Tue.Jan 17, 2017

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Quality trumps volume of applications for association career centers in 2017.

YourMembership

Spend less time competing with mass job boards that offer a larger number of far less qualified talent. A recruiter’s job is to provide internal clients (aka hiring managers) with potential candidates to interview that—if hired—will help advance the organization’s performance. The candidates must be qualified and demonstrate they possess high potential.

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Three Analytics Community Managers Need to Track

Higher Logic

When it comes to analytics and KPIs, it can be hard for community builders to know exactly what to focus on. Some platforms have dashboards that display the ins and outs of the community, but some community managers work with simpler social media networks, or painstakingly pull Excel spreadsheets with tons of raw data. But what are the important numbers for you to focus on at any given time?

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The State of the MOOC: What Associations Should Know

Associations Now

Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, have been around long enough that some strong takeaways are starting to show themselves. Read on to see what Harvard and MIT have learned about MOOCs—and what your association should keep in mind. The buzz around massive open online courses, or MOOCs, hasn’t dissipated in the years since the trend has picked up.

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What do you think of your AMS? I’d love to know…

Effective Database

I’m conducting a brief survey on association’s opinions of their current AMS. I’ve already got over 100 participants and I’d love to have your opinion, too. Click here to take the survey , which should only take you three minutes to complete.

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Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Association Member Education

Unlock More Profit and Smarter Packaging for Member Learning Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your association’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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National Safety Council Debuts Emergency Training Kit

Associations Now

Hoping to fulfill its mission of preventing injuries and death, the National Safety Council created a new kit that enables organizations to teach their employees the skills required to weather an emergency situation. As this month’s shooting in the Fort Lauderdale Airport illustrated , emergency situations crop up unexpectedly. That’s why the National Safety Council, whose mission is to eliminate preventable deaths, put together the NSC Emergency Preparedness Training.

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Tuesday Buzz: Keeping Your Online Community Engaged

Associations Now

Don’t let your online community get stale. Also: the tactics Coachella uses to redefine the concert experience. Has your online membership community gone quiet? You’d like to see your members engaging with one another and your association online, but if you’re only hearing crickets, there are ways to get your members talking again. On Socious’ Online Community Blog, Christina Green recommends going beyond a welcome email during the onboarding process.

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Inauguration Energy: You Have A Choice To Make

Holly Duckworth

It’s going to be everywhere you look this week. In social media, newspapers, and TV, the energy building around the inauguration. Instead of being drawn into the frenetic energy I want to remind you, you have a choice to make. Don’t let the media, or your friends make it for you. You have a choice to make. Stop. Pause. Breathe. It’s all energy.

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Credit Union Group Develops Interactive Virtual Classrooms

Associations Now

To better meet its members’ education needs, CUES is rolling out a type of e-learning that offers more interaction than traditional online education formats do. Recognizing that not all its members have the time and budget required to travel to in-person education programs, as well as that some topics are difficult to tackle in the traditional online learning environment, the industry group for credit union executives, CUES, recently launched a live-taught web-based series called the CUES Elite

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Make it Easy for Members to Love your Association LMS!

WBT Systems

Increasingly, associations are adopting Learning Management Systems (LMS) to help simplify the administration and delivery of education and certification programs to a membership that is more geographically dispersed, increasingly busy, and dealing with a changing economy which can make it more difficult to attend meetings and conferences in person.

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2024 Association Survey Results Report

2024 Association Survey Results Report For the 10th year, association professionals across the U.S. and Canada provided a look at the inner workings of their organizations when they replied to GrowthZone’s annual survey. Read the 2024 survey results report to see how your association compares: Top Challenges Retention Rates Non-Renewal Reasons Automatic Renewals Reinstatement Strategies Member Engagement Changes & Strategies Why Members Join Non-Dues Revenue Sources Dues Increases, and more

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Retail Industry’s New Training Effort Wants to Build Better Workers

Associations Now

At least 20 major retailers are taking part in RISE Up, an education effort announced by the National Retail Federation Foundation this week. The retail industry wants to solve its employee turnover problem, and the nonprofit foundation of the association that represents many of those retailers is ready to lead the way. The National Retail Federation, currently in the midst of Retail’s BIG Show (its annual tradeshow taking place in New York City), announced a new initiative through its NRF Found

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Why a Virginia Advocacy Group Is Recording Legislative Committee Hearings

Associations Now

Progress Virginia’s Eyes on Richmond project, developed as a workaround to the state’s decision not to record committee hearings itself for public consumption, is an effort at “radical transparency” in legislation, according to the group. A Virginia advocacy group—with the help of a bevy of videographers—is working to solve one of the state legislature’s largest transparency problems.