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Ernie Smith
Ernie Smith is a former senior editor for Associations Now.
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Travel, Meetings Industry Groups Raise Concerns Over Revised Travel Ban
While crediting the Trump administration for taking a more thoughtful approach with its updated immigration executive order, industry…
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Marketing / CommunicationsArticleOver 5 years old
How Should You Lead on Social Media? Great Ideas Session Reveals All
It’s easy to say the wrong thing on social media—but not if you’re honest and thoughtful, says the…
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Marketing / CommunicationsArticleOver 5 years old
Why Employees Resist Using Your Collaboration Tools
Is your association relying on the wrong tools to collaborate internally? Possibly, but the first question you should…
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MembershipArticleOver 5 years old
#Ideas17: Two Sides of the Member Retention Coin
Competition, which takes many forms, can prove a threat to retaining your membership base, according to a Monday…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
#Ideas17: Take Cues From Pop Culture to Power Up Your Panel Discussions
The second day of the Great Ideas Conference featured a session that pushed against the standard styles of…
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LearningArticleOver 5 years old
#Ideas17: A Scientific Method for Parsing Research
Are you properly making decisions based on the research that’s coming in? During the “Information Indigestion” session at…
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Marketing / CommunicationsArticleOver 5 years old
Great Ideas 2017: The Challenges of Making Great Videos
A morning workshop on the first day of the 2017 Great Ideas Conference highlighted that there are many…
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Executive LeadershipArticleOver 5 years old
Fear of Failure: Don’t Scare Your Staff
Don’t let a fear of failure hold back your employees from putting their best foot forward. Also: Simple…
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Business DevelopmentArticleOver 5 years old
Nonprofit Arts Group Connects Indie Bands With Venues
Independent Music on Tour, a program of the Western States Arts Federation, is designed to help connect musicians…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Future In Sight: Name Change Focuses on Sight, Not Blindness
With an expanding mission and signs of public distrust around its longtime name, the New Hampshire Association for…
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Marketing / CommunicationsArticleOver 5 years old
Report: Fliers Happier With Air Travel Experiences in 2016
A new survey from Airlines for America noted that 85 percent of customers expressed satisfaction with their air…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Manufacturers Group Perfects Stump Speech During Weeklong Tour
In a six-state tour of the United States, officials with the National Association of Manufacturers spoke to an…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Video Game History Foundation Gives Gaming Culture a Few Extra Lives
The nonprofit Video Game History Foundation, launched this week, is getting up and running by releasing vintage marketing…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Stamp Out Hunger Event Receives Commemorative Stamp Set
With the help of the event’s longtime mascots—whom you might recognize from the comics page—the National Association of…
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LearningArticleOver 5 years old
Digital Chamber’s New Collaboration Could Bring Blockchain to Wall Street
In a new strategic partnership with the Structured Finance Industry Group, the Chamber of Digital Commerce is helping…
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Marketing / CommunicationsArticleOver 5 years old
Cloudflare: Security Flaws Happen to Even the Best of Us
After last week’s discovery of a massive security hole in the widely used online security service Cloudflare, the…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Oscars Foul-Up: Lessons From Notable Event Embarrassments
You might not have an embarrassment on your hands as big as the Best Picture disaster that the…
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Marketing / CommunicationsArticleOver 5 years old
Fat Ads: Are You Carrying Too Much Weight?
If you’re running ads on your association’s website, it could be slowing things down by quite a bit,…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Dairy Industry to Plant-Based Alternatives: Don’t Call it “Milk”
The National Milk Producers Federation has put its support behind a legislative effort to prevent the use of…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Major Scientific Groups Put Support Behind March for Science
With reassurance that the March for Science is a nonpartisan, pro-science event, more than two dozen organizations have…
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Marketing / CommunicationsArticleOver 5 years old
Friday Buzz: Cloudflare’s Massive Bug
The widely used content delivery platform is working with Google employees to plug a leak that may have…
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Executive LeadershipArticleOver 5 years old
Chinese Basketball Association’s New President? NBA Legend Yao Ming
The former Houston Rocket, who got his start with the Chinese Basketball Association’s Shanghai Sharks, was elected president…
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FundraisingArticleOver 5 years old
Report: Online Charitable Giving Surges in 2016
The latest edition of Blackbaud’s Charitable Giving Report finds a nearly 8 percent increase in online giving in…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Theater Education Month Scores Kevin Kline as Spokesperson
The award-winning actor, who has an Oscar and two Tonys to his name, has been acting since high…
