE, but experience it through the acquisition of a new skill. AA: Why the focus on video and storytelling?

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

The drop in the cost and effort required to capture, edit, and deliver video has dramatically increased our ability to use it for developing educational content. For learning businesses, the rise of SaaS has meant better, lower-cost access to a wider variety of learning platform options. The E-learning Cost Cliff.

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Email Marketing Trends: What’s Hot in 2017

Associations Now

But with email, there are myriad ways to both send and receive emails, and the complicated production process can throw folks for a loop. A number of major media outlets, finding the process of making emails cumbersome and limited as far as data goes, have invested in significant amounts of technology.