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How Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Can Help Associations Adapt to a Tight Events Market

Associations Now

For the past decade, Travel Portland has been focusing on intentional change with its EDI efforts, said Angela Nelson, vice president of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Travel Portland recently reviewed its process for evaluating vendors when it issues requests for proposals and requests for qualifications. “We

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Preparing Your Association for AI

Association Analytics

Popular AI tools like ChatGPT and Bard are continuously learning how to work faster and more efficiently, which can stir up a lot of feelings in us humans. Types of AI Tools To start, it’s important to know about some of the models already available to the public. The key to determining which tools to work with depends on your goals.

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Making Connections: 5 Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Strategies

Achieve

Equip Your Participants After you’ve recruited and incentivized your P2P participants, equip them with the right tools for success. Equipping your P2P fundraisers with the tools they need makes getting involved easier. Be sure your participants have access to: Branding materials.

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In Loving Memory of My Mom, Ruth D. Kanter (My Mom)

Beth Kanter

To honor her memory, I’m rais ing money for NTEN to offer diversity, local, and general scholarships for the 19NTC in Portland. Despite her lack of comfort using online tools, she was interested in anything that her children were involved with, even if it wasn’t her cup of tea. Let me connect some dots.

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The End Of The World, As We Know It

Holly Duckworth

On 9/11 I worked for the Portland Oregon Visitors Association in convention services, I knew then it was part of my job to take care of the visitors to our town and may be going to the airport to help people. If you follow me on social media you know I made a deliberate and intentional choice to stay off social media that day.

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Association Brain Food: 3.3.23

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Self-assessment tools/programs. WBT Systems shares several association examples of self-assessment tools and programs for choosing a career path or course of study, preparing for a certification exam, or improving business practices and policies.

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Should You Crowdsource Your Event’s Note-Taking?

Associations Now

But are we at the point where more specialized note-taking tools are necessary? Beyond just event apps ( though they certainly have value ), but tools designed for collaboration within the event? Quip: There’s a reason Salesforce paid a cool $750 million for this word-processing tool last week. And that’s no fun.