Wild Apricot

JUNE 29, 2015

Want to find out how to motivate your volunteers, donors, supporters and board members? Check out our Nonprofit Blog Carnival round-up for June.

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Reid All About it

JULY 1, 2015

Every year, when I register for the ASAE Annual Meeting, I check the box to receive emails from exhibitors. As a writer/marketer, I like seeing how vendors in my community use email marketing. Some of them do it well, but some, oh boy, they really blow it. The list ASAE provides to exhibitors includes association execs and staff as well as consultant members like myself.

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Aaron Wolowiec

JUNE 30, 2015

Allison McClintick, CEO/leader development specialist, FlightLead Consulting. Q & A with Allison McClintick , CEO/leader development specialist, FlightLead Consulting. Q: Would you rather sky dive, bungee jump or climb to the top of the Golden Gate Bridge, and why? A: If the goal is to put myself into cardiac arrest, I would say all three! All those choices seem equally terrifying because I am totally not OK with being in the air like that!

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Potomac Core

JUNE 28, 2015

Improving Association Retention Performance. What Association doesn’t want to slow down its Member Resignations and improve retention performance? Member losses are difficult especially when an Association loses larger members. Yet the painful lessons from these resignations can help your organization reposition itself and drive accelerated member engagement and achieve improved operating performance.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 30, 2015

June was a big month for us! We made great strides with our software and community offerings. Read more about what we've been up to!

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Aaron Wolowiec

JUNE 29, 2015

The other day, while looking for an app for my 7 year old daughter, I was amazed at the amount of options in the app store – everything from shopping to financial planning to fun, 7-year-old girl games. So, of course, shortly thereafter I downloaded the Kroger mobile app, to which I’m now addicted. As a consumer, a mother and a working professional, I’m addicted to my iPhone.

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Jamie Notter

JUNE 30, 2015

While I scoffed a bit at this summer's HBR Cover story because it started with the stale mantra of "HR needs a seat at the leadership table," I do want to draw attention to one of the more interesting points in the article, which focused on the need for organizations to be flexible around their human capital: Responding to the external environment today sometimes requires leaders with capabilities that weren't previously cultivated, such as knowledge of algorithms, or psychological comfort with

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Optimist Consulting

JULY 1, 2015

I was interested to read the second annual membership organisations’ survey from accountancy and business advisory firm, PKF Littlejohn, which shows renewed optimism for the sector again this year. These are the three insights that stood out for me: 1. 24% have introduced more member services for a higher fee. It’s positive news to see that organisations are developing their membership package and exciting that membership organisations are now being bold enough to cover the costs of these new se

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Eric Lanke

JUNE 29, 2015

I'm describing in a series of blog posts the different elements that make up my association's Strategy Agenda--a new term I've introduced in my organization to represent the essential work product of our Board of Directors. It is comprised of four distinct elements, each one nesting in the one that precedes it, and describes what we want to achieve and how we will measure our success in achieving it.

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Events hold the power to create lasting impressions and meaningful connections. They are not only occasions for celebration but also valuable marketing opportunities. Event marketing has become an essential component of successful business strategies, enabling organizations to engage with their target audience and create memorable experiences. However, behind every successful event lies a well-thought-out marketing strategy.

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KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup

JUNE 28, 2015

We've all heard the statistics about driving engagement on social media by using pictures, but questions abound about how to use this information to really move the needle on social media outcomes. Every morning I walk my seven-year-old daughter to her bus stop. We talk about nature, comment on the things we see along the way, and look both ways before crossing the street.

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Associations Now

JULY 1, 2015

The North Carolina Association of CPAs undertook a year-long project to get its member data both centralized and accessible via interactive dashboards. After all, your member data is only as good as your ability analyze it. Until earlier this year, it took staff at the North Carolina Association of CPAs as long as 16 hours—two solid business days—to generate a complete report of its key membership statistics, pulled from its association management system and compiled in Excel. “We only did

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Optimist Consulting

JULY 1, 2015

I was interested to read the second annual membership organisations’ survey from accountancy and business advisory firm, PKF Littlejohn, which shows renewed optimism for the sector again this year. These are the three insights that stood out for me: 1. 24% have introduced more member services for a higher fee. It’s positive news to see that organisations are developing their membership package and exciting that membership organisations are now being bold enough to cover the costs of these new se

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 30, 2015

We’re very blessed to have an incredible team here at VCC! But, today marks the final (official) day of one of our MVP’s, Donna Kastner. Donna is a go getter! Prior to joining us, she developed a business/community concept called Retirepreneur. (Pretty cool, right?) She’s leaving our company so that she can invest more of her time making her vision a reality.

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Association Adviser

JULY 2, 2015

Are our jobs so awful that we prefer to "live" for only two of the seven days of a week? The daily grind of paper pushing and dealing with tough bosses is hard, but is that worth wasting 70 percent. For more about this topic, click on the headline.

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Associations Now

JUNE 29, 2015

This week’s Cannabis Business Summit and Expo, hosted by the National Cannabis Industry Association, will be historic: A fundraising event for Republican Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday will mark the industry’s first formal overture to a major-party presidential candidate. In case it wasn’t clear how mainstream the modern cannabis movement has become, Sen.

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SCD Group

JULY 2, 2015

Leading from the Outside-In By Maddie Grant via SocialFish.org Perhaps you and your organization grapple with some of the questions that preoccupied the executives I interviewed for my book as they contemplated how to take their organizations to a next phase. Should we create radically different membership and business models? Should we go “global”?

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 2, 2015

Yahoo, our conference attendance is up 30% from last year. Whoa, don’t be fooled by that conference data! Too many organizations pat their leaders on the back for increased attendance, selling out the show floor or selling all of their sponsorship packages. We need to use discernment to look deeper into what that conference data is really telling us.

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Idea Architects

JULY 1, 2015

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Associations Now

JUNE 29, 2015

Innovation is about ideas and passions, but ISACA succeeds with it by putting research first. As prompts for innovation go, being stuck in traffic isn’t the worst thing. Earlier this year, Timothy J. Mason, chief marketing officer at ISACA, was listening to a news report during his morning commute about the upcoming State of the Union address.

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SCD Group

JUNE 29, 2015

Editor’s Note: Last Wednesday, I was inducted into the Ag Public Relations Hall of Fame. What follows are the tips from my career that I shared during the induction ceremony. Providing background for each tip makes this post extra long. but what the heck, how often do you get inducted into a Hall of Fame?! I’m going to share a few stories that I hope provide useful tips for your professional career.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 1, 2015

Imagine a radio station that played adult contemporary, classical, country, dance, electronic, golden oldies, heavy metal, news, pop, R&B, rock, southern gospel and talk alternating between each. What if this commercial radio station tried to appeal to everyone’s musical taste as well as news and talk radio? How successful would it be? It wouldn’t work, you say.

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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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Plexus Consulting

JULY 3, 2015

By Steven M. Worth, President at Plexus Consulting Group, LLC This news lead caught my attention: “Supermarket giant Kroger Co. (KR) is winning the war against lengthy checkout lines with a powerful weapon: infrared cameras long used by the military and law-enforcement to track people.” Aren’t those association managers of membership organizations who feel they are offering their members something special by eschewing technology in favor of more personal human interaction gambling that a persona

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Associations Now

JUNE 30, 2015

A Paywall Idea Worth Watching Last week, the tech site Pando took an experimental step with its latest site relaunch. The website now has a hard paywall put on board—one that costs $10 each month to break—but one fascinating element of this paywall is that free readers can get around it if they have a friend with a subscription. “If there’s something you want to read but find it locked, just hit up a member and ask them to unlock it for you,” the site’s Paul Carr and Sarah Lacy

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Associations Now

JULY 1, 2015

There are a ton of nonprofits, and some of them have surprising backstories. Can you suss out your made-up associations from your real ones? Here at Associations Now , we cover the gamut of associations, and once you get beyond the usual suspects, like the American Bar Association and the National Retail Federation, they often go in directions you’d never expect.

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Associations Now

JULY 1, 2015

6 The number of shark-attack-related fatalities in the U.S. since 2010, according to data from the Global Shark Attack File. By comparison, U.S. Lifesaving Association data show that there were 556 drowning deaths in the U.S. during the same time period—453 of those occurred at unguarded beaches. The media attention brought on by the number of violent shark attacks this summer has given the U.S.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

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