Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

In just a few years, many businesses have gone from viewing social media as a distraction to an essential tool for learning and communication. Here’s how meeting planners, attendees, and convention and visitor bureaus are maximizing social media at conferences. We have seen incredible traction on social media.

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Associations Now

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In 2017, the AZA annual meeting was hosted by the Indianapolis Zoo, the location for Zoo Day. Here are four tips that helped AZA and the Indianapolis Zoo wow attendees: 1. People were asking strangers to take photos and videos of them eating the popcorn—and sharing the images on social media with the conference hashtag.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 30, 2018

MPI’s World Education Congress (WEC) in June in Indianapolis was held entirely in a huge open-plan exhibit space at the Indiana Convention Center. To see how MPI set up the space, watch its WEC18 preview video.). MPI also included its board of directors and Indianapolis as key stakeholders. No conference rooms.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 5, 2013

“It doesn’t mean that they’re not interested in the organization at all, it just means that what they’re trying to connect directly to is their passion or cause issue that they care about,” said Derrick Feldman, CEO at Achieve, the Indianapolis-based fundraising agency that conducted the study.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 8, 2015

A YouTube video of a brawl in Beachwood has been viewed thousands of times. And just last weekend, fights broke out at Franklin Park Mall in Toledo, Ohio, and at Castleton Square in Indianapolis. Teens were arrested at malls near Sacramento, California ; Buffalo, New York ; and Beachwood, Ohio.

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Idea Architects

MARCH 6, 2012

In reviewing photos from the recent Super Bowl Village here in Indianapolis, I was reminded of a very important one: people just want to be a part of the action. Indy spotlighted 46 faces and stories from our community in videos shared at a special website, XLVI Faces , and on banners displayed in the heart of Super Bowl Village.

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ChatterBachs

JANUARY 4, 2011

As many of you know, the priority of engaging and connecting is a big one for me- a soapbox- if you will, and I don’t understand those who simply look at social media as a way to promote their agenda, products, and/or services. cagedether - Daryl Pereira; San Francisco; Web and Social Media Manager at IBM.

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