Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 15, 2014

'Here is a list of resources to help you get your organization (e.g., member renewals, events, volunteer recruitment, website and much more) off to a good start in 2015.

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Association Leaders

DECEMBER 16, 2014

'I recently read an article published in the New York Times about how IBM develops new ideas through a collaborative team effort. You can read it here. A critical value most successful teams have is TRUST. When members of a team trust each other, they can accomplish great things together. Unfortunately, trust doesn’t always exist on teams. IBM has developed this interesting collaborative structure for teams that seems to work for them when trust doesn’t exist.

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YourMembership

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Last week we held our December Thought Leadership webinar Mindful Associations: Fuel 2015 Success with Vision and Gratitude , with Holly Duckworth, CAE, CMP, recognized speaker and CEO of Leadership Solutions International. Holly joined us to share some very interesting principles and techniques she’s developed and included in her first book to be released in January 2015, titled Ctrl+ Alt+ Believe: Reboot Your Organization For Success.

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Aaron Wolowiec

DECEMBER 16, 2014

'Two years after graduating college, I entered the association world. I served as director of communications for an association for four years – and I loved every minute of it. As all association professionals understand, resources were thin but job responsibilities were huge. I was all things communications, media relations and public relations. But marketing?

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'Is your non-profit or association taking full advantage of sponsorships? Here''s an overview of a new article in our Hub by Joe Waters designed to help non-profits start building sponsor partnerships.

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Eric Lanke

DECEMBER 15, 2014

'Everyone should read this great post from Seth Godin, The Tragedy of the Last 10%. In it, Seth describes how increasing market share and profitability can come when a company lowers the price of its product by 10%. Sometimes, the same thing happens when the company can re-engineer its cost structure so it can subsequently lower its price by a second, or even third 10%.

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Jamie Notter

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'In every blog related to business or leadership, you’re going to find buzzwords, and mine is no exception. Culture, engagement, ownership–and even the very basics of leadership, change, and management–are all words that start to lose their meaning the more we talk about them. It’s like saying a word over and over again, until it doesn’t even sound like a real word any more.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'Here''s a link round-up full of trends and predictions for 2015 for non-profits and membership organizations.

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Virtual

DECEMBER 16, 2014

'A very smart polling professional once told me the formula for satisfaction was “S=P-E”. Put another (actually understandable) way, Satisfaction equals Performance minus Expectations. I love this. As consumers, we see this all the time. Check in to a Holiday Inn and you’re happy with a clean room. Check in to a Four Seasons and just having a clean room isn’t enough.

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Idea Architects

DECEMBER 14, 2014

'Imagine you are leaders of an important community institution, one some might even describe as beloved. You have a difficult policy change to announce, one presumably driven by relevant data and reflecting the best option from among many that were thoughtfully considered. Despite the case you can make for it, the decision is not going to be popular with many.

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Optimist Consulting

DECEMBER 18, 2014

'At the recent PARN Communications Special Interest Group, where I was facilitating a workshop session , I saw a great presentation by James Murphy, Global Head of Digital Services at RICS. He talked about strategies and challenges for social media at RICS, the 120,000-member-strong organisation that serves development and management of land, real estate, construction and infrastructure professionals.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 18, 2014

'From content strategy to video to AMSes, five useful insights you can take back to your association from National Harbor. In a way, ASAE’s 2014 Technology Conference & Expo , at Maryland’s National Harbor, was an early Christmas treat—with gifts of useful data and insights from some of the association world’s greatest minds. We covered many of them on our social media liveblog , but I wanted to give special attention to five key points: 1.

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Velvet Chainsaw

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'The education landscape of 2020 will be characterized by the blurring of boundaries. Learning anywhere and anytime will be commonplace in many different ways based on the ubiquitous and innovative use of technology. Our organizations face a duality of change—conceptual and technological—regarding the practices of education and learning. The practices of teaching, presenting and learning will undergo fundamental change as it responds to global, social, political, technological and of course, lea

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SCD Group

DECEMBER 14, 2014

'AP Photo from The Wall Street Journal A week ago, the Wall Street Journal wrote a football story that offers ideas for association education programming. Headlined Taking the Buckeyes to School outlines some of the innovative coaching methods of Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer. The theory behind it is that introducing students to new material through short video lectures, screencasts or online slideshows outside of class time allows for the lower levels of cognitive work—gaining knowledge

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Optimist Consulting

DECEMBER 18, 2014

'I recently helped a client by running some discussion groups with their members about the organisation’s benefit offering. One of the key findings was how much the members valued the Special Interest Groups (SIGs). I have found this elsewhere too. I think SIGs can be an embodiment of an organisation’s USP, bringing together like-minded members to share ideas, challenges and best practice.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 15, 2014

'As one of two fraternities signed on to the White House’s “It’s On Us” initiative, Tau Kappa Epsilon is working to spread awareness of sexual assault on college campuses. A key goal: Help students learn intervention skills to stop an attack before it starts. Although the credibility of a scathing Rolling Stone report on an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity crumble d last week, the article brought into the spotlight an issue that has dogged college campuses for years.

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Velvet Chainsaw

DECEMBER 16, 2014

'The majority of your conference attendees believe that their conference learning is all about self discipline. They think that the more conference education sessions that they attend, the more information they can absorb. The only strategy they know is to strive hard and fast to physically hear as many speakers as possible. That intentional effort rarely works.

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SCD Group

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'A few weeks ago, the local school board here was forced to fire an assistant football coach who had a record of multiple arrests. Members in the local community wondered why the school district had hired this person and why they had not screened his application to discover the arrests. Last weekend’s Wall Street Journal story headlined Hiring Managers Bedeviled By Flood of Arrest Records shed some light on the situation and serves as a “warning” for association and nonprofit hiring managers.

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Optimist Consulting

DECEMBER 18, 2014

'The DMA (Direct Marketing Association) has partnered with the Content Marketing Institute on its 2015 UK content marketing report. It is one of the most comprehensive content marketing reports in the world with over 5,000 marketers taking part across the globe. It does include for-profit organisations, but I still think the findings are a good indication of trends in content marketing.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 16, 2014

'Members of the American Institute of Architects can keep tabs on industry analytics with a construction information provider’s treasure trove of data. What’s the benefit? The American Institute of Architects has joined forces with commercial construction information provider CMD to provide members with a wealth of insider knowledge on the construction industry.

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Elipsis Partners

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'I’ve been thinking about member value a lot recently, and I see four ways that an association can provide value to members: Association to Member – benefits offered directly from the organization to member. These include such services as education, information, data, and events. Member to Member – services which facilitate members feeling connected to each other and being a part of a group to which they really belong, a sense of finding their ‘tribe’ These inclu

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Slice-Works

DECEMBER 18, 2014

'How many of you find yourselves “believing your doubts and doubting your beliefs”?!? As you look at the last few months of civil unrest following the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Akai Gurley in New York City, or your own personal challenges, it’s easy to understand how doubt and fear could pre-occupy your thoughts. Rather than making predictions about 2015, at SliceWorks we like to choose one word to focus on going into the New Year.

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Plexus Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2014

'By Douglas M. Kleine, CAE, Plexus Senior Advisor A recent study by the AMC Institute indicates that AMCs produce higher net income for their clients than staff-managed associations of similar size. The findings seem to hold for association budgets of up to $5 million. The study attributes the difference to what is called pride of independence on the part of staff-managed associations, and that independence coming with a hefty price tag, due to the inefficiencies and overhead burdens of smaller

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 18, 2014

'In what is being called a historic agreement, several associations recently worked out a deal to create closed-captioning access in every movie theater across the country. Some of the key players offer a behind-the-scenes look at how the agreement was reached. How do you get five associations to come to an agreement on an issue that dates back almost 100 years?

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Achieve

DECEMBER 16, 2014

This blog was originally posted by Achieve President Derrick Feldmann on December 16, 2014, for Philanthropy News Digest’s. PhilanTopic. For most of us, the month of December generally means two things: fundraising letters and holiday parties. Okay, maybe that’s just me. Still, end-of-year gifts and donations account for a substantial amount of the money raised by nonprofit organizations, which, in an effort to capture every bit of potential support before January 1, typically kick off the end-o

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