Associations Now

AUGUST 30, 2018

The American Association of University Women is expanding its AAUW Work Smart program to Kansas City. Its goal: Close the gender pay gap by training 1 million women across Kansas and Missouri in salary and benefits negotiation. Earlier in the month, the American Association of University Women announced the expansion of its AAUW Work Smart program in Kansas City. The post Effort Empowers Kansas City Women To Effectively Negotiate Salaries appeared first on Associations Now

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Associations Now

MAY 19, 2014

In reaction to blowback from a controversial tweet written by a University of Kansas professor, the state university system’s board of regents passed a rule last week allowing for the firing of academic staffers who make contentious statements on social media. And in Kansas—nearly 1,100 miles away from Washington, DC—educators are still dealing with the fallout from that day. The post Academic Groups Blast Social Media Policy for Kansas Faculty appeared first on Associations Now

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Jamie Notter

MAY 19, 2014

Thanks to the Kansas City Society of Association Executives and the Kansas Society of Association Executives for bringing Maddie and me out to both Missouri and Kansas (my first ever trip to Kansas) to speak to their members. My part of the presentation was about Organizational Culture in the 21st Century, and my slides are embedded below for your viewing pleasure ( click here if you can’t see them). Announcements Culture

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 22, 2005

Four years ago, Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo., The Big Picture. A big-picture view of issues and trends affecting associations - in Mississippi and nationally. Shawn on Facebook. Shawn on Twitter. Shawn on Google+. Shawn on Pinterest. Shawn on LinkedIn. « The Experience is the Economy | Main. | Why we love our association jobs so much » August 22, 2005. Chief Acceleration Officer. hired Marjorie Smelstor, Ph.D., as their chief acceleration officer.

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Executive Connections

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Tuesday, 30 September, EPA will reopen previously closed libraries in Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City and Washington, D.C. Executive Connections. « Are You Mission Critical? Main. | Why SLA Will Not Endorse, or Oppose, a Candidate for Public Office » 26 September 2008. Information Wins at EPA. Each will be staffed with a professional librarian and be open to the public at least 24 hours a week.

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MembersClicks

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

I attended a webinar held by the Georgia Society of Association Executives (GSAE) where Dr. David Renz , Director of the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership at the University of Missouri - Kansas City, spoke in great detail about successfully leading change initiatives. We talk about, hear about, and experience change all the time. But it wasn’t until the other day that I really started to think about the process (and psychology) of change.

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

As it turns out, the one thing Kansas City, Missouri, was missing in its effort to boost its convention business was a bunch of hotel rooms. Already, the city has been seeing some big returns from that decision: This month, three associations announced that they would bring their conferences to Kansas City. We chose Kansas City because it is centrally located, so it will be easy for everyone to get to.

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Associations Now

APRIL 14, 2016

Two trucking associations and the Kansas attorney general have teamed up to prevent sex trafficking on the state’s highways, extending a program that is already assisting law enforcement in other states. The Kansas Motor Carriers Association (KMCA) and the state’s attorney general have partnered with the national group Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT) to provide training enabling Kansas truckers to effectively report potential cases of sex trafficking.

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Jamie Notter

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

When you live in Denver, it is absolutely a best practice to drive east if you want to get to Kansas City by car. Louis, you will never reach Kansas City (not without involving a boat or a plane, anyway). No matter what kind of job you have, I’ll bet that a large percentage of your work day is devoted to one, single activity: Coming up with an answer or a solution to a problem you face. That’s what we do. We come up with answers.

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

As part of a national memorial project, the Kansas Press Association is joining other state press associations around the country in a search for photos of every soldier killed during the Vietnam War. So far, KPA staff, newspaper members, public librarians, and even some Kansas school districts have helped track down about 50 of the roughly 260 missing photos.

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Associations Now

MARCH 9, 2017

Paul, Minnesota; Chicago; Kansas City, Missouri; and Phoenix. The most recent event, which took place February 25-26 in Kansas City, brought together 40 employees from The Nerdery and other companies, all of whom put their energy into building websites. and PrincipalsConnect—the latter of which, according to the Kansas City Business Journal , didn’t even have a website.

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Thanks For Playing

JANUARY 3, 2013

Louis, San Diego, Kansas City, Portland, Fort Lauderdale I tried not to take pictures of myself (two, neither of my face) or people in general (very few), my meals (although there are food photos), or my cat (less successful there). My resolution in 2012 was to do Photo365 , which I documented on a Tumblr. I started a little before January 1, 2012 and took at least one photo nearly every day for the entire year.

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Associations Now

JULY 17, 2013

A desire to be centrally located and to improve the association management resources available to them made moving 1,000 miles from Arizona to Kansas an easy decision for the American Holistic Nurses Association. Their destination: Topeka, Kansas—1,000 miles away. “We For its new home, which they settled into last month, the organization selected the capital city of Kansas.

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Association Leaders

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Or perhaps it was because Dean Smith attended the University of Kansas, my alma mater, where he learned basketball from the best ever – Phog Allen. We’ve all seen them. Some of us have written them. I’m talking about lists…not grocery lists or to-do lists. I’m talking about the tenets of leadership lists. I love reading other people’s tenets of leadership lists. I like what those lists allow me to learn about the people who wrote them.

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Jamie Notter

APRIL 30, 2018

I led a great session in Wichita, Kansas this week with some really smart healthcare professionals. We had gathered some data prior to the meeting about the cultures inside their organizations, and then we got together to brainstorm some ideas about what they could do to encourage more innovation internally. The pattern in their data was similar to what I see in a lot of organizations when it comes to innovation.

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Roughly 80 percent of the state’s hospitals are contributing pricing and quality-based data to the site, MHA spokesman Dave Dillon told the Kansas City Business Journal. Many of those not participating are from the Kansas City metro area, where some hospital systems have facilities in both Missouri and in neighboring Kansas. MHA did not ask for participation from hospitals on the Kansas side of the city.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 30, 2020

Whether it’s the NFL Players Association representing the interests of the players on the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs, groups like the Stadium Managers Association offering support to Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium, or even brand collectives like Avocados From Mexico advertising during the big game, associations can be felt everywhere. The Super Bowl is the ultimate show of lots of people coming together to put on something really big.

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Association Leaders

MARCH 24, 2014

Roy coached my alma mater the University of Kansas for many years. There are many lessons we can learn from sports – both positive and negative. Just off the top of my head I am thinking about these – how to build a great team; how to coach, not preach; the virtues of ethical behavior and more.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 25, 2013

This season he volunteered at Watermark Books and Cafe in Wichita, Kansas, helping with restocking, organizing, handselling, and any of “the 1,001 tasks that go on in the busy time of the year,” he says.”. Over at CopyBlogger, Georgina El Morshdy shares 30 ways to build the “know, like, and trust” factor that grows an audience.

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The Kansas City chapter of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry hosts micro-involvement events monthly, through a series called New Member Mingles. “In In our welcome message, we invite each new member to attend an upcoming Mingle,” says Jan Burchett, NARI Kansas City’s executive director. Much of the program’s success is due to the fact that NARI Kansas City’s onboarding process revolves around member participation.

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Higher Logic

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

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). Ascend Learning uses 12+ brands to deliver custom products and services to high-value industries like healthcare. They have over 1,000 employees with over 30 percent working remotely.

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Grand Avenue Market —a grocery store in Plains, Kansas, that opened in 2018 —was built in a rural area, which previously didn’t have a nearby grocery store available in more than 15 years. Food deserts, whether in big cities or small towns, have proven difficult to shake—but largely grassroots nonprofit efforts around the country are turning out to be essential options for solving the problem.

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Associations Now

MARCH 22, 2017

As ranchers have been devastated by wildfires in Oklahoma, Colorado, Texas, and Kansas, ICA is working to assist those affected over the past month. The Iowa Cattlemen’s Association will hold a charity auction to assist victims of wildfires that devastated a number of nearby states—hoping to supply ranchers with needed supplies as they work to rebuild.

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Association Success

DECEMBER 11, 2018

With the transition, we expanded geographically into hiring employees from other parts of the US , outside of Kansas City where our office was formerly based. The story of an organization transitioning into the future of work. I work with ARMA International, a completely virtual organization. In the fall of 2016, we transitioned from our brick-and-mortar office with the option for employees to regularly work remotely into a completely virtual environment.

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Associations Now

JULY 8, 2013

More details on the issue: The problem: In the wake of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, late last year, a number of districts in such states as Kansas, Oregon, and South Dakota have considered giving educators the choice to carry weapons on campus. Some school districts are trying to allow educators and other employees to carry guns on campus, and many insurance carriers have threatened to raise premiums or cancel coverage entirely.

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Associations Now

APRIL 20, 2020

The bad news is that New Jersey—along with other states, including Kansas and Connecticut —have unemployment systems so out of date that they rely on this old programming language, one that is so vintage that it hasn’t been taught in universities for decades. As states attempt to fix decades-old codebases on the fly—bases reliant on COBOL, a downright ancient programming language—it’s a good reminder that you need a plan for technical debt even in the most complex of cases.

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Higher Logic

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

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). Ascend Learning uses 12+ brands to deliver custom products and services to high-value industries like healthcare. They have over 1,000 employees with over 30 percent working remotely.

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SCD Group

JUNE 2, 2013

Toto, I have a feeling we''re not in Kansas anymore." There was a time (perhaps when Toto and Dorothy were in Kansas) that associations had a working model that produced the necessary income for the association to exist. In Kansas, and most everywhere else, there was a time that saving on expenses was all that a business needed; revenue came naturally. As association members, we’re not in Kansas anymore and we don’t need any more calendars. Guest Blog by Tom Shay.

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Similarly, the Kansas chapter of the American Planning Association held a two-hour listening party in the hotel bar during the Kansas Planning Conference. You want your conference to be on trend, but there’s something to be said for nostalgia. Could the adage “everything old is new again” apply to your next event? I’ve acquired two “new” things in the past two months that I’m pretty excited about. The first is a record player.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 1, 2016

An Association CEO's Perspective In comments to the Topeka Capital Journal , Tonya Bell, CEO of the Great Smoky Mountains Association of Realtors and a former Kansas resident, offered a local’s perspective on the wildfires. “I Wildfires in and near Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains have caused significant damage and loss of life in one of the country’s most popular tourist areas. Associations have responded by offering help and pledging support to the region.

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Idea Architects

MARCH 29, 2007

At least that's how it seems to me after I had the chance to be one of the speakers today as Kansas State University's 11th Annual Leadership Seminar Baby Boomers find themselves having to make unexpected choices. Generation X and Millennials expect to find themselves having choices. It's a tremendous difference: Two generations expecting at a young age to have a smorgasboard of opportunities available to them.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 18, 2019

But a CEO doesn’t care about a contribution in Topeka, Kansas.”. The National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions has enjoyed a membership and revenue spike in recent years. The secret? A lot of face time. When B. Dan Berger became CEO of the National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions in 2013, his primary goal was simple: Get out of the office. “I

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Associations Now

APRIL 20, 2017

This weekend, the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, and the Blair-Caldwell Public Library in Denver will host events honoring Prince’s film work, while the African-American Research Library in Broward County, Florida, and Atlanta’s Auburn Avenue Research Library will do the same next weekend.

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Associations Now

JULY 12, 2016

In a recent story, The Kansas City Star reported that the Shawnee Mission School District hired a handful of innovation specialists to run grade-school libraries next year. As innovative maker spaces seem to be pushing out book stacks in school libraries, the American Association of School Librarians posits that there’s room for both—and that certified school librarians are the most qualified professionals to give students the best of both worlds.

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The head of the NFL Referees Association described as cause for concern the recent spate of incidents in which stars for the Washington Redskins, Kansas City Chiefs, and Jacksonville Jaguars criticized NFLRA members. The leader of the NFL Referees Association says that a series of recent incidents in which players made personal attacks against individual referees was a cause for concern for his members, and that he would work with the league’s players association to mitigate the problem.

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Associations Now

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In January 2000, both the NCAA and NFHS moved from Kansas City, Mo., Selecting a host destination that shares your mission and values can lead to exclusive local access and enthusiastic volunteers. As you research future meeting sites for your organization, seek out cities that already embrace your organization’s mission and ideas.

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Associations Now

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

High-profile incidents in recent years, including the suspension of University of Kansas journalism professor David Guth and the cancellation of a speech by noted feminist video game critic Anita Sarkeesian, show up on the Scholars Under Attack map. 1,000 The number of members the American Studies Association has gained since December, ASA President Lisa Duggan told Inside Higher Ed.

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Associations Now

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The six-week forage tour—which will result in the planting of 50 million wildflower seeds at dedicated areas in Texas, Kansas, Illinois, and Florida—will involve TWS chapter members, as well as other Feed A Bee partners, and incorporate an educational session depending on the partners’ interest. “We The Wildlife Society and the Feed a Bee program have teamed up to make and keep life sweet for honey bees.

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SocialFish

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

In any event, I love this [currently] closing comment on the discussion thread by John Nawn: “Clearly, we’re not in Kansas anymore. Just wanted to point everyone to a very interesting discussion that played out on Engage365 around the issue of an organization inviting people to feed their social media channels during a conference in exchange for discounted registration.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 28, 2014

This is on par with other state bar surveys taken in Utah, Idaho, Kansas, Oregon, and North Carolina. After a tragedy that served as a wakeup call, the State Bar of Arizona worked to educate legal professionals on workplace safety and was recently awarded for its efforts. Violence in the workplace is not something anyone likes to think about. Until one day it strikes close to home, and it becomes less of a “what if” and more of a potential reality. “We

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