Jeff De Cagna, FRSA, is chief strategist and founder of Principled Innovation LLC, and editor-at-large of SmartBlog Insights. Widely recognized as an association community thought leader, Jeff is the executive producer of the Principled Innovation Blog and Podcast and also posts on Twitter as @pinnovation.
Last month, I was the keynote speaker at the Ohio Society [...]

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Vanessa LaClair, CMP is president-elect for MPI NENY, and the event coordinator for IPPNY, a trade association in Albany, N.Y. Connect with her on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Conference season is in full swing.  Right about now, planners and suppliers in the meetings industry are wishing for one of those “easy” buttons from Staples instead of the [...]

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Deirdre Reid, CAE is an association consultant, speaker and trainer focusing on member engagement and social media at Deirdre Reid LLC. Connect with her @DeirdreReid.
Umair Haque, in his Harvard Business Review post, From Social Media to Social Strategy, believes social strategies will change the essence of organizations and social media tools can be a catalyst [...]

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Janet McNichol, SPHR, CAE, is the Human Resources Director at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. She is passionate about health and wellness and blogs about her experience managing ASHA’s program at Inside Workplace Wellness. — where this post originally ran. Connect with her on LinkedIn or  Twitter at @jmcnichol.

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This SmartBrief Insights guest post comes from Maggie McGary. Maggie is the Online Community & Social Media Manager for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. She blogs at Mizz Information.  Contact with her on LinkedIn and Twitter @maggielmcg.
So a recent article in Advertising Age asked the question “Do we still need websites?” Facebook is killing [...]

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Peg Stomierowski Gould is a writer and editor, focusing on executive leadership, health and wellness, financial services and other business topics. Connect with her on LinkedIn. Her first post in this series “Pitching your projects” can be read here.
If you haven’t had a chance to tour the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum [...]

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This SmartBrief Insights guest post comes from Deirdre Reid, CAE is an association consultant, speaker and trainer focusing on member engagement and social media at Deirdre Reid LLC. Connect with her @DeirdreReid.
Umair Haque, in his Harvard Business Review post, From Social Media to Social Strategy, believes social strategies will change [...]

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Shelly Alcorn, CAE, is a thought-leader, speaker and association management consultant.  Reach her on twitter @shellyalcorn, on LinkedIn or at the Association Subculture blog.
Nonprofit trade and professional associations have a lot to learn from different sources “outside” of our normal circles.  For example, I recently ran across a fascinating blog post by Alex Bogusky [...]

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Peggy Hoffman is president of Mariner Management & Marketing LLC, an association management company.  She twitters at @peggyhoffman and blogs at the Idea Center.
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Eagles Mere, Pa.’s slogan is the “town that time forgot.” Nestled in the Endless Mountains in Sullivan County, Eagles Mere has been quietly purring along [...]

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This SmartBrief Insights guest post comes from Deirdre Reid, CAE is an association consultant, speaker and trainer focusing on member engagement and social media at Deirdre Reid LLC. Connect with her @DeirdreReid.
Umair Haque, in his Harvard Business Review post, From Social Media to Social Strategy, believes social strategies will change [...]

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