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Membership Q&A: Don’t Leave Us!

Spark Consulting

She holds your professional certification, has presented at some of your events, is a regular contributor to conversation on your white-label social network platform, and served a three-year term on one of your committees. Let’s say you also have a member who’s been with you for 15 years. What happens next?

Seattle 297
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Association Brain Food: 11.15.24

Reid All About it

Cecilia Sepp of Rogue Tulips Consulting takes issue with associations that repeatedly ask the same people to join committees and other groups rather than announcing and offering these opportunities to all members. Staff committee liaison. How many of you received training before taking on a committee liaison role? Microlearning.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.18.21

Reid All About it

Membership committees. Is it difficult to find members to serve on your membership committee? MemberSuite discusses the challenges faced by staff in charge of membership committees and suggests ways you can make improvements by revamping (or retiring) your membership committee. A terrific idea to steal! 1 CAE credit.

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How to Sunset an Educational Program

WBT Systems

A note for the meeting planner: please order decaf for the next committee meeting. Only 30 minutes in and your highly energetic committee members have already come up with several new online learning program ideas. Many associations put all their products, services, programs, and even committees through a sunset review process.

Education 161
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Membership 101: The Role of Volunteerism

Spark Consulting

After all, the association defines the board and committee structure, right? One way they went about that is, rather than restricting definition of volunteer to committee or board service, ONS asked their members how they DO contribute and how they WANT TO contribute. Bigger investment: item writing for their ONCC certification.

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Three Data-Informed Strategies for Better Member Engagement

Association Analytics

These webinars were repurposed from existing content, along with content from committee members volunteering as subject matter experts. Additionally, the team was able to leverage certifications, one of which is a Workforce-ready certificate designed for members who are new to the industry.

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Why Is Membership the Only Relationship?

Spark Consulting

We track CE credits for our certification holders. The thing is, we have LOTS of other stakeholders and potential stakeholders, don’t we? We have managed to formalize some of these relationships. We offer sponsorships for vendors who want access to our members. We offer non-member rates for publications and events.