Wild Apricot

MARCH 11, 2016

Barry Altland, author recently held an expert webinar with Wild Apricot titled, “How to Build an Amazing Volunteer Recruitment Strategy.” The webinar participants asked Barry many questions about recruitment and volunteering. Read on to see Barry's insights.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 11, 2016

This week’s list is full of learning opportunities—webinars, Blab chat, luncheon and brown bag. If you can’t attend a live webinar, go ahead and register if the topic interests you. Most webinar hosts send a link to the recording to all registrants. Tue 3/15 at 2 p.m. Eastern* – Project Management Techniques for Non-Project Managers (Association Chat on Blab).

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Mariner

MARCH 11, 2016

Looking back through my emails, I found this piece posted in the Baltimore Business Journal - 5 questions to ask before taking on a volunteer commitment. It’s a response to a question posed by a CEO who was trying to. encourage his leadership team to volunteer for their professional. associations as a way to build the brand. The CEO was getting some. push-back from his team who felt volunteering is often a waste of time. and of no true value.

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Socious

MARCH 11, 2016

Every week we aim to make your life easier by compiling the best community management articles from around the web right here on our blog. This week, our favorite articles focus on providing our readers with tips for online community management.

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Associations Now

MARCH 11, 2016

A recently released report looked at 18 trends, technologies, and challenges that will affect higher education in the next five years. But they’ll also have an impact on associations, as those students become members. Earlier this week I was pointed to an article on FastCompany.com that took a look at six technology advances in higher education that are preparing students for the future of work.

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Idea Architects

MARCH 11, 2016

A recurring frustration with online communities is when people start new discussion threads for a question or conversation when one already exists. Doing so takes up valuable space on the main web page of discussions, as well as in the limited "attention space" of community members. Actively moderated communities sometimes merge duplicate threads, but this seems to be more the exception than the rule.

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Associations Now

MARCH 11, 2016

The National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce will begin to help its members—mostly small businesses—work with MLB teams. The initiative came about thanks in part to a former player who has become the league’s primary ambassador for LGBT diversity in recent years. Major League Baseball is making a push for improved diversity, which, when it comes down to it, is just good business.

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Associations Now

MARCH 11, 2016

In the wake of an alleged violent incident involving a reporter and a member of Donald Trump’s staff, the association that represents White House correspondents says that the candidates’ approach to the media needs to change. The White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) says that the presidential campaign trail is getting too rowdy, and it wants the candidates and their staffers to change their tactics.

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Associations Now

MARCH 11, 2016

Check out the fierce competitors in this year’s food packing contest. Plus: Explore some of the biggest challenges diversity chiefs are facing. Ready? Set? Bag! Canned soups and cereal boxes flew at the Mirage hotel in Las Vegas for the 2016 NGA Best Bagger Championship , an annual event hosted by the National Grocers Association. Grocery store employees from 30 states flexed their bagging muscles for an audience of peers, coworkers, and bagging enthusiasts, turning every aisle into the ex

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