Associations Now

MAY 11, 2016

Though its 2017 annual conference is only 11 months away, the American Counseling Association is moving the event from Nashville following the passage of a controversial Tennessee law. In light of the Tennessee governor signing a controversial law that would allow counselors to refuse to provide services based on “strongly held principles,” the American Counseling Association announced on Tuesday that it decided to relocate its 2017 annual conference from Nashville.

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Association Adviser

MAY 11, 2016

Preliminary results of our unscientific reader poll show that one out of every two readers believes non-dues revenue should account for more than half of their operating budgets. The post Poll. For more about this topic, click on the headline.

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Associations Now

MAY 11, 2016

As times change, so do jobs and entire professions. If your association is seeing growth in nontraditional members—whether they’re freelancers, “paraprofessionals,” or something else—consider these ideas for evolving your membership strategy. In many professions, the nature of work is changing. If it’s not being automated , perhaps the rise of the “ gig economy ” is shifting the definition of a professional.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 11, 2016

Sometimes, we just have to stop using old-school thinking. We have to move beyond this thought, “Well, it’s worked for us in the past so it must be the right thing to do now or in the future.” Some of our thinking is out of context with the today’s world. When it comes to conference planning, we need a new hat, a new attitude and a new dress to give Patti Labelle a nod.

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Associations Now

MAY 11, 2016

In an effort to give students a future leg up in an industry that’s increasingly important, the Computer Science Teachers Association is boosting its certification offerings. The initiative came about after the group’s members expressed interest in such a program. Based on a just-launched initiative, it’s clear a leading association for computer science educators listens to its members.

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Associations Now

MAY 11, 2016

In some ways the college media space is a microcosm of the broader media industry, with print versions of college newspapers and yearbooks cutting back or even going away. The main association for college media outlets is tracking and interpreting the trends, seeing value in both print and digital formats. In any other part of the journalism world, news that Cornell University’s student newspaper will trim its print distribution to just three days a week likely would have been met with sho

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Higher Logic

MAY 11, 2016

Alfred Hitchcock employed a unique technique when writing movie screenplays. He famously had two scripts – a blue script and a green script. The blue script had all the things you’d normally see in a script: each actor’s lines, cues, and stage directions. The green script contained information about how he wanted the viewer to feel – what emotions he was trying to elicit – at every single moment of the movie.

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Associations Now

MAY 11, 2016

A new update to the chat platform takes cues from Facebook and Google to make logins to office apps a little easier. Plus: Amazon launches a new video platform for professionals. Instant messaging has taken over the workplace, making it faster and easier than ever to communicate with coworkers, managers, and clients. Slack has quickly risen through the ranks to become one of the leading chat applications, and with its introduction of Sign in with Slack on Tuesday, it hopes to expand beyond the r

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