Eric Lanke

DECEMBER 29, 2014

As we end another year, here''s a look back at the five posts on this blog that received the most page views in 2014. In laying out the guidelines that govern our activities, I realize that only one term makes any sense--association management. I felt this one was going to strike a nerve when I was writing it.

Guidelines

Virtual

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Your interests always drive the conversation, so here’s a list of our best blogs from 2014, based on your readership: Bad Board Members: Fighting Fury with F.I.R.E We’re not surprised this blog was among our most popular in 2014. Your feedback helps to make us a better association/alliance management company.

Social Media

GlowGlobally

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

During this special day of education and seminars , IMEX explores key topics and new developments within association management. Association executives are most welcome at Association Day. In 2013 a Association Day attracted over 300 association executives from nearly 40 countries.

United States

Spark Consulting

MAY 11, 2020

The Association Role in the New Education Paradigm (PDF), co-authored with Shelly Alcorn, CAE, Alcorn Associates Management Consulting, August 2016. Getting to the “Good Stuff”: Evidence-Based Decision Making for Associations (PDF), co-authored with Peter Houstle, Mariner Management, April 2014.

Case Study

Associations Now

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Here’s a look back at the most popular Associations Now stories of 2014. You, dear readers, have covered a lot of ground in 2014. We took a look at our web-traffic data to get a snapshot of what you found most interesting, most compelling, and most buzz-worthy this year at Associations Now. Readership Highlights.

Missouri

Association Leaders

JUNE 2, 2014

Recently, my brother-in-law sent me a copy of the text of the University of Texas 2014 Commencement speech given by Naval Admiral William H. Association Management Companies CM Services Leadership Uncategorized Volunteerism change leadership UT' McRaven, Ninth Commander of US Special Operations Command.

Texas

Association Adviser

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Michael Hoehn , vice president of business development for health care association management company CMInnovators , said his firm works with organizations that are looking to grow in response to changes in both the health care and the association landscape. .” You’ll know you’ll find a way to get it done in 2014.

Social Media

Association Leaders

JUNE 23, 2014

Check out this video clip and short blurb from a 2014 NBA Playoff game between the Miami Heat and the Indiana Pacers. Association Management Companies CM Services Leadership Uncategorized Volunteerism leadership self image' I also believe good leaders try to make decisions and take actions that they can be proud of.

Miami

Association Leaders

DECEMBER 30, 2013

One of my resolutions for 2014 is to practice happiness. Here are some new habits I am planning to implement to help me achieve my resolution in 2014 (I hope some of you reading this will help hold me accountable for these): 1. Association Management Companies CM Services Leadership Uncategorized Volunteerism'

Leadership

Aaron Wolowiec

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Like many of you, I’ve been known to juggle a handful of volunteer roles in addition to my nine-to-five job at any given point in time during my association management career. In the meantime, tell us in the comments what you would add to our list of volunteer management best practices. Who am I kidding?

Michigan

Forj

MARCH 2, 2021

There are plenty of reasons to consider Salesforce for your association management. The advantages are numerous, according to Jake Fabbri, chief marketing officer at Fonteva , a company that specializes in producing solutions for associations, professional societies and public agencies that run on Salesforce.

Association Management

Associations Now

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Find Accounting Software has released the findings from its 2014 Fundraising Technology Trends Study , and the results are clear. The View from an Intern's Seat: What Working for an #AMC Taught Me #assnchat #association [link] pic.twitter.com/39Z8tz43I1. — Association HQ (@AssociationHQ) October 14, 2014.

Software

Spark Consulting

MAY 5, 2014

Last week, Associations Now did a story on my awesome client NICSA and the new membership model project we worked on together last summer. They’ve graciously given me permission to reprint it below: By Joe Rominiecki / Apr 30, 2014 . The winter of 2014 brought a lot of cold weather and snow to much of the United States.

Philadelphia

Spark Consulting

OCTOBER 10, 2013

As a reminder, the webinars are sponsored by me, Dave Will ( Peach New Media ), and Scott Oser ( Scott Oser Associates ) and, because of that, are FREE to YOU! They are designed for people who are new to the profession of association management, new to particular topics in association management, or who just need a brush up on some concepts.

Tips

Virtual

MAY 14, 2014

Your members want to know what will happen in 2014, not what happened in 2004. Governance Membership Operations Standards Starting an Association association management Experience Leadership Organizational Development'

Boston

Virtual

JULY 2, 2014

First, the birthday of Virtual itself – July 6, 2014 marks 15 years, and we are grateful to have been a part of many global technology movements that have since transformed the lives of consumers and altered how businesses function. We’ve had a good run, sticking to our roots as a technology-focused association management company.

Las Vegas

Associations Now

DECEMBER 18, 2014

From content strategy to video to AMSes, five useful insights you can take back to your association from National Harbor. — Jennifer Bly (@jennbly) December 16, 2014. — Ernie Smith (@ErnieSmithAN) December 16, 2014. — Hilary Marsh (@hilarymarsh) December 16, 2014. "Every Legacy is a limiting factor.

Conference

YourMembership

APRIL 24, 2014

Last week we shared the most noteworthy association management concepts from the Xperience2014 Customer Conference, held March 31 – April 1, 2014 at the Vinoy Renaissance Resort in St. Improve Your Association’s Marketing Efforts. Petersburg, FL. Utilize NeuroMarketing Strategies.

Marketing

Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

— Kim Howard, CAE (@kimhowarddc) September 17, 2014. Digiday reports that the company’s iQ blog has managed to attract between 400,000 and 450,000 unique readers each month—a huge boost from late 2013, when the site was bringing in half as many visitors. . — Rachel Luoma, MS,CAE (@rachelluoma) September 17, 2014.

Social Media

YourMembership

JUNE 19, 2014

I looked across the floor from our booth and saw the good folks with Ewald Consulting , an association management company that just completed moving 42 associations to the YourMembership.com platform in 11 months. And that led me to think about the San Antonio Spurs and their newly earned 2014 NBA Championship.

San Antonio

Higher Logic

MARCH 29, 2016

We merged it with our main www site, implemented single sign-on (SSO) for all members, and re-launched with these updates in October 2014. The re-launch included a rebrand: a new, simplified layout and cutting way back on the number of communities. Learn more at www.missourirealtor.org.

Missouri

YourMembership

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

This week YourMembership.com is “on the road” in Tempe, Arizona attending the 2014 AMC Institute Annual Meeting. We are proud to be the Platinum Sponsor for AMCi, because Association Management Companies (AMCs) have always been an important part of our success.

Case Study

Eric Lanke

DECEMBER 30, 2013

It was inspired by the take-down of strategic planning in Humanize , and in it I pledge to stop using that term to describe the messy, constantly evolving process my association uses to determine our direction and set our objectives. My thanks to everyone who has been reading what I''ve been putting up here.

Innovation

YourMembership

APRIL 14, 2015

For some folks it started with YM’s acquisition of Job Target’s career center business unit in 2014. These moves alone changed the conversation for a lot of people looking at the Association Management Software (AMS) industry, as it exists today. For others, our recent acquisition of LMS provider Digital Ignite was the start.

millennials

Virtual

MAY 14, 2014

Your members want to know what will happen in 2014, not what happened in 2004. Operations Starting an Association Organizational Development Governance association management Membership Leadership Experience Standards'

Boston

WBT Systems

APRIL 25, 2017

Training: Most associations provide training and issue formal continuing education credits, so members are already accustomed to consuming their learning content. and international institutions of higher education, corporations serving the higher education information technology market, and other related associations and organizations.

LMS

Association Adviser

JULY 10, 2017

This month, Association Adviser sat down with Andy Curliss, chief executive officer of the North Carolina Pork Council (NCPC), to chat about a job he was tapped for in November 2016 after 20 years of working as an investigative reporter and editor for The News & Observer (Raleigh) and as a division head for Gelia, Wells & Mohr, Inc.,

North Carolina

Associations Now

JUNE 25, 2015

Associations around the globe are more self-assured than ever when it comes to social media, according to the third “ Social Media Impact Study ” from association management and communications company Kellen. “In Almost three-quarters of associations are using YouTube, up from 64 percent in 2014.

Social Media

Higher Logic

AUGUST 11, 2016

Leading up to 2014, the best way for NAASF’s nearly 8,000 franchisee members to discuss best practices, industry issues and bounce ideas off one another was at periodic town hall meetings. It found a new email host and contracted with Abila netFORUM for its association management software (AMS).

America

GlowGlobally

OCTOBER 24, 2014

This interview is with Florence Chua, Director, Association Management and Consulting, MCI China during the 2014 ASAE Annual Conference in Nashville. Florence refers to the 2014 ASAE MCI study on Achieving Global Growth Study here. Part 1 – Podcast Interview (12 minutes).

Nashville

Associations Now

AUGUST 9, 2017

In 2014, Bloomberg Businessweek anointed the city “the new tech hub.”. Cindy Stark, associate director of Chicago-based association management firm SmithBucklin Corporation, has held two 15,000-attendee annual meetings in Vancouver for ACM SIGGRAPH—a special interest group of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Seattle

Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Each day this week, young professionals from around the association industry will share their perspectives in their own Associations Now guest blog series. If you were in Nashville for the 2014 ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition and were tuned in on Twitter, you might have noticed a new hashtag— #YPImpact.

millennials

Associations Now

OCTOBER 6, 2014

— Deirdre Reid (@deirdrereid) October 6, 2014. That’s understandable, but it’s a way of life for many associations, which often find themselves out of the loop when it comes to contact information. . On the company’s blog, Koenig offers a few suggestions on how associations can avoid losing track of members.

Social Media

Eric Lanke

AUGUST 22, 2016

My association hosted its largest conference of the year this past week. In all my years in association management--including my formative ones as the meeting planner putting events just like last week's conference together--there is still nothing quite like the high that comes at the close of a successful and well-executed conference.

Conference

SCD Group

JANUARY 5, 2014

I wish you the best for 2014. Meanwhile, here are the top 13 association blogs (from SCDGroup) for 2013 (listed based on rank in readership along with the date of original posting): #1 3/7 Association Boards Road to Relevance: 5 Strategies for The Competitive Association. the top association blogs from 2013.

Hawaii

GlowGlobally

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

This interview is with Chester Chu, Director, Association Management, Consulting and Conferences , MCI Singapore during the 2014 ASAE Annual Conference in Nashville. Chester discusses common challenges associations find when deploying or managing components and steps to address them.

Nashville

Associations Now

OCTOBER 20, 2014

— Vicki Johnson (@vjmeetings) October 20, 2014. — Adrian Segar (@ASegar) October 20, 2014. “While we’ve enjoyed 50-plus years of continued support from our current members, we can’t just assume these new owners will embrace the same principles of joining and supporting our association,” Bean Napier wrote.

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