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Tuesday Buzz: Your Volunteers Should Represent Your Audience

Associations Now

An Engaging Volunteers blog post points to a group called Refugees Helping Refugees, which works to provide citizenship to Somali refugees in New York City. In fact, these individuals are best poised to communicate the value of your organization to your audience.

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Join Me at SXSW, 14NTC, and Other March Conferences

Beth Kanter

There are many nonprofit, social media, and technology conferences all year long. March is a particularly busy conference month. I’ll be attending and speaking a number of conferences and workshops this month. NTEN: Nonprofit Technology Conference: March 12-15th. Grant Managers Network Conference: March 18th.

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Can You Better Serve Your Tradeshow Market?

Associations Now

Today the tradeshow, which is invitation-only for exhibitors, has expanded beyond its original location in Long Beach, California, to include New York City and Las Vegas as well. He took this same approach with Agenda, which attracted 250 buyers in its first year.

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Are We All Generalists in Association Culture?

Association Success

However, 3 years into this role, my military spouse received orders to move to New York City, where I found it challenging to find an IT role without possessing a Bachelor’s Degree. Business communication is learned very quickly in that kind of environment where I was working for some of the world’s most prestigious attorneys.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look At Meetings in Baltimore Last Week

Associations Now

12, 2001, at the Javits Center in New York City—he described that night as stressful and intense as the situation escalated. They conferred with convention center staff as well as the city’s convention and visitors bureau and the Baltimore police and ultimately decided it was safe to continue with the Summit.

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Lunchtime Links: Avoid Stress When the Pressure Is On

Associations Now

Also: an event app that creates private chats among conference attendees. Catching up with the times: The recent BookExpo America in New York City debuted a new preparation technique for attendees: a Hackathon. How so you prepare attendees to share big ideas at conferences? Stressing is the first mistake.

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Ebola: How the Meetings Industry Is Responding

Associations Now

But heightened anxiety levels may leave attendees concerned about traveling to conferences. But even associations that don’t represent industries directly affected by Ebola, like healthcare and travel, could feel an impact in another area: their meetings and conferences. When you first hear Ebola, you may not think of meetings.