Sat.Mar 03, 2012 - Fri.Mar 09, 2012

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Content Recycling Tip

YourMembership

Membership Software Association Management Software. Home. Solutions. Associations. Nonprofits + Foundations. Chambers + EDCs. Corporate + Social. Education + Alumni. Advantages. Branding. Control. Add-On Products. Support. Pricing. Company. News + Press. Customers. Technology. Management Team. Partner Programs. Corporate Responsibility. Inside YM. Careers.

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Don't Let Technology Hurdles Crush Inspiration

Wild Apricot

Are technology hurdles preventing your organization from sharing inspirational messages? Here's a look at a video by John Haydon that offers practical advice for removing those hurdles.

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Adapt or Die

Reid All About it

Brian Solis, in his post, The Importance of Brand in an Era of Digital Darwinism , talks about tone-deaf brands like Netflix that didn’t engage with customers and didn’t monitor social network conversations, consequently screwing up and losing their customers’ trust: “Brands that fail to instill this level of confidence in consumers run the risk of falling to digital Darwinism.

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Thanks For Playing: Get Your Ideas Here!

Thanks For Playing

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Thanks For Playing. Seeking community in associations since 2008. 06 March 2012. Get Your Ideas Here! What are you doing tomorrow? The answer better be "coming to the Super Swap at ASAE!". What are Super Swaps? Theyre an opportunity to learn from other association professionals and share your knowledge. The program mixes professional development, networking with peers, and great conversation in the association community.

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How to Increase Membership Renewal

Dive deep into essential elements that drive member retention. Learn why members may hesitate to renew. Discover actionable techniques to encourage their return and foster lasting engagement. Uncover reasons members choose not to renew. Learn effective tactics to elevate member engagement and communication. Explore methods to encourage member renewal and active participation in your association Download now to take charge of your membership retention strategy!

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Playing to Your Strengths: Friday Fix

YourMembership

Membership Software Association Management Software. Home. Solutions. Associations. Nonprofits + Foundations. Chambers + EDCs. Corporate + Social. Education + Alumni. Advantages. Branding. Control. Add-On Products. Support. Pricing. Company. News + Press. Customers. Technology. Management Team. Partner Programs. Corporate Responsibility. Inside YM. Careers.

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Are you Harnessing Positive Energy from your Workforce?

Association Leaders

Over the last several years leaders of businesses all over the US, and even the world have had to engage their workforce to work harder and work more for less. These are the realities of the economy we all are living and working in. Perhaps at no time have leaders had as great a challenge as they are now faced with: Engaging employees. Engaging employees means creating and harnessing their positive energy toward great things for the company.

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New Employee Orientation: What’s on Your Agenda?

Reid All About it

I fell into the association world. During the first interview my future boss and I hit it off talking about food and travel. The position sounded interesting so I bit. I’m not the only one. I bet many of you accidentally landed in associations. After that first job, we were hooked. We were promoted or moved to another association. We learned that despite some similarities, each association is unique.

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Orgs versus Humans

YourMembership

Membership Software Association Management Software. Home. Solutions. Associations. Nonprofits + Foundations. Chambers + EDCs. Corporate + Social. Education + Alumni. Advantages. Branding. Control. Add-On Products. Support. Pricing. Company. News + Press. Customers. Technology. Management Team. Partner Programs. Corporate Responsibility. Inside YM. Careers.

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Brain Scans Offer Donor Insight

Wild Apricot

A new study offers insight into what motivates individuals in charitable bequest decision making.

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How to Create a Winning Event Marketing Strategy

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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Thanks For Playing: What I'm Reading

Thanks For Playing

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Thanks For Playing. Seeking community in associations since 2008. 07 March 2012. What Im Reading. Face time is irrelevant - what matters is productivity (youd think wed have this by now). Are people at your meeting to learn or to connect? How might the answer to that question change your program design ? Tips to tame the email beast (I do a lot of these myself, and they work!

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Preparing for an Entirely New Economy

Jamie Notter

Blog. Consulting. Speaking. About. Contact. Generations. Humanize. Books: Jamie Notter. Leadership insight.right when you need it. Preparing for an Entirely New Economy. Posted March 9, 2012. in Change , Humanize - 4 comments. Tweet. This article by Steve Denning on Forbes.com really hit me. Much of it cites Joe Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winning economist who has an article in Vanity Fair that argues our current economic downturn isn’t just a cyclical dip, but the mark of a significant phase

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So you wanna be a DELP Scholar?

Association Advocacy Chick

You’ve received the email from ASAE. Maybe someone handed you the brochure. Maybe you’ve read this blog and have finally convinced yourself that now is the time: You want to apply to the Diversity Executive Leadership Program (DELP). But, how do you begin? Background information including the application can be found here. In addition, some of my DELP colleagues wanted to offer their advice to those taking the plunge.

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What’s the Big Deal About Content Curation for Associations?

Portage Group

'That giant toolbox we call social media is getting fuller every day with different types of tools to help associations and nonprofits. Well, there’s a new-ish kid on the block in this arena and its called Content Curation. These type of websites allow people and groups to aggregate online information on a specific area (or areas) of interest in one place.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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Thanks For Playing: Always the Last to Know: Archive Team

Thanks For Playing

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Thanks For Playing. Seeking community in associations since 2008. 05 March 2012. Always the Last to Know: Archive Team. What happens to the content of websites that die? What if those sites contained peoples personal photos or journaling or poetry? Archive Team to the rescue. To quote from their website: Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly d

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Review of Social Gravity by Joe Gerstandt and Jason Lauritsen

Jamie Notter

Blog. Consulting. Speaking. About. Contact. Generations. Humanize. Books: Jamie Notter. Leadership insight.right when you need it. Book Review: Social Gravity. Posted March 5, 2012. in Books and Reading , Social Media - 1 comment. Tweet. Joe Gerstandt and Jason Lauritsen are two of my favorite people. They are consultants and speakers (like me), and they work around issues of diversity, HR, organization development (also like me).

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Mission, Vision, Values: Catalysts.

Idea Architects

Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects. Jeffrey Cufaude is an architect of ideas. custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. He also teaches presentation design and facilitation to subject matter experts. Sunday, March 04, 2012. Mission, Vision, Values: Catalysts for Action. Quick. Without looking at the poster on the wall or the wallet card you are probably carrying, what’s the mission and vision of your organization or com

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The End Of Conference Education As We Know It

Velvet Chainsaw

Tweet. “In the spirit of honoring tradition, conferences hang on to past practices imperiling their futures,” paraphrase, Clayton Christensen, Harvard University. Conference speakers present today, exactly the same way they did one-hundred years ago. Little has changed. Yet, we’ve learned so much more about how people learn and retain information.

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2024 Association Survey Results Report

2024 Association Survey Results Report For the 10th year, association professionals across the U.S. and Canada provided a look at the inner workings of their organizations when they replied to GrowthZone’s annual survey. Read the 2024 survey results report to see how your association compares: Top Challenges Retention Rates Non-Renewal Reasons Automatic Renewals Reinstatement Strategies Member Engagement Changes & Strategies Why Members Join Non-Dues Revenue Sources Dues Increases, and more

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Association Spotlight Roundup

Association Adviser

March 2012 -- Association Spotlight This month’s spotlight on communications excellence falls on these forward-thinking associations who’ve developed resourceful solutions to today’s complex multi-platform membership outreach challenges. Savvy associations are thinking outside the cozy confines of their membership lists to position their magazines for industry-wide distribution and consumption.

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The ARC - a blog & resource centre for NFP organizations - What's.

Portage Group

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Facilitation Friday #10: Establish Rules of Engagement

Idea Architects

Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects. Jeffrey Cufaude is an architect of ideas. custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. He also teaches presentation design and facilitation to subject matter experts. Friday, March 09, 2012. Facilitation Friday #10: Establish Rules of Engagement. In order for us to do anything with each other, we first have to understand how we want to be with each other.

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What Associations And Meeting Professionals Want In Tradeshow Partnerships

Velvet Chainsaw

Tweet. Imagine this scenario. A nonprofit trade association decides it want to add a tradeshow to its annual conference. It’s never produced a tradeshow in the past and wants to secure a third-party planner to produce the show. Typically, an association tradeshow should have a potential of $150,000 or more in revenue to justify securing a third-party planner to provide full scope of services.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

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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Association Members Using Smart Phones for a Lot More Than Talking

Association Adviser

March 2012 -- Did You Know? Do members still use their smartphones for voice conversations? Yes, but not as often as they do for downloading videos or for texting. See what else association members have to say about how they use their smartphones.

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Blended Socialization

AssociCom

Murray Goldberg and I were participating in the #assnchat Twitter chat this week, which was all about “reinventing associations.” A lot of the conversation was centered around the impact that social media is having and will continue to have on associations. And while social media itself is a somewhat recent phenomenon, particularly with respect to the level of adoption that we’re seeing now, it springs from a more fundamental human desire to meet people, collaborate, and learn from each other.

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Association Law Blog: Social Media and Employment Background.

Association Law

skip to main | skip to sidebar. This blog focuses on legal issues of interest to association leaders, including executives, volunteers and members. It is NOT intended to provide legal advice, but rather to share my informal thoughts on legal issues commonly faced by trade and professional associations, as well as foundations and other charities. This blog does not focus on homeowners associations or religious organizations.

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Avoiding Zombie Zeitgeist: How Passive Listening Undermines Learning

Velvet Chainsaw

Tweet. The walking dead! We see them at every conference we attend. Eyes glazed over. Faces void of emotion. Weird body twitches from sitting in one position too long. Aimlessly walking the same direction to the next session. Grunts and groans as they salivate for something they will not get–relevant, meaningful information, relationship building activities and unique learning experiences.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!