Higher Logic

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

When I was a kid, I always thought that once I had graduated from high school or college, my days of taking classes would be over. What I didn't realize then was that education never really ends. My teachers tried to impress the importance of always learning upon my classmates and me, but it didn’t sink in before I entered the workforce. Now, I’ve found that everywhere I look in the professional world, individuals continue to learn until they retire, and sometimes even after that.

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

It’s no longer enough for meetings to feature networking events that lead to superficial introductions and the simple swapping of business cards. A far better goal: Help attendees build friendships. My first boss was a bit of a networking addict. Not only was she giddy in the lead-up to an event, but the day after, she’d tell everyone in the office who she met and proudly show us the stack of business cards she had collected—which she would then promptly place in her meticulously organized Rolod

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Association Leaders

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Associations are groups of people or companies in the same profession or industry or with similar interests working toward a common goal. By definition, when groups of people get together to take some action, there will be discussions, debates, and disagreement. It’s also true that whenever a group of people get together there will almost always be at least one person with a negative outlook on things.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Find out which church membership software best fits your church, what features to look for, and which ones have the best prices.

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WBT Systems

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

8 Ways to Build Educational Partnerships with Chapters. Read more about 8 Ways to Build Educational Partnerships with Chapters.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 1, 2019

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… I’m a Squiggle, what are you? At a session during the ASAE Technology conference, Tobin , Gretchen , Rhea , and Trevor (first name basis here) had us do a personality exercise based on our intuitive connection with one of four shapes. On the DelCor blog, Tobin (also a Squiggle) explains how you can use this exercise to reveal and mesh different project team personalities.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Here are all the free nonprofit webinars I could find happening in March 2019.

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YourMembership

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

When you work on member acquisition and retention plans for your association, do you think about improving your staff’s efficiency? Consider this: If you simplify and streamline your association’s day-to-day operations, it frees valuable staff time so they can focus more on attracting new members and creating a great member experience. With modern membership software, The post Automate your association’s processes to increase efficiency and improve member acquisition and retention appeared first

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Jamie Notter

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

This post is part of a new series investigating workplace culture at a more advanced level (hence the “401” moniker, like you only get access to this course your senior year…), digging into what we see emerging as the “essentials” of culture in the 21 st. century. Beware, these posts are often a bit longer. --. Peter Senge wrote The Fifth Discipline nearly 30 years ago, so systems thinking is by no means a new idea—though looking at most organizations, you might think it was.

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Eric Lanke

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Sometimes I feel exactly like the tightrope walker in the picture accompanying this post -- out on a thin and dangerous wire, leaving one position of safety with the hope of reaching another, alone, and with only the balance pole of my wits and my association's mission to stabilize me. The first position of safety? That's my current organization, where, although there are some strong winds buffeting us, things are working well and people are satisfied.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Learn how to upload attachments to event and membership forms with our new attachments feature, and get ideas for ways it could benefit your organization.

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Association Adviser

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

I started WJ Weiser and Associates in 1988. Prior to that, I worked for Baxter Healthcare in their physical therapy (PT) department as a finance manager. I was in charge of the non-clinical management aspects of each physical therapy center that Baxter managed, and became very familiar with how to efficiently manage a PT office. I knew I could do practice management for other types of physicians, too, and because I had reached a glass ceiling within the Baxter organization, struck out on my own

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GrowthZone

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Tweet Associations Now recently published an article focused on updates to the ASAE Certified Association Executive credential requirements. According to ASAE, The Certified Association Executive (CAE) credential is the marker of a committed association professional who has demonstrated a wide range of knowledge essential to manage an association in today’s challenging environment.

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Associations Now

MARCH 1, 2019

Integrating artificial intelligence into your organization’s daily work isn’t as effortless as flipping a switch, but it’s easier if you start with the right framework and the right people. Sure, technologies like machine learning, natural language processing, and automation could help reshape how your association works and serves its members.

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Delcor

MARCH 1, 2019

Are you losing confidence in your association’s IT executive? Perhaps you’re beginning to wonder if you have the right person in the CIO or IT Director role. In professional sports, an owner is quick to replace their head coach when the team isn’t performing. However, when one of your dedicated, hard-working employees is struggling, bringing in a coach for your IT executive is often the best approach.

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Association Adviser

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Bringing together the best of the best of your volunteers can have an immediate and substantial impact on your association. As volunteer-driven organizations, we strive to recruit, retain, and recognize top individuals to serve on committees, as chapter leaders, and even as board members. But after they take on a new volunteer role, how are we developing them over time?

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Association Success

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Align your priorities with the career stages of your membership. As an association professional, do you ever feel like you are facing a laundry list of competing priorities? Are you searching for a new approach to reach your current and future members? Many associations face the same challenges. Legacy programs require resources but may be providing less value over time.

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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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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

When members gather at conferences, you have a big opportunity to collect their stories to showcase the people who make up your community. Some specific tools, distribution channels, and strategies will help you put them in the spotlight. Face-to-face communication has grown scarcer in this digital age, when emails, texts, and social media posts often replace direct, two-way conversation.

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Idea Architects

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

I love to facilitate conversations and sessions that explore big ideas and possible innovations. Reflecting on asome previous efforts I helped design and facilitate reminded me of some common sense tips about what is required to facilitate conversations about big ideas and innovations. The list below is not meant to be all-inclusive, but to highlight some of the core considerations.

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Association Adviser

MARCH 1, 2019

Prioritizing advocacy is often overlooked because there are so many administrative and operational issues pressing organizations and businesses on a day-to-day basis. These demands often leave little time left for organizing advocacy efforts. Despite the countless, valid excuses that can be made for not prioritizing such efforts – advocacy should and must be prioritized because the decisions made in statehouses and Congress directly affect your capacity to succeed and thrive as an organization o

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Velvet Chainsaw

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

While many have been focused this winter on who is going to land free agents like Bryce Harper or Manny Machado, Lisa Block inked a deal to join the Velvet Chainsaw Consulting team! Lisa will join our team just in time for opening day – April 2, 2019 – as Executive Vice President, Conference Strategy & Design. Qualified. Lisa is one of the most respected, innovative and experienced event strategy professionals in the majors.

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Associations Now

MARCH 1, 2019

A new report from Return Path makes the case that email subscriber disengagement can be a sign that your messages could be soon to hit the spam folder. The solution? Engage early and often. If you’re sending a lot of emails, you already know that the spam folder is not the place you want to be. But it’s not the only place you don’t want to end up. With the rise of increased inbox organization in email platforms, particularly in Gmail, it’s easier than ever to get an email in your inbox and never

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Smooth The Path

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Sometimes the things we cannot measure matter most to members. The smile you use when you greet them. The email sent to introduce one member to another or the phone call you made to see how a new member is doing. Organizations tend to focus on what is measured particularly when under stress. Do not forget about all the critical things you do that you can not measure, but your members can!

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Association Adviser

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Imagine you’re newly hired to re-energize an association’s event calendar, and in particular their main trade show. Where do you start? Jessica Cranmer, trade show and events manager for the Western Retail Lumber Association, hit the books – and pored over five years’ worth of member and event survey data to draw out common themes and desires for WRLA’s event programming.

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GrowthZone

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Tweet. Sloppy Joe Day and Colorectal Cancer Month are just a couple March observances. Holidays are a great way to keep your association’s social media feeds active. Use these themes to fill your social media feed. Monthly Observances. Women’s History Month. Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Irish American Heritage Month. National Nutrition Month. National Kidney Month.

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Old-school event strategies will turn off younger attendees, but digital-focused, personalized meetings will capture their attention. Also: Get members more engaged in your education resources. Legacy events need the support of new generations, but capturing their attention is challenging when traditional marketing methods and event agendas are no longer effective.

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Smooth The Path

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

We recently bought a new sofa from a well-known company. While paying for the couch, the sales associate told us about the guaranteed smooth delivery process and the eight benefits of the company’s furniture delivery system. The day after the purchase we got an email receipt and then did not hear from the company for six weeks. A few days before our sofa delivery we got an automated message from a logistics company with no mention of the company we purchased the sofa from (for a few second

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Association Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

What data tools can be used to better engage your members? Associations Catalyzing Entrepreneurship (ACE) is a group made up of association executives and stakeholders who think outside the association box about the future. We have conversations about an entrepreneurial approach to association leadership and implement the resulting great ideas in our jobs.

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