Sat.Sep 14, 2013 - Fri.Sep 20, 2013

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Why Your Buzzing Social Community Could Be Killing Your Association

YourMembership

'As member-based organizations you may have spent months, or even years, growing your public, online community on Facebook, LinkedIn or any number of other sites. I’m sure you’ve tended to it and stoked conversation like any good online community manager would, but did it ever occur to you that you could be killing any real [.] ( Read more. ) The post Why Your Buzzing Social Community Could Be Killing Your Association appeared first on YourMembership.com.

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Communications In A Multi-Chapter Environment

Wild Apricot

'Our Multi-Chapter Benchmarking Survey offered some insight on communications and website practices and challenges at multi-chapter organizations.

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Always the Last to Know: Sample Size Calculator

Spark Consulting

'Ever do a survey? (Of course you have – you’re an association professional.). Sometimes you’re just trying to take a pulse, or get feedback on an event, or, in the case of exit surveying, get a little anecdotal information while also giving your members one last chance to renew. But sometimes you’re not. Sometimes you actually need to survey a representative random sample of people and get statistically valid results.

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Are You Too Connected?

Association Leaders

'I am too connected. Not in the Godfather sense but in the wireless device sense. I have too many gadgets (iphone, ipad, laptop, etc) and those gadgets have created a need in me to constantly check email, texts, social media and more to understand what’s going on around me. I read an interesting article today about someone who decided to “dis-connect” for 24 hours.

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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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3 Best Practices for Growing Your Association Membership

Virtual

'Former U.S. House Speaker, Tip O’Neill, used to say, “You have to ask people for their vote.” The same logic holds true for building your association membership. Simply stated, you have to ask people to join. Too many organizations and advocacy groups leave the process to chance, and don’t conduct direct outreach. What sorts of outreach work well in growing an association membership?

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TR’s 35 Under 35

Spark Consulting

'Going off-line for a few days, so while I’m gone, you should definitely check out the Technology Review annual list of 35 innovators under 35. They are divided into several categories: The Inventors , for instance, are creating new technologies. The Entrepreneurs are turning technologies into viable businesses. The Visionaries are anticipating how technologies can make life better, while Humanitarians are concentrating on expanding opportunities.

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No more burnout blues

Aaron Wolowiec

'As a working mom of three, I rarely have a free night. Usually, my husband and I taxi our children to and from sports practices and games, scouts and church youth events. It seems to be the new norm for us GenXers , who juggle jobs, parenthood and extracurriculars. So it’s amazing to think most of these groups are run by volunteers. Case in point: I’m PTA president at my kids’ school.

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I Don’t Want You to Humanize Your Brand

Jamie Notter

'Peter Kim wrote a great post titled, “ Can Brands Be Human? ” It was a refreshing perspective (amidst the 1,001 posts out there with x number of tips for humanizing your brand), pointing out that sometimes when brands act human, we still get mad at them. His example was when branded twitter accounts put up posts on 9/11–even genuine, heartfelt ones–and caught flack for being perceived as commercializing that day.

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Help With Your Membership Blog

Wild Apricot

'Here is a collection of information, tips and advice to help get your membership blog off to a great start this fall.

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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 Best Practices for Growing Your Association Membership

Virtual

'Former U.S. House Speaker, Tip O’Neill, used to say, “You have to ask people for their vote.” The same logic holds true for building your association membership. Simply stated, you have to ask people to join. Too many organizations and advocacy groups leave the process to chance, and don’t conduct direct outreach. What sorts of outreach work well in growing an association membership?

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Flipcharts Don't Lie

Eric Lanke

'image source Two weeks ago, in Mental Rules for the Staff Retreat, Part 2 , I continued writing about the process I used to create my association''s values statement, despite some misgivings about the value of values statements I''ve previously shared and still hold. After surveying the staff on our current, mostly unstated values and those we needed to either jettison or adopt, and preparing myself with a set of mental rules for leading the discussion, I was ready to facilitate a day-long staf

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Courage Starts from a Humble Place (Friday Quote)

Jamie Notter

'Chapter 9 in Humanize is about organizations being courageous. At the beginning of the chapter, we talk about the idea of courage, and how it is over-romanticized in our culture. Courage is what we see from heroes in the movies who do amazing things that we would be scared to do. There’s nothing wrong with those movies, of course, but I don’t want them to leave us with the impression that courage is not accessible to ordinary people.

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5 things I like about the 38 Degrees welcome to members email

Optimist Consulting

'I was really interested to hear the story behind 38 Degrees , the online campaigning community when one of its founders, Johnny Chatterton spoke at a CharityComms event a while ago. In an era of political apathy where membership of political parties is declining (as I blogged about recently) the free online campaigning community has swelled to over 1 million people and they have had some very notable successes: They helped to stop the government’s plans to sell off our ancient national forest

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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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The Stain of Dirty Data

Mariner

'Big Data, n.: the belief that any sufficiently large pile of s— contains a pony. In a recent Washington Post article, Samuel Arbesman shared the tweet above and debunked Five Myths about Big Data including the misconceived notion that “Bigger data is better”. “In science, some admittedly mind-blowing big-data analyses are being done. In business, companies are being told to ‘embrace big data before your competitors do.

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10 Ways to Communicate Better with Instagram

Association Adviser

'By Kelly Donovan. By now you have most likely heard of Instagram, the photo- and video-sharing app founded in Oct. 2010. Instagram lets users take a mobile-device photo, apply a digital filter to it, and share it with followers and the Instagram network, much like you can share Tweets on Twitter. By the time Facebook purchased Instagram for $1 billion last year, the app had 30 million registered users and an average 58 photos uploaded per second.

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Who Do You Know That Would Benefit from Humanize?

Jamie Notter

'Humanize is now available as an audio book on audible.com , and we’ve got five copies to give away! But instead of just giving 5 copies to the first five commenters, I thought I’d make it a bit more interesting. I want to give these books to people who want to give them as gifts to someone else. Who do you know that would really benefit from the ideas in Humanize?

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What Kids Can Teach Us About Charitable Giving

Associations Now

'A new study by the United Nations Foundation found that 88 percent of children donate to charities. What does this mean for the current and future states of philanthropy? Don’t discount the young when it comes to your fundraising efforts and strategy. A new study sponsored by the United Nations Foundation found that about seven out of eight children ages 8 to 19 give money to charitable organizations.

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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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Follow These Tips To Engage Millennials In Your Conference Experience

Velvet Chainsaw

'Millennials are eager to connect, participate and give says the 2013 Millennial Impact Report by Achieve. Since 2009, the report has focused on Millennial behaviors that would interest many nonprofits and conference organizers including trends in communication, service and giving. The report illustrates that the next generation is passionate about people not hierarchies, institutions, organizations or structures.

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How to Increase Attendance without Slashing Registration Rates

AMR Management Services

'by Dustin McKissen AMR Account Executive Suggestions like discounting often result from focusing on day-to-day details, rather than the big-picture thinking. As a volunteer leader of an association.

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10 Best Practices for Association Social Media

Mizz Information

'Last week, I presented at an Association Trends event about association social media. It was fun to talk about my favorite subject and especially fun to be part of a panel facilitated by Maddie Grant with association social media directors Susannah Murley , Chad Davis and Curtiss Midkiff. The presentation is on Slideshare in case you can’t see the embed below (yes, I know I suck at Powerpoint creativity…) Best practices for association social media from Maggie McGary Those were my top 10 best p

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Who Belongs to Whom?

Associations Now

'Most of us regularly use the phrase “our members.” Stop and think about that. Do members belong to your association, or is it really the other way around? If you were a regular reader of Acronym , the predecessor to the AssociationsNow.com blogs , in its early days, you’re likely familiar with the wisdom of Seth Godin. The prolific business author and blogger was a favorite of past editor-in-chief Scott Briscoe, CAE, and for good reason.

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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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Why Audiences Detest Presenters That Abuse Or Avoid PowerPoint [Revisted]

Velvet Chainsaw

'Revised and updated from original post about presentations and images published on October 25, 2011. Presentations are the business currency of today. PowerPoint is often the legal tender of those presentations. We trade and share PowerPoint presentations like baseball cards, stamps and money. And SlideShare is the largest online community for sharing great presentations!

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Are You Boring Your Association’s Members?

SCD Group

'Think about it. if I looked at your association’s convention program for 2013 and 2003, would I see any differences other than dates and names of speakers? if I looked at your website today and three years ago, would its look have changed? Would I find (under the news section) news releases from 2009? if I looked at your board agenda from last month and last year, would I see the same issues and topics?

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How to Increase Attendance without Slashing Registration Rates

AMR Management Services

by Dustin McKissen, CAE AMR Director of Marketing Suggestions like discounting often result from focusing on day-to-day details, rather than the big-picture thinking. As a volunteer leader of an.

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Social Media for the C-Suite: Avoid Saying Stupid Things

Associations Now

'Sensitivity is key In related news, a number of brands stepped into it on September 11: Off-key updates came from a diverse group, including AT&T, the Los Angeles Lakers, and Pretzel Chips. Mashable writer Todd Wasserman , in a smart piece on how not to make that sort of mistake, points out Canon’s classy way of avoiding the same fate —it turned its social updates off that day.

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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.