Wild Apricot
JANUARY 28, 2013
Here's our round-up of free non-profit webinars for February 2013. This month we've found 28+ webinars on topics such as: streamlining through the cloud; “brandraise to fundraise”; "Rockstar presentations" and much more.
Association Subculture
FEBRUARY 1, 2013
So, I was one of the lucky ones who got to see Dave Grohl's new documentary " Sound City " last night at the Crest in Sacramento (and yay +Sandra Giarde was with me, Mark and Molly). And I CANNOT stop thinking about it. Dave expertly tells the story of the Sound City studio in Los Angeles that saw the birth of iconic album after iconic album. But at the end of the day this is a deeply human story about connection, friendship, creativity and the human struggle in the digital age.
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YourMembership
FEBRUARY 1, 2013
Categories: Social Media and Business Trends Tags: associations , career , conference , crowdsourcing , culture , member engagement , social media , social media strategies Happy Friday and Welcome to the Weekly Wrap Up brought to you by the team at YourMembership.com! The weekly wrap-ups are a great resource to find industry provoking articles, blog posts, upcoming events, fun facts, and provide up-to-date news and tips found throughout the association and workforce space each week.
Thanks For Playing
JANUARY 31, 2013
Hubspot recently posted a hilarious and very helpful SlideShare on what NOT to do with your marketing. How To Suck at Marketing from HubSpot All-in-one Marketing Software My favorites? Cold calls and unsolicited emails are, of course, THE BOMB. The "Pro Tips." "Greetings Earthling" Yay, jargon! What would you add to their list?
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Wild Apricot
JANUARY 31, 2013
Frank, our Fresh Apricot from the product design team, shares a preview of the development of new mobile back-end capabilities we're planning for Version 5.1.
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Reid All About it
FEBRUARY 1, 2013
Steven Rosenbaum says, “ Stop knocking curation.” I agree. There’s a big difference between aggregation and curation. I can do without the daily paper.li aggregations. I rarely read them, even if one of my tweets is featured as a “top story.” Too many of them don’t have the human (or curator’s) touch. However, as Rosenbaum says, “Information overload drives content consumers to look for human-filtered, journalist-vetted, intellectually-related material.
Optimist Consulting
JANUARY 31, 2013
I think that these trends will influence the way we live in 2013, which in turn could result in increased expectations from members of their membership body. Are you ready? 1. Social content will be king. Good content has always been important to help with your SEO, but with the preferential placing of Google+ pages in search results, social content is now affecting where your organisation will appear in the search rankings.
Wild Apricot
FEBRUARY 1, 2013
Here's a round-up of 5 posts we've bookmarked on Apricot Jam - offering membership insight and ideas.
Thanks For Playing
JANUARY 30, 2013
Big list this week. Hey, lots of people have been writing interesting stuff! Marketing Profs picked up Maddie Grant and Jamie Notter's survey on new leadership skills for the social media age (and wrote a really nice article about it). Speaking of Jamie, he just released a new white paper, in which he applies the Humanize principles to the real-world problem of performance reviews (spoiler alert: it's the first in a series that's going to do this).
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Association Leaders
JANUARY 28, 2013
Great leaders don’t need to know everything about everything. However, they do need to know something about everything. Claiming ignorance is not okay anymore for a leader. What a leader doesn’t know can hurt them and their organization. Here’s an article demonstrating what I’m talking about. It seems during a Today Show episode, there was a conversation about social media during which the TV reporters (leaders) claimed ignorance regarding social media.
Aaron Wolowiec
JANUARY 29, 2013
Heidi Brumbach, CMP, CTA. This post is authored by guest blogger Heidi Brumbach, CMP, CTA. Heidi is the general manager of Technisch Creative. Email: heidi@technischcreative.com. So you’ve decided to have an event, and you’re not sure whether or not you need professional assistance. A good event management company should be an asset to your event, not a liability.
KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup
JANUARY 27, 2013
Last week I was honored to present a webinar, “Fierce Membership: 7 Ways to Keep From Losing Your Most Engaged Members.”. What is "fierce membership" and how is it different than what associations have witnessed before? A "fierce member".: knows their benefits and probably wants all of them plus more. wants to be involved in volunteer efforts and will leave if not given the chance to change the organization (after all, they are already educated and active in the other free ways to engage, as wel
Thanks For Playing
JANUARY 29, 2013
Invest five minutes in this outstanding IGNITE presentation from Jason Lauritsen on how hacking leads to innovation, and why, as a result, we shouldn't fear the concept. I particularly love his "is it hackable?" matrix, which comes down to the simple question: "Is it awesome?" If the answer is yes, you're done. If the answer is no, you have work to do.
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Optimist Consulting
JANUARY 31, 2013
As you may know, MemCom organises the annual awards for the membership industry. They are the only dedicated membership awards in the UK. I attended the event last year. In addition to a great membership focused conference it was brilliant to see membership bodies being recognised for their hard work at the awards ceremony. You can see the Institute of Fundraising celebrating one of their wins on the right (picture from MemCom).
Eric Lanke
JANUARY 28, 2013
image source Sometimes the best thing for a boss to say is nothing at all. Or more precisely, to clarify what is to be achieved, but to remain silent on how to achieve it. I consider my organization to be a "small staff" association. Others with one or two staff people may be envious of our ten staff positions, but I think of ten as small because it requires everyone to wear multiple hats, and to assume positions of team leadership for different projects at different times.
Vanguard Tech
JANUARY 27, 2013
Mobile and tablet computer sales are expected to surpass sales for desktop and laptop computers in 2013. So why are you still designing your association website for only the desktop experience? Today’s devices include a plethora of mobile devices with varying screen resolutions and just as many tablets with their own specs. This is why the concept of Responsive Web Design (RWD) is so important.
Thanks For Playing
JANUARY 28, 2013
"Big data" is not just about the software that manages it and runs queries against it, it's also about your methodology for analyzing that data. Enter Ayasdi , a data analysis firm built on " topological data analysis ," which physically maps complex data, allowing various types of patterns to emerge. The goal is to quickly reach insights from the data without the intermediary step of complex queries.
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Optimist Consulting
JANUARY 31, 2013
A well maintained database is an essential tool for improving your membership retention and recruitment. However, I know from my time my time working in membership bodies and latterly helping clients I know that it is really difficult to clean data. At Christmas I received some corporate Christmas messages from various organisations that I have not heard from, for a number of months or maybe even years.
Mariner
JANUARY 31, 2013
January 31, 2013. Tell me when I’ve screwed up (privately) or when I find out the hard way I’ll hit the road. I’m counting on you to help me be successful (and then I’ll make sure you’re successful to!). Tell me when I’ve screwed up (privately) or when I find out the hard way I’ll hit the road. I’m counting on you to help me be successful (and then I’ll make sure you’re successful to!).
The Big Picture
JANUARY 29, 2013
Happy (belated) Community Manager Appreciation Day to my fellow community managers. My son decided to celebrate by coming down with the flu, so I celebrated from home (with my laptop and my community nearby). I was probably a community manager (as one of my work duties) for many months before I figured out that's what I was. For almost two years now, MHA has been using Higher Logic's community software for our MHA Connect.
Vanguard Tech
JANUARY 31, 2013
We fielded a survey a few months ago to find out how often associations redesign their website and how they manage their sites. One of the most amazing things we found was this: Nearly 40% of associations have not updated their website design within the past three years! True, there is no exact rule of how frequently a site needs to be redesigned, but we believe three years is pushing the envelope.
Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker
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Optimist Consulting
JANUARY 31, 2013
T he Charity Retail Association (previously the Association of Charity Shops) is the membership body that represents the interests of charity retailers. They have 350 members, who have over 7000 shops between them. The CRA has been campaigning about potential changes to business relief for charity shops in Wales over the past months. I believe their campaign demonstrates a number of best practices for membership bodies looking to campaign and lobby.
Portage Group
JANUARY 28, 2013
Calling all Ottawa-and-area association executives! CSAE Ottawa-Gatineau is hosting its annual Tête-à-Tête event this Thursday, January 31st at the Ottawa Convention Centre. This event is FREE to Association and Not-For-Profit Executive Directors and Employees, Professional Meeting Planners and Government Procurers and is a great opportunity to connect with other nonprofit folks.
Golden's Rules for Association
JANUARY 31, 2013
My picks for the three biggest technology trends affecting associations for 2013: 1. It’s not just social … or even primarily social … it’s all about mobile access now 2. If you are a control freak … get over it. 3. If you still think IT is somebody else’s responsibility, you’re wrong Read more in [.].
Association Navigator
JANUARY 31, 2013
Don’t miss the great article in the new Fortune magazine about Mars – Inside Mars, one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For , by David A. Kaplan. Here’s what I find interesting: Mars’ headquarters is in McLean, Virginia, the DC suburb where I live. But only 80 employees work there – the entire company employs 72,000 around the world at 400 offices and manufacturing sites.
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