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Associations Increasingly Adopting Communications Popular in Mainstream Life, But Do Members Care?

Association Adviser

The 2018 Association Communications Benchmarking Study results show the needs for a balanced approach to technology and tradition as association communicators strive to keep members’ attention. Communicating member benefits effectively” fell back to the second most frequently cited communication challenge.

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Why Your Survey May Not Be Getting You the Results You Need

Smooth The Path

If we ask on a survey, do you feel supported by the association? Is the survey asking me about the time 5 years ago when a staff member connected me with another member and eventually I got a great job through that connection? Words are open to interpretation. What does that mean exactly?

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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Sharon notes that 50-year longitudinal studies from Gallop Poll, NORC’s General Social Survey, Harris Poll, and Edelman Barometer, find that trust in public institutions and their leaders has declined steadily. Associations revolve around relationships, but the shape of those connections has changed. Trust is tied to value.

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3 Strategies to Recruit Members Through Association Software

Blue Sky eLearn

Will you send out the slide deck or performance survey to attendees? Webinars show prospective members that your association values its members enough to plan special online learning experiences for them. Think about it: much of your association’s operations happen online. Member communication. Member chapters.

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19 More Takeaways from ASAE’s Membership, Marketing and Communications Conference

Slice-Works

Two weeks ago, I began a series sharing nuggets from the most recent ASAE Membership, Marketing & Communications Conference. Calling all Small Association Leaders: 5 Great Ways to Generate Real Membership Value and Growth. Stop communicating and start relationship- building. Defining Your Association Value.

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Is New Technology Worth The Investment?

Association Adviser

Last month Reggie Henry, CIO of ASAE, recounted a story about an exchange with a University of Maryland student in which the student explained that younger people aren’t communicating by email anymore, but almost exclusively through social networks. MU: Relationships are formed when there is two-way communication.

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Association Brain Food: 2.24.23

Reid All About it

State of the association industry. Host: Personify Speakers: Wes Trochlil, president of Effective Database Management Tina Wehmeir, CEO at AMC Institute Megan Woodburn, Founder and Co-CEO at Strategic Association Management Erin Sullivan, VP of Marketing at Personify Tue 2/28 at 1 p.m. More info/register. More info/register.