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With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility!

YourMembership

'Categories: Association Management , Member Engagement + Retention , Membership Management , Social Media and Business Trends For you Spiderman fans out there, you will remember this sage advice given to Peter Parker by his Uncle Ben. It was at the heart of the inner conflict Peter battled as he lived his dual life as super hero and teenage science geek.

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ORGPRO 2013: Learning and networking just like Apple

Aaron Wolowiec

'Donna Oser, founder of Vital Associations and chair of the ORGPRO Task Force It’s no secret Michigan’s economy is suffering. In fact, nearly every industry feels the effects. Yes. Even associations. With leaner staffs, associations are working harder to serve members – those same members who may decide association fees just aren’t in the budget. But what if associations took a risk?

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Reminder: We Want To Hear About Data for Good

Wild Apricot

'We want your submissions on Data for Good - for the June Nonprofit Blog Carnival. Deadline is June 25th.

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Key Questions in Social Media Marketing

Spark Consulting

'MarketingProfs shares a well-designed presentation on social media marketing. Their approach is to ask 20 questions, 10 about how social media marketing can save money and 10 about how it can make money, to clue viewers into how you could use it to do one or both of these things: 20 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Adding Social Media to Your Marketing from MarketingProfs.

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Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Association Member Education

Unlock More Profit and Smarter Packaging for Member Learning Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your association’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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Reading and Writing

Reid All About it

'Have you missed my Reads of the Week posts? I’m sorry I haven’t been sharing good reads with you here, but I’m still sharing them on my Twitter account. I take reading and sharing quite seriously. . It’s been a busy spring of conferences, a hiking vacation in southern Utah (see below), weekends away and lots of work for clients.

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What About Free Memberships?

Wild Apricot

'As a follow-up to our discussion of Membership Dues and Don''ts - here''s a look at free memberships.

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What I’m Reading

Spark Consulting

'“…after forty years of intensive effort, the work-life frontier looks grim ” (ouch). What do you believe ? Are you willing to put it out there as publicly as Joe Gerstandt? Beware an over-reliance on numbers; they’re more fallible than you think. Mental disorder or neurodiversity ? Warning: this one is long, but it’s also very thought provoking.

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Member Engagement and Association Building Blocks

Eric Lanke

'image source Thanks to my co-presenters, Elizabeth Engel and Peggy Hoffman , and all the folks who joined us at our "Walking the Walk of Deep Member Engagement" learning lab at last week''s ASAE Marketing, Membership and Communications Conference. Elizabeth has put up several resources from the session on her blog--the handout, the powerpoint slides; even a video interview she and Peggy recorded right after the session ended.

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Beware of Dogfooding in Association Management

Association Subculture

'Just a fun video that everyone has already seen, but it''s totally worth a re-watch. One of the things we struggle with in associations is the development of new programs and services. I can''t tell you how many times I have seen programs developed in committees, with painstaking attention to detail and marketing, vigorous debates around pricing, long contracts drawn up establishing royalty relationships and then well timed wide launches at conferences or events with a full court communications

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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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4 Leadership Links

Wild Apricot

'Here are 4 posts on leadership and board topics that we''ve bookmarked on Apricot Jam this week.

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Friday Top 5

Spark Consulting

'This really is the last post from #MMCCon – I promise. Reading over the session executive summaries graciously provided by ASAE and BullsEye Resources, I was reminded of one of keynoter Todd Henry ‘s questions to drive creativity: what’s inspiring you now? Today’s Top 5 is a list of my answers: This graffiti, photo taken in my neighborhood –> A new collaborative project I’m working on with Peggy Hoffman , a white paper tentatively titled: The Mission Driv

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Thank a Teacher

Jamie Notter

'The past two days I’ve been immersed in graduations. My oldest daughter graduated high school, and my youngest daughter graduated middle school. For each of them, they’ve been at their particular schools for quite a few years now. I watched them march across their stages, thinking back to how much younger they were when they each started at their schools, with all the requisite tears, pride, and happiness that accompany those reflections.

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The IoD loses a third of its membership – will its new strategy help reverse the situation?

Optimist Consulting

'I saw this article in the Evening Standard yesterday about the Institute of Directors plans to reverse its declining membership. It has lost a third of its membership since 2006, which is depressing for any membership organisation to admit. Obviously the current economic climate doesn’t help an organisation like the IoD when its main membership audience is business people.

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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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Walking the Walk of Deep Volunteer Engagement

Mariner

'There’s a one-word answer to three common complaints that plague associations.

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Always the Last to Know: Samasource

Spark Consulting

'In another instance of doing well while doing good, I give you Samasource. Samasource helps people in lesser-developed countries through microwork: outsourcing digital tasks that are relatively low-skill but do require human intervention (like transcribing audio files). I found out about the nonprofit organization through a recent article in the Harvard Business Review on the concept of microwork , which, like microfinance, allows people on the lower rungs of the economic spectrum in countries

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Five Tips for a Stronger Culture

Jamie Notter

'Below are the slides from a keynote I did last week. I pulled out five lessons from the Humanize book that I think are most relevant to creating a stronger culture: Decentralization. Transparency. Systems Thinking. Ownership, and. Experimentation. But remember, just because I can frame it as five “tips,” doesn’t mean this work is easy.

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To the new DELP Scholars

Association Advocacy Chick

'Congratulations on your selection to the 2013-2015 Diversity Executive Leadership Program! Consider yourself among the very fortunate to have this opportunity. This program is competitive. Very competitive. For many of you, this was your second, third or even fourth application. And you finally got in. If you think the hard part is over, think again.

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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!

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Your Association Website Needs A Redesign, If.

Vanguard Tech

'If any or all of these items are true about your association''s website, it''s probably time to consider a website redesign. The advent of tablets and increased mobile Internet usage, even sites just a few years old may need a bit of an overhaul. Your Association Website Needs A Redesign If Any Of These Are True: It''s over 3 years old. It does not render a compatible layout for tablets and smartphones.

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Walk a Mile in Their Shoes

Spark Consulting

'Last post on #MMCCon (I think). My section of the presentation Peggy Hoffman , Eric Lanke , and I gave on volunteer engagement was about learning to manage volunteers by being a volunteer, aka “Walking a Mile in Their Shoes.” I addressed this topic by sharing my story of volunteering with the National Capital Area Food Bank as a means of illustrating the following points: Learn by doing: What can we learn about what works, what doesn’t work, and what our volunteers need to be

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Friday Quote: Values Should be about Clarity

Jamie Notter

'I’m starting a new feature of the blog: the Friday Quote. I’m going to pick a short quote from Humanize or a book that I am reading that connects to what I have been working on that week, and share it with the hopes of sparking some reflection as you head off to the weekend. Today’s quote is from Chapter 7, How to Be Trustworthy (p. 163), and it’s on the topic of values statements in organizations.

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Association Aims to Make Libraries Cooler to Teens

Associations Now

'The Young Adult Library Services Association hopes to attract more teens to their local libraries with an approach deeply rooted in social media and digital content. Could it help to transform them from quiet study hubs to thriving digital spaces? There once was a time when libraries frowned upon people using their mobile devices there. But now, they’re turning into digital-friendly spaces that encourage BYOD.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Top Ten Most Significant Challenges With Conference Education

Velvet Chainsaw

'Along with pending education trends that will influence conference education, there are significant challenges that will also have a tremendous impact. Conference organizers will face these challenges in the coming five years as traditional education methods continue to encounter disruptive innovation. Top Ten Challenges. Here are the top ten most significant challenges in terms of their impact on logistics, planning, speakers, conference education, learning and delivery of information. 1.

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Volunteer Evaluations - How Did I Do?

Mariner

'Today is my first official day off the ASAE Component Relations Section Council.

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Can Pricing Influence Association Membership Decisions?

SCD Group

'While driving the other day, I heard two local radio talk show guys and the station’s movie critic get into a discussion about eating and watching movies. Apparently, the movie theater folks are experimenting with “dine-in movies.” These are specially-designed theaters which – for a “slightly” higher ticket price – offer luxury seating, table dining service (with wait staff) and other services catered to a select group of movie goers.

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Humility as a Strategic Necessity

Associations Now

'We prize decisiveness and a sense of command in leaders. But knowing when to ease up on those traits is an important skill too. There are two iron laws when it comes to cocktail parties, I’ve learned. First, at some point everybody winds up crowded in the kitchen, no matter how much space the host has to work with. Second, there’s at least one person in the room who gives off a sticky know-it-all vibe, pontificating to disinterested but patient/trapped people about how well-informed

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Here’s a Powerful Marketing Tool Designed for Associations

Show the Benefits of Membership to Your Toughest Prospects. Download this FREE infographic from GrowthZone AMS, Why Join an Association, and start using it as your go-to recruitment and retention marketing tool. Post it on your website. Use it in sales presentations. Or use it as inspiration to create your own version. Infographics have power. They're a quick read.