Wild Apricot
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Every month, I compile the internet's biggest list of free nonprofit webinars. As we get closer to the new year, it's time for nonprofits to take all we learned in 2020 and start planning for a successful 2021. This month, nonprofit experts are offering.
Higher Logic
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
The post Put Members First: Become More Member-Centric In 2021 appeared first on Higher Logic. How you approach your members moving forward will impact your association’s future outlook. Aim to be the Slack or Amazon or Netflix of associations in 2021 by taking a member-centric approach. The post Put Members First: Become More Member-Centric In 2021 appeared first on Higher Logic.
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WBT Systems
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Making the Case for Online Education to Association Decision-Makers. Read more about Making the Case for Online Education to Association Decision-Makers.
Smooth The Path
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Kids can’t play with their friends. Parents are juggling homeschool and jam-packed work schedules. Organization and household budgets are getting squeezed. Workdays are blending into weekends. The worry and the monotony are a bit depressing. Here in the northern hemisphere, winter is coming. Things look bleak. At the same time, we have never had more freedom.
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Here’s Your Blueprint for Year-Round Member Engagement. Are you ready to transform your association into a thriving, 365-day community? Download GrowthZone’s ebook, How to Create a Community Your Members Can’t Get Enough Of , and learn strategies for leveling out the peaks and valleys of member engagement. This guide provides actionable strategies to create consistent networking opportunities, deliver value-packed content, and foster connections that your members won’t want to miss.
Wild Apricot
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Here are all the free nonprofit webinars happening in December 2020 that the Internet has to offer.
Association Universe brings together the best content for association members and organizers from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
AssociationChat
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Each month the Association Chat Book Club picks a book to read, study, and discuss. This month’s selection is Why We Can’t Sleep by Ada Calhoun. Interestingly, one of the book blurbs written about this non-fiction pick is from none other than Harriet A. Washington, the author of Medical Apartheid (among many other books), whom I interviewed on Association Chat this year!
Nimble AMS
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Data silos. You hear the term, and you know they’re not good for organizations. So, why do so many organizations still have them? Let’s think about how data silos come about in the first place: Organizations often implement systems to achieve specific tasks. Over time, the organizations find themselves with multiple systems, some of which become outdated technology.
Wild Apricot
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
To navigate the challenges of COVID-19, nonprofits must adapt their fundraising messaging and communications approach. In this post, we cover the 5 critical elements to delivering the right message to the right audience at the right time.
MemberClicks
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
As we enter this season of gratitude, we want to stop and take a moment to express how thankful we are for our clients, partners, friends, and followers. 2020 has been a particularly challenging year (to say the least), but to see the association and chamber communities come together and rise above has been truly inspiring.
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
Association Success
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
We’ve seen it time and time again — new hires struggling to navigate the ins and outs of their position while trying to fit into the culture and get along with their new teams. This process becomes even more difficult when senior staff or members dismiss, belittle, haze or refuse to help their new team members. . Senior personnel treating new additions this way is not conducive to a successful and innovative organization.
GrowthZone
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Editor’s note: This article was originally posted on September 23, 2019. It has been updated. Leveraging a robust AMS system enables membership professionals to engage members and develop their association instead of focusing on mundane, repetitive tasks. Whether your membership organization is in the association or chamber of commerce sector, a feature-rich Association Management Software (AMS) is a must.
Wild Apricot
NOVEMBER 26, 2020
If you're looking to build or update your advocacy organization's website, look no further than these 10 great examples for inspiration.
Ungrated
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
For more than 40 years, CAI has been the trusted education provider for community association professionals. When the COVID-19 pandemic forced us to cancel classroom learning, we knew it was important to discover new ways to deliver our world-class Professional Management Development Program (PMDP) education offerings to you. As we made the shift from classroom courses, we promoted a current library of self-paced, on-demand classes.
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Mariner Management
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
Once upon a time, there was a passionate volunteer committee chair. Thanks to Covid, this committee was reinventing its activity and had a compressed timeline. The challenge was making the most of the virtual committee meetings. It called for strong facilitation skills. The story has a happy ending. The activity was a roaring success. Goals were met.
Yes Elections
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
As your union’s election official, your job is to run an impartial, fair election that complies with federal law, the union’s constitution and its bylaws. While elections can be overwhelming, YesElections has developed this explainer to help you navigate this process.
Wild Apricot
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
The holiday season is fast approaching with lots of goodies in store. For one, digital products for your Wild Apricot store will be available in the next release, allowing you to sell products with instant delivery. There’s also a new CEO in town we’d like you to meet. To top it all off, there are new webinars to sign up for and updated resources to help grow your organization's revenue this season.
Eplys
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Your online event registration form is an important piece of your overall event marketing. Getting your potential attendees to the form is one thing, but they have to complete it in order to secure their ticket. That’s why it’s important to ensure they have a seamless experience. The best way to do that? Review it from top to bottom.
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Sales often gets a bad rep. Yet, if securing sponsors, advertisers, and exhibitors is part of your role, it’s essential. But what if it didn’t have to feel time-consuming, uncomfortable, or worse—icky? Join us for the 3-part virtual Sales Accelerator Labs , where customer experience and sales expert Carrie McIntyre will show you strategies to make sales easier, more effective, and dare we say, enjoyable!
Mariner Management
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
So now that we’ve learned how to approach difficult conversations as opportunities rather than obstacles to avoid, how can we take those lessons further and apply them to conversations with our most precious resource … our volunteers? In her 2020 CEX presentation Coaching Volunteers to Focus on What You Need , Laurie Reuben , President & CEO at Cheshire Consulting Group asks us to see every volunteer engagement, whether it is to correct a behavior or to expand on a volunteer’s potential, as
MemberClicks
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Just like your organization and its goals evolve, so does your membership software! While it’s important to keep up with software changes for practical reasons, you also want to be sure you’re always using the latest best practices and are effectively leveraging your tools to achieve those evolving goals. Regularly attending product training events will keep you in-the-know about your Oasis or Atlas membership software.
Wild Apricot
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
This is a guest post from Andrew Goldsworthy, Director of Client Success & Growth at Rootid. If nothing else, 2020 has been a test of our resilience and adaptability both at a personal level and for nonprofit organizations. The challenges are.
Multiview
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
As we edge closer to the end of the year, it’s safe to say 2020 has been a year quite… The post The State of Associations with 2021 on the horizon appeared first on MultiView.
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Ever wonder why brands like Apple, LEGO, and Sephora are going all-in on branded communities? It’s because online community building is the secret sauce to connecting with audiences in ways that ads and emails simply can’t. But here's the best part—it’s not just for big corporations. Associations can create thriving online communities too. GrowthZone’s eBook, "The Power of Community," breaks down exactly why a branded online community can be a game-changer for your association.
Mariner Management
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
The shift to virtual has placed an even greater emphasis on the importance of leveraging technology at the local level. In this session, we’ll share specific tools to help maximize chapter performance in this new reality. Peter Houstle & Peggy Hoffman from Mariner Management will be your Tech Emcees and share how CRPs are leveraging these chapter tech tools on the job and why they’re recommending them to their chapter leaders.
MemberClicks
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Is your association or chamber of commerce on LinkedIn? If not, we highly recommend creating a company page. Not only does it give your organization credibility, but it’s likely where many of your members and prospects are — and that means it’s the perfect digital playground for member engagement! But you can’t just create a page and expect to have followers (especially followers who engage).
Wild Apricot
NOVEMBER 26, 2020
Advocacy organizations do important work — they prompt the most difficult conversations and pave the road to change. If your nonprofit does some or is entirely dedicated to advocacy work, thank you! The world is a better place because you exist.
Effective Database
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
There is nothing so permanent as business rules Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman said, “There’s nothing so permanent as a temporary government program.” I have a similar thought when it comes to association business rules and programs.
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.
Mariner Management
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Your association and chapters probably face the same challenge the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) wrestles with: filling the industry and association leadership pipeline. Their New England chapter meanwhile was acting. In 2013, IIDA New England launched the Emerging Leaders Network (ELN) answered one of the top requests from firm principals: provide specific professional development training to rising designers in the chapter.
Reid All About it
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… . . Online learning. If your board (or C-suite) hasn’t accepted the fact that your association must offer online education to your members and market, then you’ll want to read this post from WBT Systems. They suggest strategies for making the case for investing in online learning programs.
Wild Apricot
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
The holiday season is fast approaching with lots of goodies in store. For one, digital products for your Wild Apricot store will be available in the next release, allowing you to sell products with instant delivery. There’s also a new CEO in town we’d.
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