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MARCH 1, 2024

In this success kit from Nimble AMS, you get four resources: two half-hourish webinar recordings about AI for associations and two white papers, one an introduction to AI for associations and one on developing an AI strategy. As top talent becomes more and more difficult to attract and retain, mastering this process becomes mission critical.

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Reid All About it

JUNE 23, 2023

WBT Systems goes over some ChatGPT basics, brings up some concerns—like why you shouldn’t rely upon it to do all your work, and explains how association professionals, including education teams, are using ChatGPT to save time and jump-start the creative process. Oliver Burkeman ) Every self-help book boiled down to 11 simple rules.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 19, 2024

Dean West of Association Laboratory explores what dating apps can teach us about membership strategy. Representatives from as many as all 50 states (and possibly US territories and other countries as well) will get up to 1 minute each to highlight a trend, resource, book, webinar series, podcast, or new product or conference.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 26, 2024

Billhighway discusses the causes of leadership succession issues and offers strategies for preventing volunteer burnout , a big problem for chapters. Host: Forj Speaker: Amanda Lea Kaiser, keynote speaker and author of Elevating Engagement: Uncommon Strategies for Creating a Thriving Member Community Fri 1/26 at 4 p.m. 1 CAE credit.

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.orgCommunity

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Later this year we will be publishing a book on “Association 4.0.” For 2018, we think there are two words that should define the focus of associations: strategy and innovation. Innovation. This leads to our second watchword for 2018: innovation.

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.orgSource

APRIL 22, 2024

These innovators didn’t consider themselves in agriculture or robotics. I interviewed Hugh for, “Association 4.0 : An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” a book I wrote with my business partner Kevin Ordonez. One path to buy-in is to give others the opportunity to co-create the process.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Every great team needs a playbook—a blueprint that outlines the rules you live by and your strategies for peak performance. Those talks with association CEOs and executives who head businesses that service the association industry formed the basis for two books. Preparing a board to tolerate risk, is a sales process.

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Reid All About it

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The resulting data will help associations understand the professional development landscape, plan learning strategy, and budget for learning programs. Your contributions will help identify common pitfalls, communication gaps, and processes that challenge the association community. Content strategy. AMS/CRM selection survey.

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Potomac Core

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

When is the timing right to embrace innovation and change at your Association? How well are you positioned to help your member’s achieve their business outcomes in a time of dramatic innovation and change? ( [link] ). How innovative your Association is today will dictate whether or not your organization will survive or thrive.

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Membership Marketing

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In short, we have had to innovate. The need to innovate has led me to study some of the best practices in building an innovative mindset and culture. I have found two books as helpful guides. First is How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley, which I wrote about here. Networking as an innovator is different.

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Reid All About it

JUNE 4, 2021

Career Book Open Discussion. We will discuss the book Promote Yourself: The New Rules for Career Success , by Dan Schawbel. While reading the book in advance is encouraged, it’s not required. Through this interactive networking, you will build real relationships with like-minded and innovative association professionals.

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Video Innovation Content Technology 367

Associations Now

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Sometimes the root of your organization’s future might come in the form of not only finding the right idea, but finding the right way to sell innovation both inside your organization and to the broader world. Did you hear that the book industry recently reinvented the book for the smartphone era? A few considerations: 1.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 17, 2020

Another pair came to mind—Celisa Steele and Jeff Cobb of Tagoras—because they often discuss reflection as part of the learning process. Make time soon to reflect upon the tasks and processes that eat up your time every day , says MemberSuite. The Culture of Lean Innovation: Small Changes, Big Impact. More info/register.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Due to COVID-19, your nonprofit staff members are probably now working from home, you’ve had to pivot fundraising strategies, and your organization’s programming has likely had to adapt to social distancing guidelines. . In this guide, we’ll dive deeper into the appreciation strategies that your organization can implement into.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 19, 2021

Association innovation. Throughout March, Mary Byers, CAE, and the Loyalty Research Center are sharing stories about highly innovative organizations, their best practices, interviews with innovators, and challenge questions about innovation to ponder. Event Strategies 2021 and Beyond. Celebrating a new season.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 15, 2021

Judges get an inside look at some of the most innovative and outstanding marketing, membership and communication projects and programs in the association profession. Content/education strategy. Do you struggle to make member data central to your decision-making process as an organization? Mon 1/18 at 3 p.m. More info/register.

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Membership Marketing

OCTOBER 9, 2020

A time of crisis requires every organization to innovate to survive and thrive. But a common question is, how do you go about innovating? Matt Ridley’s book, How Innovation Works and Why it Flourishes in Freedom , shares valuable principles that answer that question. Innovation occurs incrementally.

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.orgCommunity

MAY 15, 2019

Associations can’t fulfill their missions without innovation. Innovation helps organizations create and improve processes, products, services, and experiences for their members, customers, staff, and audiences. 10 elements of the innovation mindset to nurture at your association. #1: 1: Creative curiosity. 3: Empathy.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 8, 2024

Digital platforms and processes infuse every business activity. If you’ve participated in a website redesign or AMS conversion, you know it is not always an easy process for either the experts or the novices, especially when teams are unaccustomed to working across disciplines. EI is not a new concept.

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Reid All About it

MAY 12, 2023

I’m tired of experiencing FOMO for this one, so I’ve already got my flight booked for Denver. WBT shares seven MOOC business model strategies you should definitely steal. Using uncommon strategies from her book Elevating Engagement , learn how to create an energized and highly motivated membership. Learning business.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 22, 2021

They share ten strategies for motivating members to volunteer and mentally show up for meetings. Do we have approval to book live conferences? Chapters will be relevant in 2021, however most of our strategies and plans from the past decade won’t. 8: Innovate. Virtual volunteer fatigue. Sponsorships. 1 CAE credit.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

She shares strategies for enhancing engagement and fostering a more inclusive environment for younger members. For this reason and many others, mentoring is rapidly becoming recognized as a highly effective worldwide human resource development process. Young member engagement. Member mobile app. 1 CAE credit. More info/register.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

. – Developing a Business Mindset for Nonprofits To increase your organization’s impact and further your mission, it might be time to adopt outside-the-box thinking and develop new strategies to catapult you forward. Put on your scientist hat to explore experiments to you can do to determine what engagement strategies work.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Kevin Ordonez,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy and I are going to explain why that’s a question everyone should be asking. We wrote two books on Association 4.0 They’ll be joined by Harriet Bogdanowicz, Chief Strategy Officer at the American Planning Association. But I’m not sure our AMS is up to the task.

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Reid All About it

JUNE 16, 2023

You should also check out Sidecar’s online community dedicated to AI and Amith Nagarajan’s (Blue Cypress/Sidecar) new book, Ascend: Unlocking the Power of AI for Associations —I’m reading it now. Fri 6/16 at 4 p.m.* – Smart Brevity in the Association World (Book Discussion) The power of saying more with less.

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Reid All About it

AUGUST 18, 2023

James Young at Product Community describes three fictitious associations on different tracks for the future —one’s traditional, one’s striving and one’s innovative. Which is yours? Reality check. Teenage girls are struggling with mental health. No s**t, Sherlock. More info/register. Mon 8/21 at 8 a.m. 1 CAE credit.

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Potomac Core

MARCH 22, 2017

In several instances, several Association CEO’s are utilizing radical transformation strategies to increase their relevance to the members and the industries they serve. Do Association’s need Radical Transformation Strategies to remain relevant enough to keep their members engaged over the longer term? What’s different today?

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Association Success

APRIL 26, 2018

But the process of participation, and subtle nuances in wording and norms, really mattered to the students. Because of that, co-creation is often as much about the process as the product, something I’ve written about before in the context of the IKEA Effect. Year to year, and class to class, the lists didn’t look that different.

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Principled Innovation

AUGUST 28, 2012

Last Tuesday, I began this series of blog posts on the six shifts presented in my new e-book, Associations Unorthodox: Six Really Radical Shifts Toward the Future , created in collaboration with CHIEF. If you have not done so already, I hope you will download the e-book , and read the Shift #1 post , right away.

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.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

As the home of organizations that draw on decades of history, it’s not surprising that we love the security of time-honored strategies. If you need proof that this profession boasts its share of innovators, read a few chapters of our Association 4.0 Both books were written before the pandemic’s curveball.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 18, 2019

Technology can streamline many processes, but not all associations are taking advantage. Here’s how to plan an efficient tech strategy. To jumpstart your technology strategy, Hopkins recommends: Strategizing your tech goals. “By Stanford Social Innovation Review shares how to make it effective and sustainable.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 28, 2022

Join this engaging conversation as Vince Caldwell leads us through the latest and best new business books on the market and shares his advice for young professionals along the way. Learn how the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association developed a unified process to manage their annual program participant survey. 1 CAE credit.

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NXUnite

DECEMBER 13, 2023

These mission-driven companies place purpose at the heart of their business strategies. From providing innovative fundraising software to insightful consulting services, mission-driven companies play a direct role in nonprofits’ ability to achieve their missions.

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Eric Lanke

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Innovation. Books Read. Secrets of Innovation. Not surprisingly, the question of innovation came up. What can a bunch of art students teach my professional engineers about innovation? By inviting them into our product design process, we have given them an opportunity to do exactly that. Labels: Innovation.

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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Board strategy. s (MGI) annual membership benchmarking report, so I’ve put this new book by Tony Rossell, MGI’s senior vice president, on my list: How to Grow Recurring Revenue, Reach New Markets, and Achieve Your Mission. Arianna Rebolini, BuzzFeed Books ). Membership recruitment. I love Marketing General Inc.’s Quick hits.

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Eric Lanke

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Innovation. Books Read. There Is No Recipe for Innovation. Or so seems the conclusion of this fascinating blog post from Tim Leberecht of the the frog design and innovation firm, in which he reviews and connects several established and not-so-established kinds of innovation. Association executive and author.

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Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Here’s another bit of content from my client presentation about innovation earlier this week. Yesterday I gave you my simple definition of innovation. After the definition, I talked about three different kinds of innovation. I think it’s important that we recognize innovation is not a singular activity.

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