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Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.29.20

Reid All About it

The Online News Association is turning their conference into a virtual “ global journalism innovation festival.” Check out the midnight sun and aurora borealis, paddling down the Chena River, or dog mushing in these 360-view videos from Fairbanks, Alaska. Virtual conference of the week. Two words: crunchy rice. Mon 6/1 at 12 p.m.

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SCD Group: Chicken, Bus, Holland America & Associations: How do.

SCD Group

Last month, our Holland America (@HALcruises) tour bus broke down while we were driving the Top of the World highway (TOTWH) from Chicken, ALaska, to Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada. Chicken, Alaska, an isolated (100+ miles from nearest cell signal) "way station" of 37 people is a hard hour drive from Tok, the nearest village.

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Ask These 5 Questions Before Planning Your Next Meeting

Associations Now

The city is also a great jumping-off point to Whistler, Victoria, Alaska cruises, and the Okanagan Valley wine region, making extended stays a real lure. How important is global innovation as a backdrop to our conference? And architecture buffs will want to spend a few extra days in Montréal.

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Here Come the Drones: Industry Groups Talk Up FAA’s Unmanned Device Tests

Associations Now

Among the picks was a trio of schools—University of Alaska, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, and Virginia Tech— as well as the state of Nevada, Griffiss International Airport in New York state, and the North Dakota Department of Commerce.

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Have you tried these? 7 Innovative Ideas to Fight this Recession

Experts in Membership Marketing

A few months ago MGI published a white paper I wrote entitled "Seven Innovative Ideas to Fight This Recession." 2 - Personalize the Member Experience.Literally Kimberly Gray of the Associated General Contractors of Alaska told me about how they started a group of assocate members called the Associates Council. .' #1

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What Improvisation Can Teach Social Change Leaders

Beth Kanter

David Havens from Collective Capital , a company that works with business in the area of innovation through improvisation and design thinking. This reminded me of Margaret Wheatley, who was the keynote speaker at a conference in Alaska where I was doing a workshop a few years ago.

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Association Brain Food: 4.15.22

Reid All About it

Learn how to expand your personal comfort zone and turn challenges into opportunities, help your team function like a well-oiled machine that can solve its own problems so you can stop fighting other people’s fires, and build a culture of innovation, experimentation, agility and accountability that grows itself. More info/register.