Reid All About it

OCTOBER 25, 2019

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Jessica Klein at Fast Company reviews the latest research on freelancing. Did you know that 35% of the U.S. workforce is now freelancing? Only 45% of the freelancers participating in the study do “skilled services”—like programming, business consulting, marketing and, ahem, writing.

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Associations Now

OCTOBER 25, 2019

The National Automatic Merchandising Association is bringing together its members in an industry-wide effort to increase the share of healthy snacks in vending machines by 40 percent. The knock on vending machines, long story short, has always been that it’s hard to find anything healthy in them. But this week, the National Automatic Merchandising Association, which represents the vending industry, announced a new initiative to give consumers more healthy choices.

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Associations Now

OCTOBER 25, 2019

The benefits of machine learning and other forms of artificial intelligence can prove a boon to your content strategy. Here are a few ways it can work for your association. In some ways, content management is a problem of organizing lots of data. Sometimes, that data can be simply sorted—say, if you primarily use your content management system (CMS) for blog posts—but other times, that data tends to be more complex and unstructured, making keeping it organized frustrating and arduous.

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Associations Now

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Mimicking WeWork and other coworking operations, the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council recently opened a coworking space near its Boston headquarters. Spaces cater to members only for impromptu meetings or large-scale events. How to hack it? Coworking and flexible work spaces are popular office trends with staying power , which is why the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council opened its own coworking space for members.

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