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Ideas for Reframing Your Community’s Awesome Content

Higher Logic

Here’s a really fun example from the Missouri Association of REALTORS. Finally, if you hold a successful Ask-Me-Anything session in your community, round up the best quotes or tips from your expert and include them in a blog post; here’s an example of that from Professional Photographers of America. Infographics.

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Do I Still Belong In The Association Space?

KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup

I still remember moving to Bethesda, Maryland, from Joplin, Missouri, starting my first job in associations - working for the Parenteral Drug Association. I worked for the American Red Cross National Headquarters and then the Optical Society of America. What does the future hold in store for me? The picture isn''t clear.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.2.21

Reid All About it

Len Toenjes, CAE, President of AGC of Missouri. Director, Strategic Marketing & Communications, America’s Blood Centers. Mark Dorsey, CAE, FASAE, CEO of the Construction Specifications Institute. Karen Silberman, CAE, Executive Vice President of the American Chiropractic Association. Wed 7/14 at 3 p.m. More info/register.

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Convention Center Hotels: If They Build It, Will You Come?

Associations Now

As it turns out, the one thing Kansas City, Missouri, was missing in its effort to boost its convention business was a bunch of hotel rooms. The city recently lost a bid to host the 2016 Republican National Convention, and the National FFA Organization—once known as Future Farmers of America—gave up on the city years ago.

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Local Government Groups Team Up to Fight Opioid Abuse

Associations Now

NLC President Melodee Colbert-Kean, who will take part in the task force as a Joplin, Missouri, council member, emphasized that the associations (and the communities they represent) are well-suited to taking on the problem. Our cities are at the forefront of the opioid and heroin crisis in America.

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Media Groups Condemn Arrest of Reporters During Ferguson Protests

Associations Now

The streets of Ferguson, Missouri, have been marred by violence, looting, and protests every night this week in the wake of the Saturday shooting death of an unarmed African American teenager by an unidentified St. Louis suburb this week, two journalists on the scene were taken into police custody for reasons that remain unclear.

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Laws Imitate ‘Dallas Buyers Club’: States Pass Right-To-Try Legislation

Associations Now

The governors in those states have signed the bills into law; other efforts are moving forward in Arizona, Missouri, and elsewhere.) Speaking to the Wall Street Journal , Sascha Haverfield of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America said the best approach is to work within the system.

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