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Optometric Association Offers Free Lyft Rides to Eye Exams

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Under the partnership, a free round-trip ride, up to a $25 fare, will be offered in 10 cities: Charleston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Indianapolis, Memphis, Miami, New York City, St. Louis, and Seattle. Residents can take advantage of the offer by accessing a local code on the AOA website.

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Are You in Tune with Your Members and Prospects?

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According to a survey by the Workforce Solutions Group at St. Louis Community College, more than 60% of employers state that many job applicants lack “communication and interpersonal skills”. The top reason for these unfilled positions remains lack of qualified candidates.

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Associations Boost Economy

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Associations based in St. Louis region have payrolls of $200 million plus. So, I was pleased that the St. Louis Institute for Association Leadership (STIAL) asked to conduct an economic study of associations based in the St. Louis region. Nearly 1 million (830,270) people belong to one or more of the St.

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SCDdaily's association rewind: Liars figure & figures lie

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I haven’t forgotten it especially as we are subjected to multiple “survey results and polls” multiple times a day. As one who has coordinated and managed association survey results for more than three decades, I’m always cautious when hearing someone quote the results of a poll or data or other sets of figures.

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SCD Group: Interpreting data differently results in different.

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.” I haven’t forgotten it especially as we are subjected to multiple “survey results and polls” multiple times a day. Look at these three uses and one story from just the last couple of weeks: #1 St. Louis Post-Dispatch Bernie Miklasz used the following in a story (6/14/12) about the challenges to St.

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Introducing STIAL: an example of association rebranding

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Effective today, 12.12.12, members of the St. Louis Society of Association Executives (SLSAE) celebrated with style and welcomed a more relevant and meaningful membership into the St. Louis Institute for Association Leadership (STIAL). Louis region. Louis Society of Association Executives. Well, it is.

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Tuesday Buzz: The Single-Question Fallacy

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Are single-question surveys actually useful? After dealing with an experience in which her card was suspended at an inopportune time over a suspicious charge, she was presented a few days later with a one-question survey over email. “Micro-surveys can give us inaccurate results,” she explains. Other Links of Note.