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Four Ways That Ratings Changed Video Games Forever

Associations Now

A quarter century ago this week, the video game industry responded to a threat of federal regulation by launching a trade group and introducing its own voluntary MPAA-style ratings system for games. The 1992 video game Night Trap broke a lot of ground for the gaming industry, in good ways and questionable ones. The solution worked.

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How to Drive High Donor Retention Rates with Text Messaging

Achieve

Social media: Get creative with your promotional content on social media, such as sharing a video of a volunteer explaining how to opt-in by texting your keyword to your SMS short code. With the right text messaging software, you can easily add in multimedia elements like pictures and videos to inspire audiences.

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Facilitation Friday #6: Balance Content and Process, Ideas and Action

Idea Architects

Facilitation Friday #6: Balance Content and Process, Ideas and Action. Effective facilitation must manage (or balance content and process, as well as attention to both ideas and action. The right content rushed through too quick a process is unlikely to lead to participants truly owning any commitments made.

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Interview with an Expert Series: Associate Executive Director, Myke Kudlas

Blue Sky eLearn

I first took an interest in eLearning in 2001, but became more involved in 2003, when I was the Program Director for the Mayo Clinic Jacksonville Radiography Program. When students asked for help with these concepts, I was able to point them to those videos first. Content is King” should be the motto of all associations.

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

The Surge of Video. It would be hard to exaggerate the impact that the proliferation of digital video has had since that time. Part of our pre-Tagoras experience was with University Access (later Quisic), a company that captured video of top business school professors and attempted to distribute it across the Internet.

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Bringing Credibility to the Conversation: Katie Butler, IIABA

Association Adviser

Katie has served IIABA since 2003 and has helmed the communications department since communications since 2004. Katie manages a team of six across three functional areas: editorial/content strategy, public relations and marketing. We used video in our communications minimally when I started – mainly at events.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Seen Elsewhere: Building Creative.

Idea Architects

Summary: A selection of thought-provoking content from beyond the association management realm that offers new ideas for association executives. Where TED Talks do so in a video format, ChangeThis does so by releasing attractively-designed manifestos on topics related to leadership and life. Thanks to Joe. Brain Pickings. ChangeThis.