Wild Apricot
JULY 22, 2013
'Here are 4 key reasons why your organization should have a blog, as well as a Movie Monday video that offers a look at how one organization "built excitement and community engagement" with a blog.
YourMembership
JULY 23, 2013
'Associations and other member-based organizations are facing a new set of challenges. These challenges have been blamed on a myriad of things including social media, the economy, and even millennials. The irony is that in a time when everyone seems to want to be a part of a community/social network, many associations are struggling with [.] ( Read more. ) The post 5 Things Associations are Doing Wrong and How to Fix Them (Part 1) appeared first on YourMembership.com.
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Spark Consulting
JULY 26, 2013
'A large chunk of the association universe will be heading for Atlanta for #ASAE13 within the next week or so. I once again volunteered to be a “buddy” for a first-time attendee, and I had a nice conversation with her late yesterday afternoon to try to help her prep. Over the next two weeks, I’ll share some of what we talked about.
KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup
JULY 26, 2013
'Attending a big conference can make you feel like a freak. If you aren''t already plugged in to the who''s who of your industry, a huge meeting can make you want to hide out and make origami swans out of your business cards rather than pass them out to people at networking events. ?. There are several ways I prepare myself to make the most of any conference that might help attendees (especially my fellow introverts).
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Wild Apricot
JULY 25, 2013
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YourMembership
JULY 24, 2013
'Yesterday, we covered three of the five most common mistakes made by associations and member-based organizations. Today, we’ll finish with the last two. The beauty of all these “mistakes” is that they can be remedied quickly. 4. Worrying about failure/mistaking stability for direction – it is impossible to learn to walk without falling and while what associations are [.] ( Read more. ) The post 5 Things Associations are Doing Wrong and How to Fix Them (Part II) appeared
Spark Consulting
JULY 25, 2013
'Next week will mark one year in business for Spark Consulting. Thanks to the advice of several wise friends who’ve been down this road before me, I scheduled my first “get outta Dodge” corporate retreat, and spent the early part of this week in Berkeley Springs, WV, reflecting on the past year, planning and dreaming for the coming year, and thinking about the larger “why” of doing this.
Wild Apricot
JULY 26, 2013
'This month''s round-up of free non-profit webinars offers more than 22 topics for August.
Jamie Notter
JULY 23, 2013
'Dear Human Resources Field, I’ve been struggling with how to say this in the most supportive and effective way possible (because I do love you), but after a seemingly endless stream of imperfect drafts that I have deleted, I’ve decided to just blurt it out: I’m done with you. Sorry, but I just can’t do it any more. For decades, I have been your ally.
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YourMembership
JULY 24, 2013
'Yesterday, we covered three of the five most common mistakes made by associations and member-based organizations. Today, we’ll finish with the last two. The beauty of all these “mistakes” is that they can be remedied quickly. 4. Worrying about failure/mistaking stability for direction – it is impossible to learn to walk without falling and while what associations are [.] ( Read more. ) The post 5 Things Associations are Doing Wrong and How to Fix Them (Part II) appeared
Eric Lanke
JULY 22, 2013
'image source Last week, in The First Step Is Always to Do a Survey , I continued writing about the process I used to create my association''s values statement, despite some misgivings about the value of values statements I''ve previously shared and still hold. Wanting to create a space where honest dialogue could take place not just about the values we wanted to aspire to, but those--good and bad--that the organization currently held, I circulated an anonymous survey to eveyone on my staff.
Virtual
JULY 22, 2013
'For a technology consortium that plans to create any type of deliverables — particularly specifications — an intellectual property rights (IPR) policy is absolutely essential. Not having one will almost certainly discourage some or all participants from actively contributing to such efforts. Worse, adoption of your organization’s specifications will almost certainly be limited if implementers are not sure what licensing rights they have or need.
Jamie Notter
JULY 25, 2013
'My last post seems to have struck a nerve with a lot of people (yay!). And I do hope I can get some conversation going, either through comments or other blog posts, from folks within HR. I was serious about being inclusive. But interestingly, the first post that I’ve seen in reaction to what I wrote actually takes the conversation up a few levels, outside of organizations altogether.
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YourMembership
JULY 23, 2013
'Associations and other member-based organizations are facing a new set of challenges. These challenges have been blamed on a myriad of things including social media, the economy, and even millennials. The irony is that in a time when everyone seems to want to be a part of a community/social network, many associations are struggling with [.] ( Read more. ) The post 5 Things Associations are Doing Wrong and How to Fix Them (Part 1) appeared first on YourMembership.com.
Mariner
JULY 26, 2013
'I came across the following article by Jason Nazar, Forbes contributor and founder of Docstoc, Inc : 20 things 20 year olds don’t get. And as usual, while reading, I considered how these tips could be applied to association volunteers and leaders.
Idea Architects
JULY 25, 2013
'Workshops and conferences do a lot to raise awareness, share information and insights, and help people try on new skills. But the real learning only occurs when participants apply those takeaways in their actual personal and professional efforts. So despite the value of those structured and infrequent events, we need to focus on making the most of the teachable (and learnable) moments that greet us every day.
Jamie Notter
JULY 26, 2013
'Since I have been asking people to step outside of their comfort zone a little this week, I’ll close it out with a quote from Chapter 9 in Humanize , How to Be Courageous. It’s from the section on creating a culture that understands and values learning. One of the underlying cultural assumptions that we identified, we labelled “Free Your Mind” (pp. 231-32): Freeing your mind means you are not willing to be constrained by the conventional wisdom, best practices, and dogma
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GlowGlobally
JULY 26, 2013
'“Non Profit” Status Now Recognized Eases Rules to Open Independently. Until recently, if you wanted to open your own commercial operation as an association in the Middle East you were treated like any for-profit corporation. You either had to let locals own 51% of your activities and they got a permanent seat on your Board (among other things) or operate through a free zone, which would give you 100% ownership but categorized as a for profit corporation.
Velvet Chainsaw
JULY 24, 2013
'Even when you’ve adequately communicated the transition from passive attendee to active participant, some audience members will still resist. You’re challenging their comfort zone of passively sitting in a lecture. You are now asking them to engage on a different level which requires being fully present and doing something. And you’re challenging their past school years.
Idea Architects
JULY 23, 2013
'The lesson to be learned is that no matter how much experience you have, you can still make a rookie mistake. And I recently did. The facilitation skills workshops I present usually run either a half-day or a full-day. In either format, participants first apply the facilitation skills we''ve explored to common or "generic" group dynamics situations.
AMR Management Services
JULY 24, 2013
'By Dustin McKissen, CAE Account Executive I recently heard a board member state that he “ didn''t want to sit through another session on Generation Y.” For some context, the association this Board.
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Associations Now
JULY 26, 2013
'Part of your preparation for any large meeting should be making sure your association’s staff has the info they need to support the event either onsite or back in the office. Here are some ways to make that happen. Seven days. That’s how long it is until I get on a plane and head to Atlanta for ASAE’s 2013 Annual Meeting & Expo. And while the amount of work I need to get done in that timeframe is a bit daunting, there’s one thing I do know: I am prepared as I can be for what to expect
Association Advocacy Chick
JULY 24, 2013
'Last week, I had the pleasure of serving on a panel on networking hosted by the Public Leadership Education Network otherwise known as PLEN. PLEN seeks to connect college-aged women to those who work in public policy. My panel included Peggy Tighe who a consider a legend in the lobbying world and Kelly Biggs, someone to keep an eye on in the future.
Velvet Chainsaw
JULY 26, 2013
'Source: InternetServiceProviders.org. What are your immediate reactions to these facts about men and women’s use of social media? How does it align with your own professional and personal social media use? Related Stories Time Americans Spend On Social Media: 2012 Stats [Infographic] Social Media Is All About Revolution [Infographic] How To Get More Like On Facebook: Photos, Length And Content [Infographic].
GlowGlobally
JULY 23, 2013
'Does Global Mean One and the Same? Different cultures, needs, market dynamics are some of the considerations that should be taken in determining an association’s market entry in each region. Should one hit the ground running or perform all due diligence prior to running activities on the ground? The $5M USD Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) was faced with these questions and elected to lead with two different approaches in China and Europe.
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