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Reduce Member Anxiety with Clear Instructions

Smooth The Path

We spend some time each summer in a busy resort town in the white mountains of New Hampshire. Our members feel anxiety when they do not know where to go during a conference. On-season traffic clogs the narrow streets and overwhelms the traffic lights. Every day a few official traffic directors turn off the lights and take over.

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Association Brain Food: 3.1.24

Reid All About it

They describe how to apply best practices in cognitive, learning and behavioral sciences when designing education programs, so learners are more likely to retain and apply new competencies on the job. When associations canceled their conferences during the pandemic, sponsors and exhibitors found other ways to achieve their marketing goals.

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Association Brain Food: 3.8.24

Reid All About it

5 Digital Engagement Trends for 2024 Hear about emerging trends in digital experiences, new insights about audience behavior and top tips for how to successfully drive digital engagement throughout the year. Host: UST Education Speaker: Bill McGlade, President, Community Leaders Institute & epIQ Creative Group Wed 3/13 at 1 p.m.

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Correspondents’ Association Criticizes Nominees’ Lack of Press Access

Associations Now

In one instance, his press corps was left behind in New York while he traveled to New Hampshire and missed all but the last three minutes of that rally. In a July USA Today column, outgoing WHCA President Carol Lee condemned Trump’s banning reporters and Clinton’s refusal to answer questions during press conferences. “We

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“Quantum” Leap: One Group’s Novel Take on Cybersecurity

Associations Now

The first one, which took place in November 2011, situated 30 companies inside a single conference room; this time, the test took place with the help of more than 50 companies and 500 participants, with many working in their own offices, communicating via email and other platforms, according to American Banker.

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8 must read articles for Association Executives

SCD Group

After reading about FastCompany’s Top 50 innovators, Lori captured 4 things that membership organizations could learn from the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies: Walk the talk (#1 Apple) Play the long game (#4 Amazon) Relentlessly reinvent (#12 Southern New Hampshire University) Make yourself useful(#30 LinkedIn). Too Much Choice?