Wild Apricot

APRIL 27, 2015

Spring is here and there are lots of fresh new ideas for non-profits in a host of free webinars popping up this May! Check out the round-up of 17 free webinars.

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Association Leaders

APRIL 28, 2015

To most people, the concept of becoming “lean” connotes having less or doing more with less. For example, I am 35 pounds lean er than I was fifteen months ago. My company is managing more associations today with fewer employees than we did two years ago – we are lean er. To many businesspeople the concept of lean is also associated primarily with manufacturing businesses.

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Aaron Wolowiec

APRIL 28, 2015

At a conference dinner earlier this month, a bunch of us, hungry and tired, sat at the table joking that chicken was most likely on the menu. And it was. But we had salmon, too. And vegetables, rolls, rice, salad and dessert. Sounds about right for a conference, yes? So imagine our surprise when the rest of the meals didn’t consist of the typical conference grub, but instead included fancy finger foods, fresh vegetables, flavorfully spiced meats and beautiful presentation.

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YourMembership

MAY 1, 2015

I just got back from a great week at Elevate 2015, CalSAE’s Annual Conference located this year in beautiful Lake Tahoe. It’s at events like Elevate that you often realize what a small, small world the association profession can sometimes appear to be. Just a week removed from the last YM monthly webinar Are You Ready for When Millennials Take Over with Jamie Notter and Maddie Grant, CAE from Cultures That Work, I ran into both of them at Elevate.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 1, 2015

The April Wild Apricot Update offers a personal message from Chief Apricot Dmitry Buterin about how Wild Apricot is changing and why.

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Virtual

APRIL 30, 2015

For over a decade, I have been attending standards and technology-focused events sponsored by client associations as well as forums hosted by venerable U.S. and global standards-focused organizations. These meetings are by and large fairly homogenous gatherings of standards professionals with deep experience in standards and who are skilled at representing their companies’ interests in industry alliances and consortia.

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Mariner

APRIL 27, 2015

To split or not to split infinitives … it’s a serious controversy! Not really, but there are people that are adamant that you should never split an infinitive. Say thanks to the grammar gods that the creators of Star Trek ignored the rule – because To Go Boldly just doesn’t have the same zing!

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Eric Lanke

APRIL 27, 2015

I introduced a new term in my association last year. Our Strategy Agenda. What is it? Well, as the title of this blog post suggests, it is not another pseudonym for our strategic plan. It is something distinct. Unlike too many strategic plans in the association world, our Strategy Agenda doesn't deal at all with what we intend to do. It deals only with what we intend to achieve, and how we will know when we achieved it.

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Jamie Notter

APRIL 29, 2015

This month's culture chat is going to focus on hiring for culture fit (Thursday, 1pm eastern, on twitter; use hashtag #culturechat ). In the research Maddie and I did for When Millennials Take Over , we found some pretty amazing companies. They were all doing great by traditional success metrics, and they were particularly successful in hiring great people and keeping their turnover low.

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Associations Now

APRIL 27, 2015

A new survey of nonprofit board directors found there is room for improvement in board performance and suggests several steps boards can take to better serve their organizations’ needs. Nonprofit board directors often lack in the skills, resources, and experience required to meet the needs of the organizations they serve, according to new research from the Stanford Graduate Business School.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 27, 2015

It’s time to bring back the luncheon table at your next conference. When attendees break bread together at the table, community is born. It’s where the stories of our profession, our lives, our past and our future are shared, retold, relived and remembered. Too many conferences have made a catastrophic mistake. In the name of conference budget cuts, we have removed attendee gatherings around a meal.

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Mizz Information

APRIL 28, 2015

If millennials get a bad rap for job-hopping, apparently I was born ahead of my time given my track record over the past several years. In the past year and a half I’ve cycled through five jobs, finally landing at what I hope is my final destination for a long, long time (knock wood). I have to say I’ve learned a ton through this journey, and come away from each experience with a valuable skill or lesson-learned, the sum of which has set me up for success in what I hope will be my long-term posi

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SCD Group

APRIL 27, 2015

The recovery means fewer people searching for jobs. Boomer retirements (some claim as many as 10,800 per day) suggests more openings for association professionals. The two trends suggest associations are headed for major competition when hiring talented staff for their organizations. So, when my wife shared a friend’s blog related to this topic, I asked if we could use her thoughts for SCDdaily.

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Associations Now

APRIL 29, 2015

The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums won plaudits from animal rights activists when it suspended the Japan Association of Zoos and Aquariums over its refusal to ban the dolphin trade. The dolphins won this time. A disagreement over a controversial dolphin-capture technique prominently used in Japan has forced the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums to suspend the membership of the Japan Association of Zoos and Aquariums. “WAZA requires all members to adhere to policies that proh

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 1, 2015

Take a look at some of the research and predictions from Hyper Island on how Experience Design is more critical to businesses than price. Applying this research to the business of conferences, paid attendee experience will soon become the unique selling point of conference over price and product. Are you even thinking about designing a conference experience for the target market?

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Beth Kanter

APRIL 30, 2015

Today I presented on a “featured session” at the United Way Community Leaders Conference in Grapevine, Texas. The conference theme was “Working Together in the Era of the Individual.” I facilitated an interactive featured session on why and how leaders should be engaged on social as well as other insiders (employees, board, and volunteers).

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Achieve

APRIL 29, 2015

This blog originally appeared on. Philantopic. , a blog of opinion and commentary by Philanthropy News Digest. . I interview donors, young and old, all the time to learn why they support and give to the causes that are dear to them. One question in particular generates interesting responses every time I ask it: How involved are you with the organizations you support?

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Associations Now

APRIL 30, 2015

What if you could switch jobs with, or shadow, someone at an organization that does similar work to yours? That’s exactly what one association professional is doing to advance both her career and her organization. Like field trips , exchange programs provide valuable opportunities to learn new things, explore new places, and meet new people. And, also like field trips, exchange programs do not have to be relegated to your school days.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 30, 2015

Do you know where your suppliers are? Seriously, do you? Are they attending your conference education? Or just hanging around for the networking and social events? Side-by-Side Learning Should Be a Must for Suppliers The home page of the Meetings Mean Business website sums up the coalition’s main message: “Great things happen when people come together.

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Beth Kanter

APRIL 26, 2015

The devastating earthquake in Nepal has killed more than 2,400 people and injured about 5,900, residents so far (as reported in the NY Times on Sunday). Please donate to help Nepal’s Earthquake Victims now. On Saturday morning, I got a news alert on my mobile phone that there had been a devastating 7.9 earthquake in Nepal. I immediately looked on Facebook to check on my colleague, Robert Rosenthal from VolunteerMatch to see if he was okay.

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Plexus Consulting

APRIL 25, 2015

By Steven M. Worth, President at Plexus Consulting Group, LLC For the Alexandria City Public School System, one of the most diverse in the United States, a direct, specific vision was difficult to maintain. With students from over 80 differing countries speaking over 60 various languages, ACPS sought aspirations that were representative of all members of the system.

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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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Associations Now

APRIL 29, 2015

Long after the end of the 2009 recession, the nonprofit sector continues to experience high demand for services that many organizations struggle to meet. A new report from the Nonprofit Finance Fund paints a picture of financial strain in the sector. There’s been relatively good news for the nonprofit sector of late: Donations continue to surge , hiring is seeing a rebound , and global meetings business is growing.

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Associations Now

APRIL 29, 2015

There aren’t a lot of clear best practices in associations for how to craft a successful membership offer for your industry’s retirees, but with baby boomers moving past 65, it seems like an opportunity ready for the taking. There probably isn’t much I can write about the baby boomer generation that would be news to you, so let’s skip all the big numbers.

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Associations Now

MAY 1, 2015

Convention and visitor bureaus are making diversity and inclusion efforts an integral part of their strategy. Here’s how and why. As associations continue to expand their diversity and inclusion efforts and make D&I a strategic imperative, so do destinations. These cities want their marketing messages to not only reflect the diversity of their communities but also be welcoming to business and leisure travelers who come from a diverse set of backgrounds and cultures.

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Associations Now

APRIL 27, 2015

With a new coalition in tow, Native American tribes nationwide are considering the potential sale of legal marijuana on their land. The tribes’ sovereign status gives them some advantages that state governments don’t have, but the drug’s regulated status still means there’s plenty to consider. Native American tribes have been known to use their sovereign status to test out new business models—models that may not exactly be considered legal elsewhere.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

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