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Public-Private Collaboration Drives Freelancers Union’s New NYC Hub

Associations Now

A new Brooklyn facility for freelancers—launched in collaboration with the Freelancers Union and New York City—could prove inspiration for a field that’s growing in prominence but comes with a lot of extra complications.

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Why Coworking Will Survive the WeWork Saga

Associations Now

WeWork is not the only player—though it shares about half the flexible-office market with Regus owner IWG—and associations looking for nontraditional office space to house their employees still have multiple options to explore. markets it studied to 13 percent in 2030 (600 million square feet).

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Following Market Drivers To New Destinations

Plexus Consulting

By Steven Worth President, Plexus Consulting Group Associations are finding success in adapting business practices from the for-profit sector for their own use, and this includes the discipline of detecting and targeting market trends. Market-driven U.S. Market-driven U.S. is actually declining.

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#ASAE18: Value Means More Than Money, Says Kickstarter Founder

Associations Now

Strickler framed his argument around his own experience at Kickstarter, which he helped launch in 2009 as a crowdsourcing platform for artists looking for outside funding for their projects through individual pledges. Strickler said much of his concern about redefining value stems from his experience living in New York City.

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Destinations Experiment With New Marketing Efforts

Associations Now

cities and states are getting creative when it comes to how they market themselves. If it’s true, it looks like there’s a new trend in the destinations space. cities and states are getting creative when it comes to how they market themselves to attract new leisure and business travelers as well as meetings and conventions.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.12.17

Reid All About it

50% of technology projects fail—the technology moves forward, but the organization does not. Most technology projects have non-technological goals: raise more money, serve more program participants, or become more efficient. Typography in Marketing. Host: American Marketing Association. Wed 5/17 at 4 p.m. 1 CAE credit.

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Taxi Associations Struggle With Dropping Medallion Prices

Associations Now

A serious shift in the market, partly due to increasingly popular ride-sharing services, is having a significant effect on a valuable asset for taxi companies: the medallions that give them the right to operate. At one point, a New York City taxi medallion cost more than $1 million, and they have regularly sold for six figures elsewhere.

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