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Amazon’s HQ2: 3 Ripple Effects for Associations

Associations Now

Competition for business and personal space may heat up too: Amazon is widely expected drive up already-expensive real estate prices in the region, making both office space and housing harder to come by. The DC region was already known to be tech-forward (see a recent CompTIA study , for example). More wide-ranging tech savvy.

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How Nonprofit Grocery Stores Are Filling the Gap

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For example, last year Virginia grocery chain Farm Fresh closed its doors after its parent company decided to focus on its wholesale business—a situation that nearly proved tragic but was saved from a worse fate after other major national grocers, such as Harris Teeter and Kroger, stepped in to purchase most of the buildings.

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What We Can Learn From Sermo – and What We Can’t

Guilt by Association

Sermo’s chief marketing officer, Gina Ashe, spoke on a panel with me at ASAE and the Center’s Healthcare Association Conference last week in Baltimore. Her examples of how Sermo can advance health care were engaging and compelling. For example, some aspects of the company aren’t 100% transparent to my satisfaction.