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Social Media Roundup: Starting an Event Planning Company? Read This First

Associations Now

Some thoughts in today’s Social Media Roundup: For Budding Entrepreneurs. — ProjectSpeaker (@ProjectSpeaker) January 2, 2014. CNN names 12 most anticipated hotel openings of 2014 [link] #eventprofs. — Rachel Walsh (@raywalsh) January 2, 2014. ht @ ProjectSpeaker ). The Future of Hotels.

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Game Plan 2014: Seeing Around the Corners

Association Adviser

Year-round, 365-day engagement through technology and social media is one of the biggest trends she has observed. Measuring social media. According to Donovan, the need to measure social media isn’t confined to associations, as social media eats increasingly into marketing time and budgets.

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Thursday Buzz: Why This Association Made Membership Free

Associations Now

Next year, the association also plans to bring its annual meeting to New York City, reflecting the strength of its East Coast membership. — Connectivity (@CQConnectivity) December 18, 2014. Ask any social media pro and he or she will tell you: Live-tweeting an event is harder than it looks.

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Conference Circuit: E3 Sets a High Score for Associations

Associations Now

For members of the association world not born with a controller in hand, the conference nonetheless offers an interesting example of an organization on the cutting edge of new media, from the standard social media outlets to a Twitch live-streaming channel that will be tackling the daily proceedings. Down the Line.

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Don’t Be Camera Shy: Making The Case for Instagram

Associations Now

According to Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom , users of the social media platform share more than 70 million photos and videos each day. The visual social media platform Instagram continues to rise in popularity. 300M+ The number of users Instagram reported late last year.

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Join Me at SXSW, 14NTC, and Other March Conferences

Beth Kanter

There are many nonprofit, social media, and technology conferences all year long. SXSW: March 7, 2014. What Social Media Analytics Can’t Tell You I’m thrilled to be on a panel organized by Alexandra Samuel, Vision Critical , along with Jeremiah Owyang and Colby Flint. Photo by George Galanais.

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How Much Code Should You Know?

Associations Now

One to watch: Another language that’s become popular in the last year but is still fairly young is Apple’s Swift language , which it announced in 2014 as an alternative to its Objective-C. My New Year's resolution is to learn to code with Codecademy in 2012!