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Daily Buzz: The.Org Battle Gets a Public Protest

Associations Now

On Friday, protesters will gather outside the Los Angeles offices of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)—a global nonprofit that manages the internet’s address system.

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Pop-Up Events: The Next Trend for Associations?

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One company that’s found success is Target, which started hosting them back in 2002. This was the first stop on NPB’s #PeanutPower Pop-Up Tour , which also included Chicago; Washington, DC; Los Angeles; Atlanta; and Lake Tahoe. Our pop-up stores may be temporary, but they leave quite an impression.

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Conference Circuit: Tractors Steeped in History

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Jam-packed with nearly 600 sessions and over 4,600 presenters, six sessions of the conference will be broadcast live online , and through the archives, you can watch conference sessions stretching back to 2002. (By By the way, we hear Facebook will be around.).

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Oscars Foul-Up: Lessons From Notable Event Embarrassments

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“They had a pretty simple job to do and messed it up spectacularly,” branding expert Nigel Currie said of PwC in comments to the Los Angeles Times. They will be in deep crisis talks on how to deal with it.”. If there’s a takeaway here, it should be to follow the example of La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz. The takeaway?

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Labor Tensions Cause Port Headaches for Retail, Manufacturing Industries

Associations Now

In 2002, after a 10-day work stoppage at the ports, President George W. A shipping consultant told The Los Angeles Times that the stoppage was so painful that it took 100 days for ports on the West Coast to resume normal operations.

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ASAE 2010

Association Okie

In less than a week I will be attending the American Society of Association Executives Annual Meeting and Exposition in Los Angeles. Catching up with the 2002 ASAE Future Leaders class. I can’t wait. I didn’t attend last years ASAE Annual meeting in Toronto, and I missed it greatly.

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Transportation Group Hopes Annual List Guides Infrastructure Decisions

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Cincinnati; and Los Angeles. As the trucking industry’s nonprofit research organization, ATRI has been collecting and analyzing truck GPS data since 2002. Just like last year, the number-one bottleneck on the list is Atlanta’s “spaghetti junction,” where Interstate Highways 285 and 85 North intersect. Chicago; Louisville, Ky.;