Associations Now

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

David Brunelli of Philadelphia walked away from the National Bagel Association ’s second-annual National Bagel Eating Contest in New York with a $500 cash prize and the title of “National Bagel Eating Champion” for gobbling down 11 bagels in eight minutes. Its CEO wants the contest to one day bookend the group’s annual conference.

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Beth Kanter

MAY 1, 2018

My mother was born before the days of the Internet, social media, computers, and mobile phones and found technology a huge challenge – both frustrating and a little intimidating due to a lack of training and skills development. She also posed for social media photos with all my books.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 3, 2016

Founder and CEO Ama Marfo, a native of Ghana, told the Chicago Tribune that she was inspired to start the business because of her own trouble getting tickets home when she was a student at Philadelphia’s Drexel University. Should you focus more on social media than on your organization’s own website?

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Social Media and Communications. Facebook dominates in the social media arena. Technology Management. For more on the technology-related findings, check out Ernie Smith’s blog post from this week. Most do not obtain national wage and salary benchmark data.

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Associations Now

OCTOBER 31, 2014

In comments during a Philadelphia Parking Authority board meeting earlier this week, Pennsylvania Taxi Association General Manager Alex Friedman made that comparison—and drew negative attention from media outlets, including Vox , Business Insider , and VentureBeat. “It is exactly the same menace.”

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 4, 2017

This year I facilitated several labs, including several for the Knight Foundation Arts Program to learn about the local arts ecosystem in four cities, including Philadelphia, San Jose, Charlotte, and Macon. When I look back on 2016, it was a very rich and productive year. And, I expect no less in 2017. What about you?

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ChatterBachs

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

The event was just conducted in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania (the Philadelphia area) on November 12th and 13th. Since the unconference was named EventCamp East Coast, I expected participants to be from DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York. Specific topics included registration and lead retrieval technologies.

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