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My free White Paper launched – Membership Retention Essentials!

Optimist Consulting

I was delighted to be asked to write a White Paper for Sterling, one of the leading membership and communication consultancies. Innovation. It looks very nice thanks to Sterling’s designers. I talk about the six essential elements of retention including: Understanding what members want. Engagement.

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Attention Doesn’t Scale, Redux

Spark Consulting

I’m at the Bridge Conference today, presenting on Attention Doesn’t Scale , the Spark white paper first released last fall. conferences curation innovation whitepaper Bridge Conference' Nonprofits are making this problem worse for our stakeholders. Haven’t read it yet? What are you waiting for!

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Innovating the Lean Startup Way

Eric Lanke

Elizabeth Weaver Engel of Spark Consulting has another white paper out. This one was co-authored with Guillermo Ortiz de Zarate of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, and it's titled " Innovate the Lean Way: Applying Lean Startup Methodology in the Association Environment. " Wondering how to start?

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The Perfect Storm

Spark Consulting

Over the next week, I’ll be blogging about and sharing excerpts from The Association Role in the New Education Paradigm , the eighth white paper in the ongoing Spark collaborative series. Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants.

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Innovative Workforce Solutions

Potomac Core

Associations are increasingly well positioned to help members and industries build innovative workforce solutions through their professional development and certification products. How can Associations help members respond to this growing challenge and build innovative workforce solutions? Innovative Workforce Solutions.

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Catch Spark at #ASAE16

Spark Consulting

In this unsession, we’ll share a preview of our soon-to-be released whitepaper, The Association Role in the New Education Paradigm (yep, the next Spark white paper is about to drop, y’all!). The deep dive session will be in Salt Palace room 255E from 9 – 10:30 am on Tuesday.

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Attention Doesn't Scale

Thanks For Playing

As a component of that presentation, and with Jeff De Cagna 's advice and assistance, I wrote a white paper on the same topic. This week, I'm going to be blogging about what's in the white paper. Switching from an information creation mindset to an information curation mindset is one potential way out of our dilemma.

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