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• ACRA Webinar: How to Improve your Descriptions of Historic House Interiors

  • When
    07/13/2023
  •  
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    GotoWebinar
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    244

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  Many historic preservation programs train young professionals to prepare high quality descriptions of exteriors. Due to the steep learning curve of students who generally enter programs with no knowledge of historic architecture, academic training can fall short in training young professionals to describe historic interiors.

  This presentation fills any gaps in training by providing an organized template to guide interior descriptions for any report type. From the perspective of owners or managers working in cultural resource firms, the presentation will promote high quality descriptions by your staff that will promote professionalism of your staff in addition to the satisfaction of clients, SHPO staff members, and reviewers from preservation entities (such as state preservation trusts or historical societies).

  Note: This webinar will occur on Eastern Time
  

  Presenters

  Seth Hinshaw, Senior Historian and Building Documentation Specialist with Richard Grubb & Associates, Inc.

  Professor Hinshaw also teaches historic preservation at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. In his role as a historian the past quarter of a century, he has written 20 nominations for historic resources/districts resulting in their listing in the National Register of Historic Places or as a National Historic Landmark. He has further written or contributed to dozens of other documentation projects including Historic Structure Reports, Historic Resource Impact Studies, Historic American Building Survey documentation projects, and historic house reports. His primary publication is A Field Guide to American Residential Doors (2019), which documents the 300 most common types of doors found in the nation and provides a history of changes in door production the past three centuries.

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• 2023 Annual Conference in Indianapolis, IN

  • Start
    09/07/2023
  • End
    09/11/2023
  • Location
    The Omni Severin, Indianapolis, IN

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  Our 29th annual conference will be held in Indianapolis, IN from September 7-10, 2023 at the Omni Severin hotel. This year’s conference theme—CRM at a Crossroads: Navigating a Changing Industry—acknowledges the uncharted future of the CRM industry, including communication with students and university programs, shifting cultural narratives, and regulation changes. Indianapolis is an ideal location for these discussions, as the state motto of Indiana is Crossroads of America. Our host firms are Stantec and Gray & Pape. 

  Information about booking your hotel, add-on events, and other details are available at our Conference Page. A full session schedule is available here.

  Additionally, we are thrilled to be joined this year by the Chair of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) Sara Bronin. Chair Bronin will participate in a session where attendees will hear her thoughts on the current state of historic preservation,  the future of the industry, and more.

  Note: we are currently working on developing a workshop/tour as an add-on event and will announce additional details as soon as they are available. Individuals already registered at that time will be able to easily add on the workshop/tour to their completed registration.

  ACRA members and members of firms that have already purchased one registration are eligible for further discounts. As a special thank you to ACRA members, we have increased the member discount to $100 below standard registration rates. Register today!

  Rooms are available at the Omni Severin for the special conference rate of $179.00/night. Click here to book online.

  For questions on the conference contact Conference Chair Bonnie Gibson.

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• ACRA Webinar: Understanding a CRM Project Life Cycle

  • When
    09/26/2023
  •  
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    GotoWebinar
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  Many CRM employees come to their employers with a college education but also a need to “learn while they earn,” through the types of opportunities that can employ them. As such, newer employees may not know how their work fits into a larger picture of compliance, preservation, and research practices, thus limiting their ability to make critical decisions or offer creative leadership. Because every project is different, we need to provide a better understanding of how and why projects are planned and implemented.

  The goals of this webinar are to:

  • Help companies review their project lifecycle/project tracking materials and apply them, including establishing standard milestones to help track project from initiation to closeout
  • Help supervisors/team members understand their role in projects to empower their decision making and creativity on a project, and the relationship between individuals and teams
  • Help professors/classrooms understand the types of knowledge that will be valued in a CRM practitioner

  Note: This webinar will occur on Eastern Time
  

  Presenters

  Robert Heckman, Statistical Research, Inc.

  Robert Heckman started work at Statistical Research, Inc in 1992 as a crew member and is now President of a company growing across the western United States.

  Holly Herbster, PAL

  Holly Herbster began at PAL in 1988 as a crew member and is now part of the Senior Management Team and PAL’s Proposal Coordinator, conducting work in the northeast United States.

  Sarah Herr, Desert Archaeology

  Sarah Herr started work at Desert Archaeology in 1995 as a crew member and is now president of that Arizona-focused firm.
  

  
  

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• ACRA Webinar: The CRM Market by the Numbers: What Firms Need to Know for Planning, Competing, and Adding Value

  • When
    10/05/2023
  •  
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    GotoWebinar
  • Spaces left
    244

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  What is the state of the market for the CRM industry today? Where has it been and, most importantly, where is it going? This presentation presents the most up-to-date data on the CRM industry market at the global, North American, United States (US), US Regional, and US State levels. Quantitative data are presented so that firms can make informed, data-driven decisions about growth, expansion, and resource allocation that are needed for goal setting, strategic planning, marketing, boosting win probabilities, and adding financial value to firms. If you don’t know where the market is, how are you going to know where to look to find the more rewarding opportunities and contracts?

  Learning Objectives

  • Understand how the market for cultural resource consulting services is distributed.
  • Articulate marketing’s fundamental principle.
  • Be able to explain why knowing market distribution is important for marketing, especially in busy times.
  • Understand how the market has changed through time, why the market has changed through time, and what changes are expected in the market over the next five years.
  • Be able to explain the relationship between financial value and market distribution.

  Note: This webinar will occur on Eastern Time
  

  Presenters

  Dr. Christopher Dore, Heritage Business International, L3C

  Heritage Business International is an L3C social enterprise venture with a mission to help heritage organizations increase their value, sustainability, and impact. Principal consultant, Christopher Dore, is one of only a handful of professional archaeologists with a Ph.D. and an M.B.A. (marketing emphasis). He is a Certified Digital Marketing Professional (DMI) and a Professional Certified Marketer-Digital Marketing (AMA). He is a leader in the cultural resources industry and on heritage policy, having served as the President of the American Cultural Resources Association, President of the Register of Professional Archaeologists, and Treasurer of the Society for American Archaeology.

  Kenneth Aitchison, Landward Research

  Landward Research is a certified UK social enterprise with a vision to be the leading international provider of cultural heritage labor market research. We are an accredited Company Partner of the Market Research Society, are experts at undertaking socioeconomic research and identifying ways that individuals and employers can become more skilled, knowledgeable, and capable, allowing them to improve the quality of their work. Landward Research provides the secretariat for FAME: the Federation of Archaeological Managers and Employers (the trade association for companies working in commercial archaeology in the United Kingdom and Ireland), and Kenneth Aitchison is the embedded CEO of FAME.

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