Wild Apricot

AUGUST 23, 2013

'Wouldn’t it be amazing to have an abundance of engaged, highly motivated volunteers who are brimming with ideas your association actually implements?

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AUGUST 30, 2013

'There’s plenty of talk among organizations on how to recruit and engage Millennials but are you getting them involved to the point they are assuming the role of your next ED? And what would your organization look like if it was Millennial led? Your organization would be: 1. More collaborative. Millennials were raised to be collaborative [.] ( Read more. ) The post What If Your ED Was a Millennial?

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Spark Consulting

AUGUST 15, 2013

'From the new Spark whitepaper, The Mission Driven Volunteer , written with Peggy Hoffman: The Maryland Association of CPAs realigned all their volunteer roles along a grid where the X-axis represented high value to members and the association and the Y-axis represented alignment to strategy. Then volunteer teams used that grid to pull resources away from committees and chapters doing low priority work and refocus those resources on activities and projects that were in the high-high quadrant.

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Aaron Wolowiec

AUGUST 20, 2013

'Detroit’s Cobo Center. I’m sure I can speak for my fellow Michiganders: We’ve watched with heartbreak as Detroit, once the most prosperous city in the country, has struggled to financially support its declining population. Sadly, it all came to a head on July 18 when the Motor City filed for bankruptcy. Ever since, that’s all the media seem to care about.

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KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup

AUGUST 28, 2013

'Whether you know it or not, video is likely in your future. Here''s why: From this blog post by Wolf 21 Internet Marketing , you can see some provocative statistics about video (attrib. to Craig Backman from McLellan Group): Video is the preferred medium by most site visitors. According to Cisco Systems, 90% of web traffic will be from video by the time we reach 2013.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 7, 2013

'There are more than 80 million Millennials in America. The 2013 Millennial Impact Report explains how non-profits and membership organizations can "invest in this generation.".

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YourMembership

AUGUST 7, 2013

'The days after a major conference are filled with busy work, attending to all of the things you pushed off leading to the conference. I have 50,000 vendors calling me (yes they call me too, I know how you feel) some from conference and others I politely deferred before conference. Your colleagues have all sorts [.] ( Read more. ) The post Turning Post-Conference Euphoria into Action appeared first on YourMembership.com.

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Spark Consulting

AUGUST 12, 2013

'I’m excited to announce the third Spark white paper – The Mission Driven Volunteer – co-authored with Peggy Hoffman , CAE, President of Mariner Management. This week, I’ll be blogging about the contents of the whitepaper. The basic premise is: Associations’ current model of volunteering is broken. Standing committees value form and position over function and effectiveness.

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Aaron Wolowiec

AUGUST 14, 2013

'The bag of trail mix that served as my lunch during the closing general session of #ASAE13. It’s the closing general session at #ASAE13. I’ve somehow come down with the worst summer cold/sinus infection I’ve had in at least the last 10 years. Many of my friends seem to be sniffling and sneezing, as well. This has resulted in an unexpected morning expedition to the local CVS.

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Mariner

AUGUST 8, 2013

'There are really two times a year when I dare to ponder the question of mortality: New Years Eve and my birthday. Both days cause me to consider how far I’ve come and how far I’ve yet to go in so little time left. This inevitably pushes me to set forth goals (habit changes really) for the year ahead.

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Jamie Notter

AUGUST 8, 2013

'I had the great honor this week to present with Robert Barnes of Fitness Australia this week at the ASAE Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA. We talked about the work both he and I have done to strengthen the culture at his organization, though I will admit fully he has done a lot more work on it than I have. Long before he read Humanize, Rob was crafting a culture around a phrase that staff had coined–TeamCool–in order to get better performance.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 26, 2013

'Here is the round-up of free non-profit webinars for September 2013. This month we''ve found 21+ webinars to help you get ready for fall.

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AUGUST 14, 2013

'What’s your association’s mission statement? Do you know it by heart? What about your staff? Do they know it? Does it go something like “… advancing the cause and concerns of _…” or maybe something like “…promotes the industry, while providing services, technology and leadership…”? Some of you may even have mission, vision and values statements. [.] ( Read more. ) The post Mission (Statement) Critical for Associations appeared first on

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Spark Consulting

AUGUST 27, 2013

'I recently had the opportunity to be interviewed by the nice folks at Naylor for Association Adviser TV. One of the questions they asked me to address was: What are the top three things that an association can do maintain the value proposition for the next generation of membership? You must understand the difference between life stage characteristics and generational characteristics.

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Aaron Wolowiec

AUGUST 27, 2013

'Since last week’s blog post, the latest story about Detroit’s bankruptcy seems to be the city’s problem with stray dogs. I’m not sure this is news, but as Larry Alexander, president of the Detroit Metro Convention and Visitors Bureau , told me last week, media watch the city with careful eyes since it’s the automobile capital of the world. Larry Alexander, president of the Detroit Metro Convention and Visitors Bureau.

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Virtual

AUGUST 23, 2013

'Inc. Magazine has released their annual “ Fasting Growing Private Companies in America ” edition. And for the third time in recent years, Virtual was right there on the list, nestled among some pretty cool companies. It was interesting paging through the edition—it helped me realize a few things about the nature of growing companies and the state of the economy.

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Eric Lanke

AUGUST 26, 2013

'image source WSAE has invited me to lead a peer-to-peer discussion on Membership Engagement on September 4, 2013. It''s going to be via conference call, so all are welcome to participate. Go here for more information and to register. I''m going to start with some of my own thoughts and experiences in helping to lead a similar discussion at the ASAE Marketing, Membership and Communications Conference (which I blogged about here , here and here ) but I expect the conversation will go in several d

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Speaker: Radhika Samant and Todd Wuestenberg

Employee recognition has often been deemed a "feel-good" initiative, tied closely to rewards. While we understand its importance, we tend to associate recognition with intangible outcomes like engagement and sentiment, rather than direct impacts on retention and high performance. In today’s workplace, the true ROI of recognition lies in its ability to regenerate tangible, business-driven results.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 21, 2013

'The success of many non-profits depends on effective volunteer and staff partnerships - so can’t we all just get along for the greater good?

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AUGUST 22, 2013

'In our work with associations over the past decade and a half, we’ve found several communication “secrets” (best practices really) that the most successful of our customers have in common. We wanted to share them with you so that you could decide whether they help you as well. Our most successful clients: 1. Know email [.] ( Read more. ) The post Communication Secrets of Successful Associations appeared first on YourMembership.com.

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Jamie Notter

AUGUST 20, 2013

'I just finished reading the new white paper that Elizabeth Engel and Peggy Hoffman have put out about “mission-driven volunteers,” and it’s fabulous. The paper makes a compelling case why the current model for volunteering in most associations is broken, and then provides some cool ideas (with good case studies) for how to do it differently–and more effectively.

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Association Navigator

AUGUST 19, 2013

'We’re just back from a great family vacation in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. We played golf and tennis, went swimming, hiking, wine tasting , and visited Thomas Jefferson’s home, Monticello. I spent most of the week off the computer , only looking at email once or twice. I’ve been thinking about what Jeff Bezos’ purchase of The Washington Post means for trade associations?

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Mariner

AUGUST 28, 2013

'Elizabeth Engel and I co-hosted the weekly Association Chat yesterday to talk about mission-driven volunteering based on our white paper of the same name (you can download a copy here ). There was quite a number of very interesting points made during the conversation (read the recap here thanks to Kait Solomon ) but two struck me a particularly relevant.

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Eric Lanke

AUGUST 12, 2013

'image source I was interviewed and my association is featured as one of the case studies in the new white paper--The Mission Driven Volunteer--from Mariner Management & Marketing and Spark Consulting. What is mission-driven volunteering? Well, according to the white paper itself. It begins with a volunteer role and philosophical approach that draw their significance from the organization''s mission rather than from a particular title or level in the committee structure.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 28, 2013

'A discussion about the pitfalls we''ve experienced with developing Version 5.0, and the lessons we''ve learned about managing Wishlist requests.

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YourMembership

AUGUST 8, 2013

'Yesterday’s blog post gave a few tips on turning post-conference excitement into action. For most organizations, the challenge is not the innovative thought. The challenge is getting buy-in, whether that’s board buy-in, staff buy-in or member buy-in. When you come back from a conference with all of these delicious ideas percolating in your head, it’s hard [.] ( Read more. ) The post Obtaining Post-Conference Buy-In to Innovation appeared first on YourMembership.com.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

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Jamie Notter

AUGUST 21, 2013

'Get a copy of IBM’s recent report on research they did with CEOs (hat tip to SmartBrief for pointing me there). I promise to do some more specific blog posts about it, because it has some important material in there, but I’ll just start with a collection of the sidebar quotes from the CEOs themselves. It looks like these CEOs are moving forward pretty quickly.

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Vanguard Tech

AUGUST 21, 2013

'Today''s guest post is written by Susan Young, CEO at Get In Front Communications. Connect with Susan on Twitter at @sueyoungmedia or by email. You may have noticed that digital storytelling is making headlines. Any association or nonprofit interested in tapping social media to promote its services and members must understand the far-reaching influence of this marketing model, known as Brand Journalism.

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Idea Architects

AUGUST 6, 2013

'License Some rights reserved by Vít ‘tasuki’ Brunner "Here''s what I would do. " Sounds like you are about to offer someone some advice. Before you do, stop. Stop and ask yourself if you''re about to finish that sentence with advice based on your experiences, your interests, your values, your needs, and your aspirations. If you are, it might be best if you say nothing.

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