Wild Apricot
JUNE 20, 2014
'This week''s link round-up offers insight into: association boards, turning event attendees into your number-one fans, helping members see the future, content marketing and more.
Association Leaders
JUNE 30, 2014
'“Listening is a skill” I have used those words many times – mostly saying them to my children when they haven’t done what they were asked to do – not because they’re bad kids, but because they didn’t listen to the instructions. Listening truly is a skill. As leaders, one of the most powerful things we can do is listen.
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Spark Consulting
JUNE 30, 2014
'IBM is trying to teach computers to be more like brains. Called “cognitive computing,” the systems involved are trained to think, using artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. The goal is to allow humans and computers to work together better for “integrated intelligence.” It’s basically taking Watson, made famous on Jeopardy!
Reid All About it
JUNE 29, 2014
'I like to eat. I like to cook too so I appreciate chefs that use locally sourced ingredients to create fabulous dining experiences. Let me tell you, if you choose right, you’re going to have some fabulous dining (and drinking) experiences in Nashville. When I was there in May for the digitalNow conference, I enjoyed some great meals. I also spent time with my friends Teri Carden of ReviewMyAMS.com and Ben Martin of Online Community Results who moved to Nashville last year.
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YourMembership
JUNE 26, 2014
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Wild Apricot
JUNE 6, 2014
'This Link Love Friday round-up offers 5 posts on: building loyalty, getting personal with online communications, engaging your volunteers, understanding the "human side to nonprofit measurement and data", and insight into getting board members involved in fundraising.
Association Leaders
JUNE 23, 2014
'Good leaders have many common traits and behaviors. We’ve explored many of them through this blog. For example, good leaders often surround themselves with good, smart, effective people; good leaders have a sense of purpose and are able to communicate that purpose with those around them; good leaders have certain values they live by and to which they hold themselves accountable.
Spark Consulting
JUNE 26, 2014
'A few months ago, I had a chance to sit down (virtually) with Beth Brodovsky and talk about what’s changing in membership relationships. The podcast is out ! Some of the key points include: Not all members are created equal, and because of that, your limited resources should not necessarily be evenly distributed among them. You need to start paying attention to your data and segmentation ASAP.
Reid All About it
JUNE 16, 2014
'If you’re on the fence about attending the ASAE Annual Meeting in Nashville , let me tell you: Nashville will pleasantly surprise you. No, that’s not quite right. You are going to have a blast in Nashville! What a cool city! That’s more like it. In May when I attended the digitalNow conference in Nashville, I wasn’t expecting to fall for the city like I did.
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YourMembership
JUNE 19, 2014
I am writing this post from beautiful St. Paul, Minnesota, where I spoke at the Midwest Society of Association Executives 58 th Annual Meeting and Expo. I was invited to be one of eight presenters at MSAE’s IGNITE session appropriately titled “Grant Me Insight, and Make it Fast”. I love these IGNITE sessions, or as I like to call them “presenting with your hair on fire.
Mariner
JUNE 26, 2014
'Here’s a quick shout out to two of our association clients, Maryland Chapter of Public Relations Society of America and Maryland Recycling Network , both of whom just held their annual conferences. And what a success both had!
Wild Apricot
JUNE 5, 2014
'Here''s the first in our Advisory Series - offering key insights, best practices, lessons learned and successful strategies shared during Wild Apricot’s Small Membership Advisory Community sessions.
Association Leaders
JUNE 16, 2014
'Interesting post recently from the Leadership Freak titled, “ 32 Things to say to Young Leaders “ Read the list. I’m sure you’ll agree with several and disagree with a few; you’ll also probably have more you could add to the list. One thing should be clear from reading the list, though – Future Leaders are important to your organization and its your job as a current leader to develop them.
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Spark Consulting
JUNE 25, 2014
'Is counting members the right measure of success? (My whitepaper co-author Peter Houstle talks about this a lot, too.). Maddie Grant’s session at MMCC on tech tools for the socially savvy got a ton of good word of mouth last week. Did you know she created a post about it? Also, Associations Now has a nice roundup post on the conference, and the MMCC website has a good summary , too.
Association Subculture
JUNE 26, 2014
'From this: To this: There has been a movement underway for some time to replace the traditional symbol for "handicapped" with a new visual and to stop using the word "handicapped" on signs. What a beautiful idea to choose to use new terms to shift the conversation to one about "accessibility" not "disability." There is legislation currently being considered in New York that would do this statewide.
YourMembership
JUNE 12, 2014
It’s not easy to identify ways to make the value of membership offerings resonate with young professionals , but every association and membership organization will need to recruit them and it can be done. We recently held our June webinar entitled Flipping the Membership Equation: Thinking Differently About Membership Recruitment and Retention. In the webinar we discussed the need for associations to redesign their membership offerings to remain competitive and relevant to Gen X and Gen Y in to
Mariner
JUNE 25, 2014
'It’s a given that today''s members have the ability to go "guerrilla" – thanks in part to social technologies – to make significant contributions in unconventional ways. And we in associations can react one of two ways: channel our inner Jane Goodall or act like poachers. Lindy Dreyer and I called on our best Jane “impersonations” to encourage association pros in our #MMCCon session to think of guerrilla volunteers as extensions of our communities.
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Wild Apricot
JUNE 26, 2014
'Here is the June Nonprofit Blog Carnival round-up on inspiration and innovation. Check out the 15 blog posts with a dizzying array of ideas, insight and inspiration.
Association Leaders
JUNE 9, 2014
'Interesting article in Associations Now today. The article asks the question, ‘Can a company or organization survive without a CEO’? Read the article here. I was confident I knew the answer without reading the article – “NO”! But I read the article anyway. I guess I was curious more than anything else. Turns out my instincts were right.
Spark Consulting
JUNE 24, 2014
'About a year ago, the Harvard Business Review did an interview with Maya Angelou. I definitely recommend checking out the entire thing , but there was one thing in particular she said that stuck with me: One of the great dangers of leadership, I think, is the tendency to believe your own hype. If you achieved this great, high, responsible position, it must be because you’re that much better than everyone else, right?
Aaron Wolowiec
JUNE 24, 2014
'This month’s guest blog post is by Samantha Whitehorne, deputy editor for Associations Now. Contact Whitehorne at swhitehorne@asaecenter.org. Samantha Whitehorne, deputy editor for Associations Now. As the weekly blogger (and deputy editor) for ASAE ’s AssociationsNow.com , I write about some of the innovative things that associations are doing for their meetings and conferences.
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Eric Lanke
JUNE 23, 2014
'We recently moved our association offices. The lease was up at our old place and we needed a change of pace, so we went on the market to see what was available. It was an exciting and sometimes difficult process. Plenty of compromises had to be made between what we wanted, what was available, and what we could afford, but in the end we found and secured some fantastic space that is already changing the tone of the organization in some very positive ways.
Association Subculture
JUNE 17, 2014
'Well, now this is a gem of an idea that I just ran across. What do you get when you cross mobile phones, sustainability concerns and publishing? You get things like this new digital wallpaper. Better yet, all of the associations out there struggling with the time, talent and treasure spent on setting up bookstores at your conferences, may have a new option on the way.
Wild Apricot
JUNE 25, 2014
'In this issue of Software News, we offer an overview of some of the "onboarding" initiatives and enhancements we''re looking at across all of our Wild Apricot teams.
Association Navigator
JUNE 14, 2014
'Verto Solutions , with friends and families, went sailing today on the Chesapeake Bay. The conditions were perfect with clear skies, a brisk wind, and great company. Verto Solutions Summer Outing on the Chesapeake. Captain Lila has the wheel.
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