Spark Consulting
OCTOBER 22, 2014
'Want to increase your bulk email open rate? Of course you do! The subject is the most important part of the email. Spend time writing a meaningful one that will ensure your recipient will open and read more. Stay away from wacky typefaces, odd or excessive use of bold and italics, and weird capitalization in an email. Not only do these formats shout “advertisement” they also make it difficult to read.
Wild Apricot
OCTOBER 24, 2014
'This month''s free non-profit webinar round-up offers 23+ topics, including: Mission-Driven Volunteering (our first Expert Webinar); online campaigns; donor databases; do-it-yourself PR and much more!
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YourMembership
OCTOBER 24, 2014
My experience working with people over the years has reaffirmed my belief that many fear, mistrust, or sometimes patently reject things they don’t understand. No one likes to openly admit what he or she don’t know or understand, especially when it’s something that is related to their job. Technology seems to fit nicely into that area. Recently you may have seen some industry articles, and there have been a few, with the underlying message that association staff members, in particular membership
Eric Lanke
OCTOBER 20, 2014
'image source I spent some time this weekend reviewing proposals for ASAE''s Innovation Grant Program. It''s one of my volunteer activities, and like a lot of those functions, I had to find time away from my professional responsibilities in order to get it done. That might be a future blog post--as I''m convinced that many association staff don''t comprehend that the work their volunteers do for their associations is done at night and on weekends.
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Mariner
OCTOBER 20, 2014
'Then let’s make it meaningful and fun. Down with boring meetings and down with meetings that we don’t leave with more energy than we started.
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YourMembership
OCTOBER 21, 2014
Your design choices create the first impression, and lasting perception, of your association in the minds of members, prospective members and your industry. Your branding – your logo, artwork, photography, colors, layouts, fonts, etc. – creates the first overall image someone experiences when looking at your web presence, marketing and member communication pieces and should be valued with the true significance it carries.
Jamie Notter
OCTOBER 21, 2014
'One of the hallmarks of technology and software design is the focus on user and user experience. As I pointed out last month , organizations typically do not consider their internal users (i.e., employees) when they design the organization and its culture, but they probably should. Early technology design was not so user-friendly. We had clunky systems with really thick manuals.
Association Navigator
OCTOBER 18, 2014
'My reading material on a recent business trip included Building and Maintaining a Global Public Affairs Functio n , by the DC-based Foundation for Public Affairs. The Foundation for Public Affairs is the association for public affairs professionals and they produce excellent publications. The paper is a high-level discussion of best practices and the evolving structure of corporate government affairs on the global scale.
Wild Apricot
OCTOBER 23, 2014
'This is the first of two posts offering highlights of our interview with Nicole Walters of the San Diego Venture Group.
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Association Adviser
OCTOBER 21, 2014
'Susan Neely, CAE president and CEO of the American Beverage Association and newly elected Chair of the ASAE Board of Directors believes you can’t just report the news to your members; you have to. For more about this topic, click on the headline.
Jamie Notter
OCTOBER 24, 2014
'This week’s Friday quote comes from The Alliance , a book written by Reid Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn (and Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh). The book builds off of an HBR article that I wrote about last year , where Hoffman talks about creating “Tours of Duty” for employees, where the employee and employer develop a plan that benefits them both.
Vanguard Tech
OCTOBER 21, 2014
'“Taxonomy – a scheme of classification” One of the most powerful features of the Sitefinity Content Management System is the ability to assign a taxonomy to content, allowing website managers to filter, sort and display content based on a set of defined categories. However while most of our clients are excited about the potential of using the CMS taxonomy, we typically first hear “What’s a taxonomy?
Velvet Chainsaw
OCTOBER 24, 2014
'As a conference organizer, do you replicate last year’s conference schedule and experience and just change the filling? Or do you mix it up? Constantly looking for new ways to freshen up the attendee’s conference experience. The best conference organizers proactively seek fresh, new ideas to implement at their next annual meeting. They work hard at coming up with the next big idea.
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Association Adviser
OCTOBER 21, 2014
'Associations are increasingly turning to video to connect with members and potential members of all ages. More than one in six respondents (17 percent) to our latest poll told us that webinars and. For more about this topic, click on the headline. Did You Know?
Associations Now
OCTOBER 21, 2014
'To shine a light on the country’s skills gap, the American Staffing Association released a new index that quantifies the hardest-to-fill occupations. With this tool, ASA hopes staffing firms can better develop skills training in those fields. The American Staffing Association is tackling the U.S. skills gap. Last week, ASA introduced a new tool to track America’s hardest-to-fill occupations, in an effort to identify the skills needed to fill those jobs.
Mizz Information
OCTOBER 24, 2014
'Whew, it''s been a busy few weeks. At the beginning of October, I had the pleasure of finally going to (or at least *near*) Boston for the first time in my (long) life to present about social media analytics at NESAE''s Technology Conference. It''s a topic that I think is really important for associations, yet also a challenge for them. Whereas a few years ago in the association community, social media was a topic that dominated almost every event agenda, the topic has all but fallen off the ra
Velvet Chainsaw
OCTOBER 22, 2014
'Last night we went to a local chain restaurant. It wasn’t great. It wasn’t bad. It was average at best. After our meal, I told others about my visit. My relatives all had an opinion about the restaurant. So did my spouse and my friends. I started to post a comment in Facebook to ask others about their thoughts. Then I wondered “Why am I asking for their opinions?
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Association Adviser
OCTOBER 21, 2014
'As we discussed in Part 1, there are more ways than ever for associations to communicate with members, so it’s only natural to assume there are more ways for associations to earn non-dues revenue. For more about this topic, click on the headline.
Associations Now
OCTOBER 20, 2014
'A good association meeting isn’t just a fun and educational experience. It’s the product of smart strategies that leaders can apply throughout an organization. Like everybody who begins working at an association, I quickly learned that meetings are an essential part of what an association does. The balance sheet for many associations typically goes from red to black during their annual meeting, and member education is key to the day-to-day operations—indeed, it a large part of
GlowGlobally
OCTOBER 24, 2014
' This interview is with Florence Chua, Director, Association Management and Consulting, MCI China during the 2014 ASAE Annual Conference in Nashville. It is run in two parts as we discuss methods for establishing successful businesses in China. Florence refers to the 2014 ASAE MCI study on Achieving Global Growth Study here. Important! Part 1 – Podcast Interview (12 minutes).
Velvet Chainsaw
OCTOBER 21, 2014
'All conference education has a dirty little secret. And it’s bigger and dirtier than most. The big skeleton in the conference closet is that most attendees will forget the majority of what they hear during the event. The current design of the education session sabotages your learning and retention. Let’s Waste The Company’s Money No one says, “Hey, let’s spend a lot of money and time to attend a conference and participate in education sessions that we will never remember.
Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker
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Association Adviser
OCTOBER 21, 2014
'Association execs offer frank insights about what’s working and not working in the NDR trenches. Do you have to choose between cool and cash flow? The post 10 Things You Need to Know About Non-Dues. For more about this topic, click on the headline.
Associations Now
OCTOBER 24, 2014
'According to a new study released by the U.S. Travel Association’s Travel Effect initiative, use of vacation days has fallen to its lowest level in four decades. And all that time in the office doesn’t help boost careers. The U.S Travel Association has a message for the public: Take a vacation, because you look tired. In a new study released by its Travel Effect initiative, U.S.
SCD Group
OCTOBER 21, 2014
'Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella In a story headlined “Interview: How Nadella plans to upend Microsoft,” USA Today’s Marco della Cava, gave excellent insight. Here are three paragraphs that I thought valuable for association executives: "You need new concepts with new innovation, and you have to have new capability and culture to go after those new concepts," he says.
Beth Kanter
OCTOBER 23, 2014
'Almost five years ago to the day, I was lucky enough to meet Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor while I was Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. Almost tend years ago, they co-wrote “Net Gains,” one of the first practical handbooks on building and working in networks for social change.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions
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