Sat.Jun 22, 2013 - Fri.Jun 28, 2013

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Changing the World: The Millennial Appeal

YourMembership

'Categories: Social Media and Business Trends Tags: millennials I’ve written about Millennials frequently. Whenever I do I feel like one of those old, white-haired Muppets in the theater box. I’ve read countless futuristic predictions from decades ago talking about previous generations being disruptive but this one is different. The sheer numbers of Millennials and their propensity towards consensus building, means most associations (and member-based organizations) are [.] ( Read mor

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Data for Good – from the Nonprofit Blog Carnival

Wild Apricot

'Here''s the June Nonprofit Blog Carnival round-up on "Data for Good". Great advice and tips on measurement and data analysis for non-profits.

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Association Alumni Networks

Spark Consulting

'I was recently reading an article in Harvard Business Review on the changing employer-employee relationship. The main point of the article, to quote, is: The time has come, we [authors Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh] believe, for a new employer-employee compact. You can’t have an agile company if you give employees lifetime contracts—and the best people don’t want one employer for life anyway.

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What’s trending?

Aaron Wolowiec

'Susan Robertson, executive vice president of American Society for Association Executives. From the minute we get up to the minute we go to bed, we’re surrounded by it: social media. Facebook. Twitter. Instagram. Skype. Sometimes it’s hard to keep up. But whether you dub it a blessing or a curse, there’s no denying social media platforms have made it easier to learn, to connect and to engage.

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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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10 Questions Answered About Association Jam

KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup

'When I first heard Shelly Alcorn''s idea about having an association gathering in multiple cities across the country at the same time and shared virtually(!), I thought she was smart, but crazy. Though 100 percent behind the idea, when I considered the logistics of managing such a thing, I shuddered and thanked the stars it was her idea and not mine.

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TED Talk: The (Surprising) Key to Success

Spark Consulting

'Turns out, being smart and talented and socially intelligent and healthy are all great…but they aren’t the key. What is? Grit, defined as the passion and stamina to persevere in the service of long-term goals. The problem is, we don’t really know how to build it. But we do know that it’s correlated to an attitude that sees failure as a temporary set back, rather than a permanent truth.

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What Books Should Leaders Read?

Association Leaders

'I like to read (though admittedly I devote less time to it than I would like). Personally, I like historical fiction and biographies. I like to read about what led the leaders of the past to make the decisions they did – sometimes shaping the world we now live in. I also enjoy reading “business” and “leadership” books occasionally.

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The Paperless Association

Virtual

'Decades after some unnamed publicist coined the term “the paperless office,” paperless association operations are at hand. At least that’s the case for many technology industry associations. For tech groups, participation by myriad stakeholders around the globe has made paperless systems for working together a necessity. Not long after the term “paperless office” was first [.].

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Wild Apricot Software News June 2013 - The final stretch for Version 5.0 development

Wild Apricot

'Here are some screenshots and descriptions of changes coming up in Version 5.0.

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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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What I’m Reading

Spark Consulting

'Jamie Notter encourages us to become “ anti-fragile.” Mashable shares five reasons college students should join professional organizations (like associations?). What is your association doing to reach out to the next generation? Remix culture: Adecco’s doing it wrong in a big, public, messy way. Are you thinking about your video strategy yet?

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Association "Forty Under 40"

KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup

'"Wh-wh- whaaaat?". That was pretty much my reaction this morning when I read about a fabulous idea to recognize some visionaries in the association/nonprofit realm. How have I missed hearing of this until now?!? This is my first day in the Aptify-Tysons Corner office and as I glanced through an older issue of USAE - The Weekly Community Newspaper of Associations, CVBs, and Hotels that was in the break room, I read of the creation of the "Forty Under 40" Award open to all association, nonprofit

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Member Engagement Starts at Home

Eric Lanke

'image source Last week, in It Doesn''t Scale , I vented a little. I was talking about some comments offered in the "Walking the Walk of Deep Member Engagement" learning lab Elizabeth Engel , Peggy Hoffman and I ran at the recent ASAE Marketing, Membership and Communications Conference. My segment of the session was about letting members leverage the resources of the association to direct their own volunteer efforts and, in last week''s post, I took issue with what one participant said about how

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Become Anti-Fragile

Jamie Notter

'That’s a new term I learned reading this post at Harvard Business Review : anti-fragile. There’s a whole book about it , apparently, and I like the premise: Most successful organizations do not like volatility, randomness, uncertainty, disorder, errors, stressors, and chaos. Yet we are in a world where disruption and randomness are increasing.

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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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Always the Last to Know: Obake

Spark Consulting

'Tired of your two-dimensional touch screen, which creates 3-D by optical illusion? Enter Obake , a project out of MIT that provides a “2.5-D” touchscreen that can actually respond in three dimensions to the user. Say what? Watch the video: Cool!

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The World Wants You

Idea Architects

'We were about halfway through the program on facilitation skills. Participants were practicing the core skills we had explored by facilitating various small group conversations. As I observed one very earnest young man in action, I kept feeling his efforts lacked authenticity. The questions he used and the gestures he made were too studied, too rehearsed, too textbook.

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Volunteer. It’s Good for You!

Associations Now

'Two new studies show that volunteering can improve your health and make you more employable. There’s little doubt that volunteers are important to a nonprofit organization’s success. Last year, 64.5 million people volunteered about 50 hours of their time to at least one organization, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). But as volunteers give their time, they may also be helping their own cause.

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Forget the Job Interview, Play a Video Game

Jamie Notter

'Here’s a great article from Business Insider that exposes an inconvenient truth: we have no idea what we’re doing when we hire people. As the article states at the beginning, this is kind of the message that Brad Pitt’s character was bringing to the Oakland A’s organization in the movie, Moneyball. The traditional criteria that baseball was using for choosing which players to use at the major league level was basically made up and not necessarily effective.

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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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Conference Connexity: Delivering On Your Networking Promise [free eBook]

Velvet Chainsaw

'Networking is often the catalyst that prompts people to attend conferences, yet delivering on this expectation can be tricky. What’s even trickier – attendees are getting better at leveraging digital channels to find and connect with the people they most want to meet. They’re not as dependent as they once were on conferences to address this crucial need.

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Just Say No To Useless Hashtags. Please

Mizz Information

'There''s no escaping it now, sadly--hashtags are even more of a thing than they used to be, now that Facebook starting supporting them. I personally was hoping that hashtags would start to disappear, or at least be left to teens sharing Throwback Thursday photos (ok, I admit I, too, am guilty of occasional Throwback Thursday photos). Sadly, though, marketers have embraced hashtags without understanding what they''re supposed to be, and the result is Tweets like this one: Much of the #Plains cou

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Beg, Borrow, or Steal? Learn From a Blog Copycat Scandal

Associations Now

'Protect yourself The lesson creators can take from this? Understand trademark issues beyond simply buying a domain name. According to the legal clearinghouse Chilling Effects, prior domain ownership, if proven to predate a trademark, may favor the creator. Even so, creators should be proactive about protecting their ownership rights. To learn how to file for a trademark, visit the U.S.

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Healthy Systems Embrace Tension and Conflict

Jamie Notter

'Innovation expert Matthew May has a nice post on HBR that talks about how companies like Lexus intentionally pushed through tension and conflict to achieve some pretty radical performance breakthroughs. He talks a lot about stretch goals, which, to be honest, annoyed me at first. I just hate how goals are frequently “dumbed down” in organizations.

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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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Every Day is Interdependence Day

Idea Architects

'Like many Americans you probably are excited for the upcoming Independence Day, more commonly referred to as July 4. While the independence associated with this holiday certainly merits celebrating, I’m not sure independence in and of itself is an entirely desirable goal today. Too often we fail to acknowledge the impact our choices have on others'' well-being.

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Defining Your Markets for Campaign Efficiency

Vanguard Tech

'Today’s guest post is written by Reina Munsch, Senior Director of Marketing at the American Pharmacists Association. There are many ways to market your association beyond traditional media. And the options keep growing. One could take an approach that uses all of them to make sure your company’s message is everywhere and claim you are taking a cutting-edge approach.

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Mobile Matters: Google Gives Smartphones SEO Priority

Associations Now

'In a series of recent comments, Google has suggested that sites failing to properly tailor their approach to mobile SEO could drop significantly in its search rankings. Make sure yours isn’t one of them. Search engine optimization has gone mobile. Is your content up to snuff? Recent comments by Google suggest that sites that give users poor experiences on smartphones could be hurting their results in search engines.

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Friday Quote: The Stability of Culture

Jamie Notter

'This idea is drawn from Ed Schein’s work on corporate culture , and it made it into Chapter 4 of Humanize (p. 68): First, cultures are inherently stable. Because they are built upon thoughts and assumptions that are taken for granted, cultures are hard to change. In fact, not only are they difficult to change, we also want them to be difficult to change because in a complex and shifting world, we value having something we can count on.

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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.