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Restaurant Group Joins Suicide-Prevention Initiative

Associations Now

According to a release from the campaign , there were at least 224 suicides within the food-service profession between 2017 and 2021, and a CDC report noted that food-service workers “face a much higher risk of dying from drug overdoses compared to other professions, second only to construction workers.

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Stereotypes Aside, Millennials Are Acting for Change

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2017 Millennial Impact Report. Almost 65 percent of millennials in our sample reported voting in the 2016 presidential election. Civil rights/racial discrimination (reported by 29% of the sample) supplanted education and employment/wages as the top issues of concern among this generation since last year. Self-centered.

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Report: Millennials Rank Education, Healthcare and Employment as Top Election Issues

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Facebook is still the most popular social media platform on which millennials post about issues they care for, and the majority of millennials had posted about an issue on social media in the past week. “In The final wave of the report will be collected through November and released in early 2017. Methodology.

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Association Advocacy Thrives in ‘Fake News’ Era

Association Adviser

Reading “fake news” is even more interesting, particularly on social media where passionate individuals often hide behind a left- or right-wing moniker and feel emboldened enough to spat about a blog or not-so-reputable news site. An intense social media volley ensues until the real news is buried among insults and exaggerations.

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The Art of Designing a Memorable Food and Beverage Display

Associations Now

In 2017, the AZA annual meeting was hosted by the Indianapolis Zoo, the location for Zoo Day. The happy hour included a beer garden with local breweries offering craft beer samplings. People were asking strangers to take photos and videos of them eating the popcorn—and sharing the images on social media with the conference hashtag.

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Luggage Tags and Breath Mints: How MSAE Refreshed Itself As Associations North

Association Adviser

Associations North was a result of many discussions, including testing within a sampling of members, task force members using it in practice and our branding experts fine tuning it and taking a minute to let it settle in. An initial proposed name that spoke to our essential value of advancement didn’t quite fit the mark.

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INBOUND Conference: A Sample Agenda for Customer Marketers

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3:30pm - Social Media is Broken. Description: The promise of social media has not been realized. Social media is no longer a place of deep engagement, it's optimized to share content – increasingly paid content. Go from incremental growth to exponential growth. Community is Your Duct Tape. Length: 1 hour.

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