Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Keeping website content fresh is mission-critical for non-profits. But frequent website updates can be challenging, so here are 3 tips that might help.

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YourMembership

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Categories: Member Engagement + Retention , Social Media and Business Trends Tags: content , employee retention , personal branding , private online community There’s a fear held by many organizations that if you talk personal branding, employees will use that information to leave your company. Not necessarily true. Happy employees do not leave because they discover social media.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

A million years ago back in Dallas (actual time: just over a month), Jeff De Cagna , in his unsession on Associations Unorthodox, has asked us to think about radical questions to ask. Now I love the idea of a radical question. One of the focal points of my consulting work is that asking the right question is as important as getting the right answer, if not more so.

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KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Inspiration comes in many forms. In today's post I want to share some of the people, blogs, books, and music inspiring me lately. From PR to Pop!, this is what's feeding my head and what you just might want to feed yours. I also wanted to target this post for women specifically because a lot of what I'm reading, learning, and investing time in happens to be female-focused right now.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

We've added a new article to our Membership Knowledge Hub that offers tips, tools and resources for creating and sharing effective meeting minutes.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Positive messages ("be on time") work better than negative messages ("don't be late") - and there are neuroscientific reasons why. Interesting debate going on about (once more, with feeling) the future of associations. Want more - and better - exhibitors? Stop thinking of them as cash registers. "Hi, my name is." Great advice for introducing yourself.

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KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

If you are reading this, you are lucky. How do I know that? You have access to a computer. You are educated enough to use it. You are literate. According to the demographics of my blog's readers, you are most likely employed and have a relatively comfortable income. But I bet you're looking for more in your life. I'm lucky. I'm surrounded by amazing, talented people I can call friends.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Could "peeragogy" enhance your events and help increase member engagement?

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Since I’m not willing to camp out in front of the Apple Store, it’s going to be a few weeks until my iPhone 5 arrives. When it does, it will bring the count of cell phones that I’ve owned up to a dozen. I’ve come a long way from the Motorola bag phone. [link] Now, [.].

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Hey! Did you know it's 5:15 pm? Where did the day go? Since I'm obviously running a little behind, I'm going to get all meta on you and do my Top 5 Top 5s: Top 5 tips for staying organized. Top 5 cheap date ideas in the DMV. Top 5 funniest things I've ever read on the Interwebz. Top 5 things I've learned from Food Lab (next lab goes down tomorrow). Top 5 tips for NFL players.

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KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Many of you may be asking yourselves about this blog. What's happening with it? Where are the regular updates? What's shaking in KiKi's world? Where is the blog bliss we long for? I know, I know. You can dry your tears because change is a comin'. This week's blog will feature: An awesome video interview with the always bombastic Jeff De Cagna about his noteworthy e-book, Associations Unorthodox: Six Really Radical Shifts Toward the Future.

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Eric Lanke

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

image source I've mentioned previously that I'm leading another innovation effort for WSAE, something we're calling an Innovation Circle. Ours is focused on member engagement, and you can get an overview of what it is and what we're trying to achieve with it here. I've previously posted on some of the member engagement issues people in the Circle are wrestling with.

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Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

You might as well. Because according to the research report put out by Towers Watson , only about one third of employees (globally) are highly engaged in their jobs. They surveyed 32,000 people to come to that conclusion, so these data are nothing to sneeze at. Okay, I don’t ACTUALLY recommend you get rid of the other two-thirds of your employees, but I wanted to draw attention to how utterly ridiculous it is that only one out of three people in our offices, on average, is actually highly

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Fascinating presentation from Pew that debunks some myths about what various age groups, particularly teenagers do and don't do online and with various tech devices, including smart phones. Teens 2012: Truth, Trends, and Myths About Teen Online Behavior from Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project Shout out to Maggie McGary for the link.

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KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Last week I sat down with the always provocative Jeff De Cagna about his new book, Associations Unorthodox: Six Really Radical Shifts Toward the Future. What I love about Jeff is his candor and clarity. The guy just knows how to take ideas apart and play with them like no one else! I'm envious at how well he does this and every time I talk with him I come away a little wiser.

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Portage Group

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Join your association management colleagues for an informal CSAE-BC roundtable session on Thursday, October 4th to discuss CRA Legislation. The focus will be on association revenue and the setting up of foundations for excess funds. It is certain that we all have something to share and something to learn. Lunch will be provided. Here are the details: Time: 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm.

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Aaron Wolowiec

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Revolved Chair. I had a particularly amazing yoga practice last week. It’s hard to explain exactly what makes a yoga practice amazing (especially if you’ve never tried it before). I happened to be running a bit later than usual, so I found myself “stuck” with a spot in the front row. As someone who’s a bit out of shape these days (okay, a lot out of shape), this certainly could not be the source of my excitement.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Have you heard about Pearltrees ? It uses same idea as the visual thesaurus and mind-mapping type concepts to help you organize information about any topic of interest.

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KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

When I was growing up I took piano lessons. Each week I would clutch my latest Bastien or Alfred's piano instruction book and march into my lesson while my mother met with her best friend over coffee. The ritual was soothing, mechanical, something I could rely on. When I returned home, I'd go to the sunken living room with gold shag carpeting, and sit at the old antique upright piano and play.

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Idea Architects

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

What is required for a facilitated session to produce bold thinking and fresh ideas? As more organizations focus on innovation, this is a question that every facilitator must be prepared to answer. We have to increase our understanding of the relationship between creativity and innovation , become more familiar with the discipline of design thinking and its applications, and build our capacity and competence to design and facilitate ideation and rapid prototyping sessions that help individuals a

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Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Maddie and I are doing a very quick survey on Social Leadership, and we’d LOVE everyone we know to complete it. Click here to take the 5-minute, 12-question survey. We gathering data on opinions about social media and leadership. It’s part of our ongoing research related to Humanize. We hope to be releasing results of the survey at a public event we’re doing in Washington, DC on October 16th.

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Mariner

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

September 21, 2012. I have been working out with a trainer for several years now, but it wasn’t recently that I really began to see the results…I’m stronger, have more energy, and happily a bit thinner. How did I do it? By focusing on what I really wanted to achieve and on what I needed to do to get there. I have been working out with a trainer for several years now, but it wasn’t recently that I really began to see the results…I’m stronger, have more energy, and happily a bit thinner.

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Association Navigator

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

I had a nice lunch yesterday with Dr. Bob Sprague. “Dr. Bob” is a well-known organizational psychologist who has worked with many privately-held firms over the years. Bob is interested in helping companies and leaders think differently. Our lunch was at Johnny’s Half Shell on Capitol Hill; home of the best shrimp “po boy” north of Mobile. Bob shared the interim results of a study he is conducting on the impact of the recession on business operations and success.

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Idea Architects

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

If I had not been a part of the discussion myself, I might not have believed it. Here we were—a group of intelligent, caring, and capable individuals—discussing what would be required to accomplish the direction we had set. The answer? To create systems, procedures, and checks and balances to manage a dynamic and a set of concerns that had yet to emerge.

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Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus. by Michael Roberto. Wharton School Publishing, 2005. Although the words are not in the title, this is a book about decision making. As a researcher, Michael Roberto explored some very bad decisions. He looked at Space Shuttle disasters, the Bay of Pigs invasion, fatal failures to scale Mount Everest—decisions that in hindsight are relatively easy to condemn.

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