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Event, Venue Groups Eye Security Focus After Manchester Attack

Associations Now

While the attack drew comparisons to the Paris incident, Event Safety Alliance (ESA) Vice President Steven Adelman, who spoke to The New York Times , saw parallels with another high-profile event: the 2013 bombing at the Boston Marathon. It was another target-rich environment for someone with bad intent.”.

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Small, But Mighty: A Resource for Small Nonprofit Leaders

Beth Kanter

We know that small nonprofit organizations face resource constraints that limit the extent to which they can work on the seven disciplines that constitute the PI, but we provide examples of how organizations can begin their journey toward excellence even with limited budgets. How small is small? This short document is a call to action.

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Growth Hacking Your Community with Vanessa DiMauro

Higher Logic

The basics include a welcome program and onboarding process, programmatic outreach, access to support documents and a robust FAQ section. People often don’t know how to work with raw data – the more information that is available, the better the feedback loop and cycle of new content will be. from Boston College and blogs at [link].

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Association Teams With Harvard in New Mentorship Program

Associations Now

In the partnership between the Boston Product Management Association and Harvard Business School, BPMA members and local MBA students both stand to benefit from new learning opportunities. Some members of the Boston Product Management Association are headed back to school this fall.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits That Can Boost Professional Success

Beth Kanter

Our book tour starts at the end of January, so if you are in San Francisco, Oakland, Boston, NYC, or Washington, DC, please join us. I also taught a workshop for social startups at Singularity University here in Mountain, View on how to create a Happy Healthy Start Up Culture.

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Failure is good: it's about learning. Mistakes are bad execution

Jamie Notter

Failure is when you are trying something new, and you don’t know ahead of time how to make it successful. It’s not like you didn’t know how to spell the word correctly. Eliminating failure would mean doing ONLY what you already know how to do. A typo in a conference brochure is a mistake.

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Best Association Management Software | Our Top Picks

Fonteva

Although it’s technically designed to meet the needs of nonprofit organizations, the highly customizable open-source structure of the software makes it a great choice for associations with the resources and know-how to fine-tune a perfectly tailored management solution. Top Features of this Tool. Check out Mogli SMS to learn more.