Eric Lanke

DECEMBER 30, 2013

image source As we end another year, here''s a look back at the five posts on this blog that received the most page views in 2013. In laying out the guidelines that govern our activities, I realize that only one term makes any sense--association management.

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Higher Logic

MARCH 6, 2020

Jason, Broadcom’s Senior Community Manager, shared tips and lessons learned from this process in a recent webinar. Most Successful Community Launch (Association): American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE). Most Innovative Way of Using the HL MA Platform (MA): American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS).

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WBT Systems

JANUARY 31, 2017

A learning organization is one “that facilitates the learning of its members and continuously transforms itself” According to this definition , this type of organization is more responsive to external pressures, has a faster pace of change within the organization, and is better able to innovate and remain competitive.

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Nimble AMS

JANUARY 26, 2022

When we started Nimble AMS 10 years ago, w e looked at ways to change the industry, to disrupt the status quo of the association management software (AMS) space and help organizations rethink what an AMS actually is. To build a ground-breaking product that was innovative and cost effective.

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Eric Lanke

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Stop Calling It Strategic Planning Inspired by the take-down of strategic planning in Humanize , I pledge to stop using that term to describe the messy, constantly evolving process my association uses to determine our direction and set our objectives. I hope you plan to stay engaged in 2013.

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Spark Consulting

MAY 5, 2014

This is the path that NICSA (formerly the National Investment Company Service Association) followed to a dramatically simpler membership structure last year. Prior to November 2013, NICSA asked its 170 member companies to join into one of 18 different member categories. Where are your association’s sneckdowns?

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SCD Group

AUGUST 4, 2013

Well, I’m in Atlanta attending another annual meeting of ASAE: the Center for Association Leadership. This gives me a chance to share my thinking because it is probably similar to the thought process your members go through when deciding whether to attend your association’s annual conference.

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