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Why email success starts with a clean subscriber list

Association Success

Way back when, before the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 , we were able to send out emails with the voracity of water coming out of a firehose. Since 2003, additional legislation regulating how businesses manage customer data has been enacted. This is actually a good thing. Clean and Compliant. Emails with fraudulent domains.

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Serve Versus Sell: How to Negotiate Associations’ Dual Roles

Associations Now

These nonprofit organizations aim to prepare disadvantaged individuals to re-enter the workforce by employing them in a for-profit economic operation, from which the revenues are used to support training and rehabilitation services for those employees. A Duel of Dual roles. Where would membership fit? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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

Idea Architects

Some of the most popular manifestos include: " How To Be Creative," " Leading Transformation and Captivating Communities ," " The Personal MBA: Mastering Business Without Spending a Fortune ," and " Why Your Boss is Programmed to be a Dictator." How Secure is Your Professional Development Revenue Stream? Oct 2003 (1).

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Don’t Let Your Tech Resiliency Fall by the Wayside

Associations Now

But a lot of music disappeared from the internet after the social network MySpace revealed that it had lost all of the music uploaded to its site between 2003 and 2015. OK, maybe you weren’t in a college band—maybe that was your roommate in the dorms. That’s a lot of MP3s—and a lot of culture—lost in one fell swoop. What the heck happened?

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Political Black Swans: Ignore Them at Your Association’s Peril

Association Success

In 2003, widespread protest broke out around me in Azerbaijan, a country formerly part of the Soviet Union. So if we can’t predict black swans, how can we manage them? Creating strategies for unforeseen risks: An organization can protect itself by creating strategies for how to deal with unforeseen risks.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 3.13.20

Reid All About it

Abby Levene at Dropbox explains how businesses can benefit from age diversity , especially from the wisdom and life experience of older employees. Quick hits before we get to the list of this week’s free education: Why your organic traffic might be dropping… and how to fix it. Levi Wardell, Association Chat ). More info/register.

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Leadership ? Continued Discussion 8/17/09 ? on Leadership ? by.

on Leadership

In this post I want to visit a quote from Abigail Adams, in a 1780 letter from her to her son John Quincy Adams (as it appeared in the introduction to the 2003 revised edition of Warren Bennis’ On Becoming A Leader ). Leaders learn how to deal with it. Stuff happens, and it happens a lot. Their toolbox gets more full.