Associations Now

APRIL 17, 2017

Using Facebook’s live-streaming capabilities, the Association For Creative Industries has taken a meeting-based education session and made it accessible year-round. Specifically, staff used it to introduce Phoenix as the new location of its annual meeting, discuss member benefits, and highlight new education offerings.

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Associations Now

APRIL 25, 2019

In an article posted on PCMA.org last week , Andria Gibbon, AFCI’s vice president of events and education, discussed the unusual way the group dealt with pushback from members and a significant decline in attendance after it moved its annual Creativation show from its longtime home in Anaheim, California, to Phoenix in 2017.

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Association meetings are filled with lots of great education given by lots of great presenters, but to cram all that content in, oftentimes a single session block could feature more than a dozen sessions for attendees to choose from. asked John Spencer in a post on Quiet Revolution. Shorten learning offerings.

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