Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

'How exactly do we handle suggestions from our users about product changes and enhancements? Here is a more detailed description of our current process.

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YourMembership

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

'On this day in 1960, Nixon and Kennedy debated on television. This was the first time a presidential debate had been televised. Regardless of your political persuasion and thoughts on the candidates, one thing has been talked about in the 53 years since — presence. With the introduction of a new medium, Kennedy was at [.] ( Read more. ) The post An Historic Debate: a lesson in content medium appeared first on YourMembership.com.

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Spark Consulting

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

'What’s your leadership mindset: linear or exponential ? It’s important to embrace failure, sure, but don’t let that prevent you from doing your homework in the first place. Does increased social media use make people more unhappy ? More on shared CEO relationships from Associations Now. Member engagement: it’s complicated. Brand and culture: what you do is more important than what you say.

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Social Media Innovation Leadership Member Engagement 174

Virtual

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

'I’m always amazed how many professional associations do great things and then forget to tell anyone about it. Your organization’s accomplishments shouldn’t be a secret. Good news is inspiring, and your audiences—stakeholders, association members, future members—will want to share in the moment. So what are the best ways to spread the word about your initiatives?

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

'Highlights of our Multi-Chapter Benchmarking Survey and full infographic are now available in our Membership Knowledge Hub.

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Association Leaders

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

'Walt Disney is widely regarded as having been a great leader. Having never met Mr. Disney, I certainly cannot speak directly to that. However, the business he created is still thriving today – largely because of the ideals he instilled in his business and his employees. I read an interesting article about Mr. Disney and a book written by a long-time former employee and Disney executive recently. .

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Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

'We all want cohesive teams, and to get them, I hear a lot about shared vision. The leader is responsible for providing a clear vision for the team, and once everyone is on board with this singular vision, the team performance starts to flow. It’s awesome. We’re all on the same team, we’re all rowing in the same direction, we’re all on the same page, [add metaphor of your choice here].

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

'Can we apply the "six STEPPS to crafting contagious content" to non-profit emails?

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Optimist Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

'Failing careers advice. A recent Ofsted report highlighted that many schools do not provide adequate careers advice to pupils. The provision of careers advice became the responsibility of individual schools from last year. My own experience of careers advice at school (a while ago now!) wasn’t great. The computer programme they used suggested I might be a good TV aerial erector – I kid you not!

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Eric Lanke

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

'image source I was proofing some copy written for my association''s blog the other day and I came across the word "awe-inspiring." Now, in defense of the person who wrote it, we use our blog to talk about things that are new and exciting about the industry our association represents. Our target audience is not our members, but the engineers and technicians that may choose to use our members'' products in their designs.

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Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

'Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose. by Tony Hsieh. Business Plus, 2010. The online retailer Zappos is arguably the premiere poster-child for company culture in today’s business world. Zappos started selling shoes online in 1999, which was towards the end of the first dot-com bubble. Not only did Zappos survive the bubble’s burst, They managed to grow from $1.6 million in sales in 2000 to $1 billion in sales in 2008.

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Mariner

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

'Welcome back to guest blogger Leslie White, CPCU, ARM, CIC, CRM, Croyden Consulting, LLC. In this excerpt, Leslie offers tips on the managing risks of serving liquor at an association event. What happens if someone attends your event and then causes harm to another or themselves? What if someone under the influence of alcohol gets into a fight or automobile accident, trashes a hotel room or other facility, causes a fire, or drives a vehicle into a building?

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

'Is the label “young professional” harmful or helpful? It probably depends on when and where it is used, according to a group of YPs who discussed its implications at ASAE’s NextGen Summit. At the end of the day, I don’t know that it matters what we call ourselves or what our associations call us. … It probably matters, more than anything, what we do.

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

'Conference audiences of days gone by were satisfied with the gathering of colleagues, a mediocre experience and a few useful tips. Today’s audiences are more demanding and sophisticated. They expect to learn practical and useful information that solves their individual problems. They expect speaker presentations that are compelling and memorable. And they expect to be entertained while having fun.

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Association Adviser

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

'Hillary Levitz, Naylor, LLC. Gamification. You’ve heard the term multiple times by now, but do you really know what it means? What is gamification and how can you leverage it to benefit your association and members? Gamification is a valuable tool for increasing member engagement at your events and educational programs. Using game-like programming in a non-game setting can help students, association members and employees learn more effectively and enhance long-term memory.

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Mizz Information

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

'It occurred to me this morning as I visited ASAE''s community, Collaborate , that just as a lot of social metrics are focused on quantity over quality, so are private community metrics. Featured on the home page of the community is the popular leaderboard showcas ing "most active members"--aka the members who post the most and/or visit the most communities.

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

'By adding key benefits requested via member feedback, the American Counseling Association has sustained growth for several years. Now it’s turning to data-based segmentation to keep the streak alive. Think back to March 2011. That was the month when an earthquake and tsunami struck Japan and when the NFL lockout began. ( Associations Now ‘s cover story that month was the argument for a five-member board.

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

'Many of us are looking for the next, big, shiny new technology tool. Yet the noise about new technologies makes it very difficult to identify which tools really matter. The parade of new technologies and advances is persistent. So many new apps or tools appear on the world stage that we often feel overwhelmed about where to look and which to try. Some rise to the top and seem to gain public acceptance fast.

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Association Adviser

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

'If you think people aren’t joining trade and professional associations these days, think again. Nearly 40 percent of respondents to the latest Association Adviser poll say their membership has grown over the past three years, with nearly one in five respondents (18 percent) reporting robust membership increases of at least 10 percent. So that means the remaining 60 percent are in decline?

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Idea Architects

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

'__ 11 years. 600+ posts. 30,000 or so words. That''s enough for now. Thanks for reading. Quotation from Eliot''s The Four Quartets , Little Giddings.

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

'A new report shows how venue staff can affect an attendee’s meeting experience, which is backed up by CVBs investing in their local hospitality staff to ensure they deliver first-rate customer service. In the past few months, I have written about how important it is for both exhibit staff and association staffers to be prepared for and educated about upcoming meetings and events.

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Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

'Today, most conference audiences would prefer to engage in one-on-one peer-to-peer discussions than listen to another panel or lecture. It is also clear that employers today place more emphasis on securing employees that are good at engaging others in face-to-face interactions to problem solve, work together and interpret data. Ultimately, peer learning is highly valued and needed in the 21st Century.

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Association Adviser

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

'Hank Berkowitz, Editor-in-Chief. As the old Groucho Marx line goes, “I wouldn’t belong to any club that would accept me as a member.” But that’s not the case in the association world, even as social media, the “free web economy” and for-profit competitors knock on the door. More than half of visitors to association websites are looking for career opportunities and resources.

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SCD Group

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

'Back in October 2012, I posted Are You Using Identity as Association Marketing Strategy. “Sitting in the airport last Saturday, I noticed a huge number of people wearing logoed clothing that identified themselves with their team, cause, city, company. Rather than a team or cause, some were unpaid walking billboards for “cool” apparel companies.”. Back packs, hats, tee shirts, shoes, etc.

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

'Charities and nonprofits looking to boost their fundraising efforts would do well to follow accountability guidelines from the Better Business Bureau, research shows. Nonprofits that follow the Better Business Bureau’s Wise Giving Alliance Standards for Charity Accountability raise more money via donations, a recent study found. Specifically, the research by professor Greg Chen of the City University of New York’s Baruch College looked at charities’ records from the years between 2006 and

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