Associations Now

JUNE 24, 2015

The Professional Ski Instructors of America and American Association of Snowboard Instructors has teamed up with the International Mountain Bicycling Association in an effort to engage their community of outdoor enthusiasts throughout the year. Ski slopes don’t need to be covered with that white, fluffy substance to provide countless hours of entertainment to resort goers and outdoor adventurists.

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Idea Architects

JUNE 24, 2015

In far too many organizations, facilitation is still seen as something done by an external consultant or internal manager or leader instead of a core capacity and contribution that everyone should be capable and confident of making. I want to change that. When more people see themselves as capable of being facilitative —whether they are the designated leader of a meeting or conference call or simply contributing as a participant— better results become possible.

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Associations Now

JUNE 24, 2015

The growing popularity of server-side software container platforms like Docker and CoreOS could have been hurt by market fragmentation. But instead of letting that happen, a number of tech-industry players joined forces in the newly launched Open Container Project, which has the Linux Foundation’s backing. Don’t know what a software container is?

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Beth Kanter

JUNE 24, 2015

Jeremy Caplan is the Director of Education, Tow-Knight Center Entrepreneurial Journalism and an amazing teacher. I’ve never met him face-to-face, but I’ve learned some much from reading and using his curated instructional materials. He recently shared “ Toolsets for Social Media ,” a brilliantly curated collection of tools.

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Associations Now

JUNE 24, 2015

Instead of focusing on micro-volunteerism, one expert suggests putting an emphasis on passionate, motivated volunteers. Plus: the keys to facilitating facilitation. Twenty Hats founder Elisa Kosarin, who helps nonprofit groups with their volunteer programs, is on a mission to counteract a trend she’s hearing a lot about from those she works with.

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Associations Now

JUNE 24, 2015

This week the National Association of Federal Credit Unions announced a plan to offer its services to state-chartered credit unions that are federally insured. The change, which the association has mulled for a while, comes at a time when another association in the credit union space is facing questions about its membership structure. The National Association of Federal Credit Unions (NAFCU) is getting a little less federal and a little more inclusive.

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Associations Now

JUNE 24, 2015

As the resident expert, the association online community manager often serves as an internal consultant to teach other staff about online member engagement. In the future, though, we may all be community managers. For a long time, if you wondered which staff at your association interacted with the most members most frequently, the answer was the member-service staff, or whoever was answering phone calls and emails from members with questions.

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