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50 Things That Shaped Our World in 1969

Association Adviser

The Montreal Expos baseball team debuted in April 1969. The Expos were the first Major League Baseball team to be founded outside the U.S. In 2004, the team moved to Washington, D.C. team in the MLB. Sesame Street debuts on National Education Television, the precursor to the Public Broadcasting Service.

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Architects Group Brings Tradeshow Management In-House

Associations Now

Andrew Flank, American Institute of Architects This year’s conference, held in San Francisco, drew more than 15,000 attendees and 500 exhibitors according to a report, on par with 2022 attendance and close to its pre-pandemic levels. AIA canceled its 2020 and 2021 in-person annual conferences.)

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Conference Circuit: Auto Dealers

Associations Now

Workshops and education sessions: 100 plus. The National Automobile Dealers Association’s 2019 NADA Show begins next week in San Francisco. City: San Francisco. Rundown Attendees: 20,000 plus. Exhibiting companies: 500 plus. Attendance is expected to top 20,000. Conference: 2019 NADA Show. Venue: Moscone Center.

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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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Attendee Volunteers: A Meeting’s Best Customer Service Team

Associations Now

Instead of relying only on internal staff or a mix of staff and venue or destination teams to handle onsite customer service at meetings, some associations are asking attendees to volunteer. But there’s still another way associations staff their onsite customer service team: with member volunteers. Louis, Missouri.

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Let Your Community Tell a Story - Like AirBNB Does

Higher Logic

AirBNB’s UX team created a storyboard to remind the entire company of their overall customer journey goals -- it’s the thesis they constantly refer to to gauge progress, look ahead and predict potential problems. Are there opportunities for education? So what do they need? Does your product need improvement?

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Investing in Yourself: Professional Development for Community Managers

Higher Logic

If so you heard the value of education highlighted again and again. In the SOCM 2015 a significant majority of best-in-class communities provide one or more types of professional development opportunities to their community teams. Maybe you were lucky enough to be in the room at the Higher Logic Super Forum last month.