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Conference Circuit: Chatting About Communication

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Experts gather in Seattle to discuss the brave new world of 21st-century communication. Communication is an important activity of any association. With the opportunities and avenues for communication greatly expanded by the internet, now is the perfect time for the 64th annual International Communication Association Conference.

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SBI Association Management Announces Acquisition of LoBue & Majdalany Association Management

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SEATTLE, WA, February 9, 2022 – SBI Association Management (SBI), a full-service association management company (AMC) headquartered in Seattle, announced today that effective February 1, 2022, it acquired LoBue & Majdalany Association Management (L&M) an AMC based in San Francisco. Learn more at www.sbims.com.

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SBI Announces New Client Partnership with the International Ombudsman Association (IOA)

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Seattle, WA – January 2, 2019. SBI, a Seattle-based association management company, is proud to announce the International Ombudsman Association (IOA) as its newest full-service association management client.

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Trade Group: Malls Consider High-Tech Solutions to Security

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The retail industry has an unusual problem: It wants to prevent outbreaks of violence at malls and shopping centers, but shoppers generally oppose the use in retail settings of security techniques typically found at airports. That has trade groups in the shopping industry keeping an eye out for new strategies.

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How Associations Are Embracing Apprenticeships

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Check out a few examples of associations big and small offering such programs for their respective industries. Associations are well-suited to offer these kinds of apprenticeships as a way to attract new kinds of workers to their respective industries. Apprenticeships are growing in importance. Labor Department.

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Association Provides Google-Eyed View of Its Tradeshow

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That was the intent of the Washington Restaurant Association, which used Google Glass to livestream its 2014 Northwest Foodservice Show in Seattle April 13-14. All of the livestreamed content will live on now that the event is over. Everything that we [recorded] will be archived,” Nepomuceno said. “So

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A Wiring Challenge: Municipal Broadband Pits Cities Against Telecom Giants

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The Federal Communications Commission is considering whether to override Tennessee and North Carolina law and allow two cities to expand their super-fast internet service. Seattle, for example, had to squash a contract with Gigabit Squared after the provider failed to hold up its end of the deal. ” A mixed record.