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Society Hill Towers: How proactive maintenance gives a Philly high-rise a competitive advantage

Ungrated

Pei and completed in 1964—soars over Philadelphia’s brownstones and historic buildings. Jerrold “Jim” Morris, a Philadelphia attorney who is vice president of the board, has lived in the community since the 1980s. Society Hill Towers—a condominium complex of three, 30-story modernist towers designed by renowned architect I.M.

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Let Your Member Data Show You the Way

Spark Consulting

This Old City blogger Jon Geeting’s photos of sneckdowns in Philadelphia in February are a perfect illustration of how, paradoxically, a blanket of snow uncovers the most natural paths for cars and pedestrians. innovation membership Associations Now client work' The power of the sneckdown is what it reveals about human behavior.

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Thoughts and Readings on Collaboration, Innovation, and Engagement

ChatterBachs

We were talking about content management, content curation, content strategy, content marketing (you get the idea… content). The local museum is not looked down on because they had to borrow from a museum in Philadelphia or Chicago or San Francisco. It calls to mind a recent chat I had with Hilary Marsh. Imagine a museum.

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Wednesday Buzz: CEOs, Celebrities Unite to Take On the World

Associations Now

Steered by the vision of Roman Tsunder, founder of ACCESS 360 Media, PTTOW brings together influential leaders, entrepreneurs, and artists in order to reach new innovative heights on a global scale. Nonprofits’ wallets are getting fatter, according to an 11-city study by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance.

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Friday Buzz: When Emotions Get the Best of Us

Associations Now

The taxi industry has plenty of reason to be upset about the rise of the upstart Uber—for one thing, it’s eating into the industry’s long-held market. “Nobody is shutting the door to innovation. But that doesn’t mean Uber is a terrorist group, as one association executive recently suggested.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits That Can Boost Professional Success

Beth Kanter

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. I keynoted many conferences, including ConnectVA , American Marketing Association Nonprofit Conference , the Institute of Fundraising in London , and others.

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Association Brain Food: 6.24.22

Reid All About it

It’s a good start, for sure, but you know your market segments best. No surprise about what stands in the way of innovation: human beings! Maria Grasso, Senior Vice President, Convention Division, Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau. Rory Archibald, Associations, Sectors & Marketing, VisitScotland.

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