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Managing the Communications Plan for Your Association’s Virtual Event

Protech

After shifting away from an in-person customer celebration at the Four Seasons in Baltimore due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Protech Associates’ Fusion 2020 Customer Conference surpassed all previous attendance numbers for the event. I n a moment of crisis, innovation accelerates. Here’s what we considered while reshaping our event. .

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Thanks For Playing: What I'm Reading

Thanks For Playing

Do you do press releases? Dealing with the pain of innovation. Labels: Acronym , Barbara Ehrenreich , blog roundup , branding , Copyblogger , Eric Lanke , Harvard Business Review , innovation , John Haydon , PRSA , Shelly Alcorn. How to Manage Social Employees, Social Media at Events, and Car Talk. Newer Post.

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Seeking Some Meetings Innovation? Ask Attendees.

Associations Now

How associations can take cues from what one hotel brand recently did to encourage new ideas and innovations from guests and apply them to their meetings. The first is an Innovation Lab at its Bethesda, Maryland, headquarters. This 10,000-square-foot underground lab is dedicated to promoting collaboration and innovation.

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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

.orgSource

A calendar of events. Feature new directors prominently throughout your social media platforms and send press releases to their local publications and news outlets. Meeting icebreakers and informal social events are obvious activities. Financial statements. Minutes of recent meetings. Committee descriptions and rosters.

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Higher-Ed Groups Join Forces to Promote Analytics

Associations Now

The National Association of College and University Business Officers, the Association for Institutional Research (AIR), and EDUCAUSE released a joint statement last week calling on higher-education institutions to “harness analytics for better strategic decision-making.”. What are the mainstream institutions doing?

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3 South Florida Nonprofits Sucessfully Fundraising Amid COVID-19

Achieve

For many nonprofits, events that were expected to bring in fundraising dollars have been cancelled and internal processes have undergone drastic changes to adhere to social distancing guidelines – all while staff, volunteers, and clients are grappling with the difficulties of the “new normal”. . SMART RIDE – VIRTUAL EVENT .

Florida 52
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Your Next Great Event Idea Is an Already Great Product

Associations Now

One media organization is producing a new event, which is an extension of one of its most recognized products. Can you think of any way to expand your top three non-meeting offerings into the event space? News and World Report is once again expanding beyond the media world and into the event space.