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#ASAE23 Closing Keynote: Advance Your Mission Through Storytelling

Associations Now

That focus shifted in 2005 when she covered Hurricane Katrina. Many years ago, when she talked to her mom about how she put up with one particularly awful situation—people spitting on them in the streets—her mother said she knew America was better than that. “I didn’t dig into understanding people,” she said.

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Leading the way in a flattened world

Plexus Consulting

Worth, President at Plexus Consulting Group, LLC Two books that go a long way to explaining our world, how we got to where we are, as well as the factors that will determine where we are going, are Guns, Germs and Steel (1999) by Jared Diamond and The World is Flat (2005) by Thomas Friedman. Big questions.

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World Press Freedom Day: Where Journalism Stands in 2016

Associations Now

Since 1992, 1,189 journalists have been killed while doing their jobs, according to the Newspaper Association of America. Of those deaths, 787 took place since 2005, with 67 occurring last year, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF). This is especially true given that the risks journalists face don’t end with arrest.

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Knowledge Application Gap Still Exists in Some Emerging Markets.

GlowGlobally

Here is an excerpt: EACH year India produces about twice as many engineering and computing geeks as America, counting those with bachelor’s degrees or a Master’s in Computer Applications, a conversion course. We’ll be looking at some of this at this year’s CESSE Annual Meeting education session on Education Strategy Design.

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What Smart Associations Do Differently

Association Adviser

Since 2005, the two groups had jointly produced a successful annual show and realized that many constituents knew each other and were members of both associations. Like many professional societies, The Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA) offers financial planning education for members. So, they decided to merge into the TFFA.

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