Sat.Jun 09, 2018 - Fri.Jun 15, 2018

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5 Best Practices to Promote Your Event on Facebook and Boost Registrations

Wild Apricot

Are fewer people attending your events these days? Are you hoping to dramatically increase attendance at your big conference this year? Rather than relying solely on email blasts, word-of-mouth, and social media posts, here's how to use Facebook ads to increase event attendance.

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Why Nonprofit Workplaces Are Stressful and What To Do About It

Beth Kanter

In light of the recent high profile suicides by Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, Vu Le wrote an excellent piece on what nonprofits need to know about mental illness. One of the points he brings up is the importance of creating an environment where life/work balance flourish. Overwork and stress can lead to burnout and depression and that can lead to even bigger problems.

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Is your association missing an event microsite?

YourMembership

As an association professional, you look for ways to more effectively communicate the value of your organization’s events. Of course, the actual value comes from the overall experience you create for your attendees: The content, the quality of speakers and presenters, and the social and networking opportunities. But, how do you convey the value of. The post Is your association missing an event microsite?

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Encourage Your Speakers to Engage Conference Participants

Smooth The Path

Here is how to get the most from your speaker investment while boosting both participant and speaker engagement at the same time! Lean on the opening speaker. The opening keynote speaker sets the tone for the rest of the conference. They can encourage participation. They can advocate for participants to be open, friendly, and collegial. The opening keynote can build excitement, or encourage participants to be thoughtful and reflective.

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Improve Email Strategy with Proven Email Marketing Tips

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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5 Best Practices to Promote Your Event on Facebook and Boost Registrations

Wild Apricot

Are fewer people attending your events these days? Are you hoping to dramatically increase attendance at your big conference this year? Rather than relying solely on email blasts, word-of-mouth, and social media posts, here's how to use Facebook ads to increase event attendance.

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6 tips to boost your association membership through events.

YourMembership

Your members-only events offer a powerful membership benefit. At the same time, hosting events open to non-members are just as powerful for increasing your association’s membership. Think about it: What better way to showcase your association’s value to prospective members than by inviting them to meet your members and experience your association’s value up close?

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Best Practices for Selecting an LMS

Blue Sky eLearn

Selecting an LMS is a big decision. Check out our best practices for when you make your decision! Selecting an LMS is a big decision. There’s the financial aspect. The time you’ll put into implementing the platform – adding courses, creating content. The more technical aspects – integrating with other systems, setting up eCommerce. It’s not a decision taken lightly.

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10 Best Practices for Modern Membership Websites

Wild Apricot

This is a guest post by Lamees Abourahma who explains how to keep your website design modern by incorporating new techniques that make your site more user-friendly and technologically relevant.

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Going Where There Are No Podiums

Eric Lanke

Not too long ago I wrote a post about Getting Out From Behind the Podium when giving a talk at my association's Annual Conference. For the first time in a decade, as I describe in that post, I got out from behind the podium and walked the stage while delivering my speech, like many of the professional speakers that we hire do. Last week I had another speaking opportunity.

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Stop Budget Burnout: A Better Way to Grow Your Nonprofit in 2026

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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Stop Playing Defense with Your Online Community ROI

Higher Logic

When it comes to online communities, the best offense is not a good defense. Why? Because playing defense might protect you, but it won’t grow your community. The truth is that online communities are doing well (really well). Last year alone, communities generated a 2,374% increase in return on investment (ROI), according to the State of Community Management 2018 Report.

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Does Your Member Communication Tell Your Association?s Story Well?

Association Adviser

Everyone loves a good story. One that touches your heart, makes you laugh, and even makes you cry (especially for us weepers). Ask anyone who knows me and they will tell you I am full of stories about everything from my beloved Aunt Mary to embarrassing, yet endearing moments when I forget someone’s name. I love telling stories because they communicate who I am, what I do, and how I relate to others.

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Easy Ways to Use Video to Engage Association Members

GrowthZone

It’s tough to build trusted relationships with members when they are spread across a state, region, or country. Using video is a powerful way to drive engagement, educate, and demonstrate member value and ROI – from your office to theirs. Blog like you mean it. Get the ultimate association blogging guide. Begin with a welcome message from your president or executive officer and move forward from there.

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What You Notice Can Help You Radically Improve Your Association

Smooth The Path

Scientists discovered that first impressions are super important to us. We record and rely on first impressions heavily in our day to day lives. First impressions are hardwired into our brains. Not only do we experience first impressions of each other, but we also have first impressions for everything else from places to brands, and products, and organizations, and more.

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Interactive Webinar: Recurring Giving Events That Keep on Giving

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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AMR Vlog #1 - Five Takeaways from XDP

AMR Management Services

AMR's own Molly Marsh shares her top five takeaways from the recent Xperience Design Project (XDP) from ASAE.

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Trends in Education-to-Employment: Part I

Association Success

A look at the factors disrupting the US education system. In the past few years, I have conducted a tremendous amount of research into the education-to-employment system. The more I learn, the more I am convinced that associations have an important role to play in defining skills and competencies and in providing education to make a dent in the wicked problem we are being presented with in the United States.

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Protec Europe deliver ‘Xerox Forum 2018’ in Warsaw

Event Industry News

Protec European Events were delighted to partner up with their client Xerox once again to deliver the audio, lighting, video and rigging at the Xerox Forum 2018 held in Warsaw, Poland. This event, held in the Doubletree Hilton from May 22nd – 24th, included three days of presentations and twenty-three seminar sessions with the highlight being the Xerox International Operations Premiere of the new Xerox IridesseTM Production Press.

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Fresh Perspective: The Benefits of a Heuristic Website Evaluation

Association Adviser

Last month, I attended the ASAE Marketing, Membership, and Communications Conference in Washington, DC. The MM&C Conference gives association and nonprofit professionals the insight to improve their marcomm and membership strategies, and teaches the latest in engagement, technology and trends from industry leaders. This year, the keynote speakers and learning lab presenters highlighted the importance of shaking things up in your marketing and membership strategies, and keeping a fresh perspe

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How to Make the Case for a New AMS (and Win)

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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Conference Purpose With Power And Participants Leads To Profitability

Velvet Chainsaw

Does your event have a clear and inspiring purpose? (If you’re shaking your head yes, then what is it?). Now imagine someone asking your conference participants that question. How would they respond? I suspect they would say “ Yes, of course it has a purpose!” Then they would launch into a passionate description of your event’s annual Party with a Purpose, its pre-conference feel-good community service projects and its ongoing student scholarship fundraisers.

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The 90s called and they want their spreadsheets back

Membersuite

It's time to ditch spreadsheets. Your data should be giving you up to date, actionable information so you can set goals reach them.

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Podcast: Measuring the success of your event

Event Industry News

Download this episode (right click and save). In this week’s Event Industry News podcast, host James Dickson welcomes Rob Murdoch to the show. Rob is the founder of Exposure Analytics, a company that has developed accurate means to measure the interaction and dwell time of attendees at events. In an increasingly digital world where marketing managers can measure likes, clicks, shares, time spent on websites, email open rates, and so much more, the technology offered by the company is now helping

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Association learner: Extreme skeptic or eternal optimist?

Association Adviser

As you may know, I launched Event Garde, a professional development consultancy, in 2011. At that time, associations were suffering to varying degrees in the aftermath of a recession. As a result, they began seriously vying for the attention of their members despite shrinking travel and professional development budgets – each hoping to secure as much coveted non-dues revenue as possible.

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A Data Revolution: Why Your AMS/CRM Needs a Native Data Warehouse

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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Anticipating Trends Across Industries: A Case Study

Association Success

The way we plan for the future can make or break an association and its industry. Many years of working in the association space, and two very different industries within it, have taught me a thing or two about using foresight to an association’s advantage. Now, with ASAE’s ForesightWorks , all of us have access to the resources we need to scan for trends and anticipate changes before they happen.

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ASAE MM&C Conference proves associations are in the era of marketing automation

HighRoad Solution

Recently, I had the pleasure of pounding the proverbial charcoal grey carpet at ASEA’s MM&C Conference , held in D.C. Teeming with nearly 1,000 marketing and membership leaders in the association space, the event was a breath of fresh air in terms of digital possibility and receptiveness.

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Space and NIVEA bring mass ‘Shower Karaoke’ to Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life

Event Industry News

Creative agency Space has teamed up with NIVEA to create ‘ Shower Empowered ” a uniquely liberating and immersive ‘ shower karaoke’ experience as part of the skin care brand’s partnership with Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life. The campaign will drive awareness of NIVEA’s shower and body care ranges by engaging consumers in a fun, lively and celebratory experience.

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It’s Not Just Another Association Member Survey

GrowthZone

It’s that time of year again to send your members “The Survey.”. As you know, some members are loyal survey takers, some like the opportunity to vent or praise, and some will always ignore the invitation. However, there’s a good chance you can increase member participation when you help your members understand why your association is conducting the survey and what you’ll do with the results.

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A New Look At Running Grants & Programs: Why Use A System When You Have Excel?

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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The Future of Work for Associations

Association Success

How STEEP factors will offer our associations new opportunities for staff operations. Over the next few years, staff structure at associations will undergo huge changes that will present opportunities for more efficient and nimble operations. This is made clear by several Social, Technological Economical, Environmental and Political (STEEP) factors, listed below.

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Webinar: Build a Member-Centric Career Center and They Will Come

Association Adviser

Missed our live webinar? No worries, we have the recording and slides available for anyone who wants to learn how your association can hit a home run with an often overlooked, yet powerful tool—the niche career center—to grow your industry relevance and non-dues revenue. Webinar recording. Slides. The post Webinar: Build a Member-Centric Career Center and They Will Come appeared first on Association Adviser.

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The German Event Planners Association, VDVO, aims for international growth

Event Industry News

Image: Irina Graf und Bernd Fritzges (c)VDVO. With the appointment of its international relations officer, the German Event Planners Association – VDVO (Verband der Veranstaltungsorganisatoren e.V.) – is aiming for growth beyond national borders. Following the recent uptake of members and partners from overseas, this new position was created to foster international expansion.

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