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I’m live blogging from TEDx Raleigh this morning. TEDx Raleigh is an independently organized TED-like event. Back in Raleigh, one mile from the Capitol, he built a coop. Soon the kids didn’t want to return to Raleigh. I’ll be posting notes as each speaker finishes. Chickens can change you. Monocultures.
Tomorrow I’m spending the morning at TEDx Raleigh , an independently organized TED event. TEDx Raleigh runs all day but I’m leaving at lunch to go camping at the beach – unfortunate timing but it’s no fun to set up camp in the dark.
in Raleigh, NC. RSVP for the Raleigh Book Party. I hope you’ll bring some nonprofit friends and join us in DC or Raleigh. I hope you’ll bring some nonprofit friends and join us in DC or Raleigh. Thursday, June 17, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. See you there! Includes archive of the last three months too!
Location: Clouds Brewing, 126 N West Street, Raleigh NC. Location: Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh NC. Join AENC’s young professionals for a few hours of fun and good beer. No preregistration required. Pay for your own food and beverages. Tue 3/22 from 5:30 to 7:30 – Association Happy Hour in Washington, DC. up to 5.25
Last night I went to Ignite Raleigh where the speakers, including a few of my friends, delivered a mix of inspiration, entertainment and education. Jeff holds a special place in my heart because he arranged a welcome lunch for me when I moved to Raleigh. One of the original founders of the Triangle’s Ignite movement is Jeff Cohen.
They’re from Raleigh! Here’s one of her brilliant ones: The Only Competitor You Have Is In Your Head. And another, You Can Be Average. Do you know what three of these bloggers have in common? I didn’t plan that, it just can’t be helped; we have a big bunch of smarties here in the Triangle.
I first met Jen Newmeyer, who is the Food Bank’s social media person, at a Raleigh tweet-up last year. What if you did your research, filled your community with valuable content, marketed it in all the right places and your members are still MIA? Read the rest at Avectra… Open Community Case Study – Food Bank.
AENC CAE Study Group (Raleigh NC). Raleigh, NC. Hear about Meet with Purpose, an innovative program that combines sustainable menus coupled with an experiential component worthy of any agenda. More info/register. Host: Smart Meetings. Presenter: Toni Zoblotsky, Director of B2B Marketing, Hilton. Wed 9/20 at 10:30 a.m. Duration: 1.5
. – Mobile Apps: AENC Meeting Planners Round Table (Raleigh NC). Location: Raleigh NC. Whether your association is currently using a mobile app, just changed your vendor, or thinking about it, come and share your experiences and questions. Are they just for events or can they be more? Breakfast/networking at 8:30 a.m. CAE credits.
– AENC CEO Round Table/Luncheon (Raleigh NC). Location: Raleigh NC. Presenter: Dan Neely, CEO and founder, Networked Insights. Fri 8/18 at 11:30 a.m./12 For association CEOs/executive directors only, come hear a presentation by U.S. Senator Thom Tillis. 1 CAE credit. More info/register. Organizer: AENC.
In an effort to raise awareness, funds, and food as part of Hunger Action Month , starting at 6pm tonight, the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina will stream live online for 24 hours from their warehouse in Raleigh. The telethon will be hosted by Gregory Ng of the popular online frozen food review show, FreezerBurns.
I love the Flying Saucer in Raleigh and I definitely loved the one I ended up in with a bunch of friends in Nashville. The bar also sells locally sourced cheese, spiced nuts and beer bread. They run tours on Saturday. 910 Division St. in The Gulch,7 miles/16 minute walk from the MCC. Flying Saucer ( Twitter ).
Last weekend I discovered a poem by Raleigh poet Dorianne Laux. As Post reporter Robert O’Harrow, Jr. says, “ In cyberattacks, hacking humans is highly effective way to access systems.”. Enough gloom and doom. Antilamentation is “a poetic antidote to regret,” says Maria Popova at Brain Pickings where you can read or listen to the poem.
It means I was in the Food Bank’s HUGE Raleigh warehouse full of boxes of all kinds of food — fruit, vegetables, eggs, bread, Mt Olive pickles, peanut butter, water, you name it — on towering shelves that reach up to the ceiling. That’s a mouthful! What does it all mean?
I spent Monday and Tuesday at the Digital Marketing for Business conference at the Raleigh Convention Center. Why the disconnect? Knee-jerk reaction syndrome? Digital Marketing for Business (#dmfb). Like any conference, there were a few so-so sessions, but most of the 16 sessions I attended were excellent.
AENC Technology Roundtable (Raleigh NC). Location: Raleigh NC. Wed 5/10 at 9 a.m. Share your best apps and how you use them in your work…whether it is your association management data base, project or meeting management, scheduler, email, mobile app or other neat tools that saves you work and time. 1 CAE credit.
AENC Affiliate Roundtable (Raleigh NC). Location: Raleigh NC. If you don’t represent a hotel or CVB, it is often difficult to get “in the door” to see Association staff and present your product or service. More info/register.
Croissants from Union Special Bread in Raleigh, oh yes. Mix in some garlic slices and finish roasting. The caramelized leaves are so good. Chicken shawarma from Trader’s Joe, just sayin’. I had one while writing this, magnificent. I also recently discovered the croissants from BJ’s, not in the same league but pretty darn good too.
AENC CEO Luncheon (Raleigh NC). Location: Raleigh NC. Host: Firespring. Presenter: Jay Wilkinson, Firespring. Wed 2/15 at 11:30 a.m. This CEOs-only lunch and discussion will focus on strategies to generate member engagement, increasing membership and non-dues revenue. 1 CAE credit. More info/register. Host: AENC. Wed 2/15 at 12 p.m.
AENC CEO Luncheon (Raleigh NC). Location: Raleigh NC. Host: Firespring. Presenter: Jay Wilkinson, Firespring. Wed 2/15 at 11:30 a.m. This CEOs-only lunch and discussion will focus on strategies to generate member engagement, increasing membership and non-dues revenue. 1 CAE credit. More info/register. Host: AENC. Wed 2/15 at 12 p.m.
Location: 18 Seaboard Restaurant , Raleigh, NC. More info and registration. Organizer: Association Executives of North Carolina. Facilitator: John Nash, Executive Director, The Arc of North Carolina. Fri 5/20 at 3 p.m. – Measuring: Using Social Media to Grow Membership. HighRoad hosts a webinar every Friday at 3 p.m. 1 CAE credit.
Now that the Avectra Users & Developers Conference, ASAE Great Ideas and digitalNOW are behind me, the only one left, for now, is Digital Marketing for Business on Monday and Tuesday at the Raleigh Convention Center. All hail the SEO master!
Location: downtown Raleigh, NC. Presenters: Amanda Batson, ADB Partners. Simon, CGMP, CVEP, iCohere. Fri 3/18 at 11:30 a.m. – How Are You Engaging Your Young Professionals? AENC CEO Luncheon). Facilitator: Lynette Tolson, Executive Director, NC Public Health Association. Attendance limited to association executive directors only.
With offices throughout the Carolinas in Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Charlotte and Raleigh, NC; as well as Greenville, SC; AMG is knowledgeable partner in enforcing community governing documents with a proven set of processes and techniques.
AENC CEO Luncheon (Raleigh NC). Location: Raleigh NC. Host: American Marketing Association. Presenter: Kent Lewis, president and founder, Anvil Media. Fri 5/19 at 12 p.m. Bring your issues as well as your successes to share in this association CEO Think Tank. 1 CAE credit. More info/register. Fri 5/19 at 12 p.m.
AENC CEO Think Tank (Raleigh NC). Location: Raleigh, NC. Jon Hockman, FASAE, principal, d3 Group. Fri 3/17 at 11:30 a.m. Association CEO’s and executive directors are invited to the AENC CEO luncheon with a discussion moderated by AENC Board President, Joe Stewart, and focused on topics that are important to you. 1 CAE credit.
Host: Society for Scholarly Publishing Raleigh-Durham. Hear about the process of creating this helpful resource as well as the role of allies in creating workspaces that are welcoming for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. More info/register. Presenters: Jocelyn Dawson, Journals Marketing Manager, Duke University Press.
With offices throughout the Carolinas in Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Charlotte and Raleigh, NC, as well as Greenville, SC, AMG is a knowledgeable partner in enforcing community governing documents with a proven set of processes and techniques.
As Bloomberg noted last year , this is particularly problematic in cities with larger urban areas nearby—such as Hanford, California, within shouting distance of both Los Angeles and Silicon Valley, and Danville, Virginia, near the tech hotbed of Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. The solution.
AMG guides and assists executive boards to help protect the association's interests, enhance the lives of community members and improve the property values in the community.
Already, some cities within a day’s drive of Northern Virginia, such as Raleigh, North Carolina , and Baltimore , are seeing ways to turn the HQ2 decision into a net positive. Those trends might lead some organizations to look for homes in other nearby regions that didn’t get the nod from Amazon. More wide-ranging tech savvy.
The NC Museum of Art once secured (gratis) a large corporate jet to fly around the state and pick up donors for a party back in Raleigh. The plane flew down to Charlotte and then over to Winston-Salem to pick up donors; flew them to Raleigh and then flew them back home.
cities: Atlanta, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York City, and Raleigh, North Carolina. This week, AEO officially launched the Tapestry Project Action Lab, which takes the larger project and applies it to businesses at the local level. The association will bring the Action Lab to five major U.S.
This month, Association Adviser sat down with Andy Curliss, chief executive officer of the North Carolina Pork Council (NCPC), to chat about a job he was tapped for in November 2016 after 20 years of working as an investigative reporter and editor for The News & Observer (Raleigh) and as a division head for Gelia, Wells & Mohr, Inc.,
She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Elon University and lives with her family in Raleigh, N.C. Previously, she spent 11 years in magazine publishing, serving as editor of lifestyle, business, and women’s publications. 8:00 am – 10:00 am: Arrive at the office at 8:30 a.m.
I’ll be in Raleigh, NC to teach this morning workshop for the Triangle Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. It’s on Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. ET (10:00 a.m. Registration is $35 or included with your All-Access Pass. Thursday, September 17. Online Fundraising Bootcamp.
Location: DoubleTree by Hilton Raleigh-Durham Airport at Research Triangle Park, 4810 Page Creek Lane, Durham, NC. Continental breakfast at 8:30 a.m. hours CAE and CMP credit. More info/register. Facilitator: Jennifer Beam Johnson, CMP, The Johnson Meetings Group. Most webinar hosts send a link to the recording to all registrants.
I put it under the seat in front of me on the small plane to Minneapolis, carried it through the Minneapolis airport, then put it under the seat in front of me on the bigger plane to Raleigh. A lot of people gave me curious looks. A Delta flight attendant thought it was “pretty neat.”. It certainly is.
Uplifting historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) Shaw University, located in Raleigh, NC, was the first HBCU organized in the South and is the birthplace of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Here are some of my reflections and top takeaways from the conference.
AMG guides and assists executive boards to help protect the association’s interests, enhance the lives of community members and improve the property values in the community.
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