Wild Apricot

JANUARY 18, 2013

Attention non-profits: See3Communications, YouTube and Edelman are conducting a survey about non-profit video use and they need your participation.

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Principled Innovation

JANUARY 14, 2013

Association boards, CEOs and senior executives will need to answer a wide variety of questions as they embark on the work of developing new business models to enable their organizations to thrive over the next decade and beyond. Of unique importance, however, will be how these leaders work through three critical design challenges that may well determine whether their new business model concepts will be able to achieve both purposeful impact and sustainable profitability.

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YourMembership

JANUARY 16, 2013

Categories: YourMembership.com News Tags: affiniscape , merger , yourmembership.com A Letter from our CEO… In December of last year, we announced our merger with Affiniscape. Today, I want to take this opportunity to welcome our Affiniscape customers to the YourMembership.com family. We’re proud to be your new partner for web-based solutions that will help you deliver more value to your members – while driving [.] ( Read more. ) The post Welcome Affiniscape Customers appeared first on Your

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 18, 2013

Ah, Friday, and a long weekend too for many of you. Not for me – too much work to do – a good thing, so trust me, I’m not complaining. I’ll make room for enough down time to feel recharged on Monday morning, in case you care. Caring is in the air, you know, or it should be, we can make it so…. The world needs more “everyday mundane acts of caring” like the ones John Haydon shares in his post, The #1 Paradigm Shift You Need to Make in 2013.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 15, 2013

Here are some ideas, tips and resources to help you get your volunteers off to a good start this year.

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Thanks For Playing

JANUARY 14, 2013

So if you've read my recent FREE white paper on content curation , hopefully you're all jazzed to start doing it for your members. But how? One way is to use Curata , a tool that helps you easily find, organize, and share content on topics of your choice. (Shout out to Ray VanHilst for the link.).

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Virtual

JANUARY 16, 2013

For any trade association that develops specifications or other technical documents, publication is a tremendous milestone. It marks the end of a journey comprised of significant contributions from many member resources around the world. While it’s always a good idea to celebrate such an achievement within an association, it is important to remember that while [.

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Association Subculture

JANUARY 18, 2013

I love this Dilbert cartoon. It's been sitting on my desktop for a few months now because it is such a good example of what I call "Decision Weasels." (I'll give a nod to Scott Adams and " The Way of the Weasel " which I am sure has inspired some of this post out of the depths of my memory.) I've met a few of them over my career. Decision weasels are usually in positions of power in our associations.

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Eric Lanke

JANUARY 14, 2013

image source This post got me thinking about the messy unknown, a term coined by Tom and David Kelley to describe the place outside your comfort zone. In the messy unknown, they say elsewhere , you have to deal with unexpected findings, with uncertainty, and with irrational people who say things you don't want to hear. But you must venture into this place, because in the messy unknown you also find insights and creative breakthroughs.

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Thanks For Playing

JANUARY 18, 2013

For the self-employed, the end of January means time to pay quarterly and annual estimated business taxes. It's a lot of somewhat confusing forms (thank goodness I followed the advice to hire an accountant, because trying to do this myself would, no doubt, have driven me around the bend). And it's easy to be grouchy about writing the checks and scheduling the electronic payments.

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Principled Innovation

JANUARY 16, 2013

Join Jeff De Cagna of Principled Innovation on Friday, March 8, 2013 in Denver for a full-day workshop on Building Better Boards , presented by the Colorado Society of Association Executives. Registration for the workshop is now open. The Building Better Boards workshop will address three “wicked problems” of governing the 21st century association: selecting capable board members, keeping those board members focused on the work of governing and implementing a governing process that l

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Association Subculture

JANUARY 14, 2013

For anyone obsessed with education, this video is a mind-blower. Here is a must-read article that details more about the company behind this amazing new platform, as well as their plans to begin installing these EXODesks in elementary schools in Panama. The debate about association education needs to take a quantum leap forward if we are planning on staying competitive in this new arena.

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Jamie Notter

JANUARY 17, 2013

My kids are in middle school and high school, and they were telling me this morning about one of their recent lessons about the difference between correlation and causation. Apparently you can show a statistically significant correlation between a decrease in highway traffic deaths and an increase in imports of Mexican lemons (who knew?!). But this is just correlation–it doesn’t prove causation.

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Thanks For Playing

JANUARY 17, 2013

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to participate in the weekly Association Forecast broadcast on the topic of Education to Employment. What is the Association Forecast ? It's a weekly show, hosted by Shelly Alcorn , where a panel of three guests and Shelly discuss issues of importance and interest to associations, usually based on a report, TEDtalk, current event, etc.

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KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup

JANUARY 18, 2013

Hi gang! I hope your year is going well so far. I just wanted to let you know about a free webinar I'll be presenting, called " Fierce Membership: 7 Ways to Keep From Losing Your Most Engaged Members" on Wednesday, January 23rd at 2 pm ET. You can register here: https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/50467#Fierce_Membership.

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Association Navigator

JANUARY 18, 2013

The newest edition of Associations Now has a good article on basic association law issues. The article was written by Jerry A. Jacobs , dean of the association legal community. Jerry’s book, Association Law Handbook , is in the Fifth Edition. I first met Jerry at an ASAE legal workshop years ago and he is always responsive when I have a tough association legal question.

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AMR Management Services

JANUARY 18, 2013

By Brian Reuwee. Whether you're leading your association's board meeting, committee conference call or your department's quarterly sales staff meeting, ensuring it's time well-spent can challenge most professionals and volunteer leaders. When managing volunteer association leaders, you typically have limited time, limited attention and limited effort -- maximizing the time, attention and effort is the point of the meeting -- make the most of it with these tips for creating an age

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Thanks For Playing

JANUARY 16, 2013

Jeffrey Cufaude urges us to choose to be happy. If you're following his advice, there are some habits that will help you. I particularly like "assume people have good intentions." CEOs think social is important, just not for them. Jamie Notter points out that being clear is better than being right. KiKi L'Italien encourages us to live dangerously in 2013.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 18, 2013

All learning IS experience. Everything else is just information. ~ Albert Einstein. Talking is a critical part of that learning experience. We talk so we can understand. We talk so we can remember. We talk so we can learn. But who does the majority of talking at a conference and who does the majority of listening? The speakers talk as the audience listens.

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Association Navigator

JANUARY 16, 2013

I’ve just completed David Maister’s True Professionalism. Originally published in 1997 and still relevant today, it is the single best guide I’ve found so far to managing a professional services firm like Verto Solutions. The most concise part of the book is the table of Critical Business Processes of a Professional Firm. Most of Maister’s readers are probably lawyers, but on every page this book adds value to any professional providing business services.

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Idea Architects

JANUARY 14, 2013

The staff and board leadership had been working diligently for about two hours, engaged in some meaningful discussion around the organization’s mission and vision. I had focused my facilitation on keeping the dialogue moving forward, but also trying to stretch the participants’ sense of what might be possible in their organization. It seemed to me they were limiting themselves to typical mission and vision platitudes.

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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.

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Thanks For Playing

JANUARY 15, 2013

January means resolution time, and whether you go the traditional self improvement route or follow my advice and take the " fun resolutions only " path, there's a good chance you've set yourself some big goals for 2013. Which is awesome. And really daunting. Where do you start? At this time of year, I'm always reminded of my good friend Vinay Kumar 's advice: "Just do the next right thing.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 17, 2013

Customer Retention Strategies from Jeff Hurt. On average, U.S. corporations lose 50% of their customers every five years says business researcher Frederick Reichheld. An average company has a defection rate of 10%-30% of their customers each year, he says. Raising your customer retention by 5% can increase the lifetime value of your average customer by 25% – 100%.

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Association Advocacy Chick

JANUARY 18, 2013

Lance Armstrong admitted he lied about doping during his illustrious cycling career. Manti Te’o is either the victim or the perpetrator of a hoax involving a non-existent girlfriend. Recent media coverage on these popular athletes has forced us all to take another look at what’s real and what’s not. More importantly, we’re getting a first hand look at what some people will do to reach a certain point or take advantage of others.

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Idea Architects

JANUARY 16, 2013

I've written before about Kurt Lewin's framework that behavior is a function of people interacting with their environment. Most people when setting New Year's Resolutions write commitments about the behaviors they plan on engaging in more regularly or goals they hope to achieve as a result of changes in their behavior. I did something much simpler: I changed my environment to enable better choice-making.

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