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Association Brain Food Weekly: 1.17.20

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Association exec Mark Golden explains why a future-focused profession needs full participation from all people to reach its potential—the reason diversity, equity and inclusion cannot fall off an association’s strategic agenda. Austin Kleon ).

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Preparing for an Association Event’s Security Means Going Off Auto-Pilot and Taking Control for Yourselves

Association Adviser

The registration area of MPINCC’s Annual Conference & Expo at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. LK: The revenue from ACE represents a major part of the association’s annual budget. MPINCC spent extensive time updating their event emergency preparedness plan prior to this year’s event.

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Better Connected: Engaging Virtual Meeting Attendees

Associations Now

Among them: allowing members to attend who would have otherwise been unable to due to travel costs or other factors, boosting nondues revenue, and broadening an association’s global reach. Hybrid conferences—where an in-person meeting is blended with an online component—come with a lot of benefits.

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Social Media Roundup: Small Plates, Big Lessons

Associations Now

What tiny portions can teach education pros about savoring big ideas. That’s a lesson Conferences That Work author Adrian Segar picked up on a recent trip to San Francisco, and he enjoyed (almost) every bite. Also: how to price your online advertising. ” (ht @ SheridanGroup ).

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Association Brain Food: 7.8.22

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Skip down to the list of free educational events if you prefer takeout. Here are the educational events scheduled for next week. We saw nearly 2,000 registrants for WEC 2022 in San Francisco in-person and online. Paper ceiling.

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Keeping the American Dream Alive, One Hotel at a Time

Association Adviser

They make sure their children are well-educated. If you put $15 on top of the taxes that go along with that, wage is essentially $19 per hour, which can be unsustainable for certain jobs and skill levels, such as housekeepers, which don’t require a high school education. without much, or whose parents emigrated to the U.S.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth Kanter

Video games are big — bigger than Hollywood in terms of revenue, as a $66 billion global industry. In Education. The neuroscientists at the Gazzaley Lab at University of California, San Francisco, have shown that games can improve our cognitive function. You can register here.