Sat.Jan 21, 2017 - Fri.Jan 27, 2017

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Seven Ways Top Nonprofit Leaders Avoid Burnout

Wild Apricot

Most people who join nonprofits find it hard to look after themselves. Here are seven ways top nonprofit leaders avoid burnout. From Beth Kanter and Aliza Sherman, coauthors of The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit, described by Arianna Huffington as an “essential guide for nonprofits.”.

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Association Education and Certification: Best Benefit Ever

WBT Systems

What benefits truly increase value for association members, increasing engagement and ensuring that they renew their membership? It’s a question that many associations ask when planning benefit programs and communications to members. How do you make your member benefits both appealing and valuable to entice renewals and new membership subscriptions?

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LEGO: Don’t End Your Community

Higher Logic

Is an online community ever too big to fail? Unfortunately, just like everything else, no. In fact, LEGO Message Boards (LMB), a vibrant online community for LEGO enthusiasts, is being permanently shut down and deleted this March. The LMB story should be a cautionary tale for all community builders - it doesn’t matter how many fans your organization has or how many people participate in your community.

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Stay relevant to your association’s members in today’s social world.

YourMembership

An integrated online community keeps you in control. Associations face the constant challenge of making decisions about how to efficiently meet their missions and member responsibilities. With limited resources, implementing and using administrative and online community tools born out of integrated software solutions accomplish your multiple goals all at once.

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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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31 Free Nonprofit Webinars for February 2017

Wild Apricot

Feeling burnt out from going hard in January already? None to fear, free webinars are here! Here are 31 free nonprofit webinars for February 2017 from around the web.

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Community UX Design Research on a Budget

Higher Logic

The look, feel and usability of your community, and online presence as a whole, can make a huge difference in terms of engagement. But what if you don’t have the budget to really dive in, research and optimize your site’s user experience (UX)? Small organizations are used to figuring out creative workarounds to problems that larger organizations don’t think twice about, like how to manage a community without a full time community manager or maintain a corporate site.

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5 reasons everyone at your association needs to go to #Xperience17.

YourMembership

#leadership #inspiration #learning #innovation #technology – all in one place. As an association leader, you have a great case for going to Xperience 2017. It’s a chance to grow your skills in leadership. It’s a sure way of learning new ideas to make stronger connections with your members, adapt new technologies and grow your membership […].

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Are your member communications audience-centric?

Optimist Consulting

One of the benefits of being a consultant is that I can bring fresh eyes to member communications. A subject that crops up regularly is how to ensure communications remain audience-centric across a range of media. Even the best communicators can sometimes find themselves focusing on the message they want to communicate, rather than on what the member/audience needs to know.

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Association Staff and the Marriage of Strategy and Resources

Eric Lanke

I had another experience this week that helped reinforce the important role that association staff must play in successfully marrying strategy to resources. My association recently applied for a federal grant to fund a program we deem important to our educational mission. When discussed at our most recent Board meeting, it was determined that the program represented an ideal way of executing one of the association's key strategic objectives.

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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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3 Unique Ways to Build Team Spirit

Associations Now

Forget the company picnic and the humdrum holiday party; invest in a team-building opportunity that will promote employee collaboration, engagement, and retention. Here are a few ideas. Do you remember your favorite field trip? Mine was definitely my middle school trip to Hemlock Overlook. My seventh grade team—the Academia Nuts—got to spend the night at this leafy adventure park, where we collaborated on a tricky ropes course, confronted fears on a zip line, took hikes, and played team-oriented

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The Problems Attendees Experience at Conferences

Smooth The Path

Members love to talk about their conference experience during in-depth interviews with me. We spend a lot of time talking about their conference experience because the conference is where most members get the most value. Looking at the responses across more than three hundred interviews, of very engaged members and a few unengaged members, a handful of typical weak spots in association conferences emerge.

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10 leading membership organisations and their approach to website UX

Optimist Consulting

I recently came across Pedalo’s report which examines user experience (UX) on UK membership body sites and thought I would share some of the insights. Pedalo – a web design agency working with membership organisations and other sectors – reviewed 10 leading UK association sites against a set of website user experience criteria and reported on their findings.

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How Can You Plan for Innovation?

Association Adviser

The iPhone spent seven years in production by some of the world’s best innovators before it became a product that has changed how we go about our daily routines. Sarah Sain, Naylor Association Solutions. The iPhone. It’s the one of the biggest – if not the biggest – innovations of our generation. It has changed not only the way we communicate but the way we live.

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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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Extreme Makeover: Tradeshow Edition

Associations Now

The Association for Creative Industries completely overhauled its annual conference and tradeshow this year—calling it Creativation. Here are some details that went into the redesign, as well the benefits a tradeshow makeover could bring. I’ve always been a fan of makeover shows, whether fashion- or home-related. I used to love to watch marathons of What Not to Wear , but today my preferences lean more toward Property Brothers and Fixer Upper.

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People On Your Team May Be Protecting Their Idea Babies

Smooth The Path

Not enough good ideas at your association? Related: What to do when the idea well is dry. Not all association improvements are additive. The five step idea process to becoming an association innovation ninja. The post People On Your Team May Be Protecting Their Idea Babies appeared first on Smooth The Path.

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Patient-Centered Care Conferences

Velvet Chainsaw

Most healthcare professionals are career motivated by saving/improving lives. They make a commitment to lifelong learning to be the best that they can be. Keeping up with the latest in evidence-based diagnosis and treatments is, in itself, a herculean task. In the new world of value-based care and compensation, private practices will have the most difficulty adjusting their business practices to comply and compete.

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Roadmap for a Successful CEO Search

Association Adviser

Patti Gillenwater, Elivar. Having an experienced, engaged board is never as important as when your association is hiring a new CEO. The association and non-profit sector is undergoing increasing CEO transitions because of retirement, resignations for other opportunities and board-prompted departures. While each type of transition brings different challenges, there is a series of steps to fill a leadership spot that apply to all situations.

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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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Will ‘Gen Z’ be a Generation of Joiners?

Associations Now

While most associations are plotting out recruitment strategies for millennials, membership professionals need to be thinking about a younger generation entering the workforce this year. Generation Z, it’s said, will be even more digitally savvy and globally focused. This blog post marks the date on which I begin to feel old. Last week, I learned that my generation, which I thought was the young and cool one, is now old news.

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Association Culture Projects Outward Upon Potential Members

Smooth The Path

Why all the recent hubbub about culture? Well, partly because we all want to enjoy a healthy working environment and partly because we want to get things done. A good culture greases the wheels for everything from conversations to project management. We also care about culture because our culture manifests outwardly. Others can see our culture. Board members can see staff culture.

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The Great Give 2017: 24 Hours to Change Our Community

Achieve

The Great Give Palm Beach & Martin County is a 24-hour online giving event led by. United Way of Palm Beach County, Nonprofits First, United Way of Martin County. and. Achieve. The goal of the Great Give is to raise as much money as possible for a slew of local nonprofits in just one day. The Great Give first approached Achieve in November 2016 in hopes of creating a new website.

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Don’t be afraid to follow your gut when choosing software

Effective Database

Consulting guru Alan Weiss often says “Logic makes you think, emotion makes you act.” I’m reminded of this when I work with my clients during selection of a new AMS. Using the process I use, my clients will wind up with two or three really strong options for a new system. As some of them have explained to me, this leads to some difficulty making a final decision, since the final choices are so good.

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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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Are Your Members More Tech-Savvy than You Think?

Associations Now

Recent ASAE Foundation research highlights the fact that a good chunk of your members—particularly your newer ones—are likely on the cutting edge when it comes to tech uptake. But just because your members are raring for more technology doesn’t mean you shouldn’t think it over first. In an era when everyone has a hulking, battery-driven piece of computerized glass sitting in their pockets, our perspective on the benefits of technology simply needs to change.

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The Happy Healthy Nonprofit Book Tour: You Are Invited To Join Us

Beth Kanter

Aliza Sherman and I never dreamed that our book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , would be such a needed resource in the nonprofit field when we started writing it last year. Working in the nonprofit sector has become even more stressful in the last few months and we will all need to strengthen our individual and organizational resilience so we can serve our stakeholders without burning out or going crazy.

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Inbound Marketing: Why I Should Care

Slice-Works

What is Inbound Marketing? Inbound Marketing is an evolved marketing strategy based on the real-time habits and interests of your customers. TV ads and cold calls are less effective in today’s marketplace because clients are more educated and tech savvy. They can and do actively search and compare products and services. Basically, it boils down to this: you provide your customer with valuable content for a small price — their email address.

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Do you know your member “sweetspot”?

Effective Database

When I talk with software vendors who are new to the association space (or at least new to me!), I always ask them: “What is your customer sweetspot?” What I mean by that is, what does your ideal association customer look like? Associations come in all shapes and sizes, and it’s very unusual that a software vendor can serve all segments of the association market.

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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.