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What I'm Reading

Thanks For Playing

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? Want to innovate in 2013? Hey, lots of people have been writing interesting stuff! Does your association need social media training?

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Member Engagement and Association Building Blocks

Eric Lanke

They don''t want to assume a traditional committee leadership role. Our task force will investigate and discuss the issue for a while, and when we feel we’ve learned something, we’ll author a white paper on it, summarizing our findings, which the association can share with the rest of the membership." Thank you!

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Lean Methodology: Before and After

Association Success

I first read The Lean Startup by Eric Ries in 2013. In these conversations, some people indicated they would prefer to use a timesheet, and this anecdotal evidence fell into the hands of leadership. Once the leadership wants to pursue an idea it can be hard to push them into experimental mode instead of execution.

Project 68
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Video: THE Content Marketing Trend of 2014

Slice-Works

And even though content marketing was the hot topic of 2013, with marketers scrambling to create blog posts, e-books, white papers and infographics on the topic, 2014 is revealing a new trend. How can you used already existing content to promote that new guide, white paper or e-book? Video is a once and done deal.

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Non-Profit Leaders as Personal Brands

Beth Kanter

Leadership: There are several reasons to build a strong personal brand to help support your non-profit brand. Community: Finally, leadership and employees must engage with their community on an ongoing basis across different media channels focusing on the how and where their community likes to be reached.

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A Global Satisfaction Index for Measuring Local Member Engagement & Relevance

GlowGlobally

To begin 2014, we are featuring a new MCI white paper authored by Nikki Walker, MCI’s Vice President for its global association management and consulting practice, based in Dubai, UAE. GSI 2013′s Key Findings. A Global Satisfaction Index.