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Events Industry Council announces 2020 Hall of Leaders inductees and Social Impact Award Recipients

Event Industry News

Melvin Tennant, CAE (President & CEO, Meet Minneapolis). In 2020, EIC introduced two new global awards: the EIC Social Impact Award and the EIC Adaptation and Innovation Award. Rickey Thigpen, MSL (President & CEO, Visit Jackson). Dan Williams, CTA (VP, Convention Sales, Experience Columbus). Ernest Wooden, Jr.

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The Hourglass Blog: Association Innovation as Brand Strategy

The Hourglass Blog

Association Innovation as Brand Strategy. In it, he advocates an approach to innovation that focuses not on meeting the expressed needs of customers, but on pushing customers to become something theyre not. All authentic innovations ask you — want you — to become a different dimension of yourself. Image source.

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Funding Initiative to Support Black-Owned Businesses Hits the Local Level

Associations Now

cities: Atlanta, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York City, and Raleigh, North Carolina. The Tapestry Project is one of several initiatives that AEO’s Innovation Hub is working on to support underserved microbusinesses. The association will bring the Action Lab to five major U.S.

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Conference Circuit: Urban Affairs

Associations Now

The Urban Affairs Association’s 47th Annual Conference begins next week in Minneapolis. Hundreds of urban scholars, researchers, and public service professionals will make their way to Minneapolis next week to collaborate on significant urban issues with fellow attendees and learn about new resources related to their research and teaching.

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Gen Y Favors Loyalty When Shaping Brand Perception, Study Finds

Associations Now

In one innovative advertising approach, the Minneapolis-based retail company launched Bullseye University, a four-day, live-streaming event featuring five YouTube personalities shacking in a Target-designed dorm room. . To create long-term followers, branding must reflect that. TARGETED ADVERTISING. The Friend Factor.

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Why the Newspaper Industry Wants an Antitrust Safe Harbor

Associations Now

While first stating that this would be less necessary if antitrust laws were more strongly enforced, he then emphasized that a move in this direction “would grant media organizations the flexibility to expand innovative digital models of news distribution, while also giving them more ways to sustain high-quality journalism.”

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From Policy Hysteria to Best Practice:Recognizing AE Influence : Off.

Off Stage

I think AEs should fully recognize and celebrate the names of our peers in Realtor association management who are on the list*: Mark Allen, CEO, Minneapolis Association of Realtors, and 10k Marketing. Perhaps Realtor AEs need to do a better job of recognizing our own innovators and leaders. An AE Innovator recognition program?