Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Has your organization considered infographics as a way of telling your story? Here are some ideas and resources to get you thinking about infographics.

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Thanks For Playing

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Of course you know I'm going to say "yes," right? So the real question is: when? And how do you do it without creating a PR nightmare in a social world? (Here's one tip: don't use a post-it.) We all have "problem" members. You know - the person who calls or emails constantly to complain. She's never happy with what the association provides. He doesn't feel that you respond appropriately to his complaints.

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YourMembership

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Categories: Membership Management Tags: engaging members , feature adoption , social networking software , Technology At YourMembership.com we roll-out 150+ enhancements and new features a year. Some are huge undertakings meant to change (or better) the way you do business and some are more intuitive features designed to work behind the scenes. While all features are included in your price, you chose to implement the ones that make the most [.] ( Read more.

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Aaron Wolowiec

OCTOBER 17, 2012

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: People are busy these days. They’re also moving at a faster pace and have limited dollars to spend on professional development. Period. Combine this competition for time and resources with the endless access to information and content available online and you have a long list of continuing education providers competing for market share.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Here's an overview of a new article in our Hub that explains the importance of providing skills and tools for volunteer leaders to ensure that meetings address critical issues and move your mission forward.

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YourMembership

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Categories: Member Engagement + Retention Tags: forbes , Friday Fix , innovation , inspiration , social media On my Facebook page this morning I posted that I wasn’t sure whether a comment that was said to me was a compliment or not. One of my friends offered, “Since you have a choice, I would take it as one.” There was my inspiring moment of the morning!

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Reid All About it

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The coolest thing I saw all week, no contest, was Felix Baumgartner’s supersonic free fall skydive. Nothing beats that. Red Bull has two short videos of the event: a 1:30 minute highlight version and a 4:30 minute full recap version. Both are exhilarating to watch. If you publish text, video, and photos on the web, please understand how copyright works.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Don't miss our upcoming webinars this week: Managing Your Membership Database in Wild Apricot (Wed. Oct. 17) and Getting Started with your Wild Apricot Account (Thur. Oct. 18).

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Thanks For Playing

OCTOBER 16, 2012

I'm presenting on the topic above at the Events By Design Small Staff Association workshop today, and while it's too late to join us, I thought I could share my best membership marketing tips for small staff associations (aka "the handout") with everyone. Barter! Find a complimentary organization or two, and swap member lists, swap magazine ads, swap e-newsletter promotions, swap banner ads, swap conference attendance/booths/speaking spots, etc.

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YourMembership

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Categories: Membership Management Tags: content , content marketing , spam , writing Most people delete email spam. I, however, like to read their subject lines much the same way people used to read cereal boxes. (It’s true kids we did, before cell phones.) In reading their marketing approaches, I’ve learned five things: 1. Appear familiar.

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Principled Innovation

OCTOBER 18, 2012

In August, I launched the P. I. Serious Questions newsletter. Each issue of the newsletter presents a serious question on which I offer my thoughts for newsletter subscribers. Today, I am publishing what I wrote on the September 2012 Serious Question of the Month on the P.I. Blog. The September 2012 Serious Question of the Month. Are associations dead?

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Eric Lanke

OCTOBER 15, 2012

image source I've mentioned previously that I'm leading another innovation effort for WSAE, something we're calling an Innovation Circle. Ours is focused on member engagement, and you can get an overview of what it is and what we're trying to achieve with it here. I've previously posted on some of the member engagement issues people in the Circle are wrestling with.

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Thanks For Playing

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Changing workforce = changing needs from professional associations. Shelly Alcorn asks: are you ready ? Faced with a tough choice? Just pick something. Delaying has costs, too. No business model lasts forever. What are you doing to prepare ? Stop fighting your change agents. Adaptor? Innovator? Harness the creative potential of both on your staff. Nobody cares what you think?

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Idea Architects

OCTOBER 19, 2012

It’s no surprise that Deathby Meeting is one of the more popular business books given how we experience so many poorly designed and/or facilitated gatherings. Great meetings maximize individuals’ contributions and commitments to produce desired results. That simple. That challenging. Here are 10 tips from my experience designing and facilitati ng meetings.

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Jamie Notter

OCTOBER 16, 2012

We don’t take the orientation process nearly as seriously as we should. And even when we take it seriously, we tend to focus on administrative details. We make sure people have the HR forms and employee manuals. That’s all good, but does it help the new employee really own her job? If you want ownership behavior (critical to open organizations, as we argue in Humanize ), then you need to make sure everyone in your organization really knows what drives success and how things work.

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GlowGlobally

OCTOBER 13, 2012

CTBUH 2012 – SOLD OUT in Shanghai! That the 21st Century will be the age of the Asian Skyscraper seems indisputable. Already, the past two decades have witnessed a major shift in tall buildings from west to east. Many of the major advances are now taking place in Asia, often with a collaboration of eastern and western expertise. With global urbanization approaching 200,000 people every day, the need for a new or extended city of a million inhabitants every week is driving massive growth i

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Thanks For Playing

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Have you noticed that while a lot of people know how to USE computers these days, not a lot of people understand how they actually work? The people who used the first PCs were tinkerers, because they had to be - the computers were really, really basic and didn't automate much for you (remember when you had to know how to make it load the operating system?).

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Velvet Chainsaw

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Does the food we eat affect our productivity? Of course it does! Here’s an infographic from MindFlash on the very subject. While the graphic refers to workplace wellness, the information definitely applies to conference attendee wellness too! Featured By: Compliance and Safety.

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Idea Architects

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Partners search for opportunities to support, contribute, and be of service. That's the bottom line message of the keynote I am delivering about right now on Powerful Partnerships. It reminds me of my days in high school when I was a restaurant server. Our restaurant was divided into sections of 6-8 tables, each assigned to an individual server. My first few days I spent a lot of time watching other servers to see what I could learn.

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GlowGlobally

OCTOBER 14, 2012

In 2008, MCI completed a research project for the government of Abu Dhabi. A critical outcome from this effort was capturing how US-based and EU-based associations reflected on the challenges and opportunities to enter and grow a specific regional market. Most notably, we found that both cohorts found the following to be significant barriers to international growth : Lack of experience and knowledge of a region.

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Mizz Information

OCTOBER 15, 2012

? ??While I love the look of my new website, I have to say that I'm sorely missing the any-idiot-can-use-it functionality of Google Blogger for blogging. Also, sort of kicking myself for lack of forethought about what kind of functionality I need from a website, as a person who really only needs a blogging platform. But anyway, onward and upward, I guess.but so you might learn from my lack of foresight here are a few pros and cons of Squarespace 6 as a blogging platform: ?

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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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Velvet Chainsaw

OCTOBER 18, 2012

“Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah blah. Blah, blah, blah!” The words fall from the speaker’s mouth to listener’s ears. The more the speaker shares, the more the listeners quickly forget. Here’s a truth: Content covered by the speaker does not automatically translate into content learned by the audience. Same Old, Same Old. For the past 50 years, the vast majority of our conference education has remained the same.

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SCD Group

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Three stories in the last week show association executives some key trends/issues that could impact associations and association members. Here are excerpts of the stories. eBay unveils new logo, fresh look From USA Today via HispanicBusiness.com EBay is hurtling into the digital age with a new logo, major redesign and aggressive plans to wade deeper into daily deals, search and shipping.

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Beth Kanter

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Note from Beth: As many of my loyal readers know, I’ve been on a book tour with the newly released “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data for Social Change ” with co-author KD Paine. In early October we made the rounds to promote the book in Boston and I had a chance to meet Brooke Freedman and Brian Halligan at Hubspot.

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Plexus Consulting

OCTOBER 17, 2012

By Virgil R. Carter Despite the great diversity among non-profit organizations, we all seek effective governance by our boards. A critical starting point is to recognize what a vital resource time is. Recruiting new board members is challenging because volunteers are concerned about drains on their time. Governing well is critical because a board’s time together is limited.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

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