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Association Brain Food Weekly: 2.7.20

Reid All About it

I’ll be happy to feature it as long as it’s not product-centric. Examine the steps to build a business case for sustainability initiatives at your events and venues by using food waste as an example. Mac Campbell, CVP, Baltimore Convention Center. Here are the educational events scheduled for next week. 1 CMP credit. Host: PCMA.

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Three Cities Sync Up to Generate More Meetings Business

Associations Now

Taking a new team approach, Baltimore, San Antonio, and Anaheim, California, will combine resources to offer meeting planners a one-stop-shop for all three destinations. San Antonio, Baltimore, and Anaheim, California, are banking on it as they team up to help boost their convention business. Are three cities better than one?

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How Nonprofit Grocery Stores Are Filling the Gap

Associations Now

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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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.26.20

Reid All About it

When I lived in the DC area, my brother and I used to go to the Baltimore Lithuanian Festival every year for our fix of people who looked like our relatives (we’re a strong quarter Lithuanian), sausages, dumplings, potato pancakes, Lithuanian beer, viryta (spiced honey kick-ass liqueur), and šaltibarš? 1 CMP credit. More info/register.

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How College Media Is Evolving in the Digital Era

Associations Now

CMA, which assists student media programs and professionals, has seen more schools cutting back on print products, with some universities dropping the print edition of their newspaper entirely, in favor of a digital version. It was just the latest of many schools in the Baltimore area to drop their printed yearbook. “I

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Are We All Generalists in Association Culture?

Association Success

A couple of years later, another unexpected life shift brought me down to the Baltimore area, where I found my current position in the association world. For example, I worked on a contract where the government employees did not like contractors disrupting their world. Everything I do now centers on the customer.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 9.20.19

Reid All About it

Good eats: We spent several days in Baltimore this past week so I haven’t done much in the kitchen since last we met except refrigerator pasta. But we ate well in Baltimore. I’ll be happy to feature it as long as it’s not product-centric. Presenter: Amanda Myers, Director of Product Growth, Personify. Didn’t ask, oops.

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