Thu.May 05, 2016

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NextDoor Neighbors Make Great Online Communities

Higher Logic

You’re going on a week-long South Pacific vacation next month and need a house sitter. How do you find someone you trust enough to take care of your dogs and house? Maybe you know someone who knows someone who has an awesome house sitter. Or, you could go online, scout what’s on Yelp and trust the advice of strangers. Or, you could log onto NextDoor and see who your closest neighbors recommend.

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Associations Can Help Members Reflect

Smooth The Path

Related posts: Professionals are in pain. A new mantra for the association community. Turning our member’s problems into opportunities. The post Associations Can Help Members Reflect appeared first on Smooth The Path.

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To Webinar or Not to Webinar?

Membersuite

If you’ve never attended a webinar before, you probably aren’t in a league of your own. If your association has never administered a webinar before, you definitely aren’t alone. Many association executives are just getting onboard with social media , let alone the idea of a webinar. Some of you may be asking, “what is a webinar anyway?

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Thursday Buzz: ‘Modern Family’ Gets an Association Friend

Associations Now

Phil Dunphy of Modern Family becomes one association’s ideal pitchman. Plus: Google makes it easier for event attendees to talk with speakers. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) and Phil Dunphy have created the real estate dream team. Ty Burrell’s character on the hit ABC show is a passionate Realtor, as evidenced in last night’s episode in which Dunphy explains the difference between a Realtor and a real estate agent in a dramatic and humorous scene.

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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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Three More MindShift Antidotes To Poisonous Toxic Conference Mindsets

Velvet Chainsaw

Antidote: a substance that can counteract a form of poisoning (and in the case of conferences, ingrained, fixed, established methods of thinking). An antidote neutralizes or prevents something harmful, damaging or dangerous. Some antidotes require antivenom used to treat a lethal situation. Many conference planning teams need antidotes to their panacea outdated thinking processes.

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Challenge Taps Student Minds to Make Roads Safer

Associations Now

A new challenge from the American Traffic Safety Services Association is encouraging students to think creatively about improving roadway safety. We may soon have safer roadways—and we can thank the American Traffic Safety Services Association for that. That’s because ATSSA is enlisting students to help ensure safety on roads with its “Traffic Control Device Challenge.”.

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Conference Circuit: Pay Day

Associations Now

Rundown Attendees: 2,500. Workshops: 170. Exhibitors: 100. The American Payroll Association’s 34th Annual Congress begins in Nashville next week. Close to 2,500 payroll professionals and industry leaders are headed to Music City to network with peers, learn the latest legislative and regulatory changes from government representatives, and discover the newest business and technological tools for processing payroll.

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Technology Group to Defense Department: Don’t Endorse Products

Associations Now

After a top Defense Department official appeared to endorse Windows 10 last month, a major computing trade group spoke out, raising concerns that specific endorsements could create problems for competition in the open market. An apparent endorsement of Windows 10 by a top Defense Department official has a technology group crying foul. In a letter sent to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter last month, the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) raised concerns after the Pentagon’s