Wild Apricot
JUNE 20, 2011
Your non-profit website is supposed to help new people – prospective donors, members, and advocates – find your organization online. But what if it’s not showing up in the search engines? ( read more ).
Reid All About it
JUNE 9, 2011
Does this sound familiar? You settle in to read something online. You first scan the screen, and then begin reading a long paragraph of text. Soon you realize you’re no longer reading; instead you’re thinking about dinner or your draft picks. Click, close tab. We all do this. Reading on the web is informal, interactive and interruptive. Informal – our family and friends are here, anything goes.
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Association Leaders
JUNE 6, 2011
Shh! Don’t tell anyone this – its a secret few people know, or at least understand – Everyone fails more often than they succeed. It’s true. The best professional baseball players make outs seven out of every ten at bats. The best basketball players in the world make baskets less than half the time they shoot the ball. How many failures did Thomas Edison go through before he perfected the light bulb?
Golden's Rules for Association
JUNE 20, 2011
Conflict! Treachery! Betrayal! Passion! No, I am not talking about your last board of directors meeting. I am talking about opera. And before you start rolling your eyes and dismissing opera based on the parodies or send ups you’ve seen (Marx Brothers’ “Night at the Opera,” anyone?), allow me to provide a short, painless and mostly lighthearted [.].
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KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup
JUNE 12, 2011
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Wild Apricot
JUNE 13, 2011
How effective is Facebook for non-profits? Idealware surveyed over 500 non-profits and offers insight into their success with Facebook in their new report: Using Facebook to Meet Your Mission: Results of a Survey.( read more ).
Reid All About it
JUNE 3, 2011
Last night I went to the Kids Summer Stock Social Media Mixer at the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina. That’s a mouthful! What does it all mean? It means I was in the Food Bank’s HUGE Raleigh warehouse full of boxes of all kinds of food — fruit, vegetables, eggs, bread, Mt Olive pickles, peanut butter, water, you name it — on towering shelves that reach up to the ceiling.
Association Leaders
JUNE 22, 2011
As a business and association leader, planning is a skill and a process I have come to know well. In particular, I have developed a process for facilitating the development of strategic plans for organizations that seems to work quite well. As a result, whenever I have the chance to learn something new about planning, I take the opportunity. Recently, I read a Harvard Business Review blog titled, “Making Your Strategy More Relevant” by Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi of Booz &
Golden's Rules for Association
JUNE 30, 2011
I am thrilled and humbled to learn of my selection to receive the American Society of Association Executive’s 2011 Key Award, the highest honor ASAE offers. “The Key Award honors the association CEO who demonstrates exceptional qualities of leadership in his or her own association, and displays a deep commitment to voluntary membership organizations as a [.].
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Association Advocacy Chick
JUNE 16, 2011
I started my career as an assistant to the Government Relations Director of a small association. My job was doing his grunt work: filing, faxing, sorting mail, and answering phones. I even made coffee. What I didn’t do was anything related to advocacy. No lobbying visits, no advocacy training, no coalition meetings. That job taught me to appreciate administrative tasks no matter how big or small.
Idea Architects
JUNE 2, 2011
Despite being a fairly early adopter of most technology tools, I'm pretty old school in a few ways. Perhaps no better example exists than my use of a daily index card, a habit I picked up when I was state student council president back in the dark ages. Each day, I fill one side of a fresh index card with my appointments and list of things to do. I leave the other side blank for action items that come up during the course of the day, ideas I want to remember, and appointments or other commitment
Wild Apricot
JUNE 24, 2011
Can word clouds help you create more effective grant applications? Focusing on the words that appear more frequently in grant requirements, might help your application get noticed.( read more ).
Reid All About it
JUNE 15, 2011
Last week I shared tips on writing for the web , or, as I affectionately referred to all of us, writing for online monkey minds. Reading on the web is a different experience than reading the printed page. Online reading is informal, interactive and interruptive; it requires a different style of writing. In my monkey mind post I discussed writing for scanners, not readers, and the importance of headlines and formatting.
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Mizz Information
JUNE 2, 2011
Mizz Information. Thursday, June 2, 2011. Why I Wont be Visiting Intels Museum of Me. Intel is getting a ton of buzz for its "Museum of Me" app. Ive read many oohs and ahhs about it, and even that Intel is "changing advertising" with it. Sounds cool, right? I finally relented after seeing the tweet about it changing advertising and went to check it out.
Golden's Rules for Association
JUNE 9, 2011
Does knowing nothing more about who is behind a statement than the words a person uses to express themselves make online pronouncements more or less reliable? On one hand, not knowing anything about who is blogging or tweating beyond the sometimes very limited information about themselves that they choose to make known to you is a good thing. It [.].
Association Advocacy Chick
JUNE 29, 2011
Dear DELPers, This past weekend, we came together in the Detroit area for a special purpose. It was the 10th anniversary reunion of the Diversity Executive Leadership Program (DELP). Sponsored by the Detroit Metro Convention and Visitors Bureau, it was an opportunity for alumni to reconnect and haze meet the new class of DELP scholars who we affectionately call the newbies.
Idea Architects
JUNE 8, 2011
Tom Peters has been championing the importance of design long before it was the darling of the masses. He has an entire section of his website devoted to posts about its importance, it is mentioned widely throughout many of his books, and he has at least one publication devoted exclusively to its value. Moreover, his own corporate graphic identity is about as crisp and as clean a design as you could ever create, simply his name followed by an exclamation point, a simple reminder of the boldness
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.
Wild Apricot
JUNE 17, 2011
Here are 20 free webinars for non-profits and membership organizations in July. This month we've found webinars on topics such as: online event marketing for nonprofits; ramping up Facebook results; your board and fundraising; and measuring social media return on engagement. So check out this round-up of July webinars.( read more ).
Reid All About it
JUNE 23, 2011
I know that you’re all on the edge of your seats waiting for the next installment of the Writing for the Web series, but first I want to catch you up on some of my blog posts elsewhere. Over on Grabbing the Gusto , my food blog, I’ve posted recipes in the last few weeks for some very tasty dishes: Coconut Citrus Tilapia , Mexican Shrimp Cocktail (the critics swooned), Kung Pao Chicken with Vegetables , two hearty dinner salads (just what you need in this hot humid weather) and more.
GlowGlobally
JUNE 30, 2011
GrowGlobally.org. global association strategy, regional planning and local infrastructure to grow your business. Home. About. Channels. MarCom. Market & Biz Plan. Meetings. Membership. Products. Public Affairs. Services. « Reaching New Customers and Members Abroad. Largest International Meetings Expo Comes to USA – IMEX America in Las Vegas » Jun. 30. 2011.
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Association Advocacy Chick
JUNE 1, 2011
I love bags. I have way more than should be allowed by law. However, I must confess that most are more functional than stylish. My work bags tend to follow a certain pattern: large with at least one external pocket (yawn). At the beginning of the year, I started carrying a large beige bag. It was simple, classic with a few modern touches. Most importantly, I could carry everything (and I mean everything) in that thing.
Idea Architects
JUNE 14, 2011
There is an incredibly pervasive belief among people that it can be too risky to speak up, to try new things, to do something very different. But that belief offers nothing but false security. Doing nothing could risk everything. If we are unwilling to fail or fall short at something, we will never innovate anything. Individuals who are in temporary volunteer leadership roles can be more risk-averse.
Wild Apricot
JUNE 6, 2011
Here's a roundup of resources, reports and guides for non-profits and membership organizations. We've included overviews of Facebook's Non-profit Resource Centre, two reports on mobile use and a Nonprofit Guide to Internet Marketing.( read more ).
Reid All About it
JUNE 30, 2011
The cliché people say, “Teach what you know.” I know enough about writing for the web to share it, so here’s part 3 of my series. But before we get started you should know this: although I know enough about writing for the web, and even do it for a living, I’m still learning. Aren’t we all? I don’t consider myself an ‘expert’ on the topic, but I’m willing to share what I know.
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.
Association Adviser
JUNE 14, 2011
June 2011 -- Features Learning is in even when school is out. Be committed to learning from your members and applying that knowledge to future programs. Are you allocating your resources in a way that's responsive to your current and future members? Are you telling your members what you're doing right?
AMR Management Services
JUNE 27, 2011
Pages. HOME. CONTRIBUTORS. AMR MANAGEMENT SERVICES. Monday, June 27, 2011. 3 Keys to a Successful Webinar – Expert Speaker, Good Content and Lots of Promotion. Wondering why your recent webinar only had 10 people “attend?” Would you like 10 times that many to attend your next webinar? Here is a webinar blueprint that really worked – for the association, the sponsor and the attendees.
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