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Add Chapters to Make an Old Association Feel New

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Launching a chapter network has helped PEN America, a literary organization with almost 100 years of history, recruit new members and reinvent opportunities for member engagement at the local level. Last month, PEN America announced a member expansion plan to create regional chapters for the first time in its history.

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What to Do When Membership Is Booming?

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“There are so many innovations, like collaborative robots and vision technologies, in more places, what I call robotics clusters—Pittsburgh, Boston, Silicon Valley, San Diego, and Austin, to name a few,” he says. “A A lot of these innovations are coming out of startups, so we really had to refocus on members. Post your comments below.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.9.21

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Member engagement. Anne McCarthy at Sidecar recaps a panel discussion at SURGE Forward about the new approaches to member engagement taken by associations during the pandemic. Member Engagement in 2021: How Associations are Navigating Engagement in the Post-Pandemic Environment. Makes more sense now.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 12.4.20

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Tirza Austin, Online Community Manager at American Society of Civil Engineers. Presenters: David Trebing, General Manager of State and Local Relations, Daimler North America Corporation. By empowering your components, associations can increase member engagement and retention, growing both revenue and membership.

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Association Brain Food: 6.24.22

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Chase Brunson, CLE, Sections & Events Manager, Austin Bar Association. Hold Them or Fold Them: What’s Your Member Hand Telling You? Should membership renewal rates alone define how your organization measures return on engagement (ROE)? What data points should you use to measure member engagement? CMP credit.

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