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Pet Rules: Creating fair and reasonable rules fur better or worse

Ungrated

Developing fair pet rules are critical to keeping Fido, their owners and the community content with tails wagging. . According to the most recent American Pet Products Association National Pet Owners Survey, 70% of U.S. Pamela Babcock, a writer and editor in the New York City area, contributed to this article. .

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How to Get Attendee Personalization Right

Associations Now

Before we left, the hotel sent us a brief survey that asked a few questions about our interests and preferences. Staff tagged meeting sessions to these interests using the association’s internal content taxonomy. A few weeks ago, I went down to Miami for some rest and relaxation, and most importantly, beach time.

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Great News – America’s Hiring and Associations have a Reason to Celebrate

YourMembership

This good news was echoed in the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey for Q1 2015 where 18,000 US employers reported a positive Net Employment Outlook, and almost 20% anticipated an increase in their staff levels during Q1 2015. “As Kinahan characterized these as being areas where people can have careers and not just short-term jobs.

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Are We All Generalists in Association Culture?

Association Success

However, 3 years into this role, my military spouse received orders to move to New York City, where I found it challenging to find an IT role without possessing a Bachelor’s Degree. When I walked into an office for the first time to announce that we’d be coming to survey the area, they would almost always be very upset.

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Join Me at SXSW, 14NTC, and Other March Conferences

Beth Kanter

The session will share the results and insights from research studies that combining social media analytics with survey data. And, if that wasn’t enough, will do a mini-workshop on using content curation for professional learning. I will also be doing the lunch keynote about on measurement and learning.

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Membership Wakeup Call for Associations

Association Adviser

More than 90 percent of interactions between an association and its members are screen-based, according to a recent American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) survey. “That has big ramifications for association content producers, membership directors and advertiser/sponsors,” he said. Dan Stevens, WorkerBee TV.

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Cross-Border Collaboration: Sell Successfully Overseas by Learning the Local Needs

Plexus Consulting

The association hired a market survey expert to poll these potential customers to find out the answers to its questions. After extensive surveying, the consultant reported discouraging results. A number of those surveyed were offended by what they saw as American effrontery—and they said so in no uncertain terms.