Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

The National Recreation and Park Association’s 2017 Annual Conference begins in New Orleans early next week. Conference: 2017 NRPA Annual Conference. Following the golf tournament and preconference workshops on Monday, NRPA 2017 will begin on Tuesday morning with an opening general session featuring Matt Iseman.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 21, 2022

I regret not buying Bitcoin back in 2017 when it was only $1300 (argh), so I’m determined to stay on top of what’s emerging now, starting with this introduction to Web3 by Mike Troiano at G20 Ventures. A weekly conversation about meeting and event technology, including software, hardware, and audiovisual for in-person and online events.

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Associations Now

APRIL 10, 2019

All Raise , a group formed last year to increase diversity in the venture capital field, is boosting its efforts with a laser-focused growth strategy, something seen this week as numerous outlets in the technology space covered the hiring of its first CEO, Pam Kostka, after a nine-month search.

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

A new survey sheds light on how hotels and restaurants are engaging their guests through technology tools. As meeting attendees rely more heavily on their devices and become more familiar with the technology tools those outside your industry are offering, they’ll expect your association to deliver that same level of service and experience.

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Associations Now

MAY 25, 2017

The Society for Vascular Surgery’s 2017 Vascular Annual Meeting begins in San Diego next week. Conference: 2017 Vascular Annual Meeting. After a selection of workshops and concurrent sessions on Wednesday, the 2017 Vascular Annual Meeting will officially start with an opening ceremony on Thursday morning. Exhibitors: 110.

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 4, 2017

For 2017, we be launching an online site that includes the content and facilitator guides so that any nonprofit or trainer can provide leadership development for emerging nonprofit leaders. In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Missouri, California and at SXSW. What about you?

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 14, 2017

But most conferences are already designed to be configurable, by providing attendees with options — concurrent sessions, pre-conference workshops, and ticketed functions, for example. Here’s a hat tip to McKinsey & Company’s article on How Technology Can Drive the Next Wave of Mass Customization for some of my big ideas.

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 5, 2018

Here’s what I learned from looking over my 2017 professional journal: The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: In 2016, I published “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” with co-author Aliza Sherman. In early 2017, we completed a two week book tour.

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Associations Now

APRIL 27, 2017

The Association of Fundraising Professionals’ 2017 International Fundraising Conference kicks off in San Francisco this weekend. Conference: 2017 International Fundraising Conference. Rundown Attendees: 3,000. Exhibitors: 200 plus. Education Sessions: 100 plus. Close to 3,000 attendees are expected. Venue: Moscone West. Time to rebel.

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Associations Now

MARCH 2, 2017

The 2017 NASPA Annual Conference is set to start this weekend. Conference: 2017 NASPA Annual Conference. Following two days of workshops, board meetings, and other preconference activities, the 2017 NASPA Annual Conference officially begins with Sunday evening’s opening session featuring CNN’s Anderson Cooper.

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Beth Kanter

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

We talked about the issue of “ collaborative overload ” which is defined as the burnout that results from our over reliance on e-mails, meetings and other collaborative online technology tools that have, ironically, limited our ability to get stuff done.We

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. In eLearning, we are at the very start of the hype curve with distributed ledgers: we can imagine the technology solving one of our recurring problems.

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Beth Kanter

JULY 12, 2017

The book looks at our relationships with ourselves, other people, careers and money, our environment, and technology—and shows how our relationships with people in our workplaces heavily influence our well-being. You can read more of my review of this book published in the Summer 2017 Stanford Social Innovation Review.

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Association Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

It all sits on a spectrum – micro-learning introduces a concept and gives an awareness, then later a learner might move on to a workshop or a deeper lesson if necessary. Josh recently spoke at SURGE 2017, our virtual conference, on the Future of Learning for associations. Changing mindsets. Micro-learning is only the beginning.

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Association Adviser

MARCH 16, 2017

At our annual meeting (May 31-June 2, 2017 in Macon), we’re going to have several segments that are hands-on learning and sharing of ideas. AA: Where did your anniversary theme, “Producing Association Rock Stars Since 2017 & For the Next 100 Years,” come from? Everything is focused on what’s next.

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Beth Kanter

OCTOBER 20, 2015

I am excited to announce that I am working on my next book, tentatively titled “The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout.” I’m honored to be co-authoring this book with Aliza Sherman to be published in 2017 by Wiley. We talked about the need for being more mindful of our technology.

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Reid All About it

APRIL 20, 2018

Tue 4/24 at 8:30 a.m.* – Measure What Matters Workshop (Alexandria VA). Join association executives and technologists to discuss technological breakthroughs in mobile, eMarketing, data analytics and membership management that help associations transform their business and serve members more intelligently and profitably. 1 CAE credit.

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Beth Kanter

DECEMBER 12, 2019

This campaign was executed for #GivingTuesdayIndia in 2017 in just two days. The term Jugaad means being smart with a workable solution to get around imperfect technology or situations and I am proud to say that we’ve been doing a lot of Jugaad with our non-profit partners through WhatsApp. How do you see GuideStar India evolving?

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Leading Learning

MAY 5, 2020

After defining the central term, I’ll look at an assumption baked into many of the questions we received and then get into some techniques and approaches we’ve used to foster engagement at our own virtual conference, Learning • Technology • Design. Online technologies can feel cold and impersonal. Defining Virtual Conference.

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Beth Kanter

AUGUST 9, 2016

I’m working on some interesting professional development projects in 2016-2017, including the next iteration of the Emerging Nonprofit Leader Playbook and peer learning program and self-care and wellbeing in the workplace workshops based on the content in my forthcoming book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout.

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