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You’ve Got to Read This: September 13, 2011

Reid All About it

Here’s one of my Twitter tips : maintain a Word document of posts and retweets to share with others. Frank Fortin , Chief Digital Strategist at the Massachusetts Medical Society, discovered The Sexiness of Unsexy Innovation. What if you have only 20 minutes a day? The folks at Bufferapp have a 20-minute Twitter plan for you.

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Historical Association Catches the Big One: A Whaler’s Meticulous Manuscripts

Associations Now

Back in May, NHA got its hands on an impressive document—400 pages of writings by a whaler named Seth Pinkham, who left the tiny island off of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, for the final time in 1940, dying of disease four years later in Brazil, a long way from home. Seth Pinkham was very unusual. He was eloquent. He was opinionated.”.

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Bar Association Honors 800th Anniversary of Magna Carta

Associations Now

Big Event, Big Name To kick off the American Bar Association’s commemoration of the Magna Carta’s 800th anniversary, the keynote speaker at the ABA House of Delegates meeting on Monday will have a few things to say about the document. That speaker? No less than John Roberts, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Building your Business Continuity Plan

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Here in the Northeast part of Massachusetts, it’s only a matter of time before that dreaded snow arrives! This hasn’t actually happened to you, at least, not yet; however , there is still a large possibility that it COULD happen , without warning.

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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. October 19-21: It’s hard not to love the brashness of the New England Library Association’s theme for this year’s conference in Boxborough, Massachusetts: “Be Bold. Its population dropped from 1.85

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Leading a Staff That Works Everywhere

Associations Now

Others are located at other remote points elsewhere in Alaska, as well as in California, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. A Basecamp-style project management tool helps the staff coordinate work, and Google Drive helps them share and edit documents. and 500 miles away, so be it.

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With Video - Seconds Matter to Your Audience - Here’s Proof

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I came across this article on CNN Tech about a new study from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Akamai Technologies which says you’ll lose 40% of your audience if you don’t start playing video before 10 seconds after landing on your page. of your video audience. And now… the big finish… What would I do?

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