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Lunchtime Links: This Is Not Your Regular Conference Booth

Associations Now

The carts, inspired by New York City’ hot dog carts, and the motorized bookstores are part of Penguin’s push to foster a more engaging relationship with the literary community. Get online: Web tools and social networking are great low-cost ways for organizations to develop relationships with their communities.

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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. But given a number of factors, including costs and staffing, associations can’t create new tradeshows for every audience.

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On the Runway: Lessons From New York Fashion Week

Associations Now

Open, the New York City Marathon, or the 2014 Super Bowl. Yes, the clothes matter, but Fashion Week hits on something we’ve written about a number of times before here at Associations Now : Your attendees aren’t looking for an ordinary meeting, with speakers talking at them in sterile conference rooms.

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Hawaii’s Optics Problem: A Travel Hotspot Struggles With Meetings Business

Associations Now

With state and federal conference spending facing public scrutiny, the Aloha State has struggled to sell itself as a cost-effective option for meetings. “It And last week, one conference took a step back. It is patently unfair,” he told Stateline , a news service of the Pew Charitable Trusts. Hawaii Gov.

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Cross-Border Collaboration: Sell Successfully Overseas by Learning the Local Needs

Plexus Consulting

Participants identified areas of collaboration and international products and services to be developed—such as jointly hosted international conferences and the creation of international standards—most of which keyed off the products and services that already existed at the American association.

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Experiential Learning: Another Meetings Must

Associations Now

Making that happen will mean deeper engagement and more satisfied conference attendees. Once you cut out production costs of $1.2 Another example of this type of experiential entertainment is the New York City-based production Sleep No More , which began in 2011. Let me know in the comments.

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Three Analytics Tools to Gauge Your Social Audience’s Pulse

Beth Kanter

All of these platforms have been profiled at our recent Social Media for Nonprofits conferences, which is about to produce its final US program of the year in Seattle on 11/5, before we head to New Delhi on December 5, and then back to New York City, Silicon Valley, Vancouver, plus most other major US markets in 2013.

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