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Conference Circuit: Big Innovation for Little Ones

Associations Now

The National Head Start Association’s first-ever Early Childhood Innovation Summit kicks off in Seattle next week. Conference: Early Childhood Innovation Summit. Location: Seattle. He’ll discuss how to make innovation a daily reality, rather than a one-time endeavor. Rundown Cohosts: 4. Sponsors: 3.

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Conference Circuit: Immune System

Associations Now

The American Association of Immunologists’ Annual Meeting kicks off in Seattle later this week. More than 3,000 immunologists from 40 countries are in Emerald City to hear lectures from some of the world’s most prominent scientists, network with peers, and learn how innovations and biomedical advances can benefit their research.

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Wednesday Buzz: Facebook Ups Its Events Game

Associations Now

Plus: how to team up with others to design your meetings. Fresh off its launch yesterday, the feature can be seen by iOS-based users in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, DC. It will be organized in an innovative carousel slide tool. More noteworthy Links.

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Reads of the Week: October 5, 2012

Reid All About it

Become of innovative teachers like Al and technology like Coursera, online education is so much better than what it used to be. Lifehacker tells you how to get things moving again. Here’s a performance they did for Seattle radio station KEXP – check that station out too. I love technology! It happened to me about a month ago.

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Could Your Association Thrive in a Remote-First Culture?

Associations Now

But what if this desire for a central location, both in terms of office and locale, comes at the cost of innovation? If you have an employee in Missouri or Missoula and they know how to do the job and can be trusted to do great work in a remote environment, that can prove incredibly valuable as competition for resources increases.

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The Failure Bow: How To Stop the Blame and Shame Game and Start Learning

Beth Kanter

Here’s how. The 7 minute video above is from Matt Smith who is a Seattle improviser and auctioneer. He talks about how to altering our physiological response to failure can lead to transparency, availability, flexibility and improved results.

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Myth Busting around Scale

Beth Kanter

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. For me, this ‘how to’ approach put some practical meat on the bones of the conversation around scaling impact that resonated through halls the at the GEO conference this week.