WBT Systems
MARCH 6, 2023
Have you ever dreamed of having an assistant who lessens your workload? And does it for free? Dreams do come true, but this one comes on a wave of hype. Yes, I’m talking about ChatGPT.
GrowthZone
MARCH 7, 2023
So, you’re in charge of planning and running association meetings. Congratulations! That’s like being the captain of a boat, but instead of navigating the high seas, you’re navigating a sea of opinions and agendas. We don’t envy you, but maybe these tips can ensure a fruitful and pleasant experience for all who attend: 1. Set a clear purpose and agenda.
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.orgSource
MARCH 6, 2023
If your membership numbers are marching into the red, you and your team are probably focused on trying to identify the cause of the bleeding. Is technology tying your audience in knots? Perhaps it’s content that’s missing the mark. Maybe stale programming is stopping the love? Something flashier might be needed to attract the coveted gaze of strenuously courted GenX.
Higher Logic
MARCH 7, 2023
The post Top Thought Leader Reveals: What Associations Should Be Thinking About in 2023 appeared first on Higher Logic. Time marches on and it’s usually impossible to go back to some perceived “way things were.” The best option is to start thinking and planning forward. The post Top Thought Leader Reveals: What Associations Should Be Thinking About in 2023 appeared first on Higher Logic.
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Multiview
MARCH 9, 2023
Let’s take a trip down memory lane to 1996 and think about the iconic jingle from Blue’s Clues where Steve sings “We just got a letter! We just got a letter! We just got a letter, wonder who it’s from?” Sure, you might not sing this when you’re retrieving your mail – though, once you listen to it, again, it’ll be stuck in your head – but there’s some truth to this nostalgic tune.
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PROPEL
MARCH 8, 2023
In this episode we chat with Jamie Notter, workplace culture expert and one of the brains behind the WorkXO Culture Assessment, which is part of QuestionPro Workforce Employee Experience Platform. Jamie shares some fascinating data about “culture patterns” that have emerged from collecting over 2m data points from hundreds of organizations.
Disciple Media
MARCH 8, 2023
Whether you are attempting to enhance awareness of your brand or spearheading a movement community management software is crucial. This type of software creates a platform that brings people interested in your views, skills or products together so they can share their experiences, compare product notes, gain access to exclusive content, provide feedback and help spread the word to future community members.
Community Associations Network
MARCH 8, 2023
As more community associations enter the digital age and establish their own websites, boards enter a new world that may be unfamiliar. Association websites are a great tool for providing owners with the community’s governing documents, handbooks, and other relevant information, such as when the pool will open and close. Many owners have stated that communication through an association website is their preferred method of correspondence from the board.
Associations Now
MARCH 6, 2023
In 2018, the American Society of Anesthesiologists set out to paint a full picture of its members by conducting a series of interviews with a wide array of member cohorts. As a result, ASA has introduced new programming and benefits to better support members throughout their careers. If you want to know what your members need, a good starting point is to ask them.
Speaker: Jessica Bonney from VICA and Jeff Horne from Wicket
What does delivering an exceptional member experience mean in today's world? With the right insights, tools, and strategies, you can identify what truly matters to your members, drive meaningful engagement at scale, and continue to meet the ever-evolving needs of your members. Join association experts Jessica Bonney from VICA and Jeff Horne from Wicket who will share practical insights on how to build an exceptional member-driven experience by gaining a deeper understanding of your members and d
Reid All About it
MARCH 10, 2023
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… ChatGPT. WBT Systems explains how you can use ChatGPT to manage and market your association’s education programs. As I wrote in the post, I enjoy researching, thinking and writing so I’m not tempted to use ChatGPT for those purposes—besides, it wouldn’t be ethical.
Aaron Wolowiec
MARCH 10, 2023
One of the main goals in doing an indigenous land acknowledgement is to respect and honor Indigenous People and their Tribal Nations and acknowledge the indigenous traditional lands where we do our work. However, one begs the question – is this enough; is it performative?
AvidXchange: Association Management
MARCH 9, 2023
In our first episode of the “Middle Market Report” podcast , we covered three pervasive trends happening right now in the community association management industry. Let’s set the table with a few figures: There are more than 357,000 community associations in the U.S. Roughly 8000 new associations are developed each year Community associations represent about 40 million housing units, including single family homes, condominiums and co-ops Managing communities to protect and
Nimble AMS
MARCH 10, 2023
In March , our Nimble AMS team attended the Leadership ColLAB conference hosted in Arlington Heights, Illinois. The. orgCommunity event featured interactive conversations led by engaging speakers , with decades of leadership experience in the association sphere. We spent our time in round table discussion with association leadership professionals , learning and sharing our own experiences.
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Associations Now
MARCH 8, 2023
A sense of curiosity can help uncover new ideas and get your brain tuned in to other kinds of thinking. Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it built the leader. Leadership in many ways is built around making important decisions, and if you’re making the same types of decisions over and over, your leadership style might struggle as a result. But one way to fix that?
PROPEL
MARCH 10, 2023
We think the average organization could see as much as a 25% increase in results if they could create a culture that was perfectly aligned with success. Figuring out the return-on-investment (ROI) for improving your workplace culture is no easy task. When you Google it, you’ll find a huge range of conclusions, from a 1992 study claiming culture drove a 756% growth in income over an 11 year period.
Elevating Engagement
MARCH 10, 2023
Metrics sometimes worry me.? There’s the adage that we start optimizing for whatever we measure. If weight loss is the measure for being more healthy, we can calorie restrict our way to a slim waistline and inadvertently lose a ton of muscle mass. There is a similar dynamic in organizations. Chasing profits often means cost-cutting, which eventually, over the years, degrades the quality.
Forj
MARCH 9, 2023
In a world where consumer expectations shift daily, it's become harder and harder for organizations to keep up. For associations, the challenge is compounded by changes in the world of work that have prompted needs for learning and connections that far exceed those of professionals just a decade ago.
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Associations Now
MARCH 7, 2023
Thinking beyond the basic functionality of your AMS will help you expand what it can do for your association. Here are a few places to start. You might know how to use your association management system (AMS), but do you really know how to use it to expand the capabilities of your association? Association pros would obviously benefit from maximizing their AMS—and with that in mind, here are a few pieces from the Associations Now and ASAECenter.org archives to help you expand your mindset about w
PROPEL
MARCH 9, 2023
This is the fourth post in a new series of case studies that showcase several different ways in which we have worked with a client to solve a particular presenting culture issue. With a small staff tackling a big mission, this organization was ready to grow to new levels, but remained stuck in the inefficiencies and limited results of its past practices.
Association Adviser
MARCH 7, 2023
With over a billion monthly users, TikTok has reshaped the way consumers engage with social media, and association marketing teams are looking to dive head-first into this growing medium. Even as TikTok faces investigations from the Treasury Secretary and Chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. over parent company ByteDance’s connections to […] The post An Introduction to Short-Form Videos appeared first on Association Adviser.
Ungrated
MARCH 9, 2023
Community association board meetings can be intense. Strong opinions and clashing egos can make it difficult for boards to stick to an agenda and accomplish their objectives. Thankfully, there are ways to navigate these stressful situations and adhere to the business at hand. Board members need to handle conflict with finesse and discipline rather than brute force, says David J.
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Associations Now
MARCH 7, 2023
The National Association of Manufacturers launched its Creators Connect website to connect users to employers, and shift how the field is perceived. A leading manufacturing association has launched a new website intended to address ongoing employment gaps in the industry. Creators Connect, launched February 17 , is a project of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and its charitable offshoot, the Manufacturing Institute, in partnership with manufacturing jobs website FactoryFix.
PROPEL
MARCH 6, 2023
Any Association folks on Discord? I’m attempting to learn how to use Discord – please join me here if you would like an alternative to Twitter (at least temporarily until the dust settles). I’m exploring a bunch of topics related to AI and web3, in particular, but in a place where I can feed in announcements from the Discord communities for OpenAI and ChatGPT, for example.
Association Alert
MARCH 6, 2023
What you need to know: Whether you are a buyer or seller when it comes to real estate contracts, you must strictly follow the statutes. Hollar v. MarketPro South, Inc. , 2023 WL 157643 Slip Opinion (U.S. Dis. Ct. Utah 1/11/2023) Issue: Can a Buyer of a condominium in Washington D.C. cancel a contract to purchase BEFORE receiving the condominium documents?
MemberClicks
MARCH 9, 2023
Remember pitching all of your great benefits to your prospective members? Now is the time to deliver! Offering members-only content on your association’s website is a great way to provide your members with added value. But in order for members-only content to be effective, it must be well executed. If you’re not sure where to begin, take a look at these quick tips for levelling up your members-only content!
Speaker: Radhika Samant and Todd Wuestenberg
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.
Associations Now
MARCH 5, 2023
Four-day workweeks? Fully remote? Plenty of options are still on the table for leaders. And now is a good time to look into what works. The struggle to create a post-COVID workplace that works for everybody is still going strong. Many associations settled on hybrid work arrangements in 2022, but there’s still a lot of work happening to address changing needs, and changing attitudes about employee wellness.
MatrixG
MARCH 8, 2023
We get a lot of RFP (Requests for Proposals) for association and nonprofit website redesigns. Often, one focus of the RFP is the technology that will power the new website. These RFPs have giant lists of requirements related to how content will be authored, formatted and published. We often get asked this question: What is the best content management system (CMS) for association websites?
PROPEL
MARCH 7, 2023
I believe associations have a HUGE role to play in setting principles for the ethical use of AI. But before we can carve out a role as a sector in that, the first step is setting our own organizational Responsible AI Principles. To help us out, the Marketing AI Institute has published a Creative Commons template for us all to use. Take a look below – take these as your starting point.
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