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Great News – America’s Hiring and Associations have a Reason to Celebrate

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In New York City alone, there are 25,000 unfilled middle-skill jobs in the health care sector, a major industry among the association career centers we work with daily. Members don’t view job postings as advertising, they view them as opportunities.

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Add Chapters to Make an Old Association Feel New

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Launching a chapter network has helped PEN America, a literary organization with almost 100 years of history, recruit new members and reinvent opportunities for member engagement at the local level. This process helped Werner and her team identify the first six chapters.

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Lessons From MCON on Millennial Engagement and Membership

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A lot of organizations are refocusing their strategy to mobilize more people.”. Before you even think about targeting a millennial for membership, Feldmann says it’s important to think about your membership strategy as a whole. A lot of nonprofits and associations try to get young members way too involved.

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Lunchtime Links: This Is Not Your Regular Conference Booth

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Also: how your association can use Instagram to encourage member engagement. The carts, inspired by New York City’ hot dog carts, and the motorized bookstores are part of Penguin’s push to foster a more engaging relationship with the literary community. this summer.

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Thursday Buzz: Why This Association Made Membership Free

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On top of this, the association plans to improve both the quality and the searchability of its webcast offerings, as well as turn the ASBPE website into a useful B2B news site in its own right. Next year, the association also plans to bring its annual meeting to New York City, reflecting the strength of its East Coast membership.

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Game Plan 2014: Seeing Around the Corners

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Yet our research shows that very few associations— just 1 percent of respondents to our 2013 association benchmarking study—”embrace advertiser input when setting their content and communications strategy.” “We’re willing to put resources—both staff and financial—into some of these new technologies to see how they work.

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Watch Out, There’s Some New Competition in the Meetings Space

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More media brands are holding events to create new revenue streams outside of traditional print and digital advertising. Earlier this week I was up in New York City taking some time for my own professional development by attending FOLIO’s MediaNext conference. How many associations are able to do that? Probably not many.

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