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Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.21.17

Reid All About it

A near-death experience has enabled him “to envision an alternate ending to the AI story —one that makes the most of this amazing technology while empowering humans not just to survive, but to thrive.” A few years ago I took an excellent online Coursera course, Modern American Poetry. More info/register. Host: Smart Meetings.

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Save People, Not Associations

Associations Now

Of course not. Connecting people and knowledge is a fundamental mission in both professions, and they have both experienced a great amount of upheaval with the rise of the web, social media, and mobile technology. It was a crash-course version of the type of design-thinking work crafted by IDEO. ” Of course not.

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Can Associations Corner the Education Market?

Associations Now

In their book A+ Solution: How America’s Professional Societies and Trade Associations Can Solve the Nation’s Workforce Skills Crisis, John Bell, founder and CEO of online-career-center provider Boxwood Technology, Inc., Take massive open online courses, or MOOCs, for example.