Associations Now

APRIL 3, 2014

Also: the consistent craft that drives innovation. That’s according to early results from the 2014 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report , shared by Tony Rossell, senior vice president of Marketing General, Inc. Innovation as Craft. Why not practice innovation? We practice a craft. ht @ SmoothThePath ).

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Spark Consulting

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Content marketing: how often? Top 10 innovations of all time. The 2013 Blackbaud Charitable Giving Report is out and John Haydon breaks down the key insights. As usual, ask your audience. Subtext, have we become too dependent on technology?

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JANUARY 30, 2013

Marketing Profs picked up Maddie Grant and Jamie Notter's survey on new leadership skills for the social media age (and wrote a really nice article about it). Want to make real progress in 2013? Content marketing is all the rage, which makes it even more important to do it WELL. Want to innovate in 2013?

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Leadership teams in big organizations must adjust their approach to tackling issues that inhibit innovation. Reassess the mess and create a more structured environment to stimulate innovation. An innovation initiator’s tips and more, in today’s Social Media Roundup. Never Too Late To Innovate. ht @ John_Brooker ).

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Associations Now

APRIL 23, 2013

This year’s paidContent Live 2013 was no exception, with many noting just a handful of women on panels, including Alejandra Owens, the managing editor of AARP’s blog. — Ernie Smith (@ShortFormErnie) April 17, 2013.@ — Ernie Smith (@ShortFormErnie) April 17, 2013. The company iterates fast.

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Spark Consulting

MARCH 4, 2015

All kinds of exciting goodies on the horizon, which is part of the reason the blog’s been fairly quiet of late. If you’ve missed the previous sessions Peggy Hoffman and I have given on our eponymous August 2013 whitepaper , you can catch us at ASAE later this month. Whitepapers.

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Principled Innovation

APRIL 2, 2013

This post originally appeared on the Associations Now Leadership Blog on March 28, 2013. Even so-called non-dues revenue streams are not the answer, as they too rely almost entirely on buyers from within “the member market.” The problem for associations is that the member market does not really exist.

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Thanks For Playing

JANUARY 9, 2013

Jeff De Cagna's six ideas for 2013. Shelly Alcorn's five terms for 2013. Social media predictions for 2013 from the pros. Marketers use fewer social sites. Digital trends for 2013 that are not the same old same old. It's focus on the new year week! My favorite? SED: Serendipity, Empathy, Discovery. My favorite?

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Expo Logic

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Once again Apple has triggered an event-industry innovation streak. While there are several event app developers offering beacon technology, Core-apps was the first software provider to ship iBeacon technology for alerting and analytics in the tradeshow industry and continues to be innovators in this field. About the Author.

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Aaron Wolowiec

DECEMBER 10, 2013

I recently attended an app swap (we public relations professionals are obsessed with new trends) and discovered a Lansing-based mom-and-pop store has joined the app market. For this blog post, I read the whitepaper – three times. And it’s not just big businesses that have jumped on the app bandwagon.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Particularly excited about that last addition is Avocados From Mexico, the trade group that markets Mexican avocados in the United States —and has done so quite successfully since its 2013 launch. AFM has spurred much growth in the space through heavy marketing tactics, such as Super Bowl ads and partnerships with iconic media brands.

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Mizz Information

JUNE 12, 2019

If you read this blog, you know I’ve written about both the Community Roundtable and their research for almost that long. actually, I did go down that rabbit hole back in 2013, come to think about it. Community outcomes can be connected to complex business objectives like innovation, culture change and customer retention.”

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

She notes that all members have problems, and associations prove their value when the benefits and innovations they offer provide solutions. As we think about providing great member value into the future we have three levers to pull: strategy, innovation and marketing,” Kaiser explains. Best Poster Ever.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Plus: the real deal behind the modern-day marketer. — Dave Lutz (@VelChain) December 17, 2013. But on the yearly member visits he makes, Lanke writes on his blog , he finds he spends more time talking about what his association does than soaking up what his members are trying to achieve. Lend members your ears!

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SCD Group

DECEMBER 2, 2013

The national survey was conducted online by Harris Interactive© from August 13 to September 6, 2013, and included a representative sample of 2,134 workers across industries and company sizes who graduated from college. Mobile Strategy for Small Businesses By Bridget Randolph via MOZ blog This article is written for small businesses.

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Velvet Chainsaw

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Disruptive innovation is the name of the game. Written and compiled by Julius Solaris, editor of the Event Manager Blog and founder of the 150,000 member Linkedin Event Planning and Management Group. The 2013 Speaker Report: The Use Of Professional And Industry Speakers In The Meetings Market.

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Associations Now

APRIL 8, 2013

tojulius : “Make your event a little less perfect and a little more innovative.” — etouches (@etouches) April 8, 2013. The thing is that inspiration is the truffle of our industry, very tough to find,” writes Julius Solaris of the Event Manager Blog. — Jill Stone (@jstonemeetings) April 8, 2013.

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Associations Now

JULY 9, 2013

. — Heidi Thorne (@heidithorne) July 9, 2013. In her HubPages article “ How to Use Brochure Printing for Your Business ,” marketing expert Heidi Thorne gives a full breakdown of the types of brochures, designs, printing, and paper options. — CUT Communications (@CUTComs) July 9, 2013.

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Velvet Chainsaw

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Seth Godin has tremendous influence, particularly in marketing, publishing and entrepreneurial circles. Earlier this year, Seth published his 5,000th blog post. Start With A Conference Blog. You need a conference blog, just like Seth blogs on a daily basis. “A conference blog?”

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SCD Group

AUGUST 4, 2013

After all, I am an aging association professional focused not on day-to-day association management but rather on thought leadership, blogging, speaking and consulting. The marketing literature includes this statement: What do you seek? Only at the 2013 ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition can you find everything you are looking for.

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Associations Now

OCTOBER 3, 2013

— John Segota, CAE (@JohnSegota) September 26, 2013. Writing for Association Adviser , Kelly Donovan, team leader for online marketing firm Naylor, LLC, suggests 10 ways that associations can use Instagram to improve member communications. ChatterBachs) September 13, 2013. — Jay S Daughtry M.Ed.

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Mizz Information

JUNE 12, 2019

If you read this blog, you know I’ve written about both the Community Roundtable and their research for almost that long. actually, I did go down that rabbit hole back in 2013, come to think about it. Community outcomes can be connected to complex business objectives like innovation, culture change and customer retention.”

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Associations Now

JUNE 5, 2015

“Prices are based on what has come before and what the seller believes the market will bear.” . “Cancer-drug prices are not related to the value of the drug,” Saltz said in his speech, as reported by the Wall Street Journal [subscription]. ” Saltz has spoken out on the issue before.

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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 it, I describe my takeaways from a roundtable discussion I facilitated at the second annual WSAE National Summit on Association Innovation.

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Associations Now

APRIL 27, 2016

It hired innovation firm IDEO to help it think big about its mission to serve the plant science community, and, with a bevy of ideas developed, it was time for ASPB to expand its footprint, Cato says. “We figured out who our audience was, and then we said, OK, we’re really talking about 35,000 people,” she says.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 23, 2014

But, having had a little time to let my brain stew over what I got from the session, I keep coming to this main point: Innovation needs context. I’d love to make an effort to fill in the gaps on my blog in 2015.). All of these things have their place—and I’ve written about each of these topics over the past two-plus years.

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Associations Now

MAY 31, 2016

In this space, I talk often about the things that show signs of success and innovation, but it helps sometimes to talk about when it’s time to cut bait. Thing is, many Chromebooks, most notably the first generation of the company’s high-powered Pixel, released in 2013, aren’t getting Android support.

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 2, 2015

I gave a lightening talk at the Gates Foundation convening of the Markets for Good community on “ Between the Keyboard and the Chair “ Facilitation and Train the Trainers: I was honored to co-facilitate a leadership track at the first ever Leading Change Summit hosted by NTEN which was an amazing learning experience.

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 4, 2016

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. One happy, healthy habit I started in Oct, 2013, was to integrate more movement into my work day. I strapped on a Fitbit and started walking 15,000 steps a day.

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Membership Marketing

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Growth of Online Marketing: More and more marketing dollars are moving toward various forms of online advertising. These digital marketing methods are being adopted because they are track able, scalable, measurable and global. In January, we will be launching our next Membership Marketing Benchmarking Survey.

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Beth Kanter

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I’ve just returned from keynoting the first Social Good Brazil conference that took place in Florianapolis, sometimes referred to the “Silicon Valley” of Brasil and where the nonprofit, social good, innovation, and technology community is leading the social change movement. I had a lot of fun with my keynote.

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Beth Kanter

MAY 8, 2016

I think I suffered PSTD from this watching and why this blog post was not written earlier). How did it come to be that one platform cornered the community foundation market and how was it decided that so many would host a giving day on the same day? How did community foundations support their nonprofit partners when things got bad?

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 24, 2013

No one trend truly defined 2013 in technology, but that just means the year was even busier than usual on the tech front. As we head into the holidays, here’s one more blog post to offer a little food for thought before you try to do something other than think about your association for a good week or two.

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Principled Innovation

MARCH 25, 2013

This post originally appeared on the Associations Now Leadership Blog on March 7, 2013. And in his blog post, Joe puts his finger on the dilemma this creates: For these associations, I suspect that the decision to increase has been tricky in recent years.

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Thanks For Playing

APRIL 26, 2012

” They asked each speaker to answer (in 75 words or less) the question: What development, trend, or marketing innovation do you predict will be in place by the fall of 2012 to influence every direct marketer’s year-end planning? Top association management Blogs. Blog Archive. SNAPs Blog.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 24, 2014

Pre-Show Marketing Tips. Here are a few exhibitor tips to share that can improve their pre-show marketing efforts: 1.Where’s Raise The Pre-Show Marketing Bar. Help your exhibitors raise their pre-show marketing game, particularly in contributing valuable content that’s valued by your attendees.

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Velvet Chainsaw

OCTOBER 28, 2013

As the digital wheel accelerates, we find ourselves buried in a tsunami of information… emails, texts, blog posts, newsletters, whitepapers, podcasts, apps. Adapted from Donna’s Meeting Innovation post on Cvent’s Event Planning blog. Marketing Attendee Acquisition conference marketing Conference Value Proposition'

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