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.TOP NEWS
My favorite things: Event-planning edition
Event Garde
Finding balance between the stress of event management and the pleasure of successfully carrying through all the logistics (always with some hiccups!) can be difficult but there's a reason those of us who do this work, do this work.
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Increase member engagement easily with these community features
Higher Logic
Driving better engagement keeps your members invested in their membership — it's a major factor when it’s time to renew. Learn how to leverage your community features to make engaging members easier. Yes, there are passive users of association resources, but the value increases when members lean in and get all they can out of the community you've built for them.
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6 tips for engaging members with content
Association Adviser
Content is a significant driver of member engagement. Since member engagement is a cornerstone of operations, your association should be intentional about the content it creates. You could say that content and member engagement go together like peanut butter and jelly.
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Why event planners need humane event tech
Skift Meetings
It may be hard for tech to understand the unique and stress-inducing needs of event planners in relation to technology. Launch dates are regularly moved down the line in tech. Events can't simply be moved to another month or quarter to give planners more time to iron out kinks.
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.AFRICA NEWS
Marco Parrino shinning light on Africa's tourism
Business Insider
The Italian entrepreneur, content creator Marco Parrino can't take Africa out of his mind. From photographing the big five to experiencing the unrivaled thrill of a walking safari in South Luangwa National Park in Zambia and having sundowners in the middle of the bush to soaking the skin in a red wine bath in the middle of Masai Mara or spending the night in starbed beneath the African sky under a blanket of stars, they all fill the soul with endless feeling of magic and wonder.
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World Bank approves $246 million to strengthen coastal resilience in West Africa
Relief Web
Populations at immediate risk from coastal erosion, flooding and pollution, and people depending on agroindustry and tourism along the coastlines in Gambia, Ghana, and Guinea-Bissau will benefit from the West Africa Coastal Areas Resilience Investment Project, approved for a total amount of $246 million in International Development Association financing.
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.NORTH AMERICA NEWS
.ASIA NEWS
Asia's year in review: Who had it good and who had it bad in 2022
CNBC
As the new year approaches, we turn again to our annual look at Asia’s winners and losers. Government and business leaders in every major economy — China now included — may well hope 2023 is the year when draconian pandemic-related lockdowns become a matter of history.
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.GENERAL ASSOCIATION NEWS
The benefits of professional accountability groups
Event Garde
As a white person doing anti-racism work, it is important that I intentionally create opportunities to hold myself accountable to the values I aspire to live out. I need to commit to continually learning, practicing, and evaluating my own behavior so that I am more able, more often, to do less harm. This means doing my own research and education.
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Should you streamline your association's subscriptions?
Sidecar
We've all seen the ads online and heard them on our favorite podcasts, too – many of us are paying a lot of money for subscriptions. And this includes subscriptions for services we barely use! Apps and online services are eager to help us trim our bloated personal or professional budgets. How does this extend to associations?
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The content marketing strategy for associations
Multiview NewsBriefs
White papers, blogs, social media posts, and more, seem to be the simplest forms of content marketing, so it shouldn't be hard, right? Turns out, we may be underestimating the true effects of this type of marketing, especially if your association doesn't have a strategy, plan, and purpose for the content.
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