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Conference Circuit: Linguistic Society of America

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The Linguistic Society of America’ s 2019 Annual Meeting begins January 3 in New York City. More than 1,000 linguistic scholars and students are headed to the Big Apple in the new year to discuss cutting-edge research focused on the scientific study of language, get to know colleagues, and honor leaders in the field.

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Tuesday Buzz: Your Volunteers Should Represent Your Audience

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An Engaging Volunteers blog post points to a group called Refugees Helping Refugees, which works to provide citizenship to Somali refugees in New York City. By not relying on signals from satellites, it will be possible to bring turn-by-turn navigation indoors; straight to your tradeshow or conference.”.

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On the Runway: Lessons From New York Fashion Week

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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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NAACP Hosts Bias Training for New Jersey Police

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” That’s what NAACP New Jersey State Conference President Richard Smith said at a news conference following a fair and impartial policing (FIP) training at the organization’s annual state conference Thursday. “We need police, and the police need us.”

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Global Dispatch: Meetings Takeaways From Great Ideas Asia-Pacific

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ASAE’s Great Ideas in Association Management Conference, Asia-Pacific, which took place in Hong Kong last week, proved that meeting planners from around the world have a lot in common. Last week I had the opportunity to attend ASAE’s Great Ideas in Association Management Conference, Asia-Pacific , in Hong Kong.

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Thursday Buzz: Why This Association Made Membership Free

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On Wednesday, the association’s president, Mark Schlack, announced that it would begin offering free membership to new and current members—something the group said was possible due to an improving financial climate. But that, of course, isn’t the full story—and the group had plenty of new initiatives to share.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look At Meetings in Baltimore Last Week

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12, 2001, at the Javits Center in New York City—he described that night as stressful and intense as the situation escalated. They conferred with convention center staff as well as the city’s convention and visitors bureau and the Baltimore police and ultimately decided it was safe to continue with the Summit.