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Association Uses Facebook Live to Expand Education

Associations Now

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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Lung Association Boosts Anti-Vaping Education for Teens

Associations Now

The American Lung Association’s new INDEPTH training program is designed to help schools fight the surging popularity of vaping among teens, emphasizing education over penalties like school suspension. The post Lung Association Boosts Anti-Vaping Education for Teens appeared first on Associations Now.

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With New Education Program, Group Looks to Serve All Member Segments

Associations Now

With the introduction of a new education program, the National Association of Sports Commissions is working to better serve all membership segments. As a first step toward better representing its full membership, the National Association of Sports Commissions has launched its new education program, the Sport Tourism Learning Institute.

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Did You Know? Associations Plan to Rake in More Revenue from Publications, Events and Continuing Ed

Association Adviser

Non-dues revenue is often an essential component of an association’s operating budget, allowing staff to produce high-caliber member communications, events and continuing education programs. Associations can earn revenue from supplier members wanting to place press releases or product reviews in member communications.

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ASAE Launches Challenge to Recognize Power of Digital Credentials

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ASAE’s challenge—hosted along with the American Council on Education, digital credential platform Credly, and the Lumina Foundation—invites groups to submit proposals for ways to better promote, evaluate, and use digital credentials in assessing job candidates and helping with hiring decisions.

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Effort Highlights Speech and Language Services Available to Students

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To educate parents about the speech and language options available, ASHA shared a press release with parenting media and bloggers and then pushed it out through various social media channels. Nor may some parents know how to navigate the system—which can be quite daunting.”.

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Report: Women Underrepresented in Cybersecurity

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While women comprise 43 percent of the global workforce, they only fill 11 percent of cybersecurity positions, according to the new 2017 Women in Cybersecurity Report from the Executive Women’s Forum on Information Security, Risk Management and Privacy (EWF) and the Center for Cyber Safety and Education.

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