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Help Your Members Find the Signal in the Noise

Spark Consulting

A case study with the Institute of Food Technologists. The Mission Driven Volunteer (PDF), co-authored with Peggy Hoffman, CAE, Mariner Management, August 2013. Member Relations: An Association-Centric Approach to Customer Relationship Management (PDF), April 2013.

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Association Brain Food: 2.9.24

Reid All About it

For Sunday soup night, I made a delicious wild rice and mushroom soup from the January/February 2013 issue of Cook’s Illustrated. – How Higher Logic Embraced AI While Mitigating Risk Hear a case study example of how Higher Logic internally explored and adopted AI tools while maintaining security and privacy controls.

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Membership 101: The Role of Volunteerism

Spark Consulting

In 2013, Peggy Hoffman (Mariner Management) and I wrote a whitepaper titled The Mission Driven Volunteer. The image above is from one of our case studies, the Oncology Nursing Society. After all, the association defines the board and committee structure, right?

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What I’m Reading

Spark Consulting

Association Adviser shares two case studies that prove it works. Associations Now shares the top five leadership lessons from 2013. Maddie Grant’s eclectic and interesting list of favorite reads of 2013. Associations Now shares some tech goals for 2014. Thinking about multi-channel marketing for 2014?

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What We (and You) Said About Membership in 2013

Associations Now

Over the year-end holiday break, you might have seen the “Best Of” editions of the Associations Now Daily News , one each in Leadership , Technology , Money & Business , and Meetings , which gathered highlights from our coverage in 2013. Freelancers’ Union: How It Topped 200,000 Members , by Ernie Smith, March 25, 2013.

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3 surprising facts from PARN’s Professional Body Sector Review 2014

Optimist Consulting

The report provides an overview of the sector, mixing research data with case studies. per year during 2000 – 2013. I thought I’d share three interesting facts from the report: 1) Chartership is on the rise. The number of membership bodies being awarded a Royal Charter has increased from 1.14

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Coming Soon from Spark

Spark Consulting

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. This session is the 201 course, involving two of our case studies from the whitepaper, looking at *how* they did what they did and where they are a year later.