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How One Association Handled an Active Shooter Incident in Conference City

Associations Now

RIMS sent out emails, and LaBranche recorded a video that was posted to the conference homepage. Another step it’s taken is tightening security around next year’s conference in San Diego, hiring extra security to ensure that only conference badge holders have access to the facility. We’d only use it for an emergency situation.”

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2016: An Association Blogging and Podcasting Odyssey

Spark Consulting

I remember participating in my first bloggercon at ASAE in a sunny plaza in San Diego in 2008, shortly after I’d launched Thanks For Playing, the precursor to the Spark blog, with about 30 other association professionals, sharing our thoughts about how to use this new platform to strengthen our industry and our community.

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10 Secrets of Online Course Design from Award-Winning MOOCs

WBT Systems

Typically, a MOOC features a course syllabus, in this case, a ten-week lesson plan with assigned reading (poems), instructor-created video content, discussion forum, peer-reviewed writing assignments, and quizzes. 3 – Feature unscripted video group discussions. 4 – Let personalities emerge. 8 – Chunk content.

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BIO International Convention 2020: Taking an International 17,000 Attendee Conference Virtual in Under 8 Weeks

Achurch

On April 2, 2020, BIO, the world’s largest biotechnology organization, decided they had to take their International Convention virtual, and on June 8, 2020 they pulled it off. This year’s convention was scheduled to take place in San Diego, June 8-11, 2020. How did they do it? What did they learn?

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Carole Baskin is killing it in marketing: How the non-profit in ‘Tiger King’ dominates digital strategy

Association Success

Cat videos were always among the viral hits on the Internet, so it’s no surprise that big cats also drive people wild. Did you know you can upload a video to your Facebook cover photo ? Well, how about this: The San Diego Zoo is literally the No. Wait, but they are professionally produced videos ,” you say!

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.29.20

Reid All About it

Participants posted their topics on e180’s Topic Market and sent invitations for one-on-one or group Braindates—video chat discussions on the Braindate platform. Check out the midnight sun and aurora borealis, paddling down the Chena River, or dog mushing in these 360-view videos from Fairbanks, Alaska. Organizer: Robert Taflinger.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 3.26.21

Reid All About it

Learn about ideas and tools that will allow your organization to be at the forefront of this change, and how to surprise your learning audience with seamless and thoughtful opportunities to increase audience engagement and boost organizational revenue. Carl Winston, Director of the Payne School of Hospitality at San Diego State.