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Best of the Web: February 2014

Association Adviser

March 3-6, 2014. March 9-11, 2014. May 19-21, 2014. May 28-31, 2014. ASAE 2012 Marketing Membership & Communications Conference. The post Best of the Web: February 2014 appeared first on Association Adviser. Association General Contractors Annual Convention and CONEXPO/CON-AGG. June 4-5, 2013.

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Help Your Members Find the Signal in the Noise

Spark Consulting

Getting to the “Good Stuff”: Evidence-Based Decision Making for Associations (PDF), co-authored with Peter Houstle, Mariner Management, April 2014. Risk: The Missing Link Connection Strategy to Implementation (PDF), co-authored with Jamie Notter, Human Workplaces, and Leslie White, Croydon Consulting, March 2014.

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Attend IMEX 2014 – May 19-22 As MCI’s Guest

GlowGlobally

IMEX 2014 – Hosted Buyer Benefits. IMEX 2013 saw record numbers of attendees with a 33% rise in the number of individual buyer appointments from 2012. In 2014, MCI would like to extend an invitation to our US-based association colleagues to be our guest at IMEX through the IMEX Hosted Buyers Program! Economy flights.

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Survey: International Associations Expect Meetings Growth in 2014

Associations Now

More than 77 percent of the 92 international association hosted buyers who responded to the survey said they have or will be organizing meetings for more than 500 delegates in 2013, with 17 percent organizing events for groups of more than 5,000—slight increases over 2012 numbers. On a positive note, that was down from 60 percent in 2012.

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Tuesday Buzz: Was KONY 2012 a Cautionary Tale?

Associations Now

Before 2012, nonprofits didn’t go viral so often. But KONY 2012′s success always came with an asterisk. The 100 million views that KONY 2012 received got the group attention, but sustaining it—and moving past it—proved too difficult. The post Tuesday Buzz: Was KONY 2012 a Cautionary Tale?

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What’s Out, What’s In for 2014

Associations Now

In the ebb and flow of the news this past year, we saw some patterns emerge—enough to suggest a few things that may be on their way out, making room for new ideas and trends likely to gain steam in 2014. We’ll be watching for who’s up next in 2014. We’re ready and eager to report to you whatever 2014 brings. REBRANDING.

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Weak Second Half Slows Tradeshow Industry in 2012

Associations Now

A study by a tradeshow industry research firm shows that exhibitions slowed down significantly during the second half of 2012. The tradeshow industry started strong in 2012 but couldn’t keep it up through the entire year. Even though the first half of 2012 saw an increase in industry activity of 2.5 percent growth.