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Higher Logic Joins Team Rubicon to Tackle Community Disaster Response in Houston

Higher Logic

HIGHER LOGIC CARES: Through our 2019 Charity Program, we sent a group of nine staff volunteers to Houston, Texas, in May 2019 to assist Team Rubicon in disaster response efforts. In fact, the Houston home we worked on was scheduled to take at least one week to clear out and perform demolition—we did it in two days. Who is Team Rubicon?

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Facilitation Friday #6: Balance Content and Process, Ideas and Action

Idea Architects

Facilitation Friday #6: Balance Content and Process, Ideas and Action. Effective facilitation must manage (or balance content and process, as well as attention to both ideas and action. They appreciate and understand that different groups may need to use different processes to achieve different desired outcomes. Blog Archive.

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Following Harvey, Meetings Change Course to Give Back

Associations Now

Hurricane Harvey severely affected residents and businesses in Houston and other areas of southeast Texas. In the meetings sector, convention centers in Houston and Dallas, along with Austin, have been turned into shelters , and numerous hotel brands have also offered lodging and monetary support to those affected.

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It’s a Great Time to Be a Young Association Professional: Erin Sevitz on Working Hard, Being Agile and Leaving Your Mark

Association Adviser

When I worked for Naylor I was based in Florida, but eventually I wanted to return to Houston. While I wasn’t necessarily looking to work at an association, through the PRSA Houston Chapter job board, I found a posting for an editorial manager role with IFMA. IFMA Houston Service Center of Excellence © Aker Imaging.

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Conference Souvenir Causes TSA Headaches for Sorority Members

Associations Now

As Delta Sigma Theta members were leaving Houston following their annual meeting last week, they ran into airport security problems for an unexpected reason: A large souvenir booklet apparently looked like an explosive on the TSA’s scanners. That forced the Transportation Security Administration at Houston’s William P.

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Tuesday Buzz: Boost Your Membership Renewals

Associations Now

Dividing membership lists, for example, can be a helpful way to start organizing your processes and brainstorming ideas. See how one nonprofit is working to help give girls an even playing field in STEM classes, via the Houston Chronicle. Other Good Reads: Opening science to all, one class at a time.

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FrackFeed: Pro-Fracking Activists Try the BuzzFeed Strategy

Associations Now

As anyone who’s seen the 2012 Gus Van Sant movie Promised Land knows, a major challenge that the energy industry faces with promoting hydraulic fracturing has as much to do with messaging as with the “fracking” process itself. That brings us to the latest effort by North Texans for Natural Gas, a pro-fracking advocacy group.