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Conference Circuit: Meeting of the Minds Heads to Detroit

Associations Now

The rate at which people and businesses abandoned Detroit over the last half-century is well documented. Although the city filed the nation’s largest municipal bankruptcy case last year, its political and business leaders say Detroit is on the cusp of significant renewal. Its population dropped from 1.85 will also be on hand.

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What’s in store for 2014?

Aaron Wolowiec

Everyone’s hot to visit Detroit; Grand Rapids is topping national lists of places to live; and Traverse City keeps crushing it as a vacation destination, somehow figuring out how to lead about every trend – from craft brew making to farm-to-table cuisine – that comes down the pike. In other words, use technology thoughtfully.

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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

.orgSource

Blue Ocean Strategy has the ring of a concept shaped by technology. The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based team was motivated by the desire to find solutions for struggling businesses like the Detroit automobile producers. Technology has opened protected space. The platform’s current iteration already has 35,000 users.

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ASAE Annual Exhibitors Miss Another Opportunity

Reid All About it

So why are you telling someone who didn’t come to your booth: “Thanks so much for stopping by our booth at ASAE in Detroit. How do you think an email like that goes over with an association exec who didn’t visit your booth? I really wonder how many association execs with decision-making authority notice who’s giving away prizes.

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The new association “normal”

Aaron Wolowiec

AA: You referenced ASAE’s hybrid membership model in your opening remarks at ASAE’s annual convention in Detroit. Can you tell us more about how it will work and how other types of new membership models are working for other associations? But, technology actually enables communication. It’s part of their way of life.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Leadership Limerick: Time for.

Idea Architects

Any virtual event might also benefit from an in-person option, and any face-to-face meeting should explore how to incorporate virtual participation. As Harvard economist Ed Glaeser notes, "Communications technology and face-to-face interactions are complements like salt and pepper rather than substitutes like butter and margarine.”

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Don’t Just Use Data, Keep Reinventing Your Data Strategy

Associations Now

It came from Detroit. In fact, the company has recently found ways to integrate elements of technologies that didn’t exist in OnStar’s early days, like Salesforce’s cloud computing infrastructure and IBM’s Watson. It’s still going strong. And it didn’t come from Silicon Valley, either. A Rare Example.