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Colorado Produce Group Lends Growers a Helping Hand

Associations Now

The Colorado Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association saw the bind new federal regulations were putting its members in and reacted accordingly: by holding mock FDA food safety inspections. In July, a team of state inspectors joined growers at a Pueblo, Colorado, farm to go through the process. This is just upping [the] ante.”.

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How to Get a Better Yield From Your RFP Process

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If finding a good partner or vendor feels like finding a needle in a haystack, maybe your RFP process needs a reboot. According to Bower, it only happens when you start from the beginning to design the processes that are needed to solve the real issues. What are some steps you’ve taken to improve your RFP process?

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Squeezing Non-Dues Revenue Out of Your AMS

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It’s tempting to wonder if your good ol’ Association Management System, warts ‘n all, isn’t holding you back a little in the new normal. Until after four months of trying (it can be a big project with a lot of hidden surprises) they realized that the replacement system had its own warts. Yep, some things never change.).

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No Paper Needed: Anthropology Association Builds New Review System

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By building a new digital system intended to cut the time needed for academic reviews of books, the American Anthropological Association hopes to refine digital workflows and save money. Good news for anthropologists: Your peer-reviewing process is about to enter the 21st century. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation will fund the endeavor.

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Association Brain Food: 7.21.23

Reid All About it

But TopClass LMS/WBT Systems describes ten skills your members need to learn right now. This 5-step process can even be applied to sponsorship, membership, certification, education, in-person events, virtual events, or the next big thing your team creates. The next edition will go live on Friday, August 4. Member education. Governance.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 1.15.21

Reid All About it

WBT Systems says we aren’t going back to normal , and to think otherwise is magical thinking. From Systems of Record to Systems of Action. Do you struggle to make member data central to your decision-making process as an organization? Marketing Automation & Technology Systems Demo Day. Forget “normal.”

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Association Brain Food: 3.10.23

Reid All About it

WBT Systems explains how you can use ChatGPT to manage and market your association’s education programs. They explain how podcasts can benefit associations and their audiences, provide tips for starting an association podcast , and describe the planning process and issues to consider before you decide to move forward. 1 CAE credit. .

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