Socious
JUNE 23, 2016
Do you remember that Android commercial from last year? It was full of animal friends, from rhinos and sheep walking together to a parrot stealing pasta and for a waiting dog. The point? The animals were different, but they were friends working together to have fun or snag a tasty meal.
Higher Logic
JUNE 23, 2016
Your community looks absolutely stunning. The colors, graphics and font all work perfectly with each other. Everyone compliments you. But there’s one big problem. No one can figure out how to use it. It’s not that you didn’t have a great design team. Or that you weren’t trying to be successful. You just got caught up in making your online community look pretty before thinking about how it was going to be used.
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Virtual
JUNE 23, 2016
You’ve just spent months navigating the formalities of incorporating a new consortium and all the associated legalities and growing pains that will allow you to work with industry peers. Now it’s time to begin the real work of identifying annual goals and objectives. Your chances for success will be much higher if you build a strong foundation. Here is a handy checklist you should have before you begin to operate.
Smooth The Path
JUNE 23, 2016
Related: Great CEO’s value collaboration. Harness uncertainty to fuel innovation. The daily decision to get to 503 blog posts. The post Is Your Association Ready? appeared first on Smooth The Path.
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Associations Now
JUNE 23, 2016
The Commission for Case Manager Certification and the National Association of Social Workers are working together to increase the number of social workers with a case manager credential. To help relieve the workforce gap in the healthcare industry, the Commission for Case Manager Certification and the National Association of Social Workers partnered to encourage more social workers to obtain CCMC’s healthcare credential.
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Associations Now
JUNE 23, 2016
Mapping Success Even if you’re not involved in the software engineering space, you might find ACT’s study a must-look —because of the way it was released. Rather than in PDF form or even as a traditional webpage, ACT released it as an interactive map, using the ArcGIS Story Map Journal tool to highlight interesting data and even add graphics.
Velvet Chainsaw
JUNE 23, 2016
Savvy 21st Century conference organizers can effectively demonstrate strategic learning alignment of their conference networking and education programming. (Can you?). Smart conference professionals are skilled at articulating the value of their event’s networking and learning opportunities. They can discuss how their programming helps their target market achieve their business goals.
Associations Now
JUNE 23, 2016
Rundown Attendees: 500. Sponsorship Levels: 5. Plenary Sessions: 3. The National Marine Educators Association’s 2016 Annual Conference starts in Orlando in the upcoming days. Hundreds of educators from high schools, public aquariums, nonprofits, and government agencies are headed to the Sunshine State for five days of learning, sharing, and networking to help advance the understanding and protection of freshwater and marine ecosystems.
Breezio
JUNE 23, 2016
And how we can harness “beginner’s mind” to become better educators Beginner’s Mind What do all beginners have in common aside from the theme that they are novices? As intuitive as it may seem, beginners are often owners of beginner’s mind, a concept in Zen Buddhism called shoshin. Shoshin refers to an attitude of eagerness and openness towards and with no preconceptions of what is being studied.
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Associations Now
JUNE 23, 2016
In the lead-up to the Rio Olympics, the International Olympic Committee this week took a stand on a hot-button topic: whether Russian track and field athletes will be banned from competing amid a doping scandal. Ultimately, they tried to find a compromise. Faced with whether to uphold a decision by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to ban Russian track and field athletes from this summer’s Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) tried this week
Associations Now
JUNE 23, 2016
Understanding the havoc cyberattacks can wreak on an association’s business is the first step to remaining proactive against them. Lisbeth Salander, the unlikely heroine of the Millennium series by Stieg Larrson, is a hacker—and a crack one at that. In the fourth book , which was written by David Lagercrantz after Larrson’s untimely death in 2004, Salander hacks into the National Security Agency’s intranet.
Associations Now
JUNE 23, 2016
Personal live streams from smartphones worked around a rule that allowed shutting off public-access television footage on the House floor—and showed how Periscope and other live streaming platforms can be must-see TV. Plus: A classy take on unemployment. When the cameras went dark, protesting House Democrats had to pull out a few cameras of their own—and somehow, it worked.
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