Eric Lanke

AUGUST 20, 2018

Back in May 2018, I participated in a virtual conference session on co-creation. It was called SURGE Spring 2018, and the organizers just posted a blog summary of some of the points I made in the session. You can read that post here , but I thought I would also re-publish it on my blog. + + + Before You Begin: 5 Co-Creation Tips Co-creation happens when an association and its members work together to create something that is valuable for both the association and the members.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 21, 2018

Learn more about Wild Apricot's new event registration features, including a guide to getting started using event registrations, and some of the ways these features could help your events run smoothly.

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Blue Sky eLearn

AUGUST 21, 2018

You’ve made your decision. Selected your LMS provider. Now comes implementation. Not all LMS platforms and providers are created equal. Having a successful implementation can make or break the success of your platform and eLearning programs, especially initially. Today we’ll share some top tips for a successful implementation as well as why it’s so important to have a dedicated Project Manager leading the project on the vendor side.

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Reid All About it

AUGUST 24, 2018

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Cherish your good chapter leaders. Charlotte Muylaert at Billhighway explains how to retain chapter leaders and prevent them from burning out and checking out. What’s in an association CIO’s IT bag? Mike Guerrieri at DelCor reveals the people, policies, talents and tools an association CIO must have on hand —and, strangely enough, finds many similarities between the CIO role and the restaurant executive

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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 As funding requirements become more complex and stakeholder expectations for transparency grow, relying on outdated methods can lead to inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and compliance risks.

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Spark Consulting

AUGUST 24, 2018

If you’ve been following the Membership 101 series, you may be wondering: “What about trade associations? A lot of your advice seems directed to individual membership/professional associations. My members are companies/institutions. Does your advice still hold?” The answer? Sort of. On the one hand, many things are different in your operating environment.

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AMR Management Services

AUGUST 23, 2018

The power and benefit of design thinking in association conferences is well documented. But, as associations, are we taking design thinking and applying it to other areas of our education and.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 23, 2018

The Exhibition Buyer’s Guide returns for its third edition, a packed catalogue of the very best suppliers to this exciting sector. Whether it’s an organiser looking for the latest technology, a venue looking to add to its list of preferred suppliers, or an exhibitor looking for a new stand design – The Exhibition Buyer’s Guide is the vital commercial link between buyers and suppliers.

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Association Success

AUGUST 20, 2018

When it comes to a digital transformation project, the experience is more significant than the effects it produces. The measure of a project’s success tends to be in the quantifiable effects it produces. We might look to membership numbers or revenue, for example, to assess how successful our particular ventures have been at this level of effect. However, it is not always useful to focus on these final outcomes when implementing a project.

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Higher Logic

AUGUST 23, 2018

It’s a valid fear – as marketing automation adoption increases, many seasoned marketers are wondering if they’re automating themselves out of a job. The short answer is no. Automation can be the best piece of technology in your toolkit , enabling you to work faster and more efficiently and create content that is befitting of your amazing subscribers.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 23, 2018

Student attendees often feel overwhelmed and intimidated when they arrive onsite. To ensure they don’t get lost in the shuffle, associations have found success in offering student-specific programming and events. The Institute of Food Technologists’ annual meeting attracts upward of 20,000 attendees, including 1,250 students. While those numbers were great for IFT, staff also recognized that the size of the meeting could be intimidating and difficult to navigate for student attendees.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 20, 2018

One of the most exciting venues, we feature one of London’s top largest and most versatile event suite, fitted with state of the art equipment, stunning design and one of the best secret to keep budgets in line. ILEC Conference Centre , part of the actual Hotel Ibis London Earls Court, firstly opened in 1972. At the time the hotel-venue featured London’s largest pillar-free event space.

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Association Success

AUGUST 23, 2018

Imagining a different world can help us re-think our priorities. It’s worth stopping for a second to think something through. Imagine, if you will, that we didn’t have members. What if our associations’ efforts were not entirely focused on those people who already pay their membership dues? I know. It sounds crazy – a membership association without members?

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Association Adviser

AUGUST 21, 2018

There are a number of misconceptions about young professionals – both on your staff and in your association – but one thing is true: They just want a seat at the table. Aaron Manogue and Emily Viles of AMPED Association Management talked about these young professional stereotypes, flipped those myths on their heads, and delivered solutions for how associations today can identify and nurture these future leaders.

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Speaker: Dave Sackett

Traditional budgeting and forecasting methods can no longer keep pace with today’s rapidly evolving business environment. Static budgets, rigid annual forecasts, and outdated financial models limit an organization’s ability to adapt to market shifts and economic uncertainty. To stay ahead, finance leaders must leverage a future-forward approach—one that leverages real-time data, predictive analytics, and continuous planning to drive smarter financial decisions.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 24, 2018

There’s a quick way to make mentorship matches. “Speed mentoring” rotates participants around a room for rapid-fire conversations with potential mentors. How to hack it? You’ve heard of speed dating—but speed mentoring? The Mid-Atlantic chapter of the American Inns of Court says it’s a great way to do some professional matchmaking. “The mentors are on the outside of the circle, and the mentees are stationed on the inside,” says Christina Hartle, CAE, director of chapter relations for the AIC Mid

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 22, 2018

Despite falls in income for Cancer UK’s Race For Life and Macmillan’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning these events still topped the massive Top 25, an annual report put together by mass participation events specialists massive, ranking the most successful charity owned fundraising events for the year. Outside of these two events there was a healthy 6% increase in income generated for the remaining events in the Top 25 suggesting there is a still a strong appetite for mass participation events.

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Smooth The Path

AUGUST 23, 2018

Here are a few new member myths in the association community that might be wrong. Member to member calls are best. Staff calls to new members actually more effective likely because staff have time to make the calls and staff know the content and resources available to members. Renewal notices help members decide to renew. New members make their decision to engage and renew within 3 days to 3 weeks after they join.

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Association Adviser

AUGUST 20, 2018

The world we live in now – one in which maximizing profits is in the driver’s seat – doesn’t have to be the way it always is. ASAE Annual Meeting Opening Keynote speaker Yancey Strickler, said it’s up to us to determine how we define success. Yancey Strickler – former CEO, Kickstarter. Financial value is not the only value worth seeking, and Strickler said associations are in a unique position to help redefine what we as a society value, whether that’s community, fa

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Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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Associations Now

AUGUST 20, 2018

With the next generation of wireless technology expected to finally reach consumers starting early next year, now’s a good time to check in on the associations that are turning the aspiration into reality. The next generation of wireless data has long been trumpeted as the future of communication, but the idea of 5G has been an off-in-the-distance aspiration rather than something tangible.

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GrowthZone

AUGUST 21, 2018

Any association worth its salt should provide their board of directors members with a detailed manual. Specifics are the key to efficiency; outlining them in a manual will reduce the potential for confrontations and misunderstanding. A robust association board book should include: Welcome letter. Board roles, responsibilities, and requirements for involvement.

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Association Success

AUGUST 21, 2018

A collection of lessons learned from advising corporate partnership programs. My colleague Dan Kowitz and I have studied and advised hundreds of association corporate partnership programs over the past two decades, both as senior-level staff with associations and as consultants to associations. A lot has changed – and continues to change – in the world of corporate sponsorships and partnerships: the role of associations continues to evolve; the growth of the Internet has made a wealth of informa

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Smooth The Path

AUGUST 20, 2018

I had the pleasure of meeting Stephanie Selsnick of TNNN, who is an international trade show expert when we both spoke on a panel about member engagement. My ears perked up when she said the conference business is “show business.”. Over the years I have been involved in a lot of conference planning and never once did I consider it to be show business.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 22, 2018

Four association executives discussed getting volunteer leadership up to speed on future planning, from short-term retreats to long-term overhauls. Volunteer leaders may be willing to talk the talk about preparing for future trends, but they may not always be prepared to act—which is when the CEO needs to step in to provide assistance. That was one of the main takeaways from Tuesday’s Deep Dive session, “Prime Boards to Talk Foresight and Act for the Future,” in which executives from four associ

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 23, 2018

Image: Boomtown: Chapter 10 – The Machine Cannot be Stopped, UK 2018. Credit: Charlie Raven. This August, TheTicketSellers completed it’s ‘On Sale to On Site’ service for Boomtown Fair, helping the festival to welcome 65,000 attendees, crew, artists and volunteers to the ‘city’ at Matterley Estate, Hampshire. Now in its tenth year, Boomtown has partnered with TheTicketSellers since 2010, bringing the team on board to deliver a full ticketing solution, from the hugely hyped on-sale in Novem

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Association Adviser

AUGUST 22, 2018

“No money, no mission,” that was the simple yet effective message from Sheri Jacobs, FASAE, CAE, of Avenue M Group and author of “The Pivot Point.” She challenged those in the audience to take a fresh look at their pricing structures for membership, content and events to make sure revenue opportunities aren’t falling to the wayside.

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.orgCommunity

AUGUST 22, 2018

What occasion was celebrated on June 28, 2018? If you answered National Freelancers Day; congratulate yourself. You are on top of the latest business trend in a big way. Actually, the event occurred in the U.K. I think U.S. freelancers have yet to be honored with a designated holiday. But, mark my words, this new iteration of entrepreneurship is already redesigning the employment landscape.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 23, 2018

Turner Classic Movies, with the help of the African-American Film Critics Association, will highlight 32 films throughout September that represent a long history of black themes in the movies. Members of the association will take part in the spotlight event. At a time when films produced by, directed by, and starring black artists are gaining wider audiences and greater recognition—see the recent success stories of Get Out , Girls Trip , Moonlight , and Sorry to Bother You , among others—the Afr

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 24, 2018

We’ve just completed our EventCity tour – where we travelled across the country bringing a taste of the North’s largest, fully flexible blank canvas exhibition and multipurpose event venue to agents in cities across the UK from our home in TRAFFORDCITY, Manchester. It was a fantastic experience where we really got to know our clients and feedback suggests we got most of the people we met thinking about bringing their next event to us.

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Association Adviser

AUGUST 21, 2018

Tina Tchen. Tina Tchen wants us to create a new workplace culture, one that is diverse, inclusive and safe for all workers. A child of Chinese refugee immigrant parents, her journey has taken her from Harvard to the White House to the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, and at every step she’s made furthering equality for women and girls a mission.

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