Association Leaders

OCTOBER 30, 2011

As an association management professional and a business person, I spend time thinking about and planning for the future. I’m sure you do this in your business as well. For example, you try to imagine what kinds of products/services your customers will want in ten years so you can position your company to deliver them. I wonder what associations will look like in ten years so I can determine how we can best be positioned to meet and exceed their needs and the needs of their members.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Take a Nonprofit Blog Carnival ride to get insight into the volunteer experience and how you can improve it. Here is a round-up of posts from around the web offering tips on volunteer engagement.

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Reid All About it

OCTOBER 11, 2011

I usually start off my selection of good reads with something to help you save time or be more productive, but nothing wowed me this week. So I wrote my own: Be Productive While Having a Beer (or Two). This is such a cool idea from Mike Brown at Brainzooming: assign extreme creativity makeover roles to everyone on your project team. You be the Outrageous Ideameister and I’ll be the Minister of Scare the S#!

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Eric Lanke

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Eric Lanke. Association executive and author. Pages. Home. Leadership. Innovation. Member Engagement. Generations. Books Read. Fiction. Monday, October 31, 2011. Race for Relevance is a Negotiating Position. Theres been a lot of buzz in the association community lately about Race for Relevance (R4R), the book by Harrison Coerver and Mary Byers. I saw Coerver present its ideas at one meeting of association executives I attended, lots of my colleagues saw him present at another , and a third Im fa

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Association Subculture

OCTOBER 28, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Friday, October 28, 2011. Embrace the Ordinary. There goes my hero. Watch him as he goes. There goes my hero. Hes ordinary. Foo Fighters, My Hero. We put too much mystery in the word "innovation.". We ascribe profound moments of change to the "eureka" myth and assume we just dont have much to offer. We imagine brainstorming sessions must be fast-paced, high energy idea-fests with lots of loud talking and waving arms over heads with the requisite magical results.

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Association Leaders

OCTOBER 17, 2011

I participate in many meetings – in fact, every day I am involved in one or more meetings of one kind or another. There are staff meetings, conference calls, webinars, committee and task force meetings, board meetings, conferences, trade shows, and more. There is nothing more frustrating than unproductive meetings – they are a waste of everyone’s time – and time is a finite and very valuable resource.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 19, 2011

This month we've found 22 free non-profit webinars. Topics include mobile marketing; press releases; email marketing; multi-channel fundraising; volunteer job descriptions; grant proposals and much more.

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Reid All About it

OCTOBER 8, 2011

Is it five o’clock already? It’s been a good day. Most of the items on your daily to-do list have been crossed out. However, you’re getting your usual late afternoon second (or third?) wind. Your brain is still clicking. You could still put in a few hours work. Then a thought rears up in your mind, or is it a little devil on the shoulder? Wouldn’t a beer or glass of wine taste good right now?

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Eric Lanke

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Eric Lanke. Association executive and author. Pages. Home. Leadership. Innovation. Member Engagement. Generations. Books Read. Fiction. Monday, October 24, 2011. Why Innovation is Hard. image source. A little over a month ago I attended WSAEs National Summit on Innovation for Associations. As chair of WSAEs Innovation Task Force, I was instrumental in helping to frame WSAEs annual conference around the subject of innovation, and was even recognized as the chair of the conference itself.

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Association Subculture

OCTOBER 18, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Tuesday, October 18, 2011. Creativity in Association Management - Are You the Roadblock? Do you run your staff meetings like this? How about your board meetings? We talk so much about creativity and innovation in the association sphere but we know so little about how to actually facilitate their achievement. This Dilbert cartoon just nailed it on Sunday.

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Virtual

OCTOBER 26, 2011

It’s meeting season. Over the past three weeks, our clients have held nearly a dozen meetings and conferences of all types—with over 2500 total attendees. We’ve had some great success with our meetings and events in recent weeks. As I think about why, it struck me that there are a few general rules that associations [.].

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Association Leaders

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Having been in the business of working with volunteer leaders of associations for nearly twenty years, I’ve given lots of thought to why people volunteer, what makes people good volunteers and is there such a thing as a bad volunteer? Regarding the last question, do you remember the adage ‘There’s no such thing as bad students, only bad teachers’?

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Organizations struggling to manage member data should embrace a member-driven culture and centralize data. Here are some steps you can take and resources available to help manage your membership database.

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Reid All About it

OCTOBER 4, 2011

If you’re behind in your blog reading, like I am, let me help you out by suggesting a few of my recent favorites. Three of these bloggers have something in common, can you figure out what it is? Long ago I stopped trying to keep up with Facebook changes. My work doesn’t require me to be a Facebook expert, so why not let the experts figure it out and soon enough I’ll learn from them everything I need to know.

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Eric Lanke

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Eric Lanke. Association executive and author. Pages. Home. Leadership. Innovation. Member Engagement. Generations. Books Read. Fiction. Monday, October 17, 2011. The Chief Detail Officer. Heres a TED talk worth watching. Its from April 2010, but the point it makes is timeless, even if the Tiger Woods jokes arent. Rory Sutherland persuasively makes the case that organizations dont spend enough time working on the small stuff.

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Golden's Rules for Association

OCTOBER 13, 2011

That somewhat startling and counterintuitive piece of advice comes from futurist Dan Burrus. “No matter what your angle for competing – whether you are competing on price, service, quality, time, design, or anything else – the unfortunate outcome is you’re making yourself too much like everyone else. So even when you are in the lead, [.].

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Virtual

OCTOBER 21, 2011

It’s impossible for anyone who has witnessed the personal computer and personal technology age from its beginning to separate Steve Jobs from that incredible odyssey. From the start, he envisioned, created, and defined new platforms and categories of media experience. Sometimes he was not the first to invent, as with the mouse, the MP3 Player, [.].

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Association Subculture

OCTOBER 11, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Tuesday, October 11, 2011. Associations Are the 99%. "To those wondering whether to pay attention to the "Occupy Wall Street" (OWS) protests, the answer is yes. This is more than just a nascent movement that will grow in the weeks and months ahead. It is part of a worldwide drive for greater social justice.".Mohamed A.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Tuscan travellers and volunteer groups - both need time for orientation and reflection. Here's some insight into volunteer engagement and a reminder: Nonprofit Blog Carnival on Volunteers closes Oct. 24.

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Reid All About it

OCTOBER 1, 2011

Whoops, it’s already October, how did that happen? Here’s my selection of customer service and marketing smarties who impressed me in September. Don’t you love spreading the word about a smart business that knows how to take care of its customers? So many businesses seem to forget who pays their salaries. “Word of mouth isn’t dead,” says Alan Belniak at Marketing Profs.

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Optimist Consulting

OCTOBER 10, 2011

As a new customer of the online business www.notonthehighstreet.com I was really interested to receive a mini printed catalogue through the post, following my first online purchase a couple of weeks ago. At the same time a printed Early Learning Centre catalogue also arrived in the post. I guess the timings was due to catch people who are starting to think about Christmas.

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Eric Lanke

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Eric Lanke. Association executive and author. Pages. Home. Leadership. Innovation. Member Engagement. Generations. Books Read. Fiction. Monday, October 10, 2011. Help the Customer Succeed. image source. One of the best parts of my job is getting out and visiting my members where they live and work. We are a trade association, so my members own or manage businesses, and most of their businesses are manufacturing companies.

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Virtual

OCTOBER 21, 2011

It’s impossible for anyone who has witnessed the personal computer and personal technology age from its beginning to separate Steve Jobs from that incredible odyssey. From the start, he envisioned, created, and defined new platforms and categories of media experience. Sometimes he was not the first to invent, as with the mouse, the MP3 Player, [.].

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Jamie Notter

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Blog. Consulting. Speaking. About. Contact. Generations. Humanize. Books: Jamie Notter. Leadership insight.right when you need it. Video Interview about #Humanize. Posted October 27, 2011. in Announcements , Humanize - 1 comment. Tweet. Maddie and I were recently interviewed by George Breden of TMA Resources about our book, Humanize. George does a weekly video news show for TMA Resources, called Association Tech News.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Research suggests that membership rates are stabilizing for organizations offering member value. Here's an overview of the 2011 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report and some food for thought on building membership relationships that last. ( read more ).

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