YourMembership
MARCH 12, 2013
The following is a guest blog post from Leni Hall, a web support specialist with a focus on social media at YourMembership.com. She is currently pursuing her Bachelors of Science Degree in Internet Marketing through Full Sail University. Before joining YourMembership.com, Leni worked for Marriott International as a Spa Manager at the Renaissance Vinoy Resort and Golf Club.
Wild Apricot
MARCH 12, 2013
The DoGooder Video Awards - presented by See3 Communications, YouTube, the Nonprofit Technology Network and sponsored by Cisco - are calling for submissions until March 22, 2013.
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Reid All About it
MARCH 19, 2013
Although I didn’t participate in today’s #assnchat about ASAE’s Great Ideas Conference , it still inspired a blog post. Thank you, KiKi! Here’s why. I must confess I never went into the creativity rooms at Great Ideas. I peeked into one, but it looked like a dolled-up regular meeting room to me. Maybe I missed something. Maybe I missed it completely.
Spark Consulting
MARCH 28, 2013
Back in the mid-1990s (so, in Internet time, 500 years ago), I was a member of a thriving online community on the Runner’s World website. We shared training regimens, asked each other questions, told race stories, got injury and gear advice, told stupid jokes, gave each other a lot of s**t, got into arguments and then made up, and generally had a ball. “Wait!
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Association Leaders
MARCH 5, 2013
I met a leadership lover recently. Her name is Ann Tardy. She has a great story – the short of it is after successfully practicing corporate law, she discovered she had a passion for leadership and mentoring. She stepped away from her law career to become a leadership and mentoring trainer and consultant. The story is much deeper than this and you can find out more about Ann at her website.
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YourMembership
MARCH 5, 2013
Recently, LinkedIn posted its findings in regards to professional goals. Its latest study revealed that the top five professional goals for people in the US in 2013 are: Professional development through learning new skills (48%). Network/build more professional relationships (46%). Get a new job/career (29%). Get a raise (28%). Get promoted or move into a leadership role (25%).
Wild Apricot
MARCH 14, 2013
One way to keep members and supporters coming back to your website, is by creating a sense of community. Here are some tips and ideas for building community through your website.
Reid All About it
MARCH 15, 2013
Google Reader is where I go first thing in the morning for my professional reads about associations, marketing, digital media, technology, etc., and at the end of the day for my personal reads about food, culture, etc. I have hundreds of RSS subscriptions in dozens of Reader folders. Yes, I find a lot to read on Twitter, but its randomness, although appreciated, is no substitute for Reader.
Spark Consulting
MARCH 25, 2013
Last week, I was in the process of signing a new client. We’re moving fast, because they need the main piece of the project done and ready to share with their Board at the end of April. So we’re working on formalizing the relationship (aka “contracting and billing”) at the same time as we’re getting started on the actual work.
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Aaron Wolowiec
MARCH 25, 2013
It’s been several months now, but I was invited by Bryan L. Crenshaw, southeast zone adviser of the Michigan District of Key Club International, to present two breakout sessions on public speaking and confidence building at the organization’s 2012 Fall Rally in Wayland. As a former club president and district board member, I was eager to give back to this next generation of leaders and (fingers crossed) association professionals.
Thanks For Playing
MARCH 15, 2013
If you're a regular reader, you probably know by now that I started my own business, Spark Consulting , this past summer. My new website has been live in a dev environment since November, but it recently moved to its permanent home. With that, it's time to retire Thanks for Playing, at least in its current incarnation. I still blog just about every week day, only now I'm doing it over at the Spark Blog.
YourMembership
MARCH 19, 2013
If they don’t think of you, they won’t volunteer. If your event doesn’t come to mind, they won’t attend. If your conferences are not on their calendar, they’ll go elsewhere. If they don’t know what you do for them, they won’t renew their dues. If your private online community is not part of their daily Internet ritual, you won’t see them there.
Wild Apricot
MARCH 22, 2013
If thinking about "going mobile" makes you manic, here are some advice and tips to help figure out what mobile means to your organization.
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Reid All About it
MARCH 22, 2013
Every time I see the word media in this post by Jeff Jarvis, I think associations. He talks about media’s business model : “building a pay wall around content because content is valuable, damnit.” And then says, “I’ve been arguing to media that relationships are more valuable. Knowing people because you have their trust and give them value builds a rich and deep relationship — builds data about that relationship — that can be far more valuable for far longer than a mere transaction.
Spark Consulting
MARCH 19, 2013
If you ask a group of kindergarteners if they can sing, dance, draw, paint, act, etc., every single one of them will raise her hand. If you ask that same group if they can read or do math, you might get a few hands, but largely, no. If you ask a group of middle schoolers if they can read or do math, every single one of them will raise her hand. If you ask that same group if they can sing, dance, draw, paint, act, etc., you might get a few hands, but largely, no.
Principled Innovation
MARCH 25, 2013
This post originally appeared on the Associations Now Leadership Blog on March 7, 2013. In a recent post , Associations Now blogger Joe Rominiecki shared what both he and I regard as a startling fact: 53 percent of associations surveyed in 2011 had raised their dues in the previous three years. To put it another way, during the most severe economic decline in most of our lifetimes, more than half of associations surveyed still moved forward with a dues increase.
Association Leaders
MARCH 14, 2013
I read an interesting article the other day about leadership. The article got me to think about my role as a leader in a different way than I previously had. Often we fall into the rut of thinking of leaders as “the boss” or “the manager” As managers, we encourage the rut by judging and criticizing the actions of our team without regard for how that judgement might affect the team as a whole.
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.
YourMembership
MARCH 15, 2013
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. Please feel free to leave a comment, ask a question or just enjoy the week’s top ten picks!
Wild Apricot
MARCH 8, 2013
In this guest post, Kristen Grimm of Spitfire Strategies offers insight to "help nonprofits and volunteer-led groups of all sizes navigate a trail of influence by identifying—and eliminating—blind spots before they sabotage change strategies.".
Reid All About it
MARCH 29, 2013
Friday, already?! Time to get it done and get to the weekend. I’ve got your leisure time reading selections all ready for you. Curated Post of the Week. No surprise, I love curated posts. The Verge publishes The Best Writing of the Week on Sundays. It usually introduces me to well-written posts that I might have missed during the week, usually about the intersection of life and technology.
Spark Consulting
MARCH 7, 2013
Last fall, I had the opportunity to participate in The Boondoggle. Organized by Joe Gerstand t and Jason Lauritsen , it provided an opportunity for 10 people who didn’t know each other to sit in a cabin outside Omaha for 2 1/2 days and think and talk deeply about the future of work. By the afternoon of day two, we’d pretty much all gotten past the posturing, and we were finally getting real.
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Thanks For Playing
MARCH 6, 2013
Did you observe the National Day of Unplugging last week? What did you learn? You know what's awesome? Minimum Viable Awesome. Jeff De Cagna challenges boards to be better in the March issue of Associations Now, and offers advice on how to actually do that in the online supplement. Hiring? Make sure you respond to all applicants , whether or not you intend to interview them. 6 words that stop change at associations, and how to get around them.
Optimist Consulting
MARCH 4, 2013
Go ogle Alerts have been around for a number of years, but they are still a great way for membership organisations to search and monitor news information. What is a Google Alert? A Google Alert is a search that is performed by Google based on search criteria you have set and the results are then emailed to you. They typically search news sites and blogs.
YourMembership
MARCH 1, 2013
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. Please feel free to leave a comment, ask a question or just enjoy the week’s top ten picks!
Wild Apricot
MARCH 11, 2013
Here's an overview of two new resources in our Membership Knowledge Hub: Building Event Attendance and Inspiring Event Volunteers.
Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson
Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.
Reid All About it
MARCH 7, 2013
I’m not the only one who likes being a content curator. Elizabeth Engel is always an excellent source for interesting reads. Check out her weekly What I’m Reading series. If your job involves engaging members, customers, constituents, donors or volunteers, you must read this post by Jeffery Cufaude, Cultivating Engagement: What was the Catalyst? He says, “If we want to cultivate relationships that invest people in our community, cause, or organization, we must remain curious about them: how mig
Spark Consulting
MARCH 6, 2013
Did you observe the National Day of Unplugging last week? What did you learn? You know what’s awesome? Minimum Viable Awesome. Jeff De Cagna challenges boards to be better in the March issue of Associations Now, and offers advice on how to actually do that in the online supplement. Hiring? Make sure you respond to all applicants , whether or not you intend to interview them. 6 words that stop change at associations, and how to get around them.
Thanks For Playing
MARCH 5, 2013
Buzz words. What a disaster. You think they make you sound cool and in-the-know. They actually make you sound like a doofus who doesn't care that she's murdering the English language. So stop it already! (Also, excellent graphics.) 15 Marketing Buzzwords to Stop Using from MarketingProfs Also? Stop slapping "-ize" on to the end of everything. Really.
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