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Tuesday Buzz: Don’t Forget Your Case Studies

Associations Now

How one association took a data-based approach to building effective, personalized case studies. “For my case studies, I gave members a word count and a theme (career progression, business development, profile-raising etc.) Also: Don’t forget that you won’t be in your board seat forever.

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Lessons in leadership from 2014

Aaron Wolowiec

So, what did we learn in 2014? However, I don’t want to close out 2014 with a resounding “Bah! In 2014 the ASAE Foundation released research revealing that many U.S.-based Mark Athitakis, a contributing editor for Associations Now. Part of me wants to say: Not as much as one would hope. Boards remain dysfunctional.

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Help Your Members Find the Signal in the Noise

Spark Consulting

A case study with the Institute of Food Technologists. Getting to the “Good Stuff”: Evidence-Based Decision Making for Associations (PDF), co-authored with Peter Houstle, Mariner Management, April 2014. The whitepaper includes: An association content curation maturity model.

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

Optimist Consulting

I was delighted to attend the launch of PARN’s 2014 ‘ Professional Body Sector Review ’last week. The report provides an overview of the sector, mixing research data with case studies. It was hosted by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in its 5 th floor conference suite; the views over the Thames were amazing.

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Q&A with The Discovery Educator Network Community: Connecting and Empowering Educators Across the Globe [Case Study]

Higher Logic

She hasn’t missed a day for #DENspiration dating back to July 29, 2014. Here’s a good example: The #DENChat occurs on Twitter every Thursday at 8 PM, where members post themed questions and have a discussion. A DEN community member has been running this for years, as well as her daily “#DENspiration” posts. The streak continues.

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Social Media Integrated Campaign Case Study Slam: SSIR Social Media on Purpose Conference

Beth Kanter

This was a theme slam where panelists had to share their case study in five minutes or less using a similar format and unique style of delivery. Not yr same old social media NPO case study SLAM at #SMoP14 pic.twitter.com/j7Gp12hIRD. Leila Roberts (@LeilaRoberts) May 22, 2014. Jed Miller (@jedmiller) May 22, 2014.

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From Blastoff to Outer Space: How Jama Software’s Community Became the Best Resource for All Things Jama [Case Study]

Higher Logic

Our ticket volume has continued to go down since launching a community in 2014, even though our customer base has grown,” said Kristina. Even when customers do create a formal ticket, 73 percent of Jama’s responding staff have found many inquiries can be solved easily by linking a customer directly to the best resource on the community.