Aaron Wolowiec

APRIL 28, 2016

Gina Sutherland, director of education and events, CalSAE. Q & A with Gina Sutherland , director of education and events, California Society of Association Executives. Q: If you could be a summer cocktail, what would your name be and what would you taste like? A: My summer cocktail name would likely be “Blinded by the Light” because my husband always teases me about my pale, Irish-influenced skin tone.

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Portage Group

APRIL 28, 2016

Should I ask for a raise? How much should we pay the new Membership Manager? Would offering flex days help us draw stronger job candidates? Knowing how to structure staff salary and benefits can be a challenge for any association. Associations are unique, after all - It can be extremely challenging to find comparables that truly reflect your unique realities.

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Smooth The Path

APRIL 28, 2016

Related: Joining verses belonging. Do association members feel taken care of? The big benefit associations are not providing enough of. The post One Reason Why Associations Connect Members appeared first on Smooth The Path.

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Association Adviser

APRIL 28, 2016

From advertising and sponsorships to grants, affinity programs and strategic partnerships, always keep the 3Ws of non-dues revenue in mind. The post Non-Dues Revenue Is Alive and Well appeared first. For more about this topic, click on the headline.

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Associations Now

APRIL 28, 2016

There’s an app for everything, and the latest is a tool for strong public speaking. Plus: Don’t leave baby boomers out when you’re hunting for new volunteers. Not everyone loves public speaking. It can be a daunting prospect for some. And for others used to presenting regularly, it’s still a skill to hone. Fortunately, there’s a brand new application to help with public speaking skills.

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Associations Now

APRIL 28, 2016

Speaking at ASAE’s Springtime Expo, 360 Live Media founder and CEO Don Neal encouraged attendees to reconsider their roles, saying they are not just meeting planners—they’re experience designers. Meeting planning isn’t just about logistics. It’s about designing and creating live media experiences that inspire and transform. Something New Big news arrived at Thursday’s Springtime Expo keynote session: ASAE President and CEO John H.

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Higher Logic

APRIL 28, 2016

Awesome content is everywhere in your community site, but how do you get people to notice it? More importantly, how do you get them to engage with it? If you ask me, I always start with great graphic design (and not just because I’m a Creative Director). Online content and content marketing is so much more than just text on a page. Great graphic design supports great content and in turn fuels great activity.

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Associations Now

APRIL 28, 2016

The Email Privacy Act, which passed the House in a 419-0 vote on Wednesday, could be well on its way to becoming law. The bill, which updates the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 for the first time in decades, is widely supported by advocacy and trade groups that hope to see a similar vote in the Senate. It’s hard to get every nearly member of the House to agree on anything these days, let alone a digital privacy issue, but a vote in the chamber this week proved the elusive go

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Associations Now

APRIL 28, 2016

Rundown Attendees: 8,000 plus. Exhibitors: 600. Speakers: 300. Education Sessions: 200. The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s Xponential 2016 starts in New Orleans early next week. More than 8,000 unmanned systems and robotics leaders from around the world will be in New Orleans in a few days to increase their knowledge about the future of industry policy and regulation, network with peers, and get a look at the latest technology.

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Associations Now

APRIL 28, 2016

The latest edition of Okta’s Businesses @ Work study says that the enterprise space is increasingly using cloud platforms such as Microsoft Office 365 and Salesforce, but the relatively new enterprise chat platform Slack is quickly becoming hard for IT departments to ignore. There’s a chance your association will become addicted to the chat platform Slack sometime in the near future.

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