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Engagement: You’re Doing It Right!

Spark Consulting

Growing up, my dad was a big fan of Saturday morning PBS educational shows (This Old House, The Victory Garden, and the like), and there’s a running joke in my family about a gazebo-making machine into which you feed a tree and a fully assembled gazebo pops out the other end. THAT is an engagement success story.

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Association Brain Food: 7.21.23

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Association Brain Food is taking off next Friday, July 28 because I’m away all week at my state SAE conference and a family beach vacation. Member education. Good eats Skip down to the list of free educational events if you prefer takeout.

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Bagel-Eating Contest Aims to Draw Attention to Start-Up Bagel Group

Associations Now

He said that several dozen spectators cheered on the 10 competitors, who traveled from New York, Philadelphia, and Connecticut to take part in the competition. We’re trying to become the network for bagel store owners and operators—for sharing, networking, education.”. It was a success, according to Hazan.

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New Legislation Allows North Carolina Condominium and Homeowners Association Residents to Conduct Virtual Meetings

AMG

CAI-NC Offers Educational Webinar About HB 320 Oct. Today, 12 states have statutes that allow for remote or virtual meetings, six states initially enacted emergency powers that allow associations to meet virtually with both Connecticut and North Carolina passing and enacting state statutes since the start of the pandemic.

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

Association Success

Adding regionals events is relatively easy, and offering added educational opportunities serves members, boosts participation, expands reach, pleases exhibitors, opens untapped opportunities, and generates new revenue, all without cannibalizing your national event and revenue. Room rates and other factors also influence selection.

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Innovative Planning at The Global Pet Expo Creates Greater Productivity for Attendees

Associations Now

Meet our fifth “Planner of Productivity”: Andrew Darmohraj, executive vice president and chief operating officer for the American Pet Products Association, based in Stamford, Connecticut. AD: We’ve set up small areas where we can do pop-up education on the show floor. In 2020, the show will be held February 26–28.

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Monday Buzz: Kickstarter Becomes a Benefit Corporation

Associations Now

Kickstarter also announced it will donate 5 percent of its after-tax profit to support arts and music education, and to back organizations fighting to end systemic inequality. Nonprofits are top workplaces in Connecticut, and Nonprofit Quarterly editor-in-chief Ruth McCambridge went in search of the secret behind their success.