Spark Consulting

MAY 22, 2024

If retention goes down, the membership staff gets blamed, even if the reason people are leaving is because, for instance, they hate the monthly magazine. It stifles innovation, because people think “cover your ass” not “come up with and try amazing new idea.” Or they’re organizing online. Or whatever.

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Reid All About it

MAY 24, 2024

Association magazines. m3Magazines offers advice for transforming your magazine into a valuable resource for members. They start by reviewing the benefits of a well-crafted print magazine—in case you need to make a case to your leadership team. They also share association examples of effective program elements.

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Reid All About it

MAY 8, 2012

An unfamiliar magazine or radio station? Tagged: Association , Innovation , Leadership , Management. Quiz time: How often do you try a new recipe? A different gas station or restaurant? When’s the last time you talked with someone about an idea or project that flopped, or asked for constructive criticism?

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Reid All About it

APRIL 4, 2025

A plaque, a profile in the magazine, and a shout-out in the newsletteris that all your associations award winners get? Hear how associations can harness AI for growth, innovation, and long-term success. Apti explains why, debunks some myths, suggests ways to minimize program risk, and offers ideas to engage non-members instead.

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GrowthZone

JUNE 25, 2017

Magazines contain some clues. Kyle Sexton is an award-winning marketing strategist and international speaker on the topics of membership development, marketing and innovation. The post What Membership Organizations Can Learn From Magazines appeared first on GrowthZone. How do we create a new narrative for our organizations?

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GrowthZone

APRIL 20, 2021

What do print magazines forget to explain? Back to our example, broadcast and magazine advertisers often waste money on a broad audience that has no use for their product or service. He was named by Chamber Executive magazine as one of the most influential innovators in the Chamber industry. retirees and the unemployed.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The 12 th edition of the Green Events & Innovations Conference has announced the full agenda for this important gathering for the live industry to tackle the urgent issue of sustainability. Quick Fire Innovations presents fast pace pitches for current technologies in power, transport and water.

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Reid All About it

AUGUST 7, 2020

Andrew Sullivan, New York Magazine ). Join us for this year’s virtual event as we focus on a future that requires us to innovate and exceed expectations. Join us for this year’s virtual event as we focus on a future that requires us to innovate and exceed expectations. Roy Peter Clark, Poynter ). More info/register.

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Association Adviser

JANUARY 31, 2018

Innovation has been a common buzzword for the past few years – and not just in the association world. There’s been a lot of talk about how organizations can create a culture that drives innovation, how great leaders can spur innovation and how associations need to innovate to survive. Who will this innovation benefit?

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Association Adviser

JANUARY 30, 2018

Last month, we asked readers in what area they plan to make the most innovative changes in 2018. Fifty-seven percent of respondents named this their top area for planned innovations. What does innovation in membership look like? Finally, what about innovating the member onboarding process?

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Spark Consulting

MARCH 28, 2014

Trade ad space in a popular industry magazine for distributing that magazine to all your conference attendees. conferences crowdsourcing innovation marketing membership presentations' Trade signage at all your events for special sponsorship recognition. (I I have used this one myself and it works great!).

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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Print magazines. m3Magazines shares advice on transforming your magazine into a valuable asset members will love. They start with the benefits of a well-crafted print magazine, just in case you have to make a case to your leadership team. I’m happy to feature it as long as it’s not too product-centric. More info/register.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Registration is now open for the Green Events & Innovations Conference 2021, and this time it’s virtual. The Green Events & Innovations Conference (GEI) is presented by AGF in partnership with the International Live Music Conference (ILMC).

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Association Adviser

JANUARY 31, 2018

Innovation has been a common buzzword for the past few years – and not just in the association world. There’s been a lot of talk about how organizations can create a culture that drives innovation, how great leaders can spur innovation and how associations need to innovate to survive. Who will this innovation benefit?

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Idea Architects

MARCH 21, 2018

It's one of the many core elements of innovation, one Franz Johansson nicely described in his book The Medici Effect. He suggests innovation results from stepping into The Intersection, a place were ideas from different fields and cultures meet and collide, ultimately igniting an explosion of extraordinary discoveries.

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Reid All About it

AUGUST 30, 2024

Association magazines. m3Magazines offers advice for transforming your magazine into a valuable resource for members. They start by reviewing the benefits of a well-crafted print magazine—in case you need to make a case to your leadership team. 7-day communications challenge. 1 CAE credit.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The 12 th edition of the Green Events & Innovations Conference has announced the full agenda for this important gathering for the live industry to tackle the urgent issue of sustainability. Quick Fire Innovations presents fast-pace pitches for current technologies in power, transport and water.

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Potomac Core

OCTOBER 4, 2016

growth , the race for talent, and disruptive innovation create opportunities for Associations and Professional Societies to become more essential. In a September 2016 interview in Fortune Magazine, GM’s CEO Mary Barra was asked “What would you tell your younger self to do differently?” Sluggish global growth and U.S.

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Principled Innovation

JULY 23, 2012

Jeff De Cagna, chief strategist and founder of Principled Innovation, will be one of the speakers at ASAE’s 2012 Annual Meeting (ASAE12) in Dallas, Texas next month. Making Innovation Happen Survey that was conducted earlier this summer. Jeff is also available for private conversations with association leaders on request.

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Association Success

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Indeed, TIME magazine mused in 1951 that “By the 21st Century our people doubtless will be squint-eyed, hunchbacked and fond of the dark” – a vision which has happily not (yet) been substantiated. Our Innovation Center plan is, itself, iterative. NCARB is going to be testing Lean through a Lean framework - here's how!

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Principled Innovation

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

I find it remarkable that it is February 2013, and I am still reading magazine articles advising associations to create strategic plans every five or six years, and encouraging leaders to review those plans just once a year. This post originally appeared last Wednesday on the ResultsDirect AssociationCentric Blog.

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Association Adviser

JANUARY 30, 2018

Last month, we asked readers in what area they plan to make the most innovative changes in 2018. Fifty-seven percent of respondents named this their top area for planned innovations. What does innovation in membership look like? Finally, what about innovating the member onboarding process?

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Association Adviser

JANUARY 20, 2017

When I say the word innovation to you, what feelings does this word evoke? In a recent research study association professionals reported that innovation is synonymous with risk, big expectations, large investments, long commitments and failure. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a guide to association innovation?

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Thanks For Playing

JUNE 25, 2012

Does your association have a magazine or newsletter? The Grassroots Innovation Leader. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Thanks For Playing. Seeking community in associations since 2008. 25 June 2012. Always the Last to Know: Readz. Is it online? Is it just a boring plain HTML version of the printed stories? 5 days ago. 1 week ago.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 14, 2022

Green Events & Innovations Conference ( GEI ) is presented by A Greener Festival ( AGF ) in partnership with the International Live Music Conference ( ILMC ). Quick Fire Innovation from NFT’s to battery power technology to equal rights for peeing.

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Forj

MARCH 14, 2023

I believe that corporate education design innovations are slightly ahead of association trends, I intermittently attend corporate training conferences put on by ATD, Learning Guild, and Training Magazine to stay current.

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Aaron Wolowiec

JANUARY 21, 2014

This week’s guest blog post is by Alexa Stanard , editor of Michigan Meetings + Events magazine. Alexa Stanard, editor of Michigan Meetings + Events magazine. In the magazine business, we generally have to think many months ahead. I asked her to speculate on what 2014 might bring for the meetings and events industry. Happy 2014!

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Reid All About it

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Newman, Greater Good Magazine ). Greg Satell, Innovation Excellence ). Presenter: Community IT Innovators’ CTO cybersecurity expert, Matt Eshleman. Quick hits before we get to next week’s free webinars: Scientific insight on why you never seem to have enough time. Seven ways to boost your newsletter open rate. 8 CAE credits.

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Membership Marketing

MAY 29, 2024

When I do presentations on the need for innovation, I often share a comparison of Sears and Amazon as a case study. There may not be a better example of the implications of whether or not organizations innovate and embrace change. There is no single recipe for successful innovation. Find it on Amazon. Here is the lesson.

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Reid All About it

MAY 29, 2020

The Online News Association is turning their conference into a virtual “ global journalism innovation festival.” Pivot Virtual Summit: Visioning a New Future for the Events Industry through Self Care, Innovation & Community. Virtual conference of the week. Arianna Rehak, CEO & Co-Founder, Matchbox Virtual Media. 1 CMP credit.

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Associations Now

MAY 20, 2015

Associations are built by and for members, which is why one association promised to put its 15,000th member on the cover of its magazine. In July, the cover of both magazines will feature Laura Burke, a compliance coordinator at St. SCCE and HCCA’s magazines choose people, showcasing a person on the cover of every issue. (It

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AssociationChat

MAY 20, 2020

We became friends in the early days of Twitter and through an innovative project called EventCamp that witnessed us meeting with other creative types in the meetings world to create and participate in unique experiences all over North America. Ignite Magazine. The Incentivist digital magazine. Prevuemeetings magazine.

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Spark Consulting

APRIL 5, 2016

Journey innovation: continuing to test, learn, and iterate to create new value for the customer and, as a result, for your organization. Too often, associations focus on our products: we offer an annual conference, a magazine, some books, a webinar series, an awards program, committee volunteering, industry benchmarking and statistics, etc.

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SCD Group

MARCH 25, 2013

Time Inc has is "spinning off" its magazines such as Sports Illustrated, Money and Time. When I first started work in the association world, I was assigned to manage the transition of the association’s magazine from a house organ to a commercial magazine. Six years later, our magazine dominated our industry publishing.

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Principled Innovation

JUNE 9, 2012

This post appears as an article in the May/June 2012 issue of Success by Association , the magazine of Association Executives of North Carolina. Finding the next trajectory of association success begins with the challenging yet necessary work of business model innovation. You can download a PDF of the article (512 KB).

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 16, 2025

On the Web: The Academy to Innovate HR developed the 9 Box Grid: A Practioners Guide, to help identify high-pos. Reprinted with permission of Convene , the magazine of the Professional Convention Management Association. They will, however, likely need your help with initial funding.

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Eric Lanke

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

I used to blog a lot about innovation in the association environment. I used to think a lot about the subject, I helped write a white paper on the subject, helped launch a regional conference focused on it, and have tried to move my association on to a more innovative footing. Whatever they say, find a way to do it.

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