Wild Apricot

JANUARY 25, 2018

Here are 34 free nonprofit webinars for February 2018.

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YourMembership

JANUARY 22, 2018

Membership recruitment is a never-ending project. Every year, members leave your association—they retire, change jobs or professions, go out of business, lose their professional development budget, or just vanish for unknown reasons. As members go out the back door, you must keep new ones coming in the front. What strategies will guide your plan for.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 26, 2018

The weekly list of free educational events for the association community… The world wants you just as you are—you are enough. This message is from one of the best pieces I read this week. Thanks to Jeffery Cufaude for sharing his wisdom with us. It reminds me of the advice my fellow yogis and I got during yoga teacher training—advice that applies to anyone who gets up in front of people: although it’s natural to channel the teachers you love, it doesn’t work.

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Blue Sky eLearn

JANUARY 25, 2018

1. It’s Not in Our Budget. If you’ve never implemented a Learning Management System (LMS) before then it’s never been a part of your budget before. However, with the expense of an LMS comes online courses and on-demand webinars that can become a part of your non-dues revenue strategy as well as new avenues to acquire sponsorship dollars. In no time your sponsors and/or learners can be covering your LMS costs and then some.

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Struggling to get members to open or engage with your emails? You're not alone. Our free Best Practices for Email Marketing guide offers practical tips to strengthen your email strategy and improve engagement. Inside, you'll learn how to: Write subject lines that increase open rates Build scannable, mobile-friendly designs Choose send times that fit your audience Personalize content with Smart Newsletter Use Message Report data to refine strategy This guide helps associations and chambers create

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 22, 2018

Happy New Year everyone! This month I talk about our plans to simplify Wild Apricot's functionality and introduce some of the new features planned for 2018. Read the full update here.

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WBT Systems

JANUARY 23, 2018

You were so proud. You really thought you had a great idea for an online course. The curriculum, instructor, and materials were all top-notch. But when the course launched: crickets. So few people registered you decided not to offer it. After you and your colleagues put so much effort into it, how do you explain to your boss and committee chair why your online course failed?

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Jamie Notter

JANUARY 26, 2018

I see a lot written these days about this mysterious new generation that follows the Millennials, often called Generation Z. Yes, just when you thought you had figured out the “kids these days,” now you have to start all over again with a whole new generation! Or do you? The whole reason I got into generational research (almost 15 years ago), is because when I started digging underneath the surface of what was being written about generations, I discovered a lot of really weak research and relati

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Aaron Wolowiec

JANUARY 24, 2018

Fundraisers, who manage relationships with donors have figured out how to make everyone along that continuum feel known and appreciated in a way that’s commensurate with their giving level.

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Higher Logic

JANUARY 25, 2018

No matter where you go these days, you'll find people nose deep in their phones - on the bus, in line at Starbucks, or even as they wait for a meal at a restaurant. These gaps of time are known as micro-moments, and have become the newest frontier for marketers. These moments are an enormous opportunity, as the average consumer experiences them about 150 times a day.

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Speaker: Sean Yoder

Nonprofits are under more pressure than ever to demonstrate financial accountability while continuing to expand their impact. Traditional budgeting models often fall short, reinforcing silos, limiting flexibility, and stalling growth. Enter collaborative budgeting: a dynamic, team-driven process that enables smarter resource allocation and builds financial resilience at scale.

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Eric Lanke

JANUARY 22, 2018

Spark Consulting is out with another white paper -- this one on what associations can learn about relationship building, campaign management, and attracting Millennials from charitable fundraising organizations. It's another thought-provoking read for association CEOs. If you're interested, you can download "Steal Like a Fundraiser: Innovations in Cause-Oriented Fundraising for Associations" here.

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Smooth The Path

JANUARY 25, 2018

Amor Towles is the author of two novels; A Gentleman in Moscow as well as the Rules of Civility. I like Rules of Civility but, I love A Gentleman in Moscow. The same author wrote two books, but one book, I found to be more fun and more memorable. Was it the story? Or the characters? Or the tone? I am not sure, but my best guess is, I am responding to the tone of the story.

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Aaron Wolowiec

JANUARY 26, 2018

Scott Oser, founder of Scott Oser Associates, is Gardian of the Month.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 26, 2018

Showpass, Canada’s fastest-growing event platform, has secured a potentially game-changing position with Facebook, becoming one of the social media giant’s first native ticketing partners. More than 700m people a month take to Facebook to engage with event communities and Showpass provides a failsafe platform to purchase tickets right there. Directly.

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Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Community Engagement

There’s more than one way to end the year with impact—and we’re letting you decide the direction. In this "choose your own adventure" community-led webinar, attendees will vote in real time to pick one of three year-end event strategies to explore in depth: Volunteer Appreciation Events 🧡 Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaigns 🌈 Mission/Program Celebrations 🎉 Once the path is chosen, we’ll dive into a step-by-step engagement workflow plan tailored to that format, showing how

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Association Success

JANUARY 25, 2018

To overcome some systemic challenges, we might need to find a new way of approaching them. Associations are no strangers to challenges. Recognizing, emphasizing, and working to overcome the common hurdles we face in our industry is a continuous and consistent feature of any associations’ efforts. The challenges we face, moreover, are further complicated when they are communal.

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Smooth The Path

JANUARY 23, 2018

The New Member Engagement Study, a collaboration between Dynamic Benchmarking and Kaiser Insights LLC, shows that new member onboarding, orientation, and welcoming plans (we call these New Member Engagement Plans) are very beneficial to associations and their members. They grow new member renewal rates by 9.7% on average, and they improve not only new member engagement but overall member engagement too.

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Forj

JANUARY 23, 2018

Don’t you hate when you get out of a conference session feeling all pumped about an idea, but by the time you get back to your workplace you realize that you have no idea how to do the thing you were so excited about? Me too! Introducing people to new instructional design concepts is very important, but providing people with the tools and skills necessary to bring those ideas to life is just as important.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 23, 2018

The team behind City Summer House and London Summer House, Awesome Events, are proud to announce the first of its kind pop up beach concept in The Shoreditch area for over 10 years. Featuring, pop up food stalls, craft beer, music, festival feel, VIP beach huts, garden and beach games, palm trees, container beach bars and of course sand…so come and kick off your shoes!

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Is your current AMS is creating more problems than it solves? You can lead the change. This eBook shares a customizable letter designed to help you clearly communicate your organization’s challenges, highlight the benefits of a modern system, and make a strong case for exploring a new AMS. Whether it’s outdated reporting, clunky workflows, or member frustration, this resource will help you start the conversation with clarity and position yourself as the advocate your organization needs.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JANUARY 22, 2018

Scarlett Bauman. Welcome to our latest installment in our series on the “Day in the Life” of nonprofit communicators! This series lets you describe your workday in your own words. We’d love to feature YOU in this series! Don’t be shy – tell us what you do in a typical day as a nonprofit communications pro. As the Director of Marketing, Scarlett is responsible for marketing and public relations for the Air Force Enlisted Village, Inc., a 501c3 nonprofit organization that pro

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Idea Architects

JANUARY 21, 2018

Some rename staff or board retreats as advances , presumably to signal the gathering's intention and desired impact. I'm a firm believer in the power of language, but am a bit skeptical that a new name alone changes outcomes. Better design principles for the actual event do increase the odds of advancing more from any retreating you do. Here are eight tips gleaned from my experiences designing and facilitating dozens of retreats for various stakeholder groups. 1.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 25, 2018

Too often conference and meeting professionals assume that their role is best suited to planning and executing the conference. They leave the big decisions about target customers, their needs and their aspirations to the organization’s leaders, the marketing department or even the education division. Sometimes they say, “Well, I’m not in charge of programming, content or speakers.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 26, 2018

How do you keep a 90-year old company relevant in the digital age? You instil a culture of adaptability. By Freeman Vice Chair Carrie Freeman Parsons. Unless you’re familiar with the world of B2B experiential marketing, you may not have ever heard of Freeman. For 90 years we’ve been the company behind the curtain, designing and building some of the world’s most beautiful brand experiences.

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Unlock the Power of Historical Data A Data Revolution: Why Your AMS/CRM Needs a Native Data Warehouse Today’s association leaders need more than real-time snapshots—they need the full story. MemberSuite: A Data Revolution reveals how a native data warehouse transforms your AMS into a strategic decision-making engine. In this free eBook, you’ll discover: The difference between a database and a data warehouse—and why it matters How to gain historical visibility into membership, engagement, events,

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JANUARY 23, 2018

Earlier this month, I put a call out to nonprofits communicators asking them what worked for their organization on Facebook in 2017. A tactic or tool that they would use again in 2018. A day later, Facebook Zero happened. The world’s most popular social networking site announced major changes to its newsfeed algorithm, changes that would see most nonprofits organic page reach plummet even further.

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Idea Architects

JANUARY 26, 2018

I generally trust restaurant servers to steer me in the right direction, so I had no problem last night explaining that I couldn't decide between the special and the chopped salad. "So here's the thing," the server said. Today's special is a great value for the price and it's really good. But even though you can get it every day, the chopped vegetarian salad is really, really good.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 24, 2018

Who owns the overall experience that customers have at your conference? Who oversees and manages the conference customers’ journey? Is it you or someone else? Or perhaps no one is considering the holistic experience of your conference customer? Are you functioning as a scheduler and executor of the conference with a divide and conquer mentality where every leadership team hands you their planned component and you schedule the details?

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 25, 2018

Sadie Carrington - Business Development Executive, Chameleon Event Production. In this digital world it’s easy for employees to become disengaged. They are inundated with information which is continually delivered through multiple digital channels, as a result many companies are losing their human touch. A shocking 67% of employees worldwide say they aren’t engaged[1] and this is vital to a business’s growth and success.

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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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GrowthZone

JANUARY 25, 2018

GrowthZone surveyed 1,000 association professionals across the U.S. and Canada. And the results aren’t what you think. Take a look the 2018 Survey Results On-Demand Webcast ». This on-demand webcast with Teri Carden of ReviewMyAMS.com and the GrowthZone team reveals the first public look at the 2018 Association Trends Survey report. In this fast-paced Q&A, they explore the survey results including: what association executives wished their boards knew, health insurance coverage, renewal stats

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Idea Architects

JANUARY 24, 2018

We were about halfway through the program on facilitation skills. Participants were practicing the core skills we had explored by facilitating various small group conversations. As I observed one very earnest young man in action, I kept feeling his efforts lacked authenticity. The questions he used and the gestures he made were too studied, too rehearsed, too textbook.

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Association Success

JANUARY 23, 2018

Harness the power of your IT department to break down silos. We talk a lot about collaboration these days. We all want to reap the benefits of what company cross-pollination has to offer. But, how can we build authentic collaboration within our workplace and beyond? How do we go from identifying uncommunicative, silo culture as a general problem, to tackling it within our organizational spaces?

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