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LMS needs assessment: The essential guide for associations

Freestone

Introduction Is your association looking for the right learning management system (LMS) to enhance your continuing education program? To find the right LMS to meet your learners’ needs you’ll need to evaluate your specific requirements so you can make an informed decision when choosing the right technology. Your association can complete an LMS needs assessment to discover your unique technological needs, ensuring you pick the best system.

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How to Build Healthy Donor Relationships: Essentials + Quiz

Wild Apricot

Donor relationships are at the heart of every nonprofit. Take our quiz to evaluate your organization’s relationships and learn how to make them stronger.

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How To Create More Engaging Workshops For Your Association’s Members: 5 Fresh Ideas

EventMobi: Association Events

Whether located around your annual meeting or as a standalone event, workshops can be an effective way to supercharge engagement. And right now, solid engagement is something that associations could use a bit more of. According to the 2024 edition of MCI’s Association Engagement Index , two-thirds of association members regularly access the content organizations produce.

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How Well-Read Mom Achieves Their Mission with Text Messaging – Case Study

Wild Apricot

Well-Read Mom is able to achieve their mission of bringing women together to grow through good books with WildApricot's Text Messaging System

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A New Look At Grant Management: Why Use A System When You Have Excel?

Speaker: Gareth Webb & Phill Selley, Founding Partners at Intouch Business

For many nonprofit organizations and NGOs, managing grants with spreadsheets and manual processes feels familiar—but is it holding your organization back? As funding requirements become more complex and stakeholder expectations for transparency grow, relying on outdated methods can lead to inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and compliance risks. Join Gareth Webb and Phil Selley in this new session as they walk through the grant lifecycle, highlighting key operational and financial challenges

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Who’s Allowed to Make the Call?

Spark Consulting

Another observation that has fascinated me since my earliest years in associations is: Who’s allowed to make the call? What do I mean by that? Well, if you search for “stories of outstanding customer service,” all kinds of lists come up, compiled by HubSpot and Forbes and RingCentral and others, referencing all kinds of things from dentists to bicycle shops to yoga studios to rescuing a forgotten bridesmaid’s dress to creating a prayer room on the fly to implementing a gr

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Stop Designing Your Association for Retired People

My Seat at the Bar

During a recent conversation with a client, she noted, in a more than exasperated tone, We need to stop designing our benefits for retired people. Their leadership is, shall we say, senior, and their decisions are often informed by their historical perspective. They enjoyed the association of their youth and hope to duplicate the experience for their younger colleagues.

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How to Create Learning Pathways

Crowd Wisdom

How to create learning pathways Keeping learners engaged with relevant course material can be quite a challenge in today’s fast-paced information environment. Although there are more resources available to learners than ever before, they may not always know how to select the most beneficial content for their professional development. At the same time, learners may find traditional online courses too restrictive and not entirely relevant to their individual needs.

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Live music events open minds for three-quarters of Gen-Z attendees

Event Industry News

Festivals and gigs may be the best way for brands to engage with Gen-Z audiences, as three quarters (74%) of Gen-Z festival attendees agree that they are more open to new ideas at live music events.

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The One HOA Policy You Must Have (But Probably Don’t)

HOA Strategies

The One HOA Policy You Must Have (But Probably Don’t) Lamplight Village. Lava Bluff. Auburn Greens. If those names don’t sound familiar to you, this one surely will: Champlain Towers South. The unfortunate thing these communities all share is negative media press. Now admittedly, for these specific examples, it was earned. Lamplight Village and Champlain Towers South were both avoidable tragedies caused by deferred maintenance.

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Find New Non-Dues Revenue Streams for Your Organization with This Free Guide

Struggling to generate revenue beyond membership dues? You're not alone. Our free guide, The Ultimate Guide to Non-Dues Revenue for Associations , offers practical strategies to help your organization boost financial health. Inside, you'll explore creative ways to generate income, including: Educational offerings tailored to your audience Event-based revenue opportunities Job boards that drive engagement and income Corporate sponsorship ideas A checklist to evaluate and strengthen your current a

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The ever changing focus of event sustainability

Event Industry News

In this episode of the Event Industry News Podcast, host James Dickson is joined by founder of event:decision, Matt Grey. Matt has worked in events for 25 years focussing mainly on the agency side servicing all kinds of events worldwide until the pandemic hit.

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Protected: The Value of Conducting an Association Competitive Analysis

Association TRENDS

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: The Value of Conducting an Association Competitive Analysis appeared first on AssociationTRENDS.

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LTA aces Deaf inclusivity with successful Signapse sign language launch

Event Industry News

UK Sport has been more accessible than ever this Summer, thanks to a new partnership introduced by the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA). The official home of Tennis for Britain successfully teamed up with Signapse, the video translation tool, in all its spectator information points at its longest-running international event at the Queens Club, West London.

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Two Tips to Keep Your Association’s Member Engagement and Loyalty Trends Positive

YM Careers

Discover two tips from the 2023 Community Brands Research Study to keep your association’s member engagement and loyalty trends positive. The post Two Tips to Keep Your Association’s Member Engagement and Loyalty Trends Positive appeared first on YM Careers by Community Brands.

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Forecasting Failures Are Costly: Heres How To Fix Them

Speaker: Dave Sackett

Traditional budgeting and forecasting methods can no longer keep pace with today’s rapidly evolving business environment. Static budgets, rigid annual forecasts, and outdated financial models limit an organization’s ability to adapt to market shifts and economic uncertainty. To stay ahead, finance leaders must leverage a future-forward approach—one that leverages real-time data, predictive analytics, and continuous planning to drive smarter financial decisions.

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Event Footprints partners with Bizzabo to broaden capabilities

Event Industry News

Event Footprints has announced it is further strengthening its partnership with Bizzabo, the Event Experience Operating System, to bring Bizzabo’s impressive products to UK event organisers and marketeers. This follows 12 months of successfully deploying Bizzabo’s Klik SmartBadge technology across the UK and Europe.

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Sustainability: Don’t let not being perfect stop you being better

Event Industry News

Written by Jay Tyson, The Sustainable Events Company When you have a full inbox, a full in-tray and a full diary, it’s understandably hard to find the time to think about making changes to make your business (and your life) more eco-friendly and sustainable. That’s ok.

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