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4 Tech Rollout Lessons From the Iowa Caucuses Disaster

Associations Now

Whether it was a busted app or a lack of training, the Iowa caucuses ran into severe problems Monday night when the Democratic party used a mobile app for the first time to report results. All eyes were on the Iowa Democratic caucuses on Monday night. The saga offers lots of lessons on training, planning, and vendor management.

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If You Build It –and Communicate It– They Will Come

Virtual

In the film “Field of Dreams,” a voice in Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella’s cornfield convinces him to turn his acreage into a baseball diamond, and sure enough, once he’s done it, the ghosts of the 1919 Chicago White Sox do appear. The First Step in the Technology Adoption. View Article.

Iowa 124
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Association Brain Food: 12.15.23

Reid All About it

. – Ready24: How Your Association Can Stay Ahead in 2024 The challenges facing associations are significant: technology, competition, funding and fatigue. Host: Wipfli Speakers: Caroline Nuttall, Manager; Ryan Peasley, Senior Technology Manager; and Chad Stewart, Senior Manager, Wipfli Fri 12/15 at 3:30 p.m. – More info/register.

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Association Brain Food: 12.8.23

Reid All About it

Results Direct and.orgCommunity released the first and most comprehensive report on mobile apps in the association community , which includes data on how associations and their members are using mobile apps. Host: Impexium Speaker: Dan Hickey, Senior Strategic Consultant, Technology Consulting, DelCor Technology Solutions Tue 12/12 at 1 p.m.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.18.21

Reid All About it

How to conquer communication debt aka email/message overwhelm. A weekly conversation about meeting and event technology, including software, hardware, and audiovisual for in-person and online events. Host: Brandt Krueger, founder Event Technology Consulting. Sarah Parks, Director of Technology, Esler. Quick hits.

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Crisis Communication Planning Now Includes Social Technologies

Guilt by Association

A few days later, Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester sounded my wake-up call : Now that social technologies are becoming mainstream, do your crisis communications plans account for them? In the aftermath of September 11, I led a team that drafted a new crisis communications plan for the Massachusetts Medical Society.

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CEO of Small Association Responds to Staffing Small Nonprofits

SCD Group

He previously served as the Vice President of the Finishing Contractors Association; Executive Vice President/CEO of the Associated General Contractors of Iowa; and Executive Vice President of the Midwest Manufacturing Technology Corporation. APAI ASAE association boards association executives association leadership SCD Group'

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