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

Associations Now

Over two decades, an ambitious firm has grown from startup subsidiary to the established maker of a tool used by millions. It came from Detroit. In the last 25 years, associations have gone from communicating with magazines and stacks of paper to individualized apps and digital offerings that can be read any which way.

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Joint Membership: The “Special Sauce” for Chapter Relations

Associations Now

It’s a critical advantage for the Global Business Travel Association, where joint membership makes it possible to communicate directly and efficiently with their 9,000 members, based in 39 chapters spread across the world. The biggest benefit has been the streamlining of direct marketing and communication to chapter members,” Algyer says. “In

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Water Works Association Eyes Broader Lessons in Flint’s Water Crisis

Associations Now

“Working in coordination with the state, county, and municipal emergency management agencies; and emergency relief partners, IBWA’s members have so far supplied several hundred thousand gallons of clean and safe bottled water to Flint area residents,” said Chris Hogan, the association’s vice president of communications, in a statement.

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Associations Mixed on Agency’s Driver Distraction Guidelines

Associations Now

Last week, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued voluntary guidelines for drivers to minimize in-vehicle distractions from communication, entertainment, and electronic devices. These guidelines are aimed at getting automakers to focus on safer tools in the dash that take less of your attention away from the road.”.

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Nonprofit CEOs and the Network Mindset

Beth Kanter

It means communicating through a network model, rather than a broadcast model—finding where the conversations are happening and taking part. As Debbie says, it wasn’t about just using the tools and platforms like Facebook and Twitter – even for herself as the CEO or her organization. It means sharing by default.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Facilitation Friday #18: Authenticity.

Idea Architects

facilitation, his own communication style, and his own beliefs about. That is the most important tool we bring to any meetings or conversations we facilitate. 15, Detroit, OACS-MACS Fall Conference. Rather it consisted of loose-knit ”impersonations” of the. mentors he apparently channeled during his practice time.