Reid All About it

MARCH 25, 2016

Many of you have thanked me for putting together this list each week so I’m going to keep doing it. If your organization offers professional development for the association community, please send me the link via email or Twitter. Tue 3/29 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern DT* – Educating Volunteer & Professional Trainers. Your speakers are subject matter experts, but they’re probably not trained in adult learning.

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Socious

MARCH 25, 2016

We know you're busy, so try to make your life easier by compiling the best online community management articles from around the web right here on our blog each week. This week, our favorite articles focus on providing our readers with tips for online community management.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 25, 2016

Many of you have thanked me for putting together this list each week so I’m going to keep doing it. If your organization offers professional development for the association community, please send me the link via email or Twitter. Tue 3/29 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern DT* – Educating Volunteer & Professional Trainers. Your speakers are subject matter experts, but they’re probably not trained in adult learning.

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Associations Now

MARCH 25, 2016

It won’t be called the Snack Food Association anymore. The group, once named for potato chips, is undertaking its first major rebranding in decades, eyeing a global audience with its new SNAC International moniker. The Snack Food Association has come a long way from potato chips, and the group’s new branding strategy hopes to underline that point.

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Association Adviser

MARCH 25, 2016

This week we’ve published a detailed three-part series about uncovering your member magazine’s potential. In Part 3, we show how getting the most out of your member magazine – including non-dues. For more about this topic, click on the headline.

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MARCH 25, 2016

The American Agricultural Editors’ Association (AAEA) announces the opening of an executive search seeking a new management team to assume management of the association effective August 1, 2016. AAEA has retained me conduct the search to replace Den Gardner of Gardner & Gardner Communications, who is retiring and has resigned the account on behalf of his firm.

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Associations Now

MARCH 25, 2016

We’re in the thick of March Madness again. Learn how your association can incorporate elements of one of America’s largest sporting events into its meetings and conventions. Are you one of the 40 million Americans, who, according to American Gaming Association research , fill out 70 million March Madness brackets and wager $9.2 billion on the NCAA men’s basketball tournament?

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Associations Now

MARCH 25, 2016

A quickly passed state law in North Carolina that effectively ends local antidiscrimination ordinances affecting the LGBT community has proved hugely controversial with advocacy groups, sports organizations, corporations, and trade groups. A controversial bill that limits local governments in passing antidiscrimination laws affecting LGBT people has put the state of North Carolina in the crosshairs of both business and advocacy groups.

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Associations Now

MARCH 25, 2016

A young startup hopes to rekindle the business of news with an experimental micropayments-driven application. Plus: How has an increase in cybersecurity changed our office conduct? As social media and blogging have surged over the past decade, traditional news outlets have been desperately trying to play catch up. From using virtual reality to creating native advertising, big and small publications alike have been digging for new ways to bring financial stability to the industry.

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