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Sharing our Great Ideas

Aaron Wolowiec

The event focuses on creative approaches to everyday issues in association management and is built around the sharing of – you guessed it – great ideas. Donna Oser, director of executive search services, Michigan Association of School Boards. The second Oser I’ll be speaking with is Donna Oser, CAE.

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Ngage Management Grows by 7 New Employees, 4 Serving as Association Directors

Ngage Management

She holds a master’s degree in Public Administration from Western Michigan University. The Membership and Events department recently welcomed Katy Stanke, Event and Membership Project Manager and Shelby Sims, Client Services Coordinator to its growing team.

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Why An AMC (Like Ngage) Is A Great Place to Work

Ngage Management

While not immediately recognizable to some, the concept of association management is familiar to the world of professional societies, trade groups, not-for-profits and philanthropic organizations. In four short years, Ngage became Michigan's largest association management company.

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Back to basics: Education programs

Aaron Wolowiec

I recently facilitated two sessions on meeting planning and professional development for the Michigan Society of Association Executive’s (MSAE) Academy of Association Management. Stimulate innovation. Next, we asked the question: What types of education programs do associations offer? Problem-solving.

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Innovation, Freeloaders, Mistakes & 3 Other Reads for Association Executives

SCD Group

When Amy Wrzesniewski, an associate professor at Yale, and Jane E. Dutton, a professor at the University of Michigan, along with other researchers, looked at workers in a wide range of organizations, from hospital cleaners to administrators and managers, they found several ways in which workers crafted purpose in each profession.

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Association Disruption: What’s your Educational Moonshot?

.orgCommunity

Thinking small isn’t going to turn your association into a market leader and innovator, but an educational moonshot will. The Michigan Moonshot project is addressing the digital divide. 27% of K12 students in Michigan lack access to broadband internet. A moonshot changes the perception of what’s possible.

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ORGPRO 2013: Learning and networking just like Apple

Aaron Wolowiec

Education sessions cover eight tracks and are based on the Michigan Society of Association Executives ’ (MSAE) new professional development model, ELEVANCE , which aims to increase competency in the areas of knowledge, relationships and perspectives. Association and supplier leaders will staff the Genius Bars during refreshment breaks.

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