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Meetings Groups Merge To Further Sustainability In The Events Industry

Associations Now

Founded in 2003, GMIC’s mission is to transform the global meetings industry through sustainability, while CIC aims to facilitate an exchange of information within the industry. Sustainability is an important issue for convention centers around the globe, according to the “Green Venue Report” released late last year.

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Quick Tip - CAN-SPAM

Experts in Membership Marketing

As reported in the 2013 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report, to be released in May, e-mail is one of the Top Three tools used to drive awareness and engagement of members and prospects. To that point, I wanted to share some insight which just came across my desk from our e-Biz group on the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003.

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Motorcycle Industry: Efforts to Reach Female Bikers Paying Off

Associations Now

The number of female owners better than doubled from 2003 to 2014,” Sarah Schilke, marketing manager of BMW Motorrad USA and chairwoman of the female motorcycle-industry professionals group PowerLily, said in a MIC press release. Confident Growth. As for their priorities when choosing a bike to buy, women, in the survey of 48,000 U.S.

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The Fight to Fill Out the Periodic Table

Associations Now

Last week, the chemistry world’s main body approved the findings of four new elements, a feat one researcher said was better than winning an Olympic gold medal. For example, RIKEN had created ununtrium repeatedly since 2003, relying on a linear particle accelerator that beamed zinc ions into bismuth to create the new element.

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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 Butler: I joined IIABA in 2003 as editor-in-chief of Independent Agent (IA) Magazine , the flagship publication of IIABA. We’d get coverage because TV stations had the reporters to work on submissions.

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How to Strengthen Your Association’s Value Proposition

AssociationChat

And for them what that meant was that meant developing new types of newsletters and reporting on new new information that their members specifically wanted, that they weren’t concerned about before. It was published in 2003. That wasn’t really on their radar before, at least not to that extent.

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

During those 15 years, we’ve worked with a lot of organizations, done a lot of research, published hundreds of articles and podcasts along with numerous reports , hosted more than a hundred Webinars , and run multiple events , online and off. Impact on the Learning Business Landscape. The eXtension of Reality.

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