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At One Meeting, Innovative Registration Makes for Happier Attendees

Associations Now

To create innovative and interactive meetings, planners around the nation are raising the bar on productivity and capitalizing on attendee experience. Meet our seventh “Planner of Productivity”: Kevin Brooks, the agent of record for the Church of God—headquartered in Cleveland, Tennessee—since 2004. KB: Follow the innovation.

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Obsessive Innovation: Why Associations Must Constantly Turn to What’s Next

Associations Now

At the ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition in Detroit Sunday, opening general session speaker Josh Linkner explained to association leaders the five “obsessions” of innovative thinkers and showed them how they can be adopted back at the office. Get curious. He recommends asking why—not once, but at least five times in a row. .

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Turn Members Into Hackers (the Good Kind)

Associations Now

And increasingly, hackathons are becoming a popular way to drive innovation and solve problems. It’s about being messy and creative and channeling that into innovation.”. He cited Redfin , Cornell University , Cleveland Medical , and Hilton as good examples of organizations that host annual or semiannual hackathons.

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Association, University Alliance Aims to Boost Women’s Leadership Skills

Associations Now

Women in manufacturing careers have a new resource to help advance their leadership skills. Taking place at CWRU’s Cleveland campus, the program is funded in part by the GE Foundation and builds on a previous leadership program that the university created for women in STEM careers.

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Book Review: Connecting to Change the World

Beth Kanter

They have joined forces and along with John Cleveland, have written “ Connecting to Change the World.” Production Network: This type of network inspires and encourages collective action by members to create innovative practices, public-policy proposals, and other tools or products that lead to social impact.

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Association Brain Food: 2.10.23

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Member engagement. Twice a day, he’ll share “ideas, insights, next practices, and resources that will help your association’s board set a higher standard of stewardship, governing, and foresight and become fit-for-purpose.” Board development.