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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.18.21

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Virtual conference networking. Lee Gimpel of Better Meetings is calling out virtual conference organizers for giving the label “networking opportunities” to five types of experiences that don’t deliver on the networking promise , including the ubiquitous chat box. Lessons learned while planning a hybrid conference for APHON.

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Association Brain Food: 12.8.23

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Keep these findings in mind when planning staff and member online meetings and educational programs, including conferences. Host: Northstar Meetings Group Speakers: Robert Kenward, recruitment expert Dawn Penfold, president, Meetingjobs.com Elise Schoening (moderator), senior editor, Northstar Meetings Group Wed 12/13 at 3 p.m.

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Opening the Door to Government Members

Associations Now

Professionals who work in government remain critical for many associations, says Cindy Adams, president and CEO of the Iowa Society of CPAs. Complaints about the barrier to entry have been echoing around the Iowa statehouse. What challenges or struggles have you faced in recruiting and retaining government employees as members?

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Serving Your Professional Community for Impact

Association Adviser

Recruited by one of my customers, I was lured into the publishing industry to work on college textbooks for computer science and management information systems. I worked for a company in Boston for years before transferring to another publishing company in Iowa, which was short-lived because of mismatched expectations.

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Say Cheese: Instagram at Meetings

Associations Now

Take some advice from the Association of Donor Recruitment Professionals. At its 2013 ADRP Conference, it simply asked attendees to upload photos taken on their smartphones to Instagram using #adrp2013. The results: Over the course of three days, nearly 600 photos were shared. Choose a Creative Hashtag.

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Association Brain Food: 12.15.23

Reid All About it

They describe the seven steps of starting a successful association mentoring program from pre-evaluation and research to planning, design, recruitment, matching, training, support, and evaluation. He saw the idea in action at the Social Media Market World conference. Host: Volunteer Managers of Central Iowa Fri 12/15 at 4 p.m.

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