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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. We consulted with experts within education from K-12 to advanced academics.

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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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Association E-Learning: 3 Tips to Provide Member Value

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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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Reinvent What You Do, Not Who You Are

Association Subculture

We can't spend months debating about the usefulness of social media and then wonder why we aren't moving the needle on jobs and education. And now, Detroit. Our beloved Detroit is in danger of losing its soul. Of course not. However, we will not get there with extractionist, reductionist thinking.

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Three Tips for a Global Start That Sticks

Associations Now

Those conversations provided the bedrock for both the report and the Achieving Global Growth pre-conference workshop , which was held Saturday at the ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition in Detroit. ”If But over the course of many conversations, these were a few of the themes that repeatedly emerged. Stakeholder Buy-In Is Critical.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Seen Elsewhere: Building Creative.

Idea Architects

Seen Elsewhere: Building Creative Capacity, Emerging Education Models, and Group Decision Making. Here are a few of the recent developments in education that no doubt will find their way in some form to association efforts. The Flipped Learning phenomenon is gaining major traction in elementary and secondary education.

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Supercharging the Discussion: Let’s Talk Electricity at Events

Associations Now

I (of course) had to get a photo: Best #asae14 travel story: met two members of Weezer. And at the end of the conference, the Detroit Convention and Visitors Bureau handed out portable chargers to attendees to promote the 2015 ASAE event: The phone charger has already been a lifesaver! pic.twitter.com/R4Q6z6c4Kp.

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