Spark Consulting
OCTOBER 29, 2013
'YAY! You just got a new member! Hopefully, she’ll acclimate and find her place and stay with you forever. Wait: “hopefully”? We can do better than that. Here’s the question you need to ask yourself: does your new member know how to be a member of your organization? Of course not, right? She’s new. She knows enough about you to have been willing to invest her money in joining.
YourMembership
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
'While it is hard to believe anyone would want to break up with us, as membership organizations we all know it happens sometimes. There are many consultants out there who are happy to give you the key to engaging your members but it’s not formulaic. True engagement comes from conversations. Here are some things you can [.] ( Read more. ) The post Three Ideas for Member Engagement appeared first on YourMembership.com.
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Wild Apricot
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'This week’s link round-up offers great tips and ideas for tapping into some Halloween excitement – as long as you aren’t afraid of innovation.
Aaron Wolowiec
OCTOBER 29, 2013
'Editor’s Note: This week’s guest post is from Samantha Moore, meetings and membership coordinator for the American Bakers Association in Washington, D.C. Before working full time for the association, Moore was an intern. What can associations offer interns? She explains. Samantha Moore, meetings and membership coordinator for the American Bakers Association.
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This session will dive into how to create rich generosity experiences that foster long-lasting relationships. You’ll walk away with actionable insights to redefine how you engage with your supporters—emphasizing trust, engagement, and community over transactional giving models. 🤝 Industry expert Tim Sarrantonio will explore data-backed strategies to engage supporters as active participants in a community that values their contributions and shared ideals.
Spark Consulting
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
'I’ve been lax in my Friday Top 5 posts lately, and that’s stopping right now! Last night was Halloween. Normally, my spouse and I stay in and hand out LARGE AMOUNTS of candy to the zillions of children who come by (we live in a very walkable neighborhood of DC directly across the street from an elementary school). Last night, for the first time in I don’t even know how long, we went out.
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Wild Apricot
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'Here are two new resources with tips and advice to help craft effective renewal letters or emails.
Jamie Notter
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'Maddie pointed me to this great post by Stowe Boyd on the GigaOm blog, which is in reaction to this great post by Chris Heuer over on Brian Solis’ blog. They are both fairly long posts, but here’s the gist. Chris Heuer declares the term “social business” dead. He says the C-suite just doesn’t resonate with the ideas and the proponents have not been successful in describing just what social business is.
Spark Consulting
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'One Today , a new app from Google and Network for Good (sadly, only for Android operating systems) allows you to “give a little – change a lot.” Every day, the app features a new cause, and gives users the opportunity to find out about that cause and donate $1 (or more). You can also share that donation with your circle of contacts, thus encouraging them to give as well.
KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'BizBash’s IdeaFest has become an annual hotbed of creativity for events professionals and this year is no different. With a bevy of smart, interesting speakers and leaders in the industry, IdeaFest will no doubt lead the pack again with hot tips and insights for the future of the profession. One exemplary standout from the lineup of speakers is Maya Kalman, SWANK Productions CEO.
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Vanguard Tech
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'Webmaster - a person responsible for the creation or maintenance of a Web site especially for a company or organization. - Merriam-Webster. Once upon a time, there was only one person in an association who could publish pages on the association’s website. The Webmaster who spoke a strange language called HTML and maybe even CSS, IP, FTP, IIS, DNS, and the dreaded SSL.
Associations Now
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'Winners of the first-ever Association Real Estate Awards share thoughts behind their unique office designs and how good design can help embody an organization’s mission. It reminds everyone when you walk in the front door why we’re here and who we work for. Good office design, like any creative endeavor, requires thought. “If you just build your office space out and you put a bunch of your board members on the wall, you’re sort of doing the as-expected installation in your space,” said Tom Fulc
Spark Consulting
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'Another great Slideshare presentation from Hubspot, schooling us on unsucking our websites: 10 Deadly Reasons Most Websites Fail from HubSpot All-in-one Marketing Software. A few thoughts: It’s 2013. If your site doesn’t work properly on mobile devices, your doing the Internet wrong. Get your mobile “grade” here. Don’t create a rotating banner unless there’s a reason to have a rotating banner.
Velvet Chainsaw
OCTOBER 30, 2013
'It’s quite ironic actually. Our brains do everything they can to avoid change. Yet at the same time, our brains increase their engagement and focus when change is involved. Our brains crave change to keep us connected to the situation at hand. Wired To Be Risk-Averse. Our brains are naturally wired to avoid any type of threat. We prefer familiar and predictable circumstances to the unknown.
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SCD Group
OCTOBER 30, 2013
'© 2013 Mike Drake. In managing their nonprofit organizations, association executives often find themselves facing unexpected situations. Many situations don’t offer easy answers. Many of these situations are not covered in association management literature. I’ve pulled from the recesses of my brain some scary situations from over 35+ years of association management.
Associations Now
OCTOBER 29, 2013
'Drawing Attention to Diversity This year, the NFDA’s Service of Remembrance for deceased funeral industry officials focused on the traditions of Mexico. The choice highlights a pressure point for the industry: While 17 percent of Americans are Hispanic, just 5 percent ?f th? roughly 1,600 U.S. mortuary school graduates ?n 2012 w?r? Hispanic, according to the American Board of Funeral Service Education.
Spark Consulting
OCTOBER 30, 2013
'John Haydon tells us how to write more (and better) blog posts. The State of Social Business from Altimeter Group (it’s on Slideshare, but it’s not really a presentation). Are you good at getting better but bad at getting different? Maybe you need more insight. AI: defeating captchas today, diagnosing diseases tomorrow? Jamie Notter asks: what is the job of the CEO ?
Velvet Chainsaw
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
'Is your organization’s culture and leadership holding back your conference’s growth? Let me ask that a different way. Does your organization’s leadership avoid conference change because in their opinion it’s working so they don’t need to change anything? Maybe their beliefs are stuck in the mentality, “If it ain’t broke, don’t change it.”. Or perhaps they avoid change and expect that your next conference should look just like your last one.
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SCD Group
OCTOBER 29, 2013
'Our local television news folks love to say “breaking news.”. In fact, it is so much that it is irritating. I counted last night. Here are the first words of the first 5 stories of the first 7 minutes of the news: Breaking news. Breaking news. This just in. Exclusive news. All new at 11. Really, do they think this makes their news more interesting or more important.
Associations Now
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'It’s a tough question: What’s the job of the CEO? Here’s a look at three parts of the answer. “ What is the job of the CEO? ” Jamie Notter asked last week, and I’ve been struggling to come up with a good answer since then. (It’s always the simple questions that throw you. My three-year-old son lately is in the habit of asking, “Why does the sun go down?
Beth Kanter
OCTOBER 30, 2013
'Click to See Larger Image and Scroll. Note from Beth: Yesterday, I was the honored guest at a Google Hangout hosted by the Packard Foundation to celebrate the work that I have done over the last five years as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. It was wonderful to see colleagues in the room and online, reflect on the work, and talk about next steps.
Zen of Associations
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
'The October issue of Inc has a brief and powerful article entitiled, The Re-Education of Jim Collins, synthesizing leadership lessons he learned in his seven visits over the last two years to West Point. [link]. How can so few words convey so much? Here are just a few of the ideas Bo Birmingham distilled down to 2,500 words. "If you want to build a culture of engaged leaders and a great place. to work," he says, "you need to spend time thinking about three things. • Service t
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SCD Group
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'Raising Awareness Through Newsjacking By Lori Halley via Wild Apricot blog In our lightening-paced, globally connected world teaming with social media memes, 7 second video clips and 140 character news bytes, how can you get attention and keep your non-profit or your cause top of mind? One way is to “ride the popularity wave of a breaking story” to raise awareness of your non-profit or cause through newsjacking.
Associations Now
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
'An annual report by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports showed that the National Football League is making great strides with diverse hiring at top-level positions. But what can associations draw from it? Associations looking to improve their game in terms of hiring practices that promote a diverse workforce might want to get some coaching from the National Football League.
Beth Kanter
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. After the workshop in Ohio, one of the participants thanked me, saying that creating a strategy for integrated social media had been on their to do list after taking a workshop last S
Zen of Associations
OCTOBER 29, 2013
'Greg Fuson made a wonderful idea happen last week as project manager for Uncharted, an Ideas Festival. Thanks to Greg, I attended this two-day event with my husband Bill and co-conspirator of too much fun, Susan Kamei. Felt like we were gone for a week in a foreign country. Some might argue that Berkeley is precisely that, specializing in altered states.
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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