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OCTOBER 9, 2020

WBT Systems says, “The LMS is the workhorse for the professional development team, but it has many more uses beyond hosting online courses.” At MeetingsNet, Rob Carey shares advice from George Constantine and Jeffrey Tenenbaum on what you need to know about UBIT. Hear about some major considerations for online engagement.

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Delcor

DECEMBER 5, 2018

We spoke with Eric Thurston, CEO of Personify, about the company’s acquisition of a2z , an events management and optimization platform through which $1 billion is transacted annually. The acquisition gives Personify Corp. Furthermore, “The paradigm of who we compete with is changing dramatically,” Eric said.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 4, 2022

Useful learning. WBT Systems introduces us to action mapping , an instructional design method developed by Cathy Moore to “save the world from boring instruction.” You don’t have to keep up with ever-changing Google algorithms or be an SEO expert if you use WordPress alongside some handy plugins—they will take care of all that for you.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 21, 2019

Case in point: The spring of 2017 gave us a single news cycle that produced an AMS mega-vendor, a company called Community Brands. Case in point: The spring of 2017 gave us a single news cycle that produced an AMS mega-vendor, a company called Community Brands. Personify was itself acquired by an investment firm last year.).

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Reid All About it

MARCH 22, 2019

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… In a two-part series ( part 1 and part 2 ) on Association Adviser , Jeff De Cagna, FRSA, FASAE, executive advisor for Foresight First LLC, writes about building a future-ready association. Notice he didn’t say “future-proof”—he explains why.

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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Anne-Laure Le Cunff at Ness Labs writes, “With jootsing, a system’s rules can be used as a starting point to work against… the idea is to start from a seemingly unbreakable rule, and then… to proceed to break it.” 19 tips for reading more this year, from people who read a ton in 2020. I think Jeff would like this one.

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Reid All About it

AUGUST 12, 2022

Open access is disrupting the traditional journal business, which is why Gregory Bologna, CAE, writes at Association Ventures Playbook about climbing down from the ivory tower and rethinking digital publication opportunities. These traits would be useful when screening prospective hires too. Future-proofing. Association journals.

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Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Then I looked up “personify”: to represent (a thing or an abstraction) in the form of a person. A brand is an abstraction, and with all the talk of humanizing our brands, what I think we’re really talking about is personifying them. It allows us to build relationships, which is very deeply human.

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Association Subculture

AUGUST 26, 2013

My interview with Personify about my session at ASAE 13 in Atlanta, GA - [link]. Wow, my schedule has been nuts ever since Atlanta and I am just now getting around to sending follow ups and resources out to everyone who was able to attend the session as well as my readers here at the Association Subculture. Gaming in general.

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YourMembership

JANUARY 16, 2012

Eighty-percent of companies (who start blogs) never post more than five blog entries. What is so incapacitating about a blog? Blogs don’t always have to be about the words. Use podcasts as a way to “personify” your blog. They give up. Is it lack of content or ideas? Interview industry experts.

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Reid All About it

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Over at theNIRD.org, Ben Martin, CAE explains why the Personify/Wild Apricot deal is brilliant. Don’t let your eyes gloss over the news about the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which takes effect in May 2018. Attendees share ideas and ask questions about other associations’ best practices. SURGE 2017.

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Achieve

JUNE 1, 2015

He’s spent his career working to inspire others take action, and he personifies a generation of talented people who want to use their skills to help others. Supporting a family who lost a young son in a cruise pool drowning to make it mandatory for cruise lines to. Justin Lyons is a master persuader for social justice.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 4, 2013

ASAE’s Tech13 reminds us of the importance of storytelling. Create connections by telling your story in a way that matters to the people who read it. — Personify (@Personifycorp) December 4, 2013. Tell us in the comments. Plus: speaking the language of technology. Every organization has a story to tell.

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Associations Now

MARCH 15, 2016

Associations produce a lot of content, but if it isn’t properly optimized for your audience, you may be wasting a lot of time on content the people you care about don’t really care about—or worse, hiding the content they actually are interested in. Really like that @DebraTLS is talking about things in persona mode.

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Reid All About it

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Do you remember early last year seeing a slew of LinkedIn updates about an online DEI course at the University of South Florida (USF)? Peter Diamandis is in the midst of writing about 20 metatrends that will shape the decade ahead. Word-of-mouth marketing. But 62,000 people completed the course and earned a certificate. Groupthink.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 11, 2014

So we’re about two-thirds of the way through the 2014 ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition in Nashville. Love using Collaborate, ASAE’s private community? Probably not as much as Personify’s Jay Daughtry. Thinking about #innovation in associations at #asae14 LB5. Shoot us your take in the comments.

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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Cierra Loflin at Superpath identifies the telltale signs of an underperforming blog and shares the turnaround advice of three content marketers who inherited mediocre blogs. Are you an aspiring leader, an emerging leader, a first-time manager, or a professional serious about your personal and professional growth? What about the costs?

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Reid All About it

APRIL 22, 2022

If you’re new to association technology and haven’t quite wrapped your head around the association management system (AMS) concept, Personify shares a primer on what has to be every accidental techie’s favorite piece of software. She reminds us that there are all kinds of new member engagement plans for all sizes of chapters and associations.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 8, 2015

Last year during a session at ASAE’s Great Ideas Conference , Jay Daughtry, relationship development manager at Personify, shared the example of Air New Zealand’s in-flight safety video , which became a little more engaging thanks in part to some inspiration from The Hobbit. Let us know in the comments. Happy New Year!

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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Find out what over 230 of your peers really think about the AMS/CRM selection process and what they’ve experienced during selection. What stands out in the 33 research studies she’s conducted is how much members not just think but also feel about their membership. Make sure you hire someone who can do the job you need.

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Reid All About it

AUGUST 5, 2022

EventMobi shares the stories of six professional society and trade association staff—CEO, membership, corporate partnerships, professional development, conference programming, and event planner— who leveraged event data to achieve their goals. Youthful insight. Event marketing. Association podcasts. Quick hits. Amanda Kaiser ).

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Associations Now

AUGUST 13, 2015

It’s a gap for lots of us,” Vernon said at the “Closing the Confidence Gap in Women Leadership” Learning Lab on Tuesday at the 2015 ASAE Annual Meeting and Exposition in Detroit. You don’t need to be the loudest or funniest person at the table if that’s not who you are, and it’s important to accept that about yourself. “I

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Reid All About it

MAY 20, 2022

They point out the usual problem with keynote selection and suggest other ways you can use your keynote budget. You are not who you were. Your employees and your members are not who they were before the pandemic, says Dean West, FASAE, of Association Laboratory in an entertaining, insightful post. Keynote speakers. Quick hits.

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Associations Now

MARCH 13, 2014

The video—which to date has received more than 62 million views on YouTube—features women describing themselves, often in harsh, critical terms, to a forensic artist who sketches them behind a curtain. The video, along with the wider Real Beauty campaign, is about instilling greater self-esteem not just in women but in young girls as well.

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Reid All About it

JULY 8, 2022

WBT Systems writes about a new ad campaign coming in September from Opportunity@Work, a coalition asking employers to get rid of unnecessary bachelor’s degree requirements for hiring. The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Paper ceiling. This ‘ paper ceiling ’ holds back half the U.S.

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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Many of us are eagerly awaiting the release of Amanda Kaiser’s book, Elevating Engagement: Uncommon Strategies for Creating a Thriving Member Community , on February 14. Jenna Buckle, Superpath ) Everything you need to know about sponsorship sales in 2023. I forgot about this oldie-but-goodie, baked chicken and mushroom skillet.

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Reid All About it

JULY 14, 2023

Avenue M writes about “the complex journey of phasing out obsolete programs in associations ,” especially in the face of resistance. They guide you through the steps for creating a persona or avatar who represents a segment of your target audience. You can use any fish (or shrimp) and red or green Indian or Thai curry paste.

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Reid All About it

MAY 6, 2022

Elizabeth Engel, CAE, at Spark Consulting talked with Peggy Hoffman and Peter Houstle of Mariner Management about the chapter benchmarking report they recently published with Billhighway. A weekly conversation about meeting and event technology, including software, hardware, and audiovisual for in-person and online events. Quick hits.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 17, 2013

We’ve been hearing a bunch of hype about Google Glass lately, but is it worthy of it? The wearable computing tech, which has been around in very limited release for the past 10 months or so, has been the target of numerous breathless articles about its potential— particularly as far as conferences and tradeshows go.

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Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

I saw a tweet about the AMC Institute’s virtual engagement lounge where members can connect and talk shop between F2F meetings. Learn about the two important questions you must ask about these shared collaborations to ensure your membership program experiences growth rather than decay. Achurch Consulting ). Christopher S.

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on Leadership

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

The leadership quote I want to talk about in this post is from John Gardener, the late founding chair of Independent Sector, and is as follows: “The prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.”. And then they inspire us to believe in those decisions. Most leaders I have known or have witnessed are able to do this innately.

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WBT Systems

MAY 29, 2018

By the way, our TopClass LMS offers a turnkey integration with Personify, iMIS and other leading AMS solutions as well as Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics. Once a user is logged in on your association’s website, they stay logged in when using the LMS. Benefits of AMS/LMS integration. AMS/LMS integration is the best-case scenario.

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WBT Systems

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

We were shown an impressive demo of TopClass working in sync with Personify and it had a professional look and feel that blew the competition away.”. This stage of falling in love is where we begin to learn more about our LMS, where it begins to fulfill our hopes and expectations and our love and respect for it deepens.

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