Wild Apricot
APRIL 25, 2013
'Our round-up of 33 free nonprofit webinars for May includes topics such as: recruiting professional volunteers, e-strategy, inbound marketing, Facebook for executive staff and much more.
YourMembership
APRIL 25, 2013
'Categories: Member Engagement + Retention Tags: associations , member engagement Before anyone suggests that engagement and building relationships shouldn’t be a strategy, consider your own personal relationships. At some point, no matter how random the meeting, you made a decision to continue it. You listened longer, you made plans to see one another again, you reached out.
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Reid All About it
APRIL 9, 2013
'Have you ever seen one of these? UCF’s 3D printer at digitalNow. That’s a 3D printer from the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Simulation and Training METIL Lab. David Metcalf and two of his students brought it to digitalNow for The “Maker Society,” their session with Jenny Levine , Strategy Guide at the American Library Association. .
Spark Consulting
APRIL 18, 2013
'I’ll be speaking about this topic today as part of the April Alexandria Brown Bag focusing on Grassroots Membership Strategies. (If you’re free around lunchtime today, there’s still time to register.). I’ll be sharing the story of my fab client the American Medical Student Association. About a year ago, they switched to a free membership model (disclaimer – I cannot claim any credit for this, as we started working together in the aftermath of the switch).
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Principled Innovation
APRIL 8, 2013
'In early January, I wrote a post on six serious ideas for 2013 that included the concept of SED, which is short for serendipity, empathy and discovery. SED is a term I coined to inspire association leaders to shift their conversations about the future in a more generative direction. Here is what I wrote about SED in that post: In 2013, I want to challenge association leaders to prepare for the vast serendipity that lives all around them, experience genuine empathy and embrace new possibilities
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Wild Apricot
APRIL 5, 2013
'Visuals can add value to your website - capturing attention and helping visitors understand your mission or message. Here are some thoughts and tips on creating and sourcing visuals.
YourMembership
APRIL 2, 2013
When horseless buggies (you might know them as cars) first arrived on the US scene in 1893, amidst all of the disbelief, there were a lot of buggy makers who thought these products were absurd and what the general population wanted was just fancier buggies. So they ignored these horseless contraptions with the smelly gasoline engines (not that horses don’t come with their own set of smells) and they concentrated on more luxurious versions of what had made them successful in the past —
Association Subculture
APRIL 4, 2013
'Thanks to Lisa Junker ( @ljunker ) for sharing this blog post from Good.is on 10 Amazing Chairs for Book Lovers. To me, this is a perfect example of one of the trends we highlighted earlier this year from Trendhunter.com which was "upgraded ordinary.". With space conscious design, and more sustainability conscious consumers taking front and center, designers are beginning to create all manner of ingenious solutions that are simultaneously attractive and useful.
Spark Consulting
APRIL 8, 2013
'I’m excited to launch the second Spark whitepaper – Member Relations : An Association-Centric Approach to Customer Relationship Management, which, with the assistance of George Breeden and Tom Lehman , I recently completed. This week, I’ll be blogging about the contents of the whitepaper. The basic premise is: Associations are starting to look at CRM (customer relationship management) software, either as an adjunct to or a replacement for, their more traditional AMS systems.
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Virtual
APRIL 18, 2013
'As standards initiatives develop, a fork in the road that many hit is the question on whether to formally incorporate the entity or continue operating under a more informal structure, often referred to as a “promoter-adopter” model. While no one likes to pay legal fees, the reality is that incorporation carries with it significant benefits [.].
Mariner
APRIL 23, 2013
'April 23, 2013. In his blog posting Eight Ways to Make Some Noise-Get Everyone Talking , author and speaker Thomas McKee of Volunteer Power offers tips on how to “make noise” about what your organization is doing, which in turn gets the word out about what your volunteers are doing for the organization. read more.
Wild Apricot
APRIL 8, 2013
'Just in time for National Volunteer Week, we''ve developed a new resource - a Volunteer Appreciation Guide - to help with volunteer recognition planning.
YourMembership
APRIL 30, 2013
'Categories: Member Engagement + Retention , Social Media and Business Trends Tags: content , content marketing , content strategy You can be the best writer in the world but if you don’t “listen” and “watch” and know your audience, your content will always fall short. Creating top-notch content is as easy as predicting the end of a romantic comedy.
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KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup
APRIL 9, 2013
'0. 0. 1. 1172. 6687. Amplified Growth, Inc. 55. 15. 7844. 14.0. Normal. 0. false. false. false. EN-US. JA. X-NONE. Laila Brock is currently the Director of Events and Team Operations with the Orange Bowl Committee, where she implements nearly 100 annual events in support of the Orange Bowl and the larger objective of enhancing the image, economy, and culture of South Florida.
Spark Consulting
APRIL 17, 2013
'Associations Now wants to help you spring clean your membership practices around dues, invoices, benefits and data. Tips for giving and taking criticism (aimed at freelancers, but applicable to everyone). In case you were wondering, all is not sunshine and puppies online. Another spring meeting season tip: take better notes. Want to foster a culture of innovation?
Optimist Consulting
APRIL 9, 2013
'Derek Arden , professional speaker and author and Immediate Past President of the Professional Speaking Association reflects on the organisation’s tremendous growth last year during his Presidency: About the Professional Speaking Association. The PSA is the professional association for anyone who is involved in public speaking, from professional speakers through to senior staff who are required to present regularly.
Eric Lanke
APRIL 1, 2013
image source I recently made a decision. A resolution of sorts. I'm trying to eliminate the word “just” from my vocabulary. Especially when I'm talking to my staff, my members, and my volunteers. Let me try to explain. My association isn't the largest association on the planet, but like every other association I know of, we have a ton of stuff going on.
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
APRIL 3, 2013
This year, National Volunteer Week will be celebrated April 21-27th. Here are some resources to help you plan your volunteer recognition activities.
YourMembership
APRIL 11, 2013
'Social media gurus tell member organizations again and again – don’t make it about you, make it about them. Every post shouldn’t be about what you are doing and what you think. Showcase your members. Let them shine. Turning over your social media platform to them is like a nice introduction from a mic. They can finally be heard over the noise of the social sphere.
Principled Innovation
APRIL 28, 2013
'Jeff De Cagna FRSA FASAE , chief strategist and founder of Principled Innovation LLC, is serving as curator and provocateur for the inaugural Association Chief Executives (ACE) Symposium , to be held on Friday, July 12 at The Gannett Building in McLean, Virginia. The ACE Symposium is open exclusively to association CEOs, and CEO attendees may register their #2 executives to participate with them in the event.
Jamie Notter
APRIL 30, 2013
'I watched this TED talk yesterday, given by John McWorter, who is a linguist. The talk (only 13 minutes, definitely worth it) explains why the younger generation, with their penchant for text messaging, is NOT proof that our world is going to heck in a handbasket, as is often claimed by the older generations. We look at “kids these days” and their disdain for grammar, punctuation, and rules and we worry that they will fail as grownups, and bring the rest of us down with them.
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Mariner
APRIL 25, 2013
'April 25, 2013. In difficult economic times, moving your resume (electronic or paper) to the top of the pile is extraordinarily difficult if not impossible, and the resume pile in hard times often resembles Mt. Everest. But as every successful sales person knows, face-time, not read-time remains the key to closing the sale. Q. So how do you get face-time with a prospective employer without being a nuisance?
Association Navigator
APRIL 12, 2013
'courtesy of [link]. I’m excited to again speak to University of Alabama law students about opportunities in the association world. The discussion is next week at the Washington offices of Hogan Lovells. Partner Mike House is the organizer of Alabama’s government relations program that brings students to Washington for a semester to work and study.
Wild Apricot
APRIL 15, 2013
'What piece of advice has resonated with you and transformed your work? Here are a few pieces of advice that might apply to nonprofits.
Association Subculture
APRIL 22, 2013
'This is just a fantastic illustration from a book that I desperately want to read called " Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation and GPS Technology " by Caroline Paul with illustrations by Wendy MacNaughton. The description sounds awesome, the illustrations are a hoot and I think any cat lover would look at this picture and knowingly nod. The illustration strikes me where I live, in "change" work with associations.
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.
Principled Innovation
APRIL 2, 2013
This post originally appeared on the Associations Now Leadership Blog on March 28, 2013. You can read Part I here. In Part I of this series earlier this month, I identified the association value gap as an underlying structural problem within membership-centric business models. Put simply, associations are unable to drive profitability solely by delivering on the membership value proposition and must find alternative ways to monetize membership to maintain their existing business models.
Eric Lanke
APRIL 29, 2013
'image source How do you think about the relationship between your members and your association? Is it transactional? Do you deliver high quality services direct to the member at a value equal to or higher than what the member pays in dues or fees? Or is it aspirational? Do you create communities of change around aspirational goals that can only succeed through collective action?
Mariner
APRIL 24, 2013
'April 24, 2013. Doesn’t matter if you’re Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg or Jane Doe, you’ve got 24 hours a day to get anything and everything done. Today’s volunteers, squeezed by a tight economy, mom and dad both working while seeking a “balanced” life, find opportunities to spend time outside of family and job scarcer and scarcer. And when available, that time rarely exceeds an hour or two here and there. read more.
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