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Monday Buzz: Learning Collaboration Lessons From Academia

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of Upper Iowa University, who has written a paper on the topic , outlines several specific factors, from trust and compatibility to open communication and shared governance, that bring about productive relationships. Reporter Eilene Zimmerman explores the new frontier of YouTube endorsements in this New York Times story.

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Repair Association Backs Farmers Seeking to Unlock Tractor Software

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Legislatures in eight states, including Nebraska, New York, and Illinois, are considering bills that would require manufacturers to sell repair software for a variety of products, from tractors to phones to home appliances. Andy Goodman of the Iowa-Nebraska Equipment Dealers Association is on the other side of the tractor debate.

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Destinations Experiment With New Marketing Efforts

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Late last month, the Greater Des Moines CVB combined efforts with the Greater Des Moines Partnership to showcase Iowa at the opening night of “The Bridges of Madison County” musical on Broadway. “Our hope in this outreach initiative is to lure new events to Greater Des Moines, bringing more tourism dollars for the local economy.”

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A Real Headache: Realtors’ Excitement for Drones Outpaces Regulators’

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Last week, in an investigation into how the technology is being deployed in selling property, the FAA subpoenaed several large real estate companies that use drones around New York City. But according to Iowa Association of Realtors attorney Paul McLaughlin, the FAA is currently in a hard place. Where Associations Stand.

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Social Media and Shiny Object Syndrome

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There’s a big difference between a New York City and a Des Moines, Iowa [affiliate], and we wanted every office to be the best that they could be and commit to what they could reasonably manage,” Baker said.

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Mo Rocca on Creativity, Comedy, and Obit Con vs Comic Con

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And so, in the pilot episode, I was with a grandmother amazing woman named Ruth Thomas Who as a six year old in Poland had hidden a barn for a year from the Nazis and your sister had been killed bunch of her family had and she survived in this amazing woman, a teacher in Westchester County in New York. No Oh my god. And she sued.

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Crisis Communication Planning Now Includes Social Technologies

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The terrorist attacks in Mumbai last month were Twitter’s coming out party, according to the New York Times. When floods devastated farmland in Iowa this spring, a web design firm in Iowa created iowaflood.com. It was citizen journalism in its purest form. So what would crisis communications look like with those tools?