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How a Major Corporation Crowdsources Product Innovation (And How You Can Too)

Higher Logic

Starbucks is one of many companies that’s using crowdsourcing to take innovation directly to their customers. Starbucks’s online crowdsourcing community has a direct impact on its customers’ daily lives and purchases, making it a valuable tool for innovation as well as driving profits. It might just be their customers.

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Higher Logic Acquires Kavi: Powerful Collaboration for Thriving Communities

Higher Logic

Last month we announced our acquisition of Socious, bringing the best minds in member engagement together to lead in product innovation and the community industry. We’re looking forward to incorporating Kavi’s Workspace tool into the Higher Logic community platform. Read more about the acquisition in our press release.

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New Tool Lets HR Test Applicants’ Cybersecurity Skills

Associations Now

As the cybersecurity skills gap persists, a new training and testing program can help bridge that gap, while providing a recruitment and retention tool for HR departments. What this tool allows you to do is … know up front before you hire them what type of training investment you’re going to want to do to bring them on board,” he continued.

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2015 Association Management Trends and Important News from YM

YourMembership

As quoted in our press release, “this significant addition makes YourMembership the leading engagement platform for organizations, delivering upon their mission of helping associations, organizations, publishers and other companies succeed by improving personalized user interactions across the web, social and mobile channels.”.

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Seeking Some Meetings Innovation? Ask Attendees.

Associations Now

How associations can take cues from what one hotel brand recently did to encourage new ideas and innovations from guests and apply them to their meetings. The first is an Innovation Lab at its Bethesda, Maryland, headquarters. This 10,000-square-foot underground lab is dedicated to promoting collaboration and innovation.

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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

.orgSource

A board matrix can be a powerful tool to point the selection process in positive directions. Feature new directors prominently throughout your social media platforms and send press releases to their local publications and news outlets. Cultivate Diversity. Don’t limit announcements to your website or a newsletter.

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ASAE Launches Challenge to Recognize Power of Digital Credentials

Associations Now

“Education institutions, associations, and employers all play critical roles in assessing and certifying skills and abilities,” Credly CEO Jonathan Finkelstein said in a press release. Digital credentials convert these verified competencies into a portable currency, which unlocks opportunities and illuminates career pathways.