Wild Apricot

JANUARY 15, 2013

Here are some ideas, tips and resources to help you get your volunteers off to a good start this year.

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YourMembership

JANUARY 3, 2013

Categories: Member Engagement + Retention Tags: ashley withers , attracting members , content , engaging members , event , event management , guest blogger , managing events , membership organization , yourmembership.com I am so excited to share this guest post by Ashley Withers, a support specialist at YourMembership.com. She holds a Bachelor’s in English & Sociology from Stony Brook University in New York.

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Thanks For Playing

JANUARY 24, 2013

There was a lot of talk about measuring and scoring member engagement at December's ASAE Technology Conference. People talked about scoring systems. People talked about tech platforms to track and report on the scores. People talked about engagement as the key to recruitment, retention, and upselling, whether that means getting members to invest money by buying stuff or invest time by taking volunteer positions.

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Principled Innovation

JANUARY 3, 2013

2013 is the year when association leaders will need to get serious about transformation. So as the year begins in earnest, I want to share six ideas on which I will focus my attention over the next 12 months. These are high impact ideas for association leaders who are serious about taking their organizations to the next level. I look forward to your questions, as well as your thoughts on how these ideas may reshape your association’s work in the year ahead.

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

For many nonprofit organizations and NGOs, managing grants and monitoring projects 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 As funding requirements become more complex and stakeholder expectations for transparency grow, relying on outdated methods can lead to inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and compliance risks.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 25, 2013

Over at CopyBlogger, Georgina El Morshdy shares 30 ways to build the “know, like, and trust” factor that grows an audience. She tells content marketers — meaning any individual or organization that uses content to educate and build relationships: “The reality is, your audience won’t pick up real momentum until you’ve mastered the “know, like, trust” factor.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 28, 2013

Here's our round-up of free non-profit webinars for February 2013. This month we've found 28+ webinars on topics such as: streamlining through the cloud; “brandraise to fundraise”; "Rockstar presentations" and much more.

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YourMembership

JANUARY 11, 2013

Categories: Member Engagement + Retention Tags: associations , benefits to joining , member organizations , member retention , yourmembership.com On this day in 1984, Wendy’s International aired a commercial featuring three elderly ladies gathered around a hamburger bun squinting at a dime-sized patty. “Where’s the Beef?”, one of them asked and the catch phrase took off honey badger style.

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Thanks For Playing

JANUARY 8, 2013

This past fall, I had the opportunity to participate in a multi-day retreat with a bunch of smart people where we focused on the future of work. Talking about the future of work led us naturally into talking about the future of getting ready to work, aka our education system. One of the concepts that came up, tying both work and education together, was apprenticeship.

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Principled Innovation

JANUARY 30, 2013

Join Jeff De Cagna of Principled Innovation on Wednesday, March 6 for the P.I./TMA Resources Executive Breakfast for association CEOs, C-Suite executives and other association leaders. This free breakfast session will be held at the headquarters of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) in Alexandria, Virginia, and registration for this event is now open.

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Association Leaders

JANUARY 28, 2013

Great leaders don’t need to know everything about everything. However, they do need to know something about everything. Claiming ignorance is not okay anymore for a leader. What a leader doesn’t know can hurt them and their organization. Here’s an article demonstrating what I’m talking about. It seems during a Today Show episode, there was a conversation about social media during which the TV reporters (leaders) claimed ignorance regarding social media.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 11, 2013

I’m back, I’m back in the saddle again. After a relaxing vacation, I’m catching up on reading and work. Here are some of my favorite reads from the past week, or two, or three. At the Content Marketing Institute, Mark Sherbin provides tips on newsjacking : “the process of injecting your brand into the day’s news, creating a twist that grabs eyes when they’re open widest.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 7, 2013

The list of 50 Most Innovative Companies offers some ideas for membership organizations for 2013.

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YourMembership

JANUARY 8, 2013

Categories: Membership Management Tags: associations , attracting members , member community , member organizations , membership websites , website , yourmembership.com Ever entered an organization to be met by a receptionist who’s on a personal call, speaking much louder than is required, chomping on gum and looking at you like you’re an interruption?

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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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JANUARY 31, 2013

Hubspot recently posted a hilarious and very helpful SlideShare on what NOT to do with your marketing. How To Suck at Marketing from HubSpot All-in-one Marketing Software My favorites? Cold calls and unsolicited emails are, of course, THE BOMB. The "Pro Tips." "Greetings Earthling" Yay, jargon! What would you add to their list?

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Principled Innovation

JANUARY 9, 2013

In my last post on six serious ideas for 2013 , I discussed the concept of “strategic legitimacy,” which is about challenging association boards to do a better job of providing future-focused stewardship in a world experiencing relentless transformation. To inspire association leaders to embrace strategic legitimacy, I have identified the following ten “next truths” of governing the 21st century association.

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Association Leaders

JANUARY 21, 2013

Abraham Lincoln is best known for leading our country through what many think was its most challenging time. Lincoln was in fact, an amazing leader who inspired people when he was living and does so still today. What made him such a great leader? We have explored leadership in many of these blogs. We have discussed leadership qualities, leadership characteristics and leadership do’s and don’ts.

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Aaron Wolowiec

JANUARY 29, 2013

Heidi Brumbach, CMP, CTA. This post is authored by guest blogger Heidi Brumbach, CMP, CTA. Heidi is the general manager of Technisch Creative. Email: heidi@technischcreative.com. So you’ve decided to have an event, and you’re not sure whether or not you need professional assistance. A good event management company should be an asset to your event, not a liability.

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Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 2, 2013

Here is a round-up of non-profit, membership, marketing and event predictions and trends for 2013.

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YourMembership

JANUARY 16, 2013

Categories: YourMembership.com News Tags: affiniscape , merger , yourmembership.com A Letter from our CEO… In December of last year, we announced our merger with Affiniscape. Today, I want to take this opportunity to welcome our Affiniscape customers to the YourMembership.com family. We’re proud to be your new partner for web-based solutions that will help you deliver more value to your members – while driving [.] ( Read more. ) The post Welcome Affiniscape Customers appeared first on Your

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JANUARY 22, 2013

I recently had the opportunity to sit down (well, virtually, anyway) with Bryan Kelly of Association Mavens to talk about content curation and associations. Our conversation was based on the FREE white paper I released recently, Attention Doesn't Scale. The video is about 20 minutes long, during which Bryan and I touched on the problem of information overload and how associations are making it worse for our members, content curation as a concept and possible solution, the most common types and m

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JANUARY 27, 2013

Last week I was honored to present a webinar, “Fierce Membership: 7 Ways to Keep From Losing Your Most Engaged Members.”. What is "fierce membership" and how is it different than what associations have witnessed before? A "fierce member".: knows their benefits and probably wants all of them plus more. wants to be involved in volunteer efforts and will leave if not given the chance to change the organization (after all, they are already educated and active in the other free ways to engage, as wel

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Association Leaders

JANUARY 14, 2013

I recently read an interview with Dinesh Paliwal, the CEO of Harman International Industries, an audio equipment manufacturing company. (Think Harman/Kardon speakers) A few leadership points he made were very interesting. First, a technique he uses when hiring new employees – he takes them to dinner with their spouse and his. In a social setting he gets to see a few key things: 1.

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Aaron Wolowiec

JANUARY 7, 2013

As a featured association management blogger on Alltop , I was recently given the opportunity to receive and review an advance copy of a new book written by Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch titled, APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur—How to Publish a Book. For those that don’t know, Kawasaki is the author of 11 previous books, including What the Plus! , Enchantment , and The Art of the Start.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 4, 2013

Here is a look at charitable giving in 2012 and trends that might continue into 2013.

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YourMembership

JANUARY 25, 2013

Categories: Social Media and Business Trends Tags: affiniscape , associations , jamie notter , weekly wrap-up , yourmembership.com Happy Friday and Welcome to the Weekly Wrap Up brought to you by the team at YourMembership.com! The weekly wrap-ups are a great resource to find industry provoking articles, blog posts, upcoming events, fun facts, and provide up-to-date news and tips found throughout the association and workforce space each week.

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Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

Big list this week. Hey, lots of people have been writing interesting stuff! Marketing Profs picked up Maddie Grant and Jamie Notter's survey on new leadership skills for the social media age (and wrote a really nice article about it). Speaking of Jamie, he just released a new white paper, in which he applies the Humanize principles to the real-world problem of performance reviews (spoiler alert: it's the first in a series that's going to do this).

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Virtual

JANUARY 16, 2013

For any trade association that develops specifications or other technical documents, publication is a tremendous milestone. It marks the end of a journey comprised of significant contributions from many member resources around the world. While it’s always a good idea to celebrate such an achievement within an association, it is important to remember that while [.

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Association Leaders

JANUARY 7, 2013

Many people are just getting back to work today, after a holiday break. During that break, our country lost a great leader – General Norman Schwarzkopf. While General Schwarzkopf is best known for being the Commander of Operation Desert Storm in the early 1990′s, his leadership skills were developed through his years at West Point as well as years spent rising through the ranks in the U.S.

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