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.
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 As funding requirements become more complex and stakeholder expectations for transparency grow, relying on outdated methods can lead to inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and compliance risks.
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.
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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
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?
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.
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.
Candid
MARCH 9, 2023
Nonprofit professionals are masters at stretching their budgets. Leveraging free platforms and features is one of the best ways to make a budget go further—but I know that these tools are only helpful if you can quickly get up to speed with how to use them. That’s why, as the Head of LinkedIn for Nonprofits, I was disheartened when research revealed that only 19% of nonprofit professionals on LinkedIn feel confident that they’re using the platform to its full potential.
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
MARCH 8, 2023
If you have difficulty saying No to your supervisor or colleagues as a nonprofit communicator, you are not alone. Three-quarters (74% of survey participants for the 2023 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report ) said it was difficult or very difficult to say No to their supervisors when they make a work request. It’s only slightly easier to say No to work requests from colleagues in other departments, with 65% saying it was difficult or very difficult.
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
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!
Bruce Rosenthal Associates
MARCH 9, 2023
A friend whispered to me, do you know what some companies are doing? Theyre not sponsoring or exhibiting at association conferences and expos. Theyre registering as attendees, networking with clients and prospects during the day and hosting dinner meetings! I responded, this isnt a big secret. It was the topic of discussion at a Partnership Professionals Network Idea Exchange 10 years ago.
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.
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.
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Bruce Rosenthal Associates
MARCH 9, 2023
Words matter when it comes to organizations’ corporate relationships. I worked for an association CEO; we had a robust corporate partner program. The association CEO never called the companies vendors. He sometimes called them sponsors or partners. He often called them business friends. (Big smiles from sponsors when the association CEO said this.
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.
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
MARCH 9, 2023
You can’t go anywhere right now on Bill Gates Internet without seeing some form of discussion about Artificial Intelligence (AI), chatbots, or ChatGPT. AI is no longer a futuristic concept. Marketers everywhere are yelling from the mountain tops about how this is the future of marketing as we know it. And things are moving so quickly with the AI landscape that this article no doubt will be outdated sooner than we previously would think.
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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Is messy, outdated, or duplicate data making it harder to track engagement, revenue, and performance? Poor data quality can slow your organization down and prevent you from making informed decisions. With The Dirty Data Guide , you'll discover: Practical steps to clean your data and maintain accuracy over time. A checklist to help your team implement data hygiene best practices.
Blue Avocado
MARCH 6, 2023
Neither supervisors nor employees think that the current process for performance appraisals is working. In this article, our author uses her experience as a trainer and coach with more than 2,000 managers, direct service staff, board members, and other volunteers to present a 6-pointed, human-centered approach that supervisors can use to fix the performance appraisal process.
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.
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
MARCH 7, 2023
We’re putting some extra focus on social media this week as we prepare for Thursday’s webinar Social Media Trends for Nonprofit Communicators in 2023. The information below was taken from the BONUS handout Everything Nonprofits Need to Know About Social Media in 2023. Get a FREE copy of this e-book when you register for Thursday’s webinar.
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