YourMembership
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'Thanksgiving offers us an opportunity to reflect and give thanks. This Thanksgiving is my second with YM, and I want to express my gratitude for your hard work and dedication to our customers. Given the demands of our work, we too often get caught up in the pace of everyday life and don’t take the [.] ( Read more. ) The post A Thanksgiving Message… appeared first on YourMembership.com.
Association Leaders
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'Though we may always want to be positive and praise those who work with us, there are times when we must provide criticism. How a leader chooses to deliver that criticism makes a difference in whether they are a good leader or not. I saw an interesting list today that was a perfect followup to my last post, “Don’t be a DM” – remember DM stands for De-Motivator.
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Spark Consulting
NOVEMBER 22, 2013
'This Friday Top5 is all about giving thanks for the many good things that have happened in the past year. I am thankful for… My outstanding clients , who’ve made this such a challenging, interesting, fun, exciting year: the American Ambulance Association, the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, the American Chemical Society, the American Medical Student Association, ASHA, the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, the Consortium for School Networking, f
Wild Apricot
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
'If you are in the midst of planning for 2014 - here are some ideas and resources to help with volunteer retention, transitions, and recruitment in the coming year.
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Mariner
NOVEMBER 30, 2013
'Knowing the power of stories, ASAE''s EMSC launched a project last year to gather and share the stories of how association''s are rebuilding the volunteer spirit. We just wrapped up the project with the sixth and final webinar last week.
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YourMembership
NOVEMBER 21, 2013
'I just returned from the Georgia Society of Association Executive’s Grand Tradeshow Experiment at the Georgia International Convention Center, and from a vendor perspective, I found it to be a curiously refreshing take on the traditional trade show offering I have experienced over the years. Having worked for a state SAE at one point in [.] ( Read more. ) The post Don’t Be Afraid to Experiment – Even with Scared Cows (Like Your Trade Show) appeared first on YourMembership.com.
Association Leaders
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
'Sometimes the best leadership lessons are not positive examples of what great leaders are doing but rather examples of what poor leaders are doing – in other words, what not to do. I read an article today entitled, “The Three Habits of Highly Effective Demotivators” The article suggests there are three habits de-motivating (DM) leaders have: 1.
Spark Consulting
NOVEMBER 21, 2013
'Seems like this is the season of calls for presentations, which puts me in mind of a Jeff Hurt presentation on conference trends: The Evolution Of Onsite Conferences from Jeff Hurt. (He explains the slides in more detail at the Midcourse Corrections blog.). The changes he’s predicting I’d most like to see relate to changing the way the presentations are presented: participatory culture, facilitator rather than speaker, subject matter networks, new presentation models, content curati
Wild Apricot
NOVEMBER 22, 2013
'As American Thanksgiving approaches and we take stock of all that we’re grateful for - are your donors and supporters top of your list?
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Eric Lanke
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
'image source Two weeks ago, in Reading Between the Lines , I continued writing about the process I used to create my association''s values statement, despite some misgivings about the value of values statements I''ve previously shared and still hold. In reviewing the suggested revisions that four of my staff members had made to the draft values statement that had come out of staff retreat, I had identified what I perceived to the common concerns and priorities of the people most willing to part
Virtual
NOVEMBER 22, 2013
'Walk past a newsstand and you can’t escape it. The 50 th Anniversary of JFK’s assassination is on the cover of every magazine from Time to People. It’s a tragedy that I still can’t get my head around. And with everyone from Tom Brokaw to Kennedy’s former aides offering perspective this week, there’s little I can add to the commentary from a historical perspective.
Golden's Rules for Association
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
'On November 6th, I was invited to present a TED-style talk on the “Future of Membership” at the first Association Chief Executives (ACE) Symposium. My thesis: volunteerism not membership is what makes our organizations unique; membership is a means to an end; the metrics we use to judge membership success are all wrong; and the […].
Association Leaders
NOVEMBER 18, 2013
'I read an interesting article today. It was an interview with Bob Pittman, Chairman and CEO of Clear Channel Communications. You can read the article here. What I found interesting and valuable about the article was Mr. Pittman’s point of view on dissent and on making mistakes. I think many leaders think they are always right and certainly want to be right – after all some would think leaders don’t become leaders by failing right?
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Spark Consulting
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
'Associations Now picked up on my “Why Is Membership the Only Relationship” post and wrote a great response/extension of the thinking. Important decision to make? Rely on the data, but don’t JUST rely on the data. Mobile advice for small businesses that, I think, holds equally well for associations (well, maybe except the “local” part).
Wild Apricot
NOVEMBER 6, 2013
'If you’re in the midst of event planning for the coming year, here’s some good news about getting Millennials to attend your events.
Aaron Wolowiec
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
'Editor’s Note: As Thanksgiving approaches, we all start thinking about our blessings. So it seemed appropriate to dedicate this week’s blog post – and probably next week’s – to the topic of saying “thank you.” For next week, I’d like to write about how you thank your customers and/or give back to your community. So please drop me a quick note at Kristen@eventgarde.com !
Virtual
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
'Too many professional associations function without a strategic plan. And whether they know it or not, they suffer major consequences. Without strategic planning, an organization lurches from priority to priority, depending on who has the loudest voice at the Board table; volunteers are frustrated, and critical goals go unmet. If you ask these groups why they don’t have a formal plan, the answer is almost always the same, “it’s too hard to create one.
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Eric Lanke
NOVEMBER 18, 2013
'image source First of all, it happens. Did you think it wouldn''t? Bosses are human beings and sometimes they get frustrated. Sometimes it''s about things that are happening inside their organization and sometimes it''s about things happening in the life they lead away from their organization. But occasionally--and probably eventually--the stoic masks they wear will slip and some of the frustration that every human being feels will show through.
Association Navigator
NOVEMBER 15, 2013
'I went to Montgomery, Alabama today to be with the friends and family of Charles Hughes Spurlock, Jr. Chuck Spurlock passed away Tuesday evening after a year fighting cancer. Chuck was one of the smartest, sweetest, and most interesting people I have ever met. I admired Chuck enormously and today I learned some things about him I didn’t know. Chuck is originally from Clifton, Tennessee.
Spark Consulting
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
'At the inaugural ACE Symposium two weeks ago, one of the topics we discussed was the future of new value creation in associations. One of our speakers, Jami Lucas , Executive Director/CEO at the American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy & Foundation, admonished us to go beyond asking members what they want. She pointed out that members don’t know what they don’t know.
Wild Apricot
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'Here’s a look at some of the initial groundwork that our design and analysis team has begun for future versions beyond 5.0.
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The Big Picture
NOVEMBER 14, 2013
Her Spin Sucks email newsletter is one of my favorite reads each week, so when Gini Dietrich sent out an invite for a free webinar on the future of content marketing, how could I resist? I signed right up! (And then, of course, now have a meeting that was scheduled at the same time that I must attend and can't go.). But Gini taught me much about content marketing just by inviting me to her webinar that I cannot attend.
Virtual
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'Some would say I’m a glutton for punishment. Others would say I must have some kind of a PowerPoint fetish. A small handful think I’m trying to do something good. But whatever the motivation, the reality is the same: in addition to attending dozens of monthly association Board meetings for Virtual’s clients, when the day is done I sit on several Boards myself.
Aaron Wolowiec
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
'George Jetson works in a futuristic office. Remember the TV show, “The Jetsons?” The funny robot housekeeper who talked back and the fancy buttons that made everything fly? I loved it. O.K. So maybe life won’t be that exciting 17 years from now. But I think George Jetson – or Hanna-Barbera I guess – was on to something. Think about it. Seventeen years ago, I was in college, using dialup Internet to do research.
Association Navigator
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
'The Association Navigator Blog is back. It’s been nearly three months since my last post, but I’m back and I’m picking up the tempo. I’m getting re-started with updates about Spring Hill College and our new offices at Verto Solutions. First, Spring Hill College. I was appointed last week to Spring Hill College’s National Alumni Association Board (NAAB).
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