Off Stage

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

4, 2008 - The Story of a Non-Profit Organization. The festival continued to grow, and the overnight campout for 30 people eventually exploded into a 4-day festival with 200 workshops, 50 vendors, 750 camping units, back-to-back stage shows, and the mournful sound of several hundred musical saws wafting over Michigan.

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Reid All About it

MAY 13, 2022

Associations put a ton of effort into planning and promoting events, then do little to keep attendees connected as a community and to the association after the event is over. Event Mobi explains how technology can help you build a year-round community and content hub for attendees. More info/register. Fri 5/13 at 12 p.m.

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Association Adviser

AUGUST 27, 2013

Thanks to mobile, members are dictating their experience with associations, not the other way around. If you’re asking the right questions and acting on what members tell you, data-driven organizations will be more successful than those driven by instinct and intuition. Technology.

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AMR Management Services

APRIL 3, 2012

She will report to USFRA Assistant General Manager Cindy Hackmann. O’Donoghue graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications. She has worked for several years managing systems, people and records in both for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Stronger by Association delivered to your inbox.

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Trade Association CEO Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

I started my professional trade association management career in 1988 but preceeded that as a volunteer. Through the years I have progressed with responsibilities in membership development, member benefits, education, government affairs, international relations, chapter relations, database technologies and meetings/trade shows.

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Off Stage

JUNE 22, 2011

Recently it seems that several of my association clients are involved in rebuilding their organization’s websites. Many websites were originally built because somebody told the association it needed a website to ‘be cool’ and appear conversant in technology. Encourage your staff to do the same.

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Trade Association CEO Blog

AUGUST 1, 2010

I started my professional trade association management career in 1988 but preceeded that as a volunteer. Through the years I have progressed with responsibilities in membership development, member benefits, education, government affairs, international relations, chapter relations, database technologies and meetings/trade shows.

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Trade Association CEO Blog

AUGUST 1, 2010

I started my professional trade association management career in 1988 but preceeded that as a volunteer. Through the years I have progressed with responsibilities in membership development, member benefits, education, government affairs, international relations, chapter relations, database technologies and meetings/trade shows.

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Trade Association CEO Blog

MAY 8, 2011

While we trade association leaders are always telling members the value of attending a conference, the same value exists for us organization leaders. I started my professional trade association management career in 1988 but preceeded that as a volunteer. Debbie Cook, Michigan Automotive Parts Assoc. Management. (4).

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Off Stage

MAY 23, 2010

In a blog post titled “ Managing Virtual Employees ”, Nipah Shah cites an example of an employee working as a financial analyst for a company in the United Kingdom—and she lives in Michigan. And what once worked for the association has become calcified past. Technology. Financial Management.

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Trade Association CEO Blog

AUGUST 1, 2010

I started my professional trade association management career in 1988 but preceeded that as a volunteer. Through the years I have progressed with responsibilities in membership development, member benefits, education, government affairs, international relations, chapter relations, database technologies and meetings/trade shows.

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Off Stage

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

14, 2011 - Making the Case for an Interim Association Executive. I have a friend, now retired, who served as AE of a Michigan Realtor association for over 40 years. The learning curve is steep for many such candidates, and the association’s forward progress can be quite slow during the transition. Technology.

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Trade Association CEO Blog

AUGUST 31, 2010

I started my professional trade association management career in 1988 but preceeded that as a volunteer. Through the years I have progressed with responsibilities in membership development, member benefits, education, government affairs, international relations, chapter relations, database technologies and meetings/trade shows.

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Trade Association CEO Blog

JANUARY 5, 2011

Whether they realize it or not, negotiators and voters in either association have four perspectives to consider in their decisions: Is this good for (1) our industry, (2) the members of our current organization, (3) our current organization, or (4) me personally? Debbie Cook, Michigan Automotive Parts Assoc. Management.

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Trade Association CEO Blog

APRIL 14, 2011

But if you want to see super-success you will most likely see it in trade associations where the staff CEO is a skilled and experienced association management professional and the volunteers believe and act as deeply about their association as they do about their business. Without them, the association is in deep trouble.

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Trade Association CEO Blog

MAY 14, 2011

Beyond the self-serving promotional nature of your newsletter, if it really does contain valuable news, consider the value you create in the minds of employees who may one day move to another employer who does not hold membership in your organization. And what of the young employee who grows up appreciating the value of your organization.

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Trade Association CEO Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2011

For the very same reason I tell my association members and prospects that networking is one of the most valuable of our member benefits, I practice what I preach and join as many professional association management groups as I can handle. Debbie Cook, Michigan Automotive Parts Assoc. Are you relevant to your organization?

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Trade Association CEO Blog

JUNE 12, 2011

And the best organizations have great leaders to manage those people into a well-oiled, productive team that executes the mission beyond expectations. Tom McKee, an acknowledged management speaker for Volunteer Power, has several valuable suggestions on motivating volunteers, including feedback, recognition, rewards and training.

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Off Stage

JUNE 16, 2010

She was a new Realtor association exec whose board of directors wanted her to get up to speed quickly on NAR policy and other unique challenges of our organization. It was a long way between Northern Michigan and the East Coast, and we settled on weekly phone sessions and reading assignments. Technology. Recent Posts.

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Trade Association CEO Blog

AUGUST 18, 2011

I started my professional trade association management career in 1988 but preceeded that as a volunteer. Through the years I have progressed with responsibilities in membership development, member benefits, education, government affairs, international relations, chapter relations, database technologies and meetings/trade shows.

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Event Planning Newsletter Press Release Michigan 28

Trade Association CEO Blog

AUGUST 1, 2010

I started my professional trade association management career in 1988 but preceeded that as a volunteer. Through the years I have progressed with responsibilities in membership development, member benefits, education, government affairs, international relations, chapter relations, database technologies and meetings/trade shows.

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Trade Association CEO Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Like most problems in association management, the solution is a moving-target and has multiple elements to consider. Take, for instance, my own experience with my association. Before long, I found myself managing a massively diverse company with a Board who hardly noticed they were needed. C6 Support.

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Trade Association CEO Blog

JUNE 20, 2011

When I resigned as Executive Director/CEO of my tiny State trade association earlier this year I feared that the Board of Directors would see this as a chance to cut payroll and run the organization themselves, as volunteers; something not uncommon. For more of my association management insights visit [link]. C6 Support.

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Trade Association CEO Blog

MAY 27, 2011

Real membership recruitment, however, occurs when the members themselves get excited about THEIR association and become CHAMPIONS of it. Staff takes on a sales support role when a member Champion is out verbally representing their organization in every conversation they have with suppliers, customers and peers. Event Management. (1).

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Trade Association CEO Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

If you are really brave and confident in the value of your association you might provide a Notice of Lost Members that plays to the People Magazine motives in all of us. Be brief and well organized. I started my professional trade association management career in 1988 but preceeded that as a volunteer. Event Management.

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Trade Association CEO Blog

AUGUST 1, 2010

I started my professional trade association management career in 1988 but preceeded that as a volunteer. Through the years I have progressed with responsibilities in membership development, member benefits, education, government affairs, international relations, chapter relations, database technologies and meetings/trade shows.

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Trade Association CEO Blog

JANUARY 24, 2012

Whether it occurs in the CEO, the staff, or among volunteers, burnout is a cancer that "can drain an organizations morale, as well as its wallet.". Almost all professors of burnout remedies warn against unreasonable expectations, certainly on the employees but also on the organization. Debbie Cook, Michigan Automotive Parts Assoc.

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Off Stage

JUNE 15, 2008

As an example, I have a friend who is the CEO of a mid-sized Michigan association. ”) and the CEO (or AE, or EO) should have the ability, influence with members and community, and charisma to guide the organization on its stated path. Impeccable Financial Management and Control. Technology. Team Player.

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Trade Association CEO Blog

AUGUST 1, 2010

Not only is your own boss or board of directors depending on you to synthesize their needs into a vision and then to organize and motivate a staff to execute solutions, you have staff that depend on you to provide for their needs, as well. So how does a manager build that challenging and learning environment?

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