Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 28, 2010

For many nonprofit organizations, November is an especially busy month, with pre-holiday season preparations and year-end fundraising campaigns underway. Still, you'll find plenty of free opportunities for online professional development all through the month! ( read more ). Tags: Fundraising Marketing Membership management nonprofit non-profit Non-profit Communications Non-profit technology nptech SEO social media Social networking training volunteer management Volunteers webinar.

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Reid All About it

OCTOBER 26, 2010

I don’t go through business cards as quickly as I used to. I don’t collect as many either. I think I know why. Does this scenario sound familiar to you? You’re chatting at a networking event with a new acquaintance and remark on each other’s Twitter handle on their badge. You both pull up your mobile Twitter application, go to the other’s profile, follow them and add them to a list.

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Idea Architects

OCTOBER 26, 2010

I attended a panel discussion last week that could have been a much more powerful learning experience. Interesting panelists were somewhat shackled by an inadequate session design and limiting room set. Panels are always tricky, but they are a staple of industry conferences, so it is high time we made them more compelling. Marketing for most panel discussions highlights the topic, maybe the questions that will be explored, and the panelists who will be speaking.

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Association Advocacy Chick

OCTOBER 29, 2010

As an association advocacy chick, I wouldn’t be doing my due diligence if I didn’t encourage you to vote on Tuesday November 2. I don’t care who you support. Just make sure you show up at the polls. Encourage your family and friends to do the same. A lot is at stake and as we’ve seen in recent years, your one vote can make the difference.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Blog posts and articles on Technology , Social Media and Leadership stories came out on top at AssociationJam.org this month, in terms of the numbers of submissions, views and reader votes, with Fundraising, Volunteers and Membership not far behind. Here’s a look at the most popular links submitted to Association Jam in October 2010, by topic category: Membership Are you a membership based nonprofit?

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Idea Architects

OCTOBER 27, 2010

There are no coffee refills in France. For Americans visiting for the first-time this might seem like caffeine heresy: What? No carafe of stale coffee dropped off at my table? No. Instead of on-demand consumption, they offer on-demand creation, bringing you a fresh cup of coffee when you are ready for it. The quality of the product is paramount to them.

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The Hourglass Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Wednesday, October 27, 2010. A Lost Generation of Leadership? Okay. Youre going to think Im crazy or paranoid or both on this one. Ive been slogging through a backlog of articles I thought I might want to comment on here on Hourglass. One that caught my eye is an interview with Bill George that was published on Forbes.com.

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Membership Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Membership Marketing Blog. Membership marketing – acquiring, engaging, upgrading, and renewing members – is the cornerstone for associations and relationship driven organizations. Whether you are an association professional or a relationship marketer, join the discussion on the Membership Marketing Blog and share your ideas and counsel. Speaking Engagements.

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ChatterBachs

OCTOBER 29, 2010

ChatterBachs will host tweetchats on Twitter using the hashtag #SMfastfwd on Wednesdays at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time, beginning Wednesday, November 3rd. #SMfastfwd discussions will revolve around the latest trends and technologies in social media as well as the people and organizations in this space. Please submit your ideas for topics, questions, stories, and/or interviews to ChatterBachs.

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Idea Architects

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Can someone point me to the day when “trial and error” morphed into “do perfectly or fail”? I know Yoda is the all-powerful — “Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.” — but I did not know that this declaration in a fictional movie had become management orthodoxy. I’m currently serving on the ASAE Innovation Task Force. As a result, creativity, innovation, and invention are an even greater part of my reading efforts and conversations than usual.

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High Context

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Here is an easy to implement process for making quick improvements to your website that have a large impact in terms of the number of visitors they benefit and your bottom line in one month. Identify the top 10 pages on your site in terms of number of page views. Go through each page and identify one change you could make to each that would improve the experience for the user.

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Associations Live

OCTOBER 28, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Associations Live. Connecting MSAE members and a world of ideas! Thursday, October 28, 2010. Making the most of change. The MSAE Board of Directors, in preparation for the planning retreat, read "Managing Transitions" by William Bridges, PhD. Since change is inevitable, its good to take time to remember that the psychological transitions that accompany change are stressful.

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Association Okie

OCTOBER 28, 2010

I recently read a post by Jamie Notter, on his blog “Get Me Jamie Notter” [link] on collaboration. Jamie got me to thinking (as his posts usually do) about why we don’t choose to collaborate more. My conclusion, envy and ego. We are so afraid of sharing the glory, or seeing someone else get ahead, that we refuse to share the responsibility. It reminds me of a story I read in Antonio’s Gun and Defino’s Dream by Sam Quinones (as an aside, Mexican Mennonite Drug Lords?).

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ChatterBachs

OCTOBER 25, 2010

I had the privilege of speaking recently with Tony Stubblebine , founder and CEO of CrowdVine. I had run across CrowdVine at a recent conference and wanted to know more. Essentially, CrowdVine is a social media platform that can be set up for a given conference or event. Tony established the company in 2007 with the notion that at conferences there is a built-in desire to network and meet other attendees.

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Experts in Membership Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2010

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ChatterBachs

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The ChatterBachs Product Review Week continues. A tool that I came across recently that I really like is Tweepi ( @tweepi ). It allows one to follow/unfollow others on Twitter based on various criteria. There are five basic tools: Geeky Follow, Geeky Flush, Geeky Reciprocate, Geeky Cleanup, and Geeky Tweep Analyze. Let’s take a brief look at each one of these functions.

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ChatterBachs

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Day 4: The ChatterBachs Product Review Week continues. . Gist. Perhaps you haven’t heard of it, but you will. Gist in its basic form is a way to consolidate all of your contacts from email, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn into one place, thus creating a personalized web-based database. Gist has a number of powerful features, but let me just hit on a few.

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ChatterBachs

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Well, it’s Day 5 of the ChatterBachs Product Review Week… and I’m tired. Enough about me, though, we’ve got another social media tool to review. And today’s featured product is Sprout Social. Sprout Social was created for small business owners to be able to use their time more efficiently. The company was just launched in October 2009 and got its first round of venture capital in May 2010.

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Experts in Membership Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2010

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ChatterBachs

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Day 3: The ChatterBachs Product Review Week continues. Another tool that I discovered recently and have started using is SocialMention. ( @SocialMention ) developed by Jon Cianciullo ( @jonnyjon ). From the Social Mention “About” page : “Social Mention is a social media search and analysis platform that aggregates user generated content from across the universe into a single stream of information.

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