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What Burning Man's 10 Principles Can Teach You About Building Community

Higher Logic

Nope, this all began (on a much smaller scale) back in 1986 when friends Larry Harvey and Jerry James built an 8-foot tall human effigy and burned it on Baker Beach in San Francisco (population: 35). Of course not, but the vast majority do. 6: Communal Effort. Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration.

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Realtors Expand Reach of Accelerator Program

Associations Now

An accelerator program, of course. Those accepted will gain access to mentoring and networking resources; education on the real estate market; NAR’s Insight Panel, which offers feedback from the real estate industry; and exposure through NAR’s existing marketing and communication channels. Its tactic of choice?

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Investing in Yourself: Professional Development for Community Managers

Higher Logic

In the SOCM 2015 a significant majority of best-in-class communities provide one or more types of professional development opportunities to their community teams. On the other end of the scale, we found a quarter of communities with full-time community managers paid for no community manager training in the past year.

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How to find free things: nonprofit students edition 

Candid

The University of San Francisco was the first school to offer a Master’s in Nonprofit Administration less than 40 years ago, and the first School of Philanthropy was created just nine years ago at Indiana University. This fall, a year into my master’s program, I started an internship on Candid’s communications team.

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Association Brain Food: 7.8.22

Reid All About it

At MASAE, the discussion focused on the association predilection to return to ‘normal’ and in-person events, changing member preferences, and using technology more effectively to communicate with members. We saw nearly 2,000 registrants for WEC 2022 in San Francisco in-person and online. AMS basics. More info/register.

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The Year Without Pants and How to Replace Email

Association Navigator

The story of WordPress is interesting and Berkun has some profound yet simple observations about people and how we communicate at work. The Year Without Pants is about the team that is maintaining and continuously improving the WordPress software, while rarely working in their offices in San Francisco.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.5.20

Reid All About it

Will they have online courses instead? There are strategic change management, crisis communication, and member engagement strategies every association needs to be mindful of deploying right now to ensure the association is positioned for sustainable, long-term growth. Associations’ role in the COVID-19 gap year. 1 CAE credit.