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Association Brain Food: 5.19.23

Reid All About it

Hear about best practices for preparing for negotiations, identifying and assessing potential risks, and establishing effective communication and negotiation strategies, insights into negotiating contracts, and practical guidance on how to protect the interests of their association and avoid common pitfalls. More info/register. .

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Association Brain Food: 5.26.23

Reid All About it

Host: ASAE Government Relations and Advocacy Professionals Community Speakers: Jim Leahy, CAE, Managing Director, Regional & Federal Programs for Liberty Square Group Lorrie Trogden, CAE, President/CEO of the Arkansas Bankers Association David Lusk (moderator), Founder of Key Advocacy Thu 6/1 at 7:30 a.m. 1 CAE credit.

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How An Informal Nonprofit Employee Champion Program Can Benefit A One-Person Communications Dept.

Beth Kanter

Are you an one-person communications department? Perhaps you can relate to this chart from Gerard Matthews , Communications Director of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. As a one-person communications department, your workload, which includes doing the social media, is always increasing.

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26 ways association professionals find problem-solving inspiration

Association Success

“I’m starting to mine Netflix for ideas,” laughed the National Cooperative Business Association vice-president of cooperative relations, because she finds “different ways to communicate content.” . The takeaway? Prioritize networking. . Google : When in doubt, search it out.

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Social Media and Disaster: Hospitals On Facebook

KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup

Facebook became a gathering place - a communication hub - a way to share important information with a large number of other people who had no other way to communicate with one another. Many hospitals have figured out how to meet their task of engaging the community using tools like Facebook to hold a steady, reliable presence online.

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Advocating for a Better Legislative Flow

Association Adviser

Now that I’m on the outside [with AWWA], I understand what the regulatory interests and concerns are from utilities and how to best communicate those to the EPA insiders. GTM: The Beaver (Arkansas) Water District has put in a rate increase for source water protection through landscape protection.

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Powering the Nonprofit Community through Customer Support

Beth Kanter

At Blackbaud , we get very excited and inspired by our nonprofit customers’ successes and breakthroughs –it constantly drives us to look for ways to improve our technology and customer service to ensure organizations can focus on their vital work while operating and communicating as efficiently and effectively as possible.