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What Happens When Digital Education Reaches Your Profession/Industry?

SCD Group

The digitally-driven rapid changes in higher education could be a precursor for associations and our role in knowledge transfer. The Minerva Schools at KGI is one of several recent entrepreneurial initiatives aimed at shaking up traditional higher education. Startup MOOCs who see education as more than for 18to 25-year-olds?

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A Vision for Virtual Conferencing

AssociationChat

As we find ourselves careening through this unfamiliar virtual territory, meeting planners are doing the best they can with the tools at hand. In nearly every industry, we’re adopting tools that might’ve otherwise taken a decade to gain traction. And the tools are playing catch-up too. There is no rewind button, folks.

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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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International Women’s Day: How the Meetings Industry Is Doing Its Part

Associations Now

Last year, Positive Impact, a Manchester, England–based nonprofit that provides education and resources to support a sustainable events industry, created a new storytelling campaign in honor of IWD. Here are some highlights. Celebrating Industry Leaders. Because of this, organizers went on to develop a new diversity and inclusion initiative.

Industry 101
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Internet Archive Launches Program for Local Libraries

Associations Now

But there are cases where librarians at the local level are simply better at saving things than the San Francisco-based archive is. And a new program the nonprofit group is offering could help matters.

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Let Your Community Tell a Story - Like AirBNB Does

Higher Logic

Give members the tools and information they need to succeed. Are there opportunities for education? AirBNB has also taken much flack for fueling gentrification and housing inequality , especially in their San Francisco home town. That builds trust and a stronger overall community. So what do they need?

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AI for Nonprofits and Social Good: Link Roundup

Beth Kanter

Think about AI and bots, and the algorithms that fuel them as tools that can swim through large pools of data pools of data, text, photos, and even videos. A San Francisco startup, called Valued just received $1.7 We are tracking reports, articles, and new items about AI and Social Good. and insights more quickly.