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What Burning Man's 10 Principles Can Teach You About Building Community

Higher Logic

Nope, this all began (on a much smaller scale) back in 1986 when friends Larry Harvey and Jerry James built an 8-foot tall human effigy and burned it on Baker Beach in San Francisco (population: 35). Of course not, but the vast majority do. A new trend? Does every single attendee do this? Watch what happens.

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Investing in Yourself: Professional Development for Community Managers

Higher Logic

That doesn't mean just conferences - in fact some of the biggest gaps between average and best-in-class communities include the percentage offering coaching, online courses and memberships in professional development networks. Invest in training.

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How a Nonprofit Helps Deliver on a Musical Act’s Ambitions

Associations Now

One of the reasons we started our festival in San Francisco is because … we needed to re-establish ourselves as a group from San Francisco,” she explained. One factor that helps keep things moving, of course, is KPAA itself. The group tours so much that a lot of people didn’t realize this is our community.

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Realtors Expand Reach of Accelerator Program

Associations Now

An accelerator program, of course. Last August, the association held its first iOi (innovation, opportunity, and investment) Summit in San Francisco. The National Association of Realtors wants to drive more tech-minded thinking in the commercial real estate sector. Its tactic of choice?

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How to find free things: nonprofit students edition 

Candid

The University of San Francisco was the first school to offer a Master’s in Nonprofit Administration less than 40 years ago, and the first School of Philanthropy was created just nine years ago at Indiana University. I recently tried to find a course on DEI and many were hundreds of dollars per class.

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Wednesday Buzz: Recruiting Passionate Members As Marketers

Associations Now

The massive software-as-a-service (SaaS) firm has 171,000 attendees coming to this year’s event, giving San Francisco a significant temporary population bump this week. “Other members might be great at following up with their friends and colleagues to get them to renew.” Expect the hashtag to be pretty busy this week.

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Pi Day Hits a Landmark Anniversary for Number Crunchers and Pastry Lovers

Associations Now

About that physicist: Larry Shaw, who worked at the San Francisco Exploratorium, a nonprofit science museum, came up with the idea in 1988 , inspired by the fact that the date matched the first three digits of Pi, 3.14, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.