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It’s an emergency! So now what?

Aaron Wolowiec

And in a matter of minutes, products and displays become waterlogged. If something happens at your next event, do you have communication channels defined? So important it was the topic of Destination Michigan’s Michigan Meetings Expo 2014 , which was held on May 8 at the MotorCity Casino and Hotel in Detroit.

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Don’t Just Use Data, Keep Reinventing Your Data Strategy

Associations Now

Two decades ago, one of the most innovative software-as-a-service (SaaS) products ever created by a major company first saw the light of day. It came from Detroit. It offers a great example for associations to follow. It’s still going strong. And it didn’t come from Silicon Valley, either.

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In Defense of the Active Social Voice

Associations Now

I’ve attended and covered enough ASAE conferences at this point—whether Annual Meetings or smaller shindigs like Great Ideas or the Marketing, Membership & Communications Conference —that I feel like I have a good lay of the land. I gain energy from being productive on my lonesome, but I like human interaction.

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111 Intriguing Chats for 2011

ChatterBachs

As many of you know, the priority of engaging and connecting is a big one for me- a soapbox- if you will, and I don’t understand those who simply look at social media as a way to promote their agenda, products, and/or services. bkmcae - Ben Martin; Richmond, Virginia; Product mgr for MemberFuse & RealWeb by NFi Studios.

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Reinvent What You Do, Not Who You Are

Association Subculture

And now, Detroit. Our beloved Detroit is in danger of losing its soul. There are new ways of doing business, of achieving fiscal stability, of reaching out and communicating effectively with our constituents - members and nonmembers alike. This has been happening in Benton Harbor, in Flint and other towns.

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