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Remote Board Meetings: Are Your Members Playing BINGO?

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Maybe it’s because of facts like these, cited in a 2014 Harvard Business Review blog : 65% of conference call participants admit to doing other work while “listening” in. Our latest white paper offers 10 strategies for making remote board meetings more effective —including how (and how not) to use technology to keep all participants engaged.

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Does Your Association Need a Mobile Learning Strategy?

Associations Now

Should your association implement a strategy around it? 36.8 % Percentage of associations that offer technology-enabled learning that also provide a mobile version for some of their learning content, according to Tagoras’ “Association Learning +Technology 2014″ report. Out of the 200 respondents to that survey, 88.7

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Social Media Roundup: How to Evaluate a Constituent Management System

Associations Now

A new white paper offers pointers on picking a new membership and donor management system. So in today’s Social Media Roundup, we highlight a new white paper geared specifically to explaining membership software. — ASI (@advsol) October 8, 2014. Also: A social media celebration of our second birthday.

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Give Yourself Some Options: The Perks of a Hybrid Cloud

Associations Now

According to Building Trust in a Cloudy Sky [registration], a recent McAfee report, more than 80 percent of respondents said they are following a cloud-first strategy, meaning that 80 percent of their IT budgets would be spent on some form of cloud services in the next 12 months. Large organizations tend to be the drivers of cloud strategies.

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Why Is Your Association Still Sharing PDFs Online?

Associations Now

If this describes your content strategy, here’s a plea to change your approach. Here’s what she wrote for Search Engine Land back in 2014: In the end, PDFs are clearly not the best option for SEO. Across the internet, PDFs are generally seen as a faux pas for most types of documents.

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Too Many Ideas for Boosting Member Retention? Never!

Associations Now

If you’re not a journalist, here’s something you might not know about the typical article you read (or video, report, or white paper—”content,” if you must): It’s an iceberg. “That’s sort of part of our enhancement strategy, to do a check-in.” Get leaders involved in retention. .

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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. Peter Turner, Senior Advisor Global Development Strategy – peter.turner@mci-group.com. GSI 2013′s Key Findings.