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How Associations Are Helping Shape the Super Bowl Behind the Scenes

Associations Now

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.

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Membership Directory: Why Your Organization Needs One & How to Create One

EventMobi: Association Events

The Chamber of Commerce of Great Kansas City , for example, allows people to easily browse and search within their online member list by typing a name, category, or keyword: They also have an online print directory , if you want to check it out!) Do you need a spreadsheet, a website, or an association management system (AMS)?

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How to Make Valuable Face Time With New Members

Associations Now

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.

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Change Created Chaos Impacts Associations

SCD Group

A recent trip through the Kansas City airport highlights three changes that illustrate how – without modification – change creates chaos. Membership systems – including dues schemes – developed over the last two centuries rarely meet the expectations and needs of today’s association members.

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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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The Future of the Furnace: What’s Holding Up More Efficient Gas Heat?

Associations Now

As The Kansas City Star reported , two associations that represent natural gas utility companies—the American Gas Association (AGA) and American Public Gas Association (APGA)—say that boosting minimum standards would require installing costly new furnace systems in homes.

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Best Practices Suck

Jamie Notter

We figure out how we are going to sell more widgets, or design better widgets, or partner with others in the widget industry, or create a better performance review system, or train our managers to deal with Millennials more effectively, or break down our internal silos, etc. We come up with answers. So where do we look for answers?