YourMembership
JULY 12, 2013
'With less than a month away for ASAE I thought I’d share some social media prep work you can be doing to make the most of your conference attendance. With every conference there are two segments behind the social media activity – the event host/organization and the rest of the world. It’s important to stay in contact [.] ( Read more. ) The post 7 Tips to Making the Most of Conference appeared first on YourMembership.com.
Spark Consulting
JULY 11, 2013
'Is it just me, or is lean process trending? I recently read a great Harvard Business Review article on the lean startup. According to HBR, lean: …favors experimentation over elaborate planning, customer feedback over intuition, and iterative design over traditional “big design up front” development. It also includes the ideas of the “minimum viable product” and the decide –> experiment –> learn –> iterate cycle.
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Wild Apricot
JULY 8, 2013
'If you are kick-starting some communications planning this summer, here are some tips and resources that might help.
KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup
JULY 9, 2013
'Every time ASAE Annual rolls around, people start making their lists of parties and receptions to attend. I am no different. But this year I decided to make my list public - will I see you at these parties? I''ll be updating this list as I hear about other parties and receptions, so leave your info in the comments! Some of these require sign-ups or RSVPs ahead of time, so I''ll try to include links or contact information as we get closer to the date.
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Aaron Wolowiec
JULY 9, 2013
'An online engagement center at the 2012 ASAE Annual Meeting. Photo courtesy of ASAE on Flickr. A couple years ago, I was sitting at my desk when I got a text message from my dentist with an appointment reminder. So naturally, I checked Facebook, which encouraged me to “like” his page. Yep. Even my dentist has climbed aboard the social media bandwagon.
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Wild Apricot
JULY 12, 2013
'Here''s a link round-up of 4 of the top posts on membership and non-profit communications that we''ve bookmarked on Apricot Jam this week.
Jamie Notter
JULY 11, 2013
'In Monday’s post I talked about Rita Gunther McGrath’s HBR article on Transient Advantage. She suggests that in today’s fast-paced, ever-changing world, companies should not be looking for a sustained competitive advantage, but should instead be developing a portfolio of transient advantages that will bring them success moving forward.
Virtual
JULY 11, 2013
'I’m sitting at 35,000 feet and watching DirectTV typing this while connected to the in-flight email. There’s a number of minor tech miracles embedded in that sentence. But what inspired me to fire up the blog was a story I saw on NBC news—that today is the 5th anniversary of the App store. I’m kind of amazed that the ubiquity of apps has come to pass in only five years (and how many pigs I’ve killed with birds in that time).
Eric Lanke
JULY 8, 2013
'image source It was more than a year ago that I wrote about values statements and how much I hated them. They''re phony, I said. They''re never about the values that an organization actually holds, they''re about the values the leaders of that organization wished it held. And those leaders stretch the values so far into the unrealistic ideal, that there''s no way for the people in the organization to take them seriously.
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Wild Apricot
JULY 10, 2013
'Here''s an overview of The Value of Community Management, the Community Roundtable''s report on the 2013 State of Community Management.
Jamie Notter
JULY 8, 2013
'Go out and find a copy of the June Harvard Business Review Magazine (sorry, I know it’s old news now, but there must be some out there!). The cover spotlight is on “Strategy for Turbulent Times” and the first article in that section is by Rita Gunther McGrath on “ Transient Advantage.” She argues that the days of long-term competitive advantage are for the most part over.
Association Navigator
JULY 12, 2013
'Association management is in the spotlight again. ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership just published a special supplement to Associations Now that focuses on the advantages of association management. The trend toward association management is significant, with more and more non-profits, trade groups, and professional societies turning to professional management companies to run their increasingly sophisticated operations.
Idea Architects
JULY 7, 2013
'One of the apparent trends in religion is believing without belonging. While the number of individuals identifying themselves as believers in some religion or spirituality might be increasing, that increase has not necessarily resulted in more people joining faith-based institutions. Many reasons for this disconnect exist but one of the most significant appears to be a lack of identification with, or faith in, the institutions (churches, synagogues, etc.) themselves.
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Associations Now
JULY 10, 2013
'Although pay inequities persist, younger women in the workforce are more likely than their older female colleagues to see themselves as equal to their male coworkers, according to a new international study. Millennial women all over the world see themselves as equal in ability and achievement to their male counterparts at the office, according to a new global study by FleishmanHillard, Heart Magazines, and Ipsos MediaCT.
Jamie Notter
JULY 9, 2013
'Next week I am speaking at an Australian Association Conference. Unfortunately, this doesn’t mean I’ll be in Australia (though for the record, I am still trying to make that happen sometime in the next year!). I’ll be speaking (via the magic of the internet) at the Associations Forum National Conference in Sydney, next Tuesday morning (in Australia) and Monday evening here on the east coast of the U.S.
Vanguard Tech
JULY 11, 2013
'You’ve toiled for months. Your team has scoured every nook and cranny of your old website and spent hours making every pixel perfect for your new online home. So, are you ready to launch? Nope. And that’s ok. The reality is that website redesign projects are never really “done.” You simply move from one phase to the next. Launch is a transition from “beta” to “live.
Idea Architects
JULY 11, 2013
'I facilitated a session a few weeks ago where some participants talked about the need to replace the "old guard" with some new faces and fresh thinking. It''s a common concern and a common expression. No doubt for even the most dedicated of lifelong learners there is an expiration date on the value of their tenure in a particular role. But remember, just because you''re changing the guard doesn''t mean you necessarily want to change what they were guarding.
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Associations Now
JULY 9, 2013
'The revenue model So how does Upworthy make money, anyway? Well, its original model involved collaborating with various NGOs and nonprofits to help push messages, taking referral fees for successful campaigns. However, PandoDaily reports that the company will try a native advertising model—one that avoids the banner ads that litter many of its competitors.
Jamie Notter
JULY 12, 2013
'I’ve been thinking a lot about experimentation this week (see my two posts yesterday, one here and one on socialfish ), so today’s Humanize quote is from Chapter 9: How to Be Courageous, from the section on experimentation (p. 232): The processes and systems that you find in today’s organizations are designed specifically to avoid making mistakes.
Velvet Chainsaw
JULY 10, 2013
'23 employers, including the Smithsonian Institution, Microsoft and Marriott International, stated that engaging others in face-to-face interactions in order to find information and solve problems is a competency that they need most in their employees. Unfortunately, they rarely find this skill demonstrated by today’s college-educated employees. Employers Place High Need On Information Problem Solving.
AMR Management Services
JULY 9, 2013
'by Will Engle, CMP Director of Conferences & Events Thanks to the “Great Recession” of 2008, the hospitality and meetings industries took a huge hit. By 2010, occupancy levels for U.S. hotels were.
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Associations Now
JULY 12, 2013
'There’s a lot of content developed and distributed around every meeting and event an association holds. How can an organization be more strategic about content creation and delivery? As this blog post is published, it’s only three weeks until I head to Atlanta for ASAE’s Annual Meeting & Expo. (As I finished that sentence, my blood pressure rose as I glanced over at my to-do list for the next 21 days—yikes!).
Membership Marketing
JULY 12, 2013
'One thing that disappoints me the most in the practice of membership marketing is the lack of testing that is conducted. In our 2013 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report only 16% of responding associations said that they conducted A/B split testing (a control versus a test segment) as part of their membership marketing efforts. And that is down from 20% who said that they did so last year.
Velvet Chainsaw
JULY 11, 2013
'For too many years, our conference education and experiences have been one-way, from the speaker’s mouth to the listener’s ear. Attendees are like pawns in the speaker’s (faux) control. This passive, inactive experience has led to the myth that experts have knowledge that they can give to attendees through their presentations and then attendees have it.
SCD Group
JULY 9, 2013
'The other day I had a networking call from an experienced association professional. She had just left a senior position with a large national organization who had hired “one of their own” to serve as its CEO. My friend said “he tried to run the association like his private practice. It was a disaster. It is the first time in my career that I’ve resigned without another job in hand.”.
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