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Engagement: You’re Doing It Right!

Spark Consulting

The thing is, engagement is more like on the New Yankee Workshop, with master carpenter Norm Abram: Every project is unique, and requires attention to detail and a specific application of the materials and tools at hand. What’s my point? Every engagement success story is different and unique to the audiences that association is serving.

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Create a Container: Storytelling Strategies to Engage the Next Generation

Associations Now

When kids are deciding to learn an instrument, the accordion is probably not their first choice—creating an industry challenge the Connecticut Accordion Association is trying to overcome.

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Monday Buzz: Kickstarter Becomes a Benefit Corporation

Associations Now

For Kickstarter, this means meeting several reporting requirements, including an annual statement that will report on public-benefit projects the company has announced as part of its new charter. These include limiting its environmental impact and improving financial transparency. Need new ideas for your digital presence?

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After Sandy Hook, Why a Newtown-Based Gun Group Stayed There

Associations Now

The National Shooting Sports Foundation, which has called Newtown, Connecticut, home for two decades, says it considered moving its headquarters after last year’s school shooting, but staff members urged the leadership to stay in town. Here’s why. The gun control debate hadn’t had a flash point quite like Newtown before.

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Metro-North Crash Intensifies Calls for Improved Safety, Funding

Associations Now

In May, two trains collided on a stretch of track in Connecticut. Last month, according to a Bloomberg report , the railroad was cited by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) for a maintenance backlog. All 700 passengers survived. Making the Case.

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My favorite comments on my 2012 blog posts

ChatterBachs

I would like permission to reprint this in the Connecticut Society of Association Executives newsletter minus the Thanksgiving lead in. How do we keep people invested in a project, company, organization, such that they are motivated to take initiative? Thanks, Lorna. I’m honored at this request. My biggest takeaway is a question.

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Your Digital Infrastructure Shouldn’t Be Playing Catch-Up

Associations Now

The bad news is that New Jersey—along with other states, including Kansas and Connecticut —have unemployment systems so out of date that they rely on this old programming language, one that is so vintage that it hasn’t been taught in universities for decades. That’s how open source works, of course.).