Wild Apricot

MARCH 9, 2010

With all the buzz about social media, it’s easy to forget that offline media attention can be equally valuable, especially for community-based nonprofits who want to get attention to local projects or recruit local members and volunteers. Offline media attention is good. Getting it can be hard, however, in the digital information age. Challenged by online alternative news sources, print newspapers are slimming down, cutting pages to cut their costs.

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Association Leaders

MARCH 21, 2010

I believe that most successful trade associations have Boards of Directors that are not only functional but whose directors have developed trusting relationships amongst each other. I have had the pleasure of seeing dozens of Boards of Directors interact with each other. Here are some of my observations about how Boards develop trusting relationships: 1.

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Association Subculture

MARCH 19, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Friday, March 19, 2010. How the Mighty Fall - Associations at Risk - Part 4 of 5. (This is the fourth in a five-part series and a break from my normal format. During times of economic crisis many questions haunt executives, boards, staff members and volunteers alike. How will we weather this storm? How long will it last?

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GlowGlobally

MARCH 16, 2010

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. « Knowledge Application Gap Still Exists in Some Emerging Markets. Reaching Out To Global Markets Through Meetings & Events » Mar. 16. 2010.

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Idea Architects

MARCH 5, 2010

Why do we make it so hard for people to volunteer their time, to share their ideas, to help make a difference? Dan Pink speaks next week at ASAE & the Center's Great Ideas Conference about the power of intrinsic motivation he explores in his new book Drive. Pink suggests three motivational drivers for individuals—autonomy, mastery, and purpose—that have significant implications for all organizations.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 20, 2010

In a recent TechSoup webinar, Allen Gunn, Executive Director of Aspiration, suggested a simple and effective process for planning your organization's online communications, using a simple spreadsheet template to create a monthly Publishing Matrix.( read more ). Tags: Non-profit technology nptech E-mail marketing Blogging Non-profit Communications websites spreadsheets webinar social media.

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Association Leaders

MARCH 15, 2010

I have four children and have coached many youth sports. I believe in teamwork and in the special role coaches play in the development and eventual success (or failure) of their team. When I became president of CM Services I chose to use the title Head Coach because of this belief. I recently met a former major league baseball player who helps aspiring youth baseball players become better – Jack Perconte.

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Membership Marketing

MARCH 22, 2010

Membership Marketing Blog. Membership marketing – acquiring, engaging, upgrading, and renewing members – is the cornerstone for associations and relationship driven organizations. Whether you are an association professional or a relationship marketer, join the discussion on the Membership Marketing Blog and share your ideas and counsel. Speaking Engagements.

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GlowGlobally

MARCH 4, 2010

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. « Enhance Your International Meeting Bottom Line with Effective Local Tax Reclamation. Where in the World are the Innovators?

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Speaker: Jessica Bonney from VICA and Jeff Horne from Wicket

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Idea Architects

MARCH 15, 2010

The Grand Club concierge at the Grand Hyatt New York sits in front of his computer screen, seemingly bored and frequently surfing the Internet. He may greet you upon your entrance and exit into the Club, or he may not. The staff at the Grand Club at the Grand Hyatt Seattle are all youthful employees whose primary job seems to be bussing tables. They are perky, but seem more suited to being servers at TGI Friday's.

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Guilt by Association

MARCH 16, 2010

Maybe it’s all about the context. This video is really, really great – stay with it until the end and you won’t regret it! P.S. Thanks to Kent Anderson for sharing this.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 17, 2010

If you don’t have mad PhotoShop skillz, if you don't want to install new software, or if all you need is a quick photo clean-up or fancy effect – here are three free online image editing tools you may want to give a try.( read more ). Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Blogging images application.

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Association Leaders

MARCH 7, 2010

One of the greatest challenges leaders face are distractions. Distractions cause leaders to take their “eye off the ball” Distractions cause leaders to lose focus on their mission and strategies. Distractions come in all shapes and sizes. Here are my top four: 1. Personnel issues. 2. Demanding customers. 3. Balancing work and family. 4. Money.

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Membership Marketing

MARCH 23, 2010

Membership Marketing Blog. Membership marketing – acquiring, engaging, upgrading, and renewing members – is the cornerstone for associations and relationship driven organizations. Whether you are an association professional or a relationship marketer, join the discussion on the Membership Marketing Blog and share your ideas and counsel. Speaking Engagements.

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Executive Connections

MARCH 2, 2010

Executive Connections. « Information Chemistry | Main. | Spring Forward » 02 March 2010. SLA’s Illinois Chapter Invests in Members. I cannot tell you how delighted I was to learn that the 2010 SLA Illinois Board of Directors has decided to offer up to 20 Early Bird registrations to the SLA 2010 Annual Conference & INFO-EXPO to its members —on top of two student stipends of $1,000 each!

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Idea Architects

MARCH 31, 2010

My neighborhood is at the edge of a four-lane city road, a one-way street heading west that is a major feeder directly into downtown. Earlier this week the road was closed for construction and drivers were detoured to the south. At the next available intersection where you could turn to head downtown, drivers found the road also closed and they were detoured further to the south.

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on Leadership

MARCH 12, 2010

on Leadership … by Steven Davis, CAE. Leadership … an Ongoing Discussion. « Leadership … Continued Discussion 2/24/10. Leadership … Continued Discussion 3/29/10 » Leadership … Continued Discussions 3/12/10. In this post I want to consider a passage from Steward D. Friedman’s book, Total Leadership. In a discussion on being real and acting with authenticity, Friedman points to the importance of having a vision in saying that “effective leader

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 24, 2010

Productivity gurus say not to use your email Inbox as a “to do” list, but – let’s be realistic here – many of us find it convenient to do just that. This is especially likely to happen with GMail users, perhaps because the large storage space, efficient search function and color-coded labels make it easy and practical. Superstars can help you to manage your GMail even more effectively.

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High Context

MARCH 25, 2010

Seth Gottlieb wrote a great post looking at The Onion moving from one open source CMS to another. One driver is that The Onion has developers on staff, which strongly influenced the systems that were attractive to them above and beyond the content management features. Seth points out their prior platform encouraged not tinkering with code under the hood while the new one is very code-centric.

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Membership Marketing

MARCH 11, 2010

Membership Marketing Blog. Membership marketing – acquiring, engaging, upgrading, and renewing members – is the cornerstone for associations and relationship driven organizations. Whether you are an association professional or a relationship marketer, join the discussion on the Membership Marketing Blog and share your ideas and counsel. Speaking Engagements.

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Executive Connections

MARCH 30, 2010

Executive Connections. « Spring Forward | Main. | Are You Involved in Corporate e-Learning? » 30 March 2010. Cherry Blossom Time. Some of our best ideas are not home grown.  Take the cherry blossom trees that are nearing their glorious full bloom here in the U.S. Capital.  While it is hard to imagine Washington without them, the first 3,000 trees were planted only 98 years ago, a gift from the mayor of Tokyo.

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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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Idea Architects

MARCH 30, 2010

When I worked as Greek Affairs Coordinator at Iowa State University, one of the men's fraternities had a large chalkboard stationed just inside the entrance to the house. On it every Sunday, the chapter's House Manager posted a short list of "things that need to be done in/on the house this week." Individual members already had regular house duties, so this was an above and beyond list.

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on Leadership

MARCH 30, 2010

on Leadership … by Steven Davis, CAE. Leadership … an Ongoing Discussion. « Leadership … Continued Discussions 3/12/10. Leadership … Continued Discussion 4/19/10 » Leadership … Continued Discussion 3/29/10. In this post I want to explore the larger side of leadership … the reality that every individual, regardless of rank or station in life, has the opportunity to lead the way.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 25, 2010

Wild Apricot Blog is pleased to welcome a two-part guest post from media consultant Minal Bopaiah of Brevity & Wit , this week. Her “technology toolkit” and sample step-by-step plan are designed to help new nonprofit organizations get started with online marketing, outreach and fundraising — on a tight budget. A Technology Toolkit for Start-up Nonprofits So you’ve decided your nonprofit needs to take advantage of social networking tools and Web technology, but you have no idea how to go abou

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High Context

MARCH 24, 2010

This is a great video report from Slate about how you can r un your own television ads via Google. [link]. Note that the average cost of acquiring traffic was around $1 for their experiment (although it appears this did not include production costs). If the average value of each new visitor to your site is higher than that, you’re doing well. Hat tip to Matt Baehr for posting the link this week.

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Membership Marketing

MARCH 5, 2010

Membership Marketing Blog. Membership marketing – acquiring, engaging, upgrading, and renewing members – is the cornerstone for associations and relationship driven organizations. Whether you are an association professional or a relationship marketer, join the discussion on the Membership Marketing Blog and share your ideas and counsel. Speaking Engagements.

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Associations Live

MARCH 23, 2010

Even Microsoft employees can’t resist iPhone.

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Idea Architects

MARCH 25, 2010

Many end users are looking for more open light-filled environments that are healthy and somehow inspiring to the creative people who drive their business growth. A variety of different settings rather than a monolithic single solution seems to be what is necessary to support this kind of workforce. Current and future designs need to be simpler in one way (components, basic desks and tables) but more nuanced and tunable in others.

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