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Monday Buzz: Why Boston Doesn’t Have Cheap Rooms

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An array of economic and geographic pressures have boosted Boston’s hotel rooms to extremely high rates. Case in point: the current situation in the Boston metro area. Those are the going rates now in Boston,” Paul Sacco, executive director at the Massachusetts Lodging Association, told the newspaper.

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How Successful Change Works

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A 2023 report from the Boston Consulting Group notes that aversion to change increases if people feel like they don’t have agency in the changes being made. The development plan included a strategy for how information about changes would be shared, with a special emphasis on how middle managers would be involved.

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Snowsports Group Unveils Consumer-Focused Tradeshow Strategy

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The answer: interacting more with consumers, which SIA intends to do by purchasing two consumer-facing shows : the Boston and Denver Ski and Snowboard Expos. “In The post Snowsports Group Unveils Consumer-Focused Tradeshow Strategy appeared first on Associations Now. said SIA President Nick Sargent. Our industry is not immune to that.

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Blue Sky eLearn: 2017 Year in Review

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We hired Ryan Graham as our new Senior Sales Director – providing us with 12+ years of experience in the SaaS learning technology space with companies such as Boston Conferencing, Peach New Media, and Abila. We developed an integration with Fonteva , allowing us to now integrate Path LMS with Salesforce.

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Wanna Improve Creativity? Work Together, Then Alone

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According to a new study from researchers at three Boston-area universities, you might want to try a variety of strategies when it comes to solving the big problems. When a project needs to get done, perhaps your instinct is to call a meeting to get stakeholders working together. Or maybe you just want to hole up in your office.

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Nonprofit: Just a Tax Status

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If there’s one thing I’d like to change about working with nonprofits of all kinds, it’s the belief that nonprofits are somehow the “minor leagues” of organizations—that it’s ok for them to have deficits in leadership, operations or strategy that you wouldn’t see in a for profit corporation. That’s a load of hooey.

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Monday Buzz: Kobe Bryant’s Direct Messaging Strategy

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The Boston Red Sox’s David Ortiz, for example, spoke out through the site after a tangle with Major League Baseball of over banned substances, according to Poynter. The post Monday Buzz: Kobe Bryant’s Direct Messaging Strategy appeared first on Associations Now.