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5 Questions to Answer Before Planning Your Next Meeting

Associations Now

How much should we focus on technology trends at our meetings? **. How much is technology disrupting your industry? Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) did it when it hosted the 2016 U.S. Here are five questions to talk through as you begin planning your next major event. Olympic diving trials.

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The 6 Forces Shaping the Future of Meetings

Associations Now

From what attendees expect as the “new status quo” to how venues—and entire metropolis’—are being forced to upgrade their technology infrastructure. Conferences need to deliver high-level technology content and experiences. Like everything else these days, the meeting experience is changing. Tech-expectations.

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Nonprofit Organizational Culture Eats Big Data for Lunch

Beth Kanter

Perhaps the key to Big Data success can be found amongst the myriad of technologies and terminologies that exist today: Hadoop. Yes, the technology is important. They were all using a mix of technology, skills, and strategies. All of these organizations have invested in people, process, data, and technology. Algorithms.

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Here’s Your Chance – A Message to All New Graduates in Philanthropy

Achieve

I had the honor of giving The Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University 2016 commencement speech. Couple that preference to do good with new technology tools to feed on that impulse to act for others, and it seems like a perfect storm of taking our interests to action for causes. I had no job waiting for me.