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Tuesday Buzz: Getting Ready for Detroit

Associations Now

Some of the most informative guides you can find ahead of the 2015 ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition, taking place in Detroit this weekend. You may have heard that the 2015 ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition is taking over Detroit this weekend. The old Detroit Free Press building got its plywooded windows covered today w/graphics.

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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

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Even if your association is trapped in a sea of competition, you can change course and sail toward possibility. The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based team was motivated by the desire to find solutions for struggling businesses like the Detroit automobile producers. Are sharks circling your member base, eyeing bites for their next meal?

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Insects for Dinner? New Trade Group Hopes to Make the Case

Associations Now

The group, launched at an event in Detroit, highlights the fact that some startups see the Motor City as ripe for edible-bug manufacturing. This weekend, the North American Edible Insects Coalition (NAEIC) is holding its first-ever meeting as part of the Eating Insects Detroit conference, taking place at Wayne State University.

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Effectively Training a Global Audience: What Works?

Leading Learning

It’s helpful to have an understanding of e-learning course creation, from coordinating subject matter experts (SMEs) and writing scripts to using rapid authoring tools, when creating a successful learning experience. If you’re not careful, you might end up with a chaotic process and a less-than-effective course.

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Association E-Learning: 3 Tips to Provide Member Value

Fonteva

How can you, or the e-learning development company you choose to work with, create courses that can’t be overlooked? E-learning courses need to help your association members do something better , whether in their jobs or personal lives. In-person training courses are likely canceled for the near future. Look around you.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Making Accommodations In Workshops

Beth Kanter

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. In my workshop in Detroit, I had several people with physical disabilities. Of course, this would be optional for everyone. However, the term “Walking Meetings,” is ableist. Respectful language is important.

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My weekend in the “D” – an open letter to my DELPers

Association Advocacy Chick

Dear DELPers, This past weekend, we came together in the Detroit area for a special purpose. Sponsored by the Detroit Metro Convention and Visitors Bureau, it was an opportunity for alumni to reconnect and haze meet the new class of DELP scholars who we affectionately call the newbies.