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5 Practices for Improving Concurrent Sessions

Velvet Chainsaw

Conference organizers know that the “main course” of their education offering and value proposition is in the concurrent education sessions. Partner with a speaker coach or recruit members/staff who have great reviews for their presentation skills to develop and lead a series of webinars. This model can be very risky.

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Five Smart Strategies for Post Pandemic Success

Velvet Chainsaw

As a 25+ year member of NSA, I was eager to see how they would weave in their 50-year anniversary and deliver on a promise to elevate the education and main room experiences. Your long standing, highly influential members who may have pulled back or left your organization during the pandemic can be recruited back with a phone call!

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Why You Should be Segmenting Your Members by Data, Rather than Type

Higher Logic

Because online community and marketing automation provide member behavior data that allow us to hyper-segment and provide relevant, personalized content , instead of having to guess what members want to read based solely on their membership level or some other item, like demographics. So start sending them the right content.

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Building Buy-In for an Online Community at Your Association

Higher Logic

If a document like this doesn’t exist, hold some informational interviews with your executive director and the head of the board to figure out what the association's main goals are for the upcoming year. Member-generated content shows you’re the place to be , while fostering peer-to-peer engagement among your most valuable members.

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Why your association needs to adopt a flexible IT budget

Nimble AMS

Association Management Software: Your association management software (AMS) is the main technology your organization will need to upgrade if you feel your current software isn’t connecting you to all a reas of your organization. Because members want learning content, they’re willing to pay for the training opportunities.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.18.21

Reid All About it

Hear about how associations need to shift their mindset on recruiting, training and education; workforce trends that will shape the future labor market; and why retaining employees is more important than ever?. Polished, Not Perfect: How to Make Authentic User-Generated Video Content from Your Community Even More Powerful.

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5 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your Association’s Event

Blue Sky eLearn

With the right tools and strategies on your side, you can build out an approach to event planning that will always support these goals of recruitment and engagement. Repurposing Conference Content. Encourage current members to volunteer for events or try and recruit others for you. Repurposing Conference Content.

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