Wild Apricot
JANUARY 7, 2020
New member orientation doesn’t have to be boring. With these orientation tips and activities, your organization can welcome new members smoothly and easily, inspiring member engagement and retaining them longer.
Blue Sky eLearn
JANUARY 6, 2020
If you’re considering hosting an event or conference for your association, it’s critical that you plan for a few key elements to drive value to your members: Education. Engagement . Experience. Explore this guide to learn how your association can increase the value it provides to members through events. Let’s dive in! Education. Applying adult learning principles, ultimately helping attendees turn learning into action, is key for a successful association event or conference. .
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Reid All About it
JANUARY 10, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… As many in my family can tell you, I’m not always good at noticing someone’s sent me a text, so I’m not in need of a digital detox. But if you are, or even if you’re not, you might like this story about a professor who asked his students to try an experiment: turn in their cell phones for nine days and write about living without them.
YourMembership
JANUARY 9, 2020
Start off the new year with implementing a personalized learning program, complete with a variety of educational opportunities for your members. Contrary to popular belief: One size does not always fit all. At some point, people want variety – they crave it. This can be said for pretty much everything in life, including what foods. The post 2020: The Year of Variety and Personalization for Your Learners appeared first on YourMembership.
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 As funding requirements become more complex and stakeholder expectations for transparency grow, relying on outdated methods can lead to inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and compliance risks.
Wild Apricot
JANUARY 10, 2020
Ready to join the world of Facebook for nonprofits? Here's a step-by-step guide to setting up, managing and making the most of a Facebook page for your nonprofit, club or association.
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WBT Systems
JANUARY 6, 2020
What Association Learning Professionals Read in 2019 & Plan to Do in 2020. Read more about What Association Learning Professionals Read in 2019 & Plan to Do in 2020.
YourMembership
JANUARY 6, 2020
Your brand is what sets you apart from your competitors, but are you leveraging all your resources to drive career center traffic? Recent research shows that members primarily join associations for career growth opportunities. And as leaders, you are responsible for meeting these expectations while increasing revenue for your organization, and at YM Careers we.
Golden's Rules for Association
JANUARY 6, 2020
We are a product of history. None of the inequities, whether trivial or profound, at work in our lives came about overnight. Small injustices compounded over time and became institutionalized and even sublimated into our unconscious collective and individual biases.
GrowthZone
JANUARY 9, 2020
An association’s member onboarding program is the ideal litmus test for gauging success in member engagement. Many say o nboarding is the foundation on which member engagement is built. The key to building a successful foundation is to regularly evaluate what is (and isn’t) working and make adjustments based on the evaluation. Quick tips for gauging onboarding success: ASK FOR FEEDBACK.
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Struggling to generate revenue beyond membership dues? You're not alone. Our free guide, The Ultimate Guide to Non-Dues Revenue for Associations , offers practical strategies to help your organization boost financial health. Inside, you'll explore creative ways to generate income, including: Educational offerings tailored to your audience Event-based revenue opportunities Job boards that drive engagement and income Corporate sponsorship ideas A checklist to evaluate and strengthen your current a
Associations Now
JANUARY 9, 2020
This year’s Golden Globes served an entirely plant-based menu for the first time. With more of your attendees going meatless and looking for meetings to have a smaller environmental footprint, should your conference menu be plant-based too? You may have tuned in to the Golden Globes last Sunday night to find out if your favorite movie or TV show won , to see what the stars were wearing, or to check out who gave the funniest (or most long-winded) acceptance speech.
Smooth The Path
JANUARY 9, 2020
My family moved to a new town a year ago. Right away, I noticed something different about my local post office. I love going there. Does that statement sound odd to you? In my experience, post offices are, mostly average. Staff members are efficient. I can count on my mail being delivered roughly every day around the same time. The facilities are clean and well lit.
Mariner Management
JANUARY 9, 2020
For many the new year brings new resolutions most of which are about change. While we focus on the need to change, we sometimes skip over setting ourselves up for change. This can be doubly so when we look at change in our associations and in our chapters. This is perhaps why Gene Hammett’s blog post caught my eye. In his post, he promised change could come without making new year resolutions.
GrowthZone
JANUARY 6, 2020
FREE CAE Course! Join GrowthZone for a live presentation with membership-expert, Amanda Kaiser. Key insights and stories will bring you right into the middle of the member experience. Amanda will educate attendees about: How members from small to large organizations become engaged. The specific value members need, based on their membership-stage. How members articulate the barriers to engagement.
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.
Associations Now
JANUARY 5, 2020
Big ambitions are great for your association, but there’s value in stepping back and making sure everybody’s included in your strategy conversations. If you’ve started the new year eager to tackle that big to-do list full of strategic goals and moonshot ideas, that’s to your credit. But is the attitude you’re bringing to that list going to encourage everybody around you to come along for the ride?
Smooth The Path
JANUARY 7, 2020
Now that we have had a holiday break and time to rejuvenate, it is time to dive into 2020. Right? Hold on! We need a bit more time before leaping into the fray. The new year is an excellent time for some introspection and big-picture thinking to help ensure that your organization finishes this year heading in the right direction. Take some time and ask yourself these questions: What are the best things that happened in the organization in 2019?
Event Industry News
JANUARY 8, 2020
Universal Live was appointed the technical partner to Eureka! The National Children’s Museum in Halifax for its most recent installations in the Spark Gallery. The interactive projects are the result of a collaboration between Universal Live, Eureka! and Lumen Art Projects and have been nine months in the planning. Delivering and maintaining full technical support to the exhibition, Universal Live provided the computers and twelve large screens and developed the interactive sensors and the
Association Adviser
JANUARY 6, 2020
5 ways to invest in millennials and their professional development so they are more likely to be engaged in their jobs and loyal to your company or association. The post Professional Development for Millennials (and Everyone Else Too) appeared first on Association Adviser.
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!
Associations Now
JANUARY 10, 2020
Students can get lost in the membership shuffle, especially as they move from school into careers. Here’s how the Society for Personality and Social Psychology retains young members during that transition. How to hack it? Many associations struggle to retain students after they graduate from school. At the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, one contributing factor was surprisingly mundane.
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
JANUARY 9, 2020
When Cathy White shared with our Mentoring Program participants the collaborative process she went through to create her communications strategy, I knew other communications directors would be interested in hearing about it too. ~Kivi. Cathy White. Guest Post by Cathy White. I joined my organization, Springboard Collaborative , as the first communications professional they had ever hired.
Association Success
JANUARY 6, 2020
When we walk out the front door, we lock it behind us. We double-check that our car keys are in our pockets, and we have our kids text us when they get to their friend’s house. . We do all these things because we’re concerned about our safety. Those checks, double-checks and procedures we have in place with our friends and family are ingrained in us as surely as brushing our teeth in the morning or taking the trash out.
Event Industry News
JANUARY 9, 2020
Representatives from the EIC, IACC, MGM Resorts International and the Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition participated in a session held during the UN Climate Change Conference COP25. The 2-13 December global forum was organised under the Presidency of the Government of Chile with logistical support from the Government of Spain. The 12 December session, Bringing People Together for Climate: The Role of the Events Industry took place in the Action Hub, a dynamic events-space used by
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GrowthZone’s 11th annual survey highlights trends, challenges, and strategies shaping the membership industry through insights from U.S. and Canadian association professionals. Get your copy of the 2025 Association Survey Results Report to see how your organization measures up: The biggest challenges associations are facing Membership retention trends and non-renewal insights Strategies for automatic renewals and reinstatements Shifts in member engagement tactics Why members are joining (and sta
Associations Now
JANUARY 9, 2020
With wildfires raging in Australia, federal agencies in the United States and Canada are sending firefighting personnel—from frontline firefighters to fire behavior analysts—to help squelch the flames threatening that nation. The wildfires ravaging Australia have burned more than 20 million acres ( 8.4 hectares ) , killed a billion animals and more than two dozen people, and destroyed nearly 2,000 homes.
Beth Kanter
JANUARY 9, 2020
Rituals are intentional small, tangible acts done routinely and carry meaning. Our family has several New Year’s rituals, including a nature hike. This year we hiked by Pacific Ocean near Moss Bay.(Pictured above). Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things.
Nimble AMS
JANUARY 8, 2020
Best practices say that when you’re ready to find a new association management software (AMS) system, you should issue a request for proposal (RFP). Read on for tips to ensure your RFP drives accurate proposals and helps you find the right AMS for your organization. When you’re ready to move to a new AMS system , you’ll likely issue a request for proposal (RFP).
Event Industry News
JANUARY 8, 2020
Isn’t exporting your event registration data from one system, uploading it into another, segmenting it and then assigning it to a campaign a complete pain? We know it is, we’ve done it. We’re Jonas Event Technology. We are an award winning provider of event registration at trade exhibitions, consumer events and conferences. We want event organisers to have the best registration experience for themselves and their attendees and we offer the products that help them do this… including our email mar
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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.
Associations Now
JANUARY 8, 2020
A 2019 Campaign Monitor report reveals the latest email marketing trends. Also: AARP uses VR to promote social interaction. In a year when worldwide email open rates decreased, nonprofits bucked the trend. According to Forbes , a report by the email marketing software provider Campaign Monitor revealed that nonprofit email open rates rose by almost 5 percent in 2019, jumping to 25.2 percent.
Delcor
JANUARY 7, 2020
For the past twenty years or so, almost every association that is still in existence today has been focused on digitizing their businesses. Digital technology has fundamentally altered customer expectations and some of the associations that neglected to take the necessary steps to digitize their business have disappeared. However, as Jeanne Ross, an expert in digital transformation from MIT, has emphasized, digitization is not the same as digital transformation.
Association Success
JANUARY 9, 2020
Both Marice Fernando and Amy Thomasson have both participated in formal mentorship programs and found their own mentors by forming relationships with key figures in their professional lives. . But they’ve also found another path to developing those relationships and advisers for their work, and that’s by forming their own boards of directors. . While many of us are familiar with the phrase when it comes to managing associations and nonprofits, it may not seem like one that makes immediate sense
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