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Congratulations, 2024 Chamber of the Year Finalists!

GrowthZone

Those honored with the designation have demonstrated organizational strength and made an impact on key community priorities, such as education, transportation, economic prosperity, and quality of life. The Chamber of the Year award recognizes the leadership role chambers of commerce have in their communities. appeared first on GrowthZone.

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Association Management Group (AMG) CEO Paul Mengert Named Educator of the Year by Community Associations Institute (CAI)

AMG

Each year at its annual conference, CAI honors individuals who have made significant contributions to CAI and the community association way of life. According to CAI, the Educator of the Year Award is given to a member who has contributed valuable educational content. He has served 20 years on CAI’s national senior faculty.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 12.20.19

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Your plans for the holiday season are probably like mine: feast. If you’re in North Carolina, please consider supporting the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina. We’re the lucky ones. Now, on to the show….

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.6.16

Reid All About it

– Metrics Mania for Conference Improvement: Vanity or Actionable Metrics. Are you guilty of touting feel-good conference vanity metrics? We repeatedly confuse our conference activity for healthy vital signs. Join us as we discover how to shatterproof our conferences and measure what matters. Tue 6/7 at 2 p.m.

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Association Brain Food: Week of February 1, 2016

Reid All About it

One of the ways I’m contributing to the Association Executives of North Carolina (AENC), as a member of its professional development committee, is by compiling a list of professional development opportunities that’s shared in AENC’s weekly newsletter. ASAE Online Conference for Small-Staff Associations.

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Take Education Beyond Conference Sessions Using the Latest Apps

Associations Now

Every conference attendee brings a plus one: a phone. Although it was once considered taboo to have a cellphone at business meetings, event planners are welcoming the mobile revolution thanks to new shared-learning apps, which help attendees customize the conference experience outside scheduled programming.

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Conferences Are Providing Inferior Education Through Lectures

Velvet Chainsaw

Conferences are providing inferior education if all they provide is didactic, presenter monologue lectures. If all your attendees do is sit and listen passively to speakers, you’re providing bad conference education! Conferences Need To Take The Lecture Research Seriously. Active Learning Applies To All Education.