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Coping strategies: Mental health support for community association managers

Ungrated

“People come to (community managers), and their expectation is that we have all the answers, that we’re the strong ones,” says Michael Dee, CMCA, AMS, a manager with FirstService Residential in Kansas City, Mo. “It  SESSION SPOTLIGHT. 18–21, in Las Vegas.

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Connecting Brands, Clearing Inboxes, and Cultivating Employee Engagement with an Intranet Community

Higher Logic

Ascend Learning uses 12+ brands to deliver custom products and services to high-value industries like healthcare. Ascend Learning’s intranet has been so successful that, just a year after launch, basecamp was awarded the Gold PRISM award for Internal Communication by the Greater Kansas City Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).

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How We Transitioned From Brick-and-Mortar to a Virtual Workspace

Association Success

There is often an uncertainty from organization’s leadership about how virtual work will affect production. How do you measure work product? This led our organization to holistically discuss productivity measurement. I know this is a question our organization heavily discussed. How do you know your employees are working?

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Match a City’s Perks with Your Attendees’ Interests

Associations Now

The Institute blends academic thinking with an entrepreneurial spirit to create, discover and promote unique products, services and game-day experiences. In January 2000, both the NCAA and NFHS moved from Kansas City, Mo., Indy is a vibrant city with a strong sports infrastructure,” Koski says. to Indianapolis. “We

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Connecting Brands, Clearing Inboxes, and Cultivating Employee Engagement with an Intranet Community

Higher Logic

Ascend Learning uses 12+ brands to deliver custom products and services to high-value industries like healthcare. Ascend Learning’s intranet has been so successful that, just a year after launch, basecamp was awarded the Gold PRISM award for Internal Communication by the Greater Kansas City Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).

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Electronic Security Association to World: Our Industry Has Jobs

Associations Now

And by pitching that way, notes Kansas City Star columnist Diane Stafford , ESA is effectively selling its industry as one that could appeal to blue-collar workers who most seriously felt the pain of the 2008 recession.

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A New Type of Conference Education

SCD Group

No audio/visual equipment was provided and most exhibitors utilized products for demonstration rather than relying on images or PowerPoint presentations – one exhibitor even snuck in his backyard chickens. The sessions were scheduled and marketed as the educational component for the convention and sales pitch sessions were discouraged.