Vanguard Tech

DECEMBER 7, 2015

ASAE’s 2015 Technology Conference and Expo is just a week away and one of the most exciting topics will be the MarComm & Technology Pathway exploring how marketing, communications and technology present a true digital experience for associations and their members.

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Association Adviser

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

We spent some time with Dayak to ask how the association’s integrated media and communications department supports public power and reinforces membership value. Meena Dayak: I’ve worked with the association for a little over three years as the vice president for integrated media and communications.

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Aaron Wolowiec

MAY 24, 2016

The 2016 Association Email Marketing Benchmark Report analyzes nearly 2 billion emails sent by associations in 2015. We’ll delve into the findings shortly, but first, Informz points out marketing automation technology has transformed the way associations communicate. Friday had the highest weekday open rate at 37 percent.

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Aaron Wolowiec

MAY 24, 2016

The 2016 Association Email Marketing Benchmark Report analyzes nearly 2 billion emails sent by associations in 2015. We’ll delve into the findings shortly, but first, Informz points out marketing automation technology has transformed the way associations communicate. Friday had the highest weekday open rate at 37 percent.

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Marketing Email Marketing Newsletter Report 140

Association Adviser

MAY 18, 2018

Last year’s survey results revealed that associations are communicating with members more frequently and via more channels than at any time since we began this survey in 2011. Other outsourced communication functions include magazines, directories and social media. Why segment your member communications? Student status.

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Associations Now

JUNE 16, 2015

The International Association of Conference Centres recently revealed a list of the top-10 meetings-related technology trends that are affecting venues and planners. Bottom line: Technology is enabling everything from site evaluation to connections with remote participants. What new technologies are you implementing at your meetings?

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Beekeeper Group

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Through interactive workshops involving expert panelists, presentations, case studies and roundtable discussions, attendees gain knowledge of strategies and practices that will enrich communications and relationships between citizens and Congress. Topics and dates are as follows: March 27, 2015: Reaching Capitol Hill: The Class of 2015.

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Association Adviser

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Timberlake Membership Software offered associations an efficient way to organize and track member data, manage member dues, communicate with members and more. Timberlake Membership Software became Timberlake AMS Solutions after Naylor acquired the company in early 2015.

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Aaron Wolowiec

JUNE 9, 2015

But thanks to periods of economic stability, for the first time in a decade, these always-on-go folks will have time to take a breath and think strategically, according to Meeting Professionals International’s Meetings Outlook, 2015 Spring Edition. It was developed in partnership with Visit Denver. Are you doing things differently?

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YourMembership

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Sometimes I think we forget that as we run from place to place, trying to keep up with never ending demands on our time, trying to keep up with the direction our technological driven lives lead us daily. The 10 Essential Questions to Answer for the 2015 Association Budgeting Season. We are human beings, not machines.

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Achurch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Technology enables easier, quicker team collaboration. For example, you can redirect funding you would have paid for your lease or mortgage to investments in CRM platforms with AI tools, smarter communication tools, upgraded technologies, and expanded services to provide a higher level of service to their customers.

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Potomac Core

MARCH 3, 2020

Factors including Coronavirus Disease , supply chain disruptions , political polarization , innovative technologies, cyber threats, trade policy, shifting consumer attitudes, & workforce shortages all complicate markets. Communicate Industry and Profession ROI. Foster and communicate solutions.

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Associations Now

JUNE 4, 2014

More than 100 organizations are asking Congress to appropriate at least $200 million to help make available education technology devices, resources, and professional development throughout the nation’s school districts. Technology can open the door to new types and ways of learning that were not imaginable even a few short years ago.

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Higher Logic

MAY 8, 2019

If your target audience has opted into your communications, the open rate should be on the higher end. Follow our tips to improve your association’s email open rate and boost member engagement, building a stronger communications strategy along the way. Provide community members options. (PS: Let them make that choice.

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Associations Now

MAY 21, 2015

And in today’s evolving communications and marketing environment, it’s important to find someone who has the right skills to take your associations to the next level. Technology: As technology becomes easier to work with, our expectations have increased. This is about what to do next. Which new skills would it benefit from?

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KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup

MARCH 24, 2015

The March 24, 2015 edition of Association Chat will focus on The Digital Organization - inspired by this great book. Here are the questions I''ll be asking this week: How has technology allowed your org to provide a more personalized focus on the customer or member? Is your association a digital organization? If it doesn''t, why not?

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Associations Now

JUNE 10, 2015

As associations get better at using technology to personalize products and services to each individual member, what happens to direct human engagement between the member and the association? ” says Kunz, VP, strategic planning, at communications and advertising agency Mediassociates. Let us know in the comments.

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AssociationChat

JULY 17, 2020

“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. Infectious Madness was released in October 2015.

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Association Adviser

DECEMBER 20, 2017

This month we asked our readers what technology has made the biggest difference for your organization in 2017. The results: What technology has made the biggest difference for your organization in 2017? A plurality of respondents chose “other” as their technology game-changer. We asked this same question at the end of 2015.

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Associations Now

JUNE 30, 2019

Lack of communication on leaders’ part has some proven consequences: A 2015 SHRM poll found that 64 percent of workers say that “leaders making decisions without seeking input” was their top concern. Similarly, a 2015 Gallup poll found that 67 percent of employees are engaged when their managers give feedback on their strengths.

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Aaron Wolowiec

MARCH 31, 2015

1, with marketing and communications taking the No. 2 slot, followed by technology. “In In a major shift from 2014-2015, our survey results show that it has become a candidate’s market, increasing the challenge for nonprofit managers to find and hire the staff they need and to pay the higher salaries required,” the report says.

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Association Adviser

DECEMBER 20, 2017

This month we asked our readers what technology has made the biggest difference for your organization in 2017. The results: What technology has made the biggest difference for your organization in 2017? A plurality of respondents chose “other” as their technology game-changer. We asked this same question at the end of 2015.

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Virtual

DECEMBER 29, 2014

And we’ve really begun to make headway as a technology-focused alliance management company—capable of supporting open-source technology associations , standard-setting alliances, and IoT consortia, in addition to our other practice areas. Here at Virtual, Inc., we’ve certainly had a memorable year…. We celebrated a big birthday.

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WBT Systems

DECEMBER 12, 2016

TopClass LMS had previously been named the Best Association LMS in 2015. The best LMS salespeople listen more than they sell, are energized by solving business problems, and are super-responsive communicators. ” WBT Systems will be exhibiting at the ASAE Technology Conference 2016 National Harbor, Maryland, December 13-14.

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Higher Logic

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In early 2015, Protech Associates Director of Customer Care Matt Bruffey recognized the need to improve the customer support experience. Our support was really a communications black box,” said Bruffey. We had little or no direct communication with our users, and many of them felt they were being left to fend for themselves.”.

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Associations Now

MARCH 22, 2019

The group, which represents small cable providers, is rebranding to ACA Connects in part because it wanted to put the focus on what its members’ technology does, not what it is. Case in point: The American Cable Association announced this week that it would shed the term from its name and call itself ACA: America’s Communications Association.

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Potomac Core

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Advances in software, manufacturing, communications, science, and medicine occur every day. The future state of associations “envisions” their roles as communication hubs engaging members that share and capture knowledge. The rapid rate of change looks to only accelerate. Future Paved With Knowledge.

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Associations Now

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

To kick off a year of centennial celebration, the ASAE team created an interactive timeline highlighting the impact associations have made on society over the past 100 years—from the passage of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, in 1920 to the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision guaranteeing marriage equality.

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Higher Logic

AUGUST 28, 2018

The Veterinary Hospital Managers Association (VHMA) used their marketing automation software and their AMS, YourMembership, integration to restructure their renewal communications. Sharon Conley, Web-Based Technology Director at NASN, said, “That we can get people to convert with the software we have now is really amazing.”

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Higher Logic

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Best Community Manager: Jamie Chapman, The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. Since the launch of Link (The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi’s online community) in 2015, Jamie Chapman has worked tirelessly to make it an engaging platform and valuable networking tool. Say congrats on Twitter! Say congrats on Twitter! Highlights.

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Optimist Consulting

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

The BBC shared in 2015 that its podcast downloads had increased by 36% year on year. However, like with any form of communication you need to start with the objective – what is it you want to communicate? I was recently commissioned by a client to produce some podcasts, interviewing the winners of their awards.

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Higher Logic

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Our guest blogger Rachel Happe co-founded The Community Roundtable to support business leaders developing their community and social business strategies. Rachel has spent the last 20 years helping organizations implement emerging technologies to advance their business strategies. We've all been there. You go to an event.

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Aaron Wolowiec

DECEMBER 16, 2014

I served as director of communications for an association for four years – and I loved every minute of it. I was all things communications, media relations and public relations. Eighty-eight percent think members perceive their marketing and communication efforts as sometimes to always relevant and professional. But marketing?

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Associations Now

MARCH 26, 2019

AdvaMed, an association of medical device manufacturers, will launch an information-sharing and analysis organization focused on cyberthreats to encourage collaboration and keep healthcare technology secure. Now the medical devices sector is taking the same approach.

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SCD Group

JANUARY 1, 2015

This is the time of the year that prognosticators love to tell us what is likely to happen in 2015. 2015 will see the end of fractured programs and tactics. Frank Strong, Director of Communications, Lexis Brands will recognize the role of editor as the missing link to true content marketing effectiveness.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 13, 2020

As I wrote in 2014 , the USB Implementers Forum had managed to pull off an improbable feat over the prior two decades or so, with the technology becoming the de facto standard for plugging in just about everything. And despite all these new technologies, you might end up buying a USB-C device that only supported the downright ancient USB 2.0

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Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Its first office outside North America was opened in Mumbai, India in 2015. Making Online Communities Work in 2016. Since technology has become such an integral part of everyday life, it’s more important than ever for organizations to find ways to connect with their members online. More info/register. Host: MCI Group.

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