Sidecar Blog

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Building the Future: How We’re Preparing WPI for 2030

Haley Vanness: Sep 19, 2025 2:30:00 PM

2030 might seem far away, but it’s just around the corner. The rapid pace of change in our industry and workforce makes it clear that we can’t afford to stay still. If we want to remain relevant and valuable in the years to come, the work begins now.

Sidecar Sync Episode 99 featuring Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias

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100 Episodes Later: A Look Back at What We’ve Learned—and What’s Coming | [Sidecar Sync Episode 100]

Mallory Mejias: Sep 18, 2025 4:22:40 PM

Summary: In this special 100th episode of Sidecar Sync, co-hosts Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias take a celebratory stroll down memory lane,...

Bird’s-eye view of a conference room split in half: left side shows rows of professionals seated in theater-style, isolated and focused on laptops or phones; right side shows small round tables with groups leaning in, talking, gesturing, and collaborating.

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The Cohort Solution: Why Small Groups Drive Big Engagement

Mallory Mejias: Sep 18, 2025 7:00:00 AM

After formal education ends, professionals lose their built-in peer groups. No more classmates, no more study partners, no more cohorts. Just...

Artificial Intelligence Member Engagement Strategy

Retro Pac-Man style maze of a conference center with blue ghost association vs yellow Pac-Man influencer, member icons as dots, power-ups, and scores 300K vs 60K.

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When Influencers Become Your Competition

Mallory Mejias: Sep 17, 2025 4:34:25 PM

A 75-year-old association with 300,000 members. A six-year-old startup that's already reached one-fifth of that scale. One has decades of...

Artificial Intelligence Strategy Influence

Surrealist landscape of sheet music hills with red copyright symbols as landmines, musical notes in hardhats walking a vinyl record path labeled “LICENSED,” one triggering an explosion of papers, while a robot conductor leads an orchestra near a neoclassical building under melting clocks with notes.

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The Music Copyright Minefield: Why Smart Associations Choose Licensed AI for Music

Mallory Mejias: Sep 15, 2025 8:25:19 PM

Your association needs music constantly. Conference walk-in music, gala entertainment, educational video backgrounds, virtual event transitions,...

Artificial Intelligence ElevenLabs AI Music

Sidecar Sync Episode 99 featuring Mallory Mejias and Jackson Boyar

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When Influencers Disrupt Institutions with Jackson Boyar | [Sidecar Sync Episode 99]

Mallory Mejias: Sep 15, 2025 8:23:50 PM

Summary: Is the future of associations being rewritten by influencers? In this episode, Mallory Mejias is joined by Jackson Boyar, co-founder and CEO...

Artificial Intelligence Member Engagement Sidecar Sync Podcast

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5 Things That Worked in Leading AI at Our Association (Steal These!)

Kim FitzSimmons: Sep 12, 2025 9:30:00 AM

AI adoption in associations isn’t just about tech enablement. It’s about culture transformation. As someone leading AI strategy at our association, I...

A retro-style diptych illustration shows a woman feeding gray association documents into a gramophone-like machine on the left, while on the right, colorful musical notes and speech bubbles emerge from its pipes.

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From Text to Talk: Turning Your Association's Written Content Into Engaging Audio Experiences

Mallory Mejias: Sep 11, 2025 3:18:31 PM

Your association is sitting on thousands of pages of valuable content that most members will never read. Board minutes, research reports, white...

Artificial Intelligence Microsoft AI Audio

Comic book–style illustration of a large ear with colorful greetings in Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, and French entering it, transforming into English words like “HELLO,” “Hi!,” and “Greetings!” in bold speech bubbles.

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Breaking Down Language Barriers: How Real-Time AI Translation Opens Global Doors for Associations

Mallory Mejias: Sep 9, 2025 9:06:32 PM

Most associations accidentally limit themselves geographically—not by choice, but by language. Take a moment to consider your organization's name. If...

Artificial Intelligence google Real-time Translation

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