Spark Consulting
JUNE 27, 2013
'I was recently reading an article in Harvard Business Review on the changing employer-employee relationship. The main point of the article, to quote, is: The time has come, we [authors Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh] believe, for a new employer-employee compact. You can’t have an agile company if you give employees lifetime contracts—and the best people don’t want one employer for life anyway.
YourMembership
JUNE 27, 2013
'Categories: Social Media and Business Trends Tags: millennials I’ve written about Millennials frequently. Whenever I do I feel like one of those old, white-haired Muppets in the theater box. I’ve read countless futuristic predictions from decades ago talking about previous generations being disruptive but this one is different. The sheer numbers of Millennials and their propensity towards consensus building, means most associations (and member-based organizations) are [.] ( Read mor
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Association Leaders
JUNE 24, 2013
'I like to read (though admittedly I devote less time to it than I would like). Personally, I like historical fiction and biographies. I like to read about what led the leaders of the past to make the decisions they did – sometimes shaping the world we now live in. I also enjoy reading “business” and “leadership” books occasionally.
Wild Apricot
JUNE 19, 2013
'We''ve just launched an online survey to gain insight on multi-chapter organizations. We''re looking for staff and volunteers of chapters, affiliates and their central organizations to participate.
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Reid All About it
JUNE 11, 2013
'Have you missed my Reads of the Week posts? I’m sorry I haven’t been sharing good reads with you here, but I’m still sharing them on my Twitter account. I take reading and sharing quite seriously. . It’s been a busy spring of conferences, a hiking vacation in southern Utah (see below), weekends away and lots of work for clients.
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Spark Consulting
JUNE 26, 2013
'Jamie Notter encourages us to become “ anti-fragile.” Mashable shares five reasons college students should join professional organizations (like associations?). What is your association doing to reach out to the next generation? Remix culture: Adecco’s doing it wrong in a big, public, messy way. Are you thinking about your video strategy yet?
YourMembership
JUNE 19, 2013
'Categories: Social Media and Business Trends Tags: cloud , SaaS Many years ago I worked for a disaster planning firm. Corporations paid them well to create danger assessment and recovery plans, everything from what to do in a flood to how to get back to operational capacity with only one employee living. These were the days of back-up tapes and we faithfully transported ours off-site [.] ( Read more. ) The post Let’s Get SaaS-y: Finding Comfort in the Cloud appeared first on YourMembershi
KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup
JUNE 25, 2013
'When I first heard Shelly Alcorn''s idea about having an association gathering in multiple cities across the country at the same time and shared virtually(!), I thought she was smart, but crazy. Though 100 percent behind the idea, when I considered the logistics of managing such a thing, I shuddered and thanked the stars it was her idea and not mine.
Wild Apricot
JUNE 7, 2013
'This week''s Apricot Jam round-up of links offer insight into boards and fundraising; how Generations X and Y are impacting events; strategic planning; and tips on content marketing for member recruitment.
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Aaron Wolowiec
JUNE 25, 2013
'Susan Robertson, executive vice president of American Society for Association Executives. From the minute we get up to the minute we go to bed, we’re surrounded by it: social media. Facebook. Twitter. Instagram. Skype. Sometimes it’s hard to keep up. But whether you dub it a blessing or a curse, there’s no denying social media platforms have made it easier to learn, to connect and to engage.
Eric Lanke
JUNE 24, 2013
'image source Last week, in It Doesn''t Scale , I vented a little. I was talking about some comments offered in the "Walking the Walk of Deep Member Engagement" learning lab Elizabeth Engel , Peggy Hoffman and I ran at the recent ASAE Marketing, Membership and Communications Conference. My segment of the session was about letting members leverage the resources of the association to direct their own volunteer efforts and, in last week''s post, I took issue with what one participant said about how
Spark Consulting
JUNE 25, 2013
'Turns out, being smart and talented and socially intelligent and healthy are all great…but they aren’t the key. What is? Grit, defined as the passion and stamina to persevere in the service of long-term goals. The problem is, we don’t really know how to build it. But we do know that it’s correlated to an attitude that sees failure as a temporary set back, rather than a permanent truth.
YourMembership
JUNE 14, 2013
'Categories: Association Management , Member Engagement + Retention , Membership Management , Social Media and Business Trends For you Spiderman fans out there, you will remember this sage advice given to Peter Parker by his Uncle Ben. It was at the heart of the inner conflict Peter battled as he lived his dual life as super hero and teenage science geek.
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KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup
JUNE 24, 2013
'"Wh-wh- whaaaat?". That was pretty much my reaction this morning when I read about a fabulous idea to recognize some visionaries in the association/nonprofit realm. How have I missed hearing of this until now?!? This is my first day in the Aptify-Tysons Corner office and as I glanced through an older issue of USAE - The Weekly Community Newspaper of Associations, CVBs, and Hotels that was in the break room, I read of the creation of the "Forty Under 40" Award open to all association, nonprofit
Wild Apricot
JUNE 27, 2013
'Here''s the June Nonprofit Blog Carnival round-up on "Data for Good". Great advice and tips on measurement and data analysis for non-profits.
Virtual
JUNE 21, 2013
'Friday is the first day of summer. Every year, I wind up with a “summer reading list” of books that I’ll read during the lazy days of summer. And every year, the list exceeds the number of lazy days. Here are a few on the list for this year: Drive by Daniel Pink. I have already started this one—all about motivation. I love one of the first examples: which would you have guessed would be more successful, an online encyclopedia called Encarta backed by Microsoft or one called Wi
Mariner
JUNE 21, 2013
'Proof that the world of words is changing faster than ever and that technology, especially social media, has powered much of this change -- after only 6 years, the Oxford English Dictionary has granted ‘tweet’ an expanded definition. Read more at How "Tweet" Got in the OED.
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Spark Consulting
JUNE 24, 2013
'Tired of your two-dimensional touch screen, which creates 3-D by optical illusion? Enter Obake , a project out of MIT that provides a “2.5-D” touchscreen that can actually respond in three dimensions to the user. Say what? Watch the video: Cool!
Aaron Wolowiec
JUNE 18, 2013
'Shana Killips, sales manager for the James B. Henry Center for Executive Development at Michigan State University, and Aaron Wolowiec, founder and president of Event Garde. From the editor: Considered Michigan’s premier education and networking event for professionals in the nonprofit sector, ORGPRO 2013 will be held from July 8 to July 10 at the Radisson Plaza Hotel at Kalamazoo Center.
Association Subculture
JUNE 13, 2013
'Just a fun video that everyone has already seen, but it''s totally worth a re-watch. One of the things we struggle with in associations is the development of new programs and services. I can''t tell you how many times I have seen programs developed in committees, with painstaking attention to detail and marketing, vigorous debates around pricing, long contracts drawn up establishing royalty relationships and then well timed wide launches at conferences or events with a full court communications
Wild Apricot
JUNE 12, 2013
'We want your submissions on Data for Good - for the June Nonprofit Blog Carnival. Deadline is June 25th.
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Virtual
JUNE 21, 2013
'Friday is the first day of summer. Every year, I wind up with a “summer reading list” of books that I’ll read during the lazy days of summer. And every year, the list exceeds the number of lazy days. Here are a few on the list for this year: Drive by Daniel Pink I have [.
Mariner
JUNE 17, 2013
'Creating a meaningful experience for volunteer leaders at a traditional leadership conference can be rather hit or miss for most associations. It’s that gamble that drove the Society for Marketing Professional Services to rethink and rebuild their program.
Spark Consulting
JUNE 20, 2013
'No, I don’t mean the typical “Boomers haven’t saved enough!” wailing, although that’s certainly likely to be a problem. I mean the hourglass problem. As in, there are somewhere between 72-79 million Baby Boomers, and there are a lot fewer Gen-Xers. I’ve seen figures ranging from 39-49 million, and I find it telling that while it’s easy to get a definitive answer to “how many Boomers are there?
Optimist Consulting
JUNE 12, 2013
'I saw this article in the Evening Standard yesterday about the Institute of Directors plans to reverse its declining membership. It has lost a third of its membership since 2006, which is depressing for any membership organisation to admit. Obviously the current economic climate doesn’t help an organisation like the IoD when its main membership audience is business people.
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