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Blogging Elsewhere: March 2011

Reid All About it

What if you did your research, filled your community with valuable content, marketed it in all the right places and your members are still MIA? I first met Jen Newmeyer, who is the Food Bank’s social media person, at a Raleigh tweet-up last year. Read the rest at Avectra… Open Community Case Study – Food Bank.

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Innovation: Key to Boosting Meeting Attendance

Associations Now

The onsite conference market and the new generation that an association like ours is trying to reach are not connecting. And around that same time, the Association of the United States Army notified the Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau it would not hold an upcoming symposium there. The reason, according to Retired U.S.

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Peace Sells.But Who's Buying - Association Membership?

Association Subculture

In the past, I worked for an association where we had to market the heck out of ourselves to draw dues-paying members. I'm involved in the Raleigh one. marketing. (2). ► 2011. (27). When members are forced to pay to play we are really asking them to support every, single thing we do, however diverse. politics.