Wild Apricot

JUNE 29, 2015

Want to find out how to motivate your volunteers, donors, supporters and board members? Check out our Nonprofit Blog Carnival round-up for June.

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Aaron Wolowiec

JUNE 29, 2015

The other day, while looking for an app for my 7 year old daughter, I was amazed at the amount of options in the app store – everything from shopping to financial planning to fun, 7-year-old girl games. So, of course, shortly thereafter I downloaded the Kroger mobile app, to which I’m now addicted. As a consumer, a mother and a working professional, I’m addicted to my iPhone.

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Eric Lanke

JUNE 29, 2015

I'm describing in a series of blog posts the different elements that make up my association's Strategy Agenda--a new term I've introduced in my organization to represent the essential work product of our Board of Directors. It is comprised of four distinct elements, each one nesting in the one that precedes it, and describes what we want to achieve and how we will measure our success in achieving it.

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Associations Now

JUNE 29, 2015

Innovation is about ideas and passions, but ISACA succeeds with it by putting research first. As prompts for innovation go, being stuck in traffic isn’t the worst thing. Earlier this year, Timothy J. Mason, chief marketing officer at ISACA, was listening to a news report during his morning commute about the upcoming State of the Union address.

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SCD Group

JUNE 29, 2015

Editor’s Note: Last Wednesday, I was inducted into the Ag Public Relations Hall of Fame. What follows are the tips from my career that I shared during the induction ceremony. Providing background for each tip makes this post extra long. but what the heck, how often do you get inducted into a Hall of Fame?! I’m going to share a few stories that I hope provide useful tips for your professional career.

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Associations Now

JUNE 29, 2015

The power of a concierge desk can now fit into your pocket. Plus: Learn all about the state of community management. Frequent travelers now have another reason to stay glued to their mobile devices as they move from airport to hotel and everywhere between. As technology reporter Dino Grandoni writes in The New York Times , hotels are stepping up their mobile offerings to accommodate travelers who are increasingly disinclined to call the front desk.

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Associations Now

JUNE 29, 2015

The advocacy group Freedom to Marry, which spent more than a decade fighting for the cause of same-sex marriage, will end its operations later this year. The group says its efforts will live on in future battles for gay rights. The job of fighting for the rights of the gay community is far from over, but with a significant victory last Friday, one group is eyeing the finish line.

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Associations Now

JUNE 29, 2015

The fate of government employee attendance at association meetings is again up in the air as a newly introduced bill aims to cut agency travel budgets by substituting videoconferencing. Last week, legislation was introduced in the House that would have major implications for government travel to association meetings. The “Stay in Place, Cut the Waste” Act ( H.R. 2810 ) calls for agencies to cut travel budgets to as much as 50 percent of 2015 levels by using videoconferencing as a substitute for

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Associations Now

JUNE 29, 2015

As the international investigation continues into the widespread corruption that plagued soccer’s governing body, a global sports security association launched an initiative that it hopes will prevent other sports bodies from becoming the next FIFA. There’s no denying that sports are big business, both here in the U.S. and on the global stage. The NFL, for example, raked in about $12 billion in revenue in 2015, while the governing body of the other football, FIFA, brought in a little more than $

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Associations Now

JUNE 29, 2015

This week’s Cannabis Business Summit and Expo, hosted by the National Cannabis Industry Association, will be historic: A fundraising event for Republican Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday will mark the industry’s first formal overture to a major-party presidential candidate. In case it wasn’t clear how mainstream the modern cannabis movement has become, Sen.

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