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Pop-Up Events: The Next Trend for Associations?

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More recently, it opened a 16,000-square-foot Target Wonderland in New York City for two weeks during last year’s holiday season. In March 2015, the National Peanut Board held “ The Perfectly Powerful Peanut Pop-Up ” for three days in New York City. Use social media to get the word out.

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Great News – America’s Hiring and Associations have a Reason to Celebrate

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In New York City alone, there are 25,000 unfilled middle-skill jobs in the health care sector, a major industry among the association career centers we work with daily. You interact with them through your website, newsletters, emails, social media channels and events.

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Benchmarking and its Application to Your Member-based Organization

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January 12th, 2012 | Posted in Member Engagement + Retention , Membership Management , Social Media and Business Trends , YourMembership.com News. As an association, for instance, your industry data repository is impressive. Capitalizes on industry knowledge. Social Media and Business Trends.

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City-Based Manufacturing Groups Promote Their Economic Might

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This spring, Made in NYC , a trade group of 5,700 small and medium-sized manufacturers based in New York City, launched a marketing campaign to promote the value of those businesses. There’s an advocacy element to the campaign, encouraging consumers to welcome industrial businesses in increasingly residential neighborhoods.

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Associations are the Key to our Nation’s History and Prosperity

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Nearly 246 years later, it survives today as the Partnership for New York City. When factories and mass production were introduced during the Industrial Revolution, associations were dramatically changed. They were a valuable link between the companies and industries they represented and the U.S. government.

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Mind The Gap

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We need to bridge the chasm between the Industrial Era workplace and the Millennial workforce. After all, this generation is the first generation of the Post-Industrial Era. It’s an ever-widening gap between Industrial Era 20 th -century workplaces and a post-Industrial 21 st century workforce. It’s bigger than that.

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Wednesday Buzz: Lessons From Internet Hoaxes

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These hoaxes have skyrocketed with the boom in social media, and marketers are examining how internet users respond to them to figure out how users tick. One of the most common themes of “chain posts” on social media is concern about privacy and data protection. ZijiYeCtXt pic.twitter.com/BhjREsEs5L.