Associations and Climate Change: The Podcast

Many of the options for responding to climate change we’re offered are at the super-macro (UN COP meetings) or super-micro (get an electric car!) levels. What about all the stuff in the middle? You know,…

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Associations Creating Community to Address Climate Change

Shelly Alcorn and I recently sat down (virtually) to talk with Whiteford, Taylor & Preston’s Jefferson Glassie about The Time Is Now: Association Resilience and Adaptation and the Anthropocene Climate Disruption, our recently-released whitepaper that…

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Navigating These Wicked Waters

Shelly Alcorn and I recently had the opportunity to be interviewed by KiKi L’Italien for Association Chat on association leadership strategies for climate chaos. We talked about our new whitepaper, The Time Is Now: Association Resilience…

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Webinar: Association Resilience and Adaptation and the Anthropocene Climate Disruption

Climate change is here and the time to respond is now! Join Shelly Alcorn and me for an Association Insights in Old Town (AIOT) webinar at noon ET on Wednesday, December 6 to learn what…

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Generative AI, Associations, Ethics, and Regulation

Maddie Grant (PROPEL), Jennifer Yarrish (AARP), Paul Roetzer (Marketing AI Institute), and I recently had a great conversation about associations’ role in the ethics of generative AI and in regulation of the technology for UST…

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The Time Is Now

Climate change and sustainability are increasingly in the news and showing up as a key topic for the association industry. Association execs are realizing that climate change is not just a moral imperative, it’s a…

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Caveat Emptor: The Podcast

Decisions, decisions: we make them all day long. But what fuels our decision-making? Research! Every association executive uses research to make decisions, and often we’re responsible for conducting – or at least sponsoring – original…

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Can Associations Be Part of the Climate Solution?

We ABSOLUTELY can. People associate in order to solve problems that are, individually, intractable. I can’t think of a more important problem that’s not amenable to individual solutions than climate change. Shelly Alcorn and I…

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Ask Better Questions

I recently had the opportunity to participate in Association Charrette, a project of Vista Cova, facilitated by Lowell Apelbaum. Most commonly used in design focused industries (architecture, urban planning, landscaping), charrettes “…serve as a way…

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Research and Information Literacy – Learning More

Would you like to learn more about how you can improve your information literacy and become a more discerning and knowledgeable consumer and sponsor of research? Caveat Emptor co-author Polly Karpowicz and I recently had…

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