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Dangerous Assumptions About Your Conference Education Part I

Velvet Chainsaw

We equate telling from the stage with audience education. Most of our conference education mimics our traditional higher education model. The majority of higher education institutions were developed as research institutions in the early and mid 19th century. Two Additional Faulty Conference Education Assumptions.

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How to Drive Engagement with Data-Driven Email Campaigns

Association Briefings

Heck, in 2009 – 38 years after the first email was sent – the Wall Street Journal put its epitaph in print: “Email has had a good run as king of communications. Now, I would definitely agree that the email of 2009 is certainly dead. Who knew that something so trivial would revolutionize the way we communicate. But its reign is over.”

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Conference Education List Sessions Are Deliciously Temptatious

Velvet Chainsaw

Our brains are attracted to creative and uninformative type headlines and education sessions. It sounds ironic but a 2009 study found that we prefer headlines that are intriguing and ambivalent. Education sessions that provide lists hit our attentional sweet spot. It Entices Us With Creative And Ambiguous Information.

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The Big Picture: The Forest and the Trees

The Big Picture

That's what the e-newsletter link promised. That newsletter did not have even ONE grammatical error, I'm sure. Be sure to check out this 18-point checklist for proofreaders before sending out your next e-newsletter to members. Continuing Education. The Forest and the Trees. " Paste it to your wall.

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

Idea Architects

Seen Elsewhere: Building Creative Capacity, Emerging Education Models, and Group Decision Making. In one of my volunteer roles, I write a feature in the ASAE Executive Management Section IdeaLink newsletter called Seen Elsewhere. The best are delivered in a free newsletter every Sunday and make for an inspired start to the week ahead.

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The Big Picture: Tips for Conference Un-Bloggers (and Bloggers too)

The Big Picture

In the latest edition of his Cool Tools newsletter , Kevin Kelly points to a free e-book by Bruno Giussani and Ethan Zuckerman, Tips for Conference Bloggers. Last year, I confessed that oftentimes the only continuing education I get is my deskside un-conference. Posted at 12:07 AM in Continuing Education | Permalink. Reblog (0).

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The Big Picture: Click Here

The Big Picture

In a recent ASAE Communications Section newsletter, Leslie O’Flahavan and Marilynne Rudick tell us that to "rev up our Web writing" we need to get rid of click here altogether. So forget “Click here to subscribe to the newsletter.” Instead, your link should be: “Subscribe to the newsletter.” Continuing Education.