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How automation can transform your association

Nimble AMS

There might not be a single change you could make to your association that would transform it more than increasing business process automation. Consider these statistics: According to a Forbes article about how much time workers spend on handling data , an IDC study shows that data workers waste 30 percent of their time, on average, because they can’t find, protect, or prepare data, plus another 20 percent of their time duplicating work.

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How to Start an Engaging Online Community for Your User Group

Higher Logic

The post How to Start an Engaging Online Community for Your User Group appeared first on Higher Logic. Online communities for user groups are an excellent way to get users engaged year-round. Find out which online community platform features you need & the strategies you should adopt to ensure your user group community. The post How to Start an Engaging Online Community for Your User Group appeared first on Higher Logic.

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7 Practices to Guide Associations Through the Unpredictable Year Ahead

Membersuite

We were all looking forward to 2021, thinking the disruption caused by the pandemic would soon fade away, but COVID insists on sticking around. With the slow rollout of the vaccine, we must reconcile ourselves (and our organizations) to a few more seasons of staying at home. Many associations don’t see this as a time of doom and gloom. In fact, 69% of associations have seen an increase in member engagement since the pandemic began, according the Association Economic Outlook Report , conducted in

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7 Skills for Managing Remote Teams—Required Education in 2021

WBT Systems

7 Skills for Managing Remote Teams—Required Education in 2021. Read more about 7 Skills for Managing Remote Teams—Required Education in 2021.

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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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How to Create a Membership Website Free with Wild Apricot

Wild Apricot

Thousands of organizations use Wild Apricot's software to manage their membership websites ( we're also the most popular provider ). That’s because Wild Apricot is one of the few membership website creators who offer a completely free account.

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How to Stay Healthy at Home

Aaron Wolowiec

Working from home comes with its own set of challenges. Staying active when you’re cozy in your house can be harder, while eating healthy when there’s a pantry full of food just steps from your home office can be tempting. Then there’s the tendency of Americans to work more with the time they save from commuting. But staying healthy while working from home can be done.

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These Are the Early Days of Virtual Networking

Smooth The Path

One association has been offering online networking meetings every other week since the pandemic started. Many people attended early on, now all these months later, attendance has slowed to a trickle. There is no shortage of problems with virtual networking. Members don’t want another awkward, stilted, flat, boring, generic, small-talk laden, contrived Zoom call where they watch others talk or participate in forced conversations.

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January Update: The Start of a New Chapter

Wild Apricot

January marks the start of 2021. Since digital products rolled out last month, we have seen many organizations make wonderful use of this new feature. This month’s highlights include examples from organizations that use Wild Apricot and several.

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Virtual and hybrid with live event atmosphere

Event Industry News

Sounds impossible? Well it’s not, it seems that Showcase has achieved the impossible, that is creating virtual and hybrid events that people want to watch, be a part of and actually engage with. So how do they do this? Ben Collings, founder and MD of Showcase explains: “ We’ve always had the ethos of being ahead of the curve, so when live events were put on pause we had already developed the technology to produce virtual and hybrid.

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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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Some Comms Teams Thrived During the Pandemic. Others Not So Much.

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Last week, we shared that we found in the 2021 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report that a majority of nonprofits said they did more communications planning (63%) and that the level of internal collaboration on the communications workload went up (57%) as a result of the pandemic. We also asked about the problems that the pandemic exacerbated or made worse for nonprofit communicators, as well as the opportunities or silver linings that arose.

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How to Market Yourself as a Contracted Event Planner

Eplys

If you’re a contracted event planner, whether it's for colleges, weddings, or a corporate setting, you know that marketing yourself is half the job. Your clients won’t just come to you; you have to put in marketing efforts to attract your ideal clients. Now.it’s time to ask yourself: are you utilizing all marketing outlets to ensure your success as an event planner?

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8 Community Website Templates + Examples to Inspire You

Wild Apricot

Do you manage a community? Do you need a place where your members can come together to discuss shared interests, problems and solutions, exchange resources and advance a common mission? You need a community website. Wild Apricot’s website builder.

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CHS Group has announced the rescheduling of its 2021 Shows in Leeds and Birmingham

Event Industry News

Emma Cartmell commented: Like many other event organisers looking to run live events at the moment, this has been another agonising decision. But, as a business, we’re committed to live events and the return on investment they give to our exhibitors, as well as the value they give to our visitors. As a group, if we can’t promise this, alongside the basic safety of everyone involved in our events, we will continue to move our shows to a time when we can. .

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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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2021 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report [Download Now]

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

It’s here! Today we are excited to release the 2021 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report! Inside: The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on nonprofit communicators New data on how often nonprofits are updating their various communications channels How email and Instagram have become much more important to nonprofits Progress on CALM not BUSY activities that improve effectiveness, like using an editorial calendar How team size affects communications frequency Updated data on nonprofit com

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Helping Your Members Get the Most Out of Their Membership: 3 Tips

MemberClicks

When it’s time for a member to renew, they typically think back on their most recent membership term, specifically, their benefits usage. Did they use enough benefits to justify the cost of membership? If they decide “no,” that could mean another dropped member at your association or chamber. Make it an easy “yes” for them by helping them along the way.

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How To Create a Successful Chamber of Commerce Model During COVID-19

Wild Apricot

COVID-19 has brought new challenges to small businesses (and yes, we know that’s the understatement of the year) but many are trying to make the best of it by doing things like auditing their platforms, getting creative with new ways to engage.

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UK music industry outraged over licence fee cost for live-streamed events

Event Industry News

Music industry bodies have criticised the Performing Rights Society (PRS) after it instituted a licence fee for ticketed small-scale live-streamed performances that they said will leave some grassroots artists out of pocket. Paid-entry live-streamed shows have become an essential source of income for many musicians during the coronavirus pandemic, from Laura Marling and Dua Lipa – whose Studio 2054 show in November reportedly drew millions of viewers – to emerging acts playing in struggling venu

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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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Mixed Links for Nonprofit Communicators – January 29, 2021

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

The Collins Quarter. Savannah, GA. Happy Friday! I hope you had a great week. We’re finishing it off strong with the most helpful articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of nonprofit marketing and fundraising. This week we have social media image sizes, email marketing campaigns, our communications trends report, and more. It’s time for Mixed Links… Hootsuite has put together the Social Media Image Sizes 2021: Cheat Sheet for Every Network.

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Hiring Without a Handshake—Get Virtual Interviewing Right

.orgSource

Every new hire is either an opportunity for success or a challenge to it. No recruit is neutral. If there are people on your team who don’t rock the boat, but never move it forward, that’s a drain on precious resources. Interviewing in a virtual environment adds a dimension to an already high stakes process. […]. The post Hiring Without a Handshake—Get Virtual Interviewing Right appeared first on.orgSource.

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Notarize Joins Internet Association

InternetAssociation

Notarize’s 21st Century approach to document management will continue to pioneer growth for the domestic economy and the internet ecosystem at-large”. Jon Berroya. Washington, DC – Today, Internet Association is excited to welcome Notarize as its newest member. Notarize is the first platform to enable people to sign and notarize documents online, 24/7.

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INVNT Partners with General Motors to deliver opening keynote at all-digital CES 2021

Event Industry News

INVNT. The global live brand storytelling agency TM joined forces with General Motors (GM) to ideate, design and produce the opening keynote address at renowned technology conference, CES 2021. Airing globally on January 12, 2021 at 9:00am EST, viewers saw GM Design, Engineering and Technology leadership set in a mixed reality LED arena, which thanks to the Epic Games Unreal Engine, rendered out virtual environments in real time.

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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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Networking is Super Awkward for a Reason (and we can solve this)

Smooth The Path

Maybe a decade or two ago, a research paper concluded that public speaking was perceived as one the scariest endeavors. Do you remember that finding? Some public speakers master the fear of speaking, but you might be interested to know that not all their professional fears evaporate. In fact, networking remains at the top of the anxiety-ridden scary list.

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Explore our template library of leading email design practices

HighRoad Solution

Here’s perhaps the understatement of the century—sometimes email templates can be fussy. Who's with me on this? I think it's fair to say that, regardless of the platform, as marketers we've all peeled back the HTML veil to try and retrofit and/or augment our templates. We know what we want for our organization and our brand. We also know that sometimes technology just doesn't bend that way.

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Association TRENDS 2020 Free Resource Program Infographic

Association TRENDS

Stop letting your messaging fall on unengaged ears! Let Association TRENDS put your whitepaper, report, or content piece in front of our dynamic and interactive association audience! Association TRENDS can help you generate all-new, qualified association leads for your business development. Deliver your expert content through a third party allowing for higher readership levels, receive reporting on all campaign interactions, and get complete contact information for downloaders.

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One Industry One Voice to give further industry insight to MPs at the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Business

Event Industry News

One Industry One Voice has been invited to give evidence to the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Business in a Pandemic (Covid) World as representatives of the events industry. Organisations working in the sector have faced uncertainty as lockdown continues with many businesses requiring further support to remain solvent. To date, many event businesses have not been eligible or successful in applying for funding. .

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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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How to Create Nonprofit Website Fundraising and Donate Pages

Bonterra

This is the fourth post in a series of articles on the topic of digital marketing for nonprofits and creating the perfect nonprofit website. In the first article, we discussed creating your about page or mission page , the second article discussed creating program and impact pages , and the third article covered creating volunteer and take action pages.

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How Online Communities Enhance Member Experience Part 1

Breezio

Does your association or organization use an online community platform? There are several ways associations use online communities to address business needs across all industries. Online communities can not only adapt to your business, but it can also foster collaboration among members.

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[Guest Post] Three Signs You Need to Rethink Your AMC

MemberClicks

The following blog post was written by SBI Association Management , a Seattle-based and AMCI-accredited association management company. 2020 has been one of the most difficult — if not the most difficult — year many associations have ever faced. While there is hope on the horizon in the form of multiple effective COVID-19 vaccines, the coming year will still be a challenging one.

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