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Thursday Buzz: Amazon’s Alexa Hits Vegas

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This week, Wynn Las Vegas announced that it had made a deal with Amazon to equip all 4,748 of the hotel’s rooms with Alexa-enabled Echo devices, a significant coup for the tech giant, whose devices will now be directly associated with a luxury brand. “In Turns out, they already are. Infographic of the Day.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 11.27.20

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Devin Lewis, CEM, CMP, Director of Regional Sales, Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority Washington DC Office. The Advocacy Year-End Review and Futurecast. Generating Revenue in a COVID World. Courtney Clark, Author. John Flynn, Vice President of Administration, MGM Resorts International. Wed 12/2 at 2 p.m. –

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 1.15.21

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The Content Roadmap to Recovery: Eight Ways to Recharge Your Revenue , by Chris Gloede of Ricochet with research assistance from McKinley Advisors, provides succinct advice to help move your content initiatives from response mode to recovery (and revenue) mode. Association learning landscape. Tue 1/19 at 12:30 p.m. More info/register.

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Why Nevada Doesn’t Have the Powerball

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The Las Vegas Review-Journal last year reported that legislative attempts to allow for a state lottery had failed nearly 30 times since 1975 , even though about 70 percent of Nevada residents want a state lottery, according to a 2009 survey. The group’s president, Virginia Valentine, told Vegas Inc.

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Mixed Martial Artists Fight to Create Players’ Association

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According to PFA statistics, UFC fighters only pull in about 15 percent of the revenue generated by their matches. The newly minted organization, which held a press conference in Las Vegas to announce its arrival on the stage, has the backing of Borris and several other big names in the industry.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.21.17

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What I didn’t buy was any science fiction which, according to Harvard Business Review , “empower[s] us to confront not just what we think but also how we think and why we think it. [It] Presenter: Patti Shock, academic consultant, The International School of Hospitality, and professor emeritus, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 1.8.21

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See what 400 membership pros said about trends impacting their organizations, including top non-dues revenue sources, the shift to virtual events, the #1 job challenge, and COVID’s impact on member engagement. Get an in-depth, sneak preview of the yet-to-be released 2021 Association Trends Survey findings. 1 CAE credit. More info/register.

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