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Expand Your Product Line: Clone Your Classic Conference into Punchy Regionals

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If your association runs a national meeting, you already have systems in place to add regional conferences. All the tools and skills needed from hotel and expo contracting, curriculum design, CE accreditation, speaker management, exhibitor and sponsor support, registration systems, conference appa, and marketing methods are already in place.

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Metro-North Crash Intensifies Calls for Improved Safety, Funding

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What they do know is that the train was traveling at a high rate of speed—nearly 82 miles per hour, or some 50 miles per hour more than the maximum allowable for that stretch of track—and that the train was not equipped with a special computer and satellite-aided control system meant to reduce instances of operator error. Making the Case.

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Association Brain Food: 12.9.22

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WBT Systems explains who’s excluded if you stop hosting virtual conferences. The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Virtual events and inclusion. “If If your association is serious about inclusion and diversity, make sure you know what ‘going back to normal’ really means.” 1 CMP credit.

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Your Digital Infrastructure Shouldn’t Be Playing Catch-Up

Associations Now

But Murphy’s state suddenly needed a lot of help with it, because New Jersey’s unemployment systems rely on COBOL. Literally, we have systems that are 40 years-plus old, and there’ll be lots of postmortems,” he said at the news conference. (Today, they’re generally 3.5 inches in diameter, the size of a drink coaster—if that.).

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Coronavirus Updates for Association and Events Professionals – What You Need to Know

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Connecticut – 3.5 The difference between fast action now and further delays, they said, will determine whether the outbreak in the United States looks more like the one in South Korea, where COVID-19 case counts are coming under control, or more like the one in Italy, where the outbreak is already swamping the health care system.

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Daily #COVID19 Updates for Association and Events Professionals – What You Need to Know

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Connecticut – 3.5 The difference between fast action now and further delays, they said, will determine whether the outbreak in the United States looks more like the one in South Korea, where COVID-19 case counts are coming under control, or more like the one in Italy, where the outbreak is already swamping the health care system.