Wild Apricot
JUNE 16, 2020
Do you find yourself sending a thousand emails to your volunteers that never get opened? Here's why you might want to send them a volunteer newsletter instead, plus great examples and templates you can use.
Reid All About it
JUNE 19, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Inclusion advice. A fellow NAHB alum and friend, Lakisha Woods, CAE, has three pieces of advice to share in her “Letter of Thanks and Ideas for Growth from an African-American CEO.”. Inclusion strategy. If your association wants to create a more inclusive association, you must identify and remove the barriers standing in the way of a member’s desire to volunteer or serve in leadership , says MemberSuite
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Higher Logic
JUNE 17, 2020
Heather is Higher Logic’s Chief Community Officer. She was the first to hold the position at Higher Logic and one of the earliest to hold the title in the industry. I’ve been involved in community management for around 13 years. When I started, I didn’t even know it was a profession, and I was flying solo. I think a lot of us started that way in the early years.
WBT Systems
JUNE 15, 2020
4 Silver Linings for Associations Right Now—and Signs of Your Future Success. Read more about 4 Silver Linings for Associations Right Now—and Signs of Your Future Success.
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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
Wild Apricot
JUNE 18, 2020
Adding a church membership application form to your website is made easy with Wild Apricot's website builder. Here's how to do it in just a few steps.
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Association Success
JUNE 18, 2020
The shift to online meetings has exposed a number of weaknesses in how we present material. . Public speaking isn’t easy at the best of times but the new considerations that accompany a Zoom reality are sabotaging even seasoned pros. Bad lighting, a loss of personal connection, and a flat screen interface may seem impossible to overcome, but there is hope for anyone committed to shaking things up and re-engaging with their online colleagues.
AssociationChat
JUNE 16, 2020
Couldn’t we all use a good laugh right about now? “A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.” ~Laura Ingalls Wilder. I remember when I was in 5th grade and sitting near the front of the church on Sunday. All the kids my age would attend Sunday school classes in the morning and then be ushered in to sit in the front and center of the church for the full Sunday sermon.
Membersuite
JUNE 15, 2020
Most likely your staff and leadership are identifying the changes you can make and the steps you can take for your association to become more inclusive. And successful change depends on how well you communicate. Break down barriers with these tips.
Event Industry News
JUNE 16, 2020
Following the launch of the Safe Event Scheme two weeks ago, Cube International and its key partners, A.C.T. National and OnePlan, are delighted to launch the Safe Event Scheme website and event planning studio app. The Safe Event Scheme is an initiative devised to help the events industry get back on its feet and allows venues, rights holders and event operators to plan, manage and implement a responsible set of standardised safety measures.
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.
Association Success
JUNE 16, 2020
Associations need to focus more on content curation and less on content creation, according to a new collaborative whitepaper from Spark Consulting and Content Company Inc. As the abundance of available content increases, the ability to understand and recognize what is truthful and important becomes more and more difficult. . Spark Consulting published its first whitepaper, “Attention Doesn’t Scale,” which discussed the emerging issue of information overload and provided content curation as a po
AssociationChat
JUNE 19, 2020
How we can learn from fictional threats with real-world solutions? Max Brooks is used to using fictional metaphor (like zombie lore) and historical events to facilitate discourse around large-scale problem-solving. He regularly explores new ways to attack old problems as well as new concerns, which is a valuable exercise when we are all in the midst of a global health crisis. .
Ungated
JUNE 17, 2020
By Erik Robinson, CMCA, AMS. Moving into a community association, especially if you’ve never lived in one before, may seem daunting. There’s a lot to know—from governance, operations, and assessments to rules, architectural standards, amenities, and more. A well-crafted welcome packet can help simplify new residents’ lives. The welcome packet is a vital tool for making a good first impression, cultivating positive feelings toward the community, and potentially getting someone involved as a volun
Event Industry News
JUNE 19, 2020
Fay Sharpe, founder of mentoring programme Fast Forward 15 today announces a new initiative to encourage, support and inspire BAME women to join the FF15 community. She has invited three women that know the FF15 programme from experience, to become a BAME Ambassador. They will help her to encourage ethnic minority women in the events, travel and hospitality sector to engage and apply for a place in the programme either as mentee or mentor.
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
Association Success
JUNE 17, 2020
In these unsettling times, refocusing on the future is both difficult and critical. Over the past few months, we have been forced to face crises head on. We’ve had to quickly adjust to working virtually, rethink in-person events, lead our teams and families through massive change, and acknowledge and internalize the racial inequalities that persist in our country.
Jamie Notter
JUNE 17, 2020
The rules of the game are changing almost constantly these days, and we know from our experience that if your culture doesn’t keep up with the changes, your performance will suffer. So I have developed a one-week, online “bootcamp” to help managers and leaders make quick changes to the existing patterns inside their culture patterns that will translate into concrete performance improvements, right away.
Velvet Chainsaw
JUNE 16, 2020
As many associations wrestle with decisions for their fall conferences and shows, the question on everyone’s mind is, if you build it, will they come? Join this interactive webinar to learn how organizers of two very large events—one a trade association and the other professional—are tackling, planning and preparing for this fall. They have two scenarios in mind: hybrid or virtual?
Event Industry News
JUNE 18, 2020
It is clear from the recent London Launch Lounge webinar hosted by Sam Gill, that London’s leading venues are now ready to open their doors to events as soon as they are permitted to do so. More importantly, results from a survey indicate that the vast majority of potential attendees are keen to attend! In our webinar “ The Future of Venues “, Sam was joined by three directors from very different venue groups – ETC Venues, Tobacco Dock and Inception Group, which gave the 350 vi
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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.
AssociationChat
JUNE 16, 2020
So, we’re deep into a pandemic and we’re beyond the initial panic and pivot we’re facing as event professionals. We’ve initiated our crisis communications plan, shifted to a virtual event, and now what? We can try to shift to the new year, but we do not know when it’ll be safe to host events again. What else is there to do? One way event planners can continue to market and grow their network is by using content. .
Association Adviser
JUNE 15, 2020
Future Leaders Canada exposes seafood professionals to the fisheries supply chain and expands their personal network of industry individuals and companies. The post Podcast: How the Fisheries Council of Canada is Building and Sustaining Future Association Leaders appeared first on Association Adviser.
Jamie Notter
JUNE 17, 2020
The rules of the game are changing almost constantly these days, and we know from our experience that if your culture doesn’t keep up with the changes, your performance will suffer. So I have developed a one-week, online “bootcamp” to help managers and leaders make quick changes to the existing patterns inside their culture patterns that will translate into concrete performance improvements, right away.
Event Industry News
JUNE 18, 2020
This episode is sponsored by Grip , a leading AI-powered event matchmaking solution for virtual and hybrid events. Montgomery Events, a subset of the Montgomery Group, focus mainly on food, drink and hospitality events as well as several different niche events in the UK and Netherlands. My guest this week is managing director, Lori Hoinkes, who started with the company three 3 years ago with an early project being to harmonise data by streamlining suppliers using a good CRM system, and subse
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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,
AssociationChat
JUNE 15, 2020
Technology was supposed to help us. . Do you remember the promise? Tech was supposed to help us to unite, to come together. We had the vision of our virtual hands reaching out across the world…to one another. Freedom in the fiber-optics! What happened? Isolated and afraid. How do you explain how we can live in a time when we have something like social media and endless online groups to choose from, and yet we have more people who are reporting feelings of social isolation than ever before?
Smooth The Path
JUNE 16, 2020
If you could distill your job down to one main responsibility, what would it be? A top contender would be to stay unstuck. The enormity of the problems before us tend to get people stuck. Our lack of resources pushes us to hunker down and protect what we have. Not knowing how the future is going to unfold can make us throw up their hands. The pressure encourages us to play small, say less, and maybe even give up.
MemberClicks
JUNE 15, 2020
Member lapses are normal, and to an extent, inevitable. But many of them CAN be prevented — with the right strategy in place. Need help minimizing lapsed members at your organization?
Event Industry News
JUNE 15, 2020
Pylon One Limited, have consulted with leading events industry Health and Safety professionals, seeking their advice as to the ‘how’ the events industry re-opens and attracts visitors. Making visitors feel safe by demonstrating a significant commitment to screening and paying attention to visitor density and following the UK government guidance to social distancing, were at the top of the agenda.
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.
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
JUNE 19, 2020
The Collins Quarter. Savannah, GA. Good day and a Happy Juneteenth to you, friends. I am here with the best articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of nonprofit marketing and fundraising. This week we have a discussion on racial equity, how Facebook’s new ad policies can affect you, tweet ideas, social media data and more. It’s time for Mixed Links….
ReviewMyAMS
JUNE 15, 2020
Guest post by Mani Jagadeesan, ShuffleExchange Integration is a hot topic right now, particularly in the Association world. The significant increase in integrations taking place is largely due to the number of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications that have emerged across industries. What does "connector" really mean? As SaaS applications continue to grow, the term ".
Association Success
JUNE 18, 2020
The shift to online meetings has exposed a number of weaknesses in how we present material. . Public speaking isn’t easy at the best of times but the new considerations that accompany a Zoom reality are sabotaging even seasoned pros. Bad lighting, a loss of personal connection, and a flat screen interface may seem impossible to overcome, but there is hope for anyone committed to shaking things up and re-engaging with their online colleagues.
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