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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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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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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This SmartBrief Insights guest post comes from 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.
Uh oh.  Our data driven strategies are about to get a little wake up call.
Association personnel, myself included, have become obsessed in recent [...]

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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 and Leadership Outfitters. Connect with her @DeirdreReid.
Umair Haque, in his Harvard Business Review post, From Social Media to Social Strategy, believes [...]

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Mark Story is an adjunct professor of public relations at the University of Maryland and Director of New Media at the Securities and Exchange Commission. He was previously Senior Vice President at international communications firm Fleishman-Hillard. Story shared advice for associations related to crisis communications and social media adoption with SmartBrief’s Abe Silk.
Note: The [...]

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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 and Leadership Outfitters. Connect with her @DeirdreReid.
I recently went public on Twitter about my adoration of Umair Haque. I may not always agree [...]

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This SmartBrief Insights guest post comes from 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.
Association governance takes a bad rap most of the time. As an executive, it will be one of the trickier and most frustrating things you [...]

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