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CompTIA Study Finds Tech Hubs Where You Wouldn’t Expect Them

Associations Now

Topping the list overall were two cities in North Carolina—Charlotte and Raleigh. Other major college towns on the list included Lansing, which benefits from Michigan State University in nearby East Lansing; Madison, Wisconsin, home to the University of Wisconsin; and Boulder, Colorado, the home base for the University of Colorado.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.8.20

Reid All About it

If you’re in North Carolina, I hope you’ll support the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina. Chill out by the stream of your choice, perhaps one in Texas, Colorado or elsewhere. Find yours on the Feeding America website. Five tips to successful video meetings. Lakisha Ann Woods, CAE ). Zooooom.us ).

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Study: Travelers Hungry for Culinary Experiences

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“Good places to eat and drink will never go away in terms of branding yourself as an attractive destination,” said Erica Hill, director of communications at Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority (CRVA) in Charlotte, North Carolina. “It It can help define your city and put your city on the map.”.

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Conferences Are Providing Inferior Education Through Lectures

Velvet Chainsaw

Other universities followed including Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, North Carolina State University, the University of Maryland, the University of Colorado at Boulder and Harvard. Attendance in their physics classes increased and failure rate dropped by 50%. But conferences have been slow to make the change.

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Out of Bloom: Lessons from a Nonprofit’s Demise

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But support from the states dissipated quickly as parents (and then legislators [PDF]) raised the privacy concerns. Most notable was the situation in Louisiana, where parents discovered that Social Security numbers were being used to classify students in the database.

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What’s Next for Convention Centers?

Associations Now

s 2013 International Convention Center Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina. One way to do that is to offer new amenities and conveniences, a topic discussed earlier this month at the International Association of Venue Managers, Inc.’s

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Survey Reveals Top Community Association Manager Challenges

AvidXchange: Association Management

My mom owns a management company in Colorado. So I could be a community manager in Texas, but I could live in North Carolina. And so, I think that it’s really important that owners and operators carve out that time to focus on the strategy. 05:28 MAEGAN WOYTEK Right. You don’t even have to be there.