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Wednesday Buzz: Recruiting Passionate Members As Marketers

Associations Now

The massive software-as-a-service (SaaS) firm has 171,000 attendees coming to this year’s event, giving San Francisco a significant temporary population bump this week. The most prolific tweeter at last year’s Dreamforce, social media consultant Alex Plaxen, was profiled in Associations Now earlier this year.

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Investing in Yourself: Professional Development for Community Managers

Higher Logic

That doesn't mean just conferences - in fact some of the biggest gaps between average and best-in-class communities include the percentage offering coaching, online courses and memberships in professional development networks. Invest in training.

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Can AI & Bots Help Create A More Positive Nonprofit Workplace Culture?

Beth Kanter

Most recently, I facilitated this workshop with staff at Lightful , a social media platform for nonprofits based in London where I am currently a senior advisor. And, of course, there is a pizza ordering slack bot.). The conversation surfaced some interesting questions and ideas.

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What Burning Man's 10 Principles Can Teach You About Building Community

Higher Logic

Nope, this all began (on a much smaller scale) back in 1986 when friends Larry Harvey and Jerry James built an 8-foot tall human effigy and burned it on Baker Beach in San Francisco (population: 35). Of course not, but the vast majority do. A new trend? Does every single attendee do this? Post-event community engagement.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits That Can Boost Professional Success

Beth Kanter

Our book tour starts at the end of January, so if you are in San Francisco, Oakland, Boston, NYC, or Washington, DC, please join us. I also taught a workshop for social startups at Singularity University here in Mountain, View on how to create a Happy Healthy Start Up Culture.

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Whatâ??s your 20 Second Public Relations Strategy?

Off Stage

But there''s another lesson to be learned from the airline industry in these last two weeks: let''s turn to the San Francisco crash of Asiana Flight 214. Designate someone on the crisis team whose job it is to monitor and respond to social media. in one day). The world found this behavior. unacceptable.

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Top 3 Live Streaming Apps to Humanize Your Organization [Part I]

Slice-Works

Feeling overwhelmed with all this talk about the “next big things” in marketing and social media? Recently, I’ve been watching recordings from sessions at Social Media Examiner ’s Social Media Success Summit, and loved the talks from Social Media gurus Mari Smith and Peg Fitzpatrick.