Wild Apricot
OCTOBER 24, 2012
Here's our round-up of free nonprofit webinars for November. Upcoming topics include: Naked Meetings; Extreme Social Media Makeover; Successful Nonprofit Blogging; Donor Engagement Benchmarks; Google Analytics for Beginners; and much more.
YourMembership
OCTOBER 23, 2012
Categories: Social Media and Business Trends Tags: Facebook , member community , membership organization , online community , public online community Like most adults, I have a love/hate relationship with Facebook. I love seeing pictures and hearing about my friends’ lives. No matter how busy I am I can take a few seconds and peer into their universes and not feel so disconnected, or can I?
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Thanks For Playing
OCTOBER 26, 2012
It's the information overload trifecta! Top 5 Interesting Facts about Information Overload: Although the concept has existed since at least the first century C.E. , the term itself was originated by Alvin Toffler in his 1970 book Future Shock. There is now over one zettabyte of information available electronically in the world. What's a zettabyte? It's a thousand thousand thousand terabytes, or about the amount of information contained in 250 BILLION DVD movies.
Association Subculture
OCTOBER 23, 2012
So here's the lesson for today kids. (and the link for those who can't see the embedded video). This video is hilarious! It is a recording of a woman who called in to a radio show to tell folks that on three separate occasions she has hit deer on the highway immediately after seeing a deer crossing sign. She wanted to complain that the transportation department keeps putting up "deer crossing" signs on busy highways instead of in rural areas and less trafficked roads since those roads would be m
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Wild Apricot
OCTOBER 22, 2012
Here are highlights from recent research reports offering insight into smartphone use and Twitter habits.
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Reid All About it
OCTOBER 23, 2012
Have you ever pulled up a website on your phone and been frustrated by the tiny text and tabs? Unless I’m desperate to do something there, I usually give up. In either case, I’m frustrated by the awful user experience. Don’t they care about their customers? When’s the last time you looked at your association website on a mobile phone? Hopefully, it was a good experience because, according to technology research firm Gartner, by 2013 more people will access websites with mobile phones than with d
Thanks For Playing
OCTOBER 23, 2012
Preparing for an upcoming presentation, I found this terrific video that was, apparently, a student project, on the topic of information overload:
KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup
OCTOBER 24, 2012
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Association Leaders
OCTOBER 22, 2012
We’ve always known trust is key to success. At CM Services we have six core values (values we believe allow us to achieve great partnerships with our associations and our employees). The values are: Be Trust worthy. Commit ourselves to each other, our company and the industries we serve. Act responsibly. Care about others. Grow every day. Have fun.
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Reid All About it
OCTOBER 26, 2012
Just scanning this collection of 99 creative life hack s will make you feel clever. This weekend you will find me wandering around the house peering at wood with wal nut in hand. Fellow liberal arts majors: no regrets! Yes, I know all kinds of very important people go on and on about STEM, but now, a STEM to STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and humanities, and mathematics) movement is emerging.
Thanks For Playing
OCTOBER 24, 2012
Great lessons from great bosses. There's more to building trust than personal integrity. Think associations don't need to sell? Wrong! And here are some good tips to help you do it. Leading? Publicly give up your illusion of control. Innovation is a great FIRST step. Here are some key things you need to know and do to get to the finish. When's the last time you looked at your pricing strategy ?
Golden's Rules for Association
OCTOBER 24, 2012
In the Sherlock Holmes mystery “Silver Blaze,” the solution turns on “the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.” Scotland Yard Detective Gregory can be forgiven for his confusion when he protests, “the dog did nothing in the night-time.” “That,” Holmes observes, “was the curious incident.” There are a number of dogs that didn’t [.].
Eric Lanke
OCTOBER 22, 2012
I've been busy prepping this week for the presentation that will be leading off an exciting new webinar series on member engagement. Young Association Professionals , Aggregage , Association Universe and Infinite Conferencing are all working together to host an amazing series of interactive webinars on how association professionals need to think and act differently to drive member engagement--and they've asked me to lead off their fantastic lineup on October 30, 2012.
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Idea Architects
OCTOBER 24, 2012
I like team building retreats. I design and facilitate them regularly. And I believe in the power of seemingly unrelated exercises or activit i es to surface interpersonal and group dynamics that have significant relevance to workplace productivity and p erformance. DiSC and other instruments, ropes courses and other group activities. all good , particularly when debrief ed thoroughly and their implica ti ons for actual workplace issues are identified and discussed.
Thanks For Playing
OCTOBER 22, 2012
Got an idea for the next Snuggie or ShamWOW? Or for something amazingly useful, like a power strip where each outlet can pivot or a croakie for your earbuds ? You need Quirky , a social product development website. You come with the idea, the community improves it, and they provide the design staff to make it happen.
GlowGlobally
OCTOBER 22, 2012
This article comes to us from MCI Brussels where they have been working with US clients in recent years to collect local market intelligence and customer data to help clients build more locally relevant go to market strategies for their training, education and meeting product portfolios. Geraldine Damar shares her thoughts on lessons learned for US associations in Europe. .
Velvet Chainsaw
OCTOBER 23, 2012
It’s official! Research now shows that when people use Twitter during classes, they are more engaged and learn more. We can now stop debating the issue. And all the naysayers who find Twitter use during an education session distracting can stop their diatribes against Twitter. The proof is in the Twitteracy (Twitter-literacy). Twitteracy: Tweeting Improves Learning And Engagement.
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2024 Association Survey Results Report For the 10th year, association professionals across the U.S. and Canada provided a look at the inner workings of their organizations when they replied to GrowthZone’s annual survey. Read the 2024 survey results report to see how your association compares: Top Challenges Retention Rates Non-Renewal Reasons Automatic Renewals Reinstatement Strategies Member Engagement Changes & Strategies Why Members Join Non-Dues Revenue Sources Dues Increases, and more
Idea Architects
OCTOBER 22, 2012
We know teams have coaches. In recent years so have executives and individuals, turning to career, life, or executive coaches to help them be more effective. Every professional, regardless of title or job responsibilities, has opportunities to embrace coaching values and apply coaching tools, behaviors, and communication practices to help their colleagues be more successful, both individually and organizationally.
Thanks For Playing
OCTOBER 25, 2012
OK, so Tuesday, I posted a serious video about information overload.
Jamie Notter
OCTOBER 23, 2012
I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who donated to support Ride Allegheny this year. As I announced several times on this blog, I’ve been doing this ride for 10 years, and for the last five or six we’ve been raising money for a great cause: Operation Second Chance, a charity that provides support to wounded soldiers and (particularly) their families.
Velvet Chainsaw
OCTOBER 24, 2012
Is your presentation a one-way monologue for listeners? Or is it an invitation for listeners to enter the conversation? If you want your listeners to remember what you said, then your presentation needs to be more like Facebook than TV. Why? The best learning occurs in a social context not in a passive listening experience. Comparing Facebook And TV.
Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker
Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.
Membership Marketing
OCTOBER 25, 2012
The simple answer to improve membership retention is to provide more value and engage members. That said there are also very practical marketing tips that can help you keep more members. Here are some to keep in mind: 1. Frequency – Like it or not, people forget to renew. Don’t give up too soon on retaining a member. 2. Channels – Use all of the tools that are available to you for retention – mailed notices, postcards, email, staff or volunteer calls, telemarketing, and website interstitials. 3.
Vanguard Tech
OCTOBER 24, 2012
Business websites – particularly staid, professional, work only sites like those for a professional association – are supposed to be about facts and figures. Not emotion. Right? Wrong. At last week’s User Focus conference in Washington DC, author and user experience expert Giles Colborne gave a keynote on Emotional Interaction Design and pointed out how much emotion plays into our experiences.
SCD Group
OCTOBER 22, 2012
Here are seven articles of value to association executives and other association professionals: The Static Website Is Dead — Long Live Personalized Content By Mark Sherbin via Content Marketing Institute Delivering the right message to the right person at the right time is tricky. But existing techniques and new technology are upping the ante in an emerging trend called content personalization.
Velvet Chainsaw
OCTOBER 25, 2012
Did you know that texting is the number one form of writing today among Millennials? Some may guffaw at the thought of texting as a form of writing. Purists scream that young people today don’t know how to write, spell or use proper forms of grammar. Texting Is Writing Says Research. Michigan State University Writing Professor Jeff Grabill would disagree with those last two anti-text thoughts.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions
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