Wild Apricot

MAY 8, 2014

'Are you showing rather than telling your story? Here are some ideas for reaching the "selfie" generation.

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Spark Consulting

MAY 5, 2014

'Last week, Associations Now did a story on my awesome client NICSA and the new membership model project we worked on together last summer. They’ve graciously given me permission to reprint it below: By Joe Rominiecki / Apr 30, 2014 . How one association unbundled some of its benefits and packaged them around “clusters of behavior” in its member engagement data.

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Association Leaders

MAY 6, 2014

'Probably every business leader today has read Jim Collins’ best selling business book Good to Great. The book explains a study that Collins and several of his business school students did on the attributes of successful companies – not just marginally successful, but industry leading companies who sustained their success over long periods of time.

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YourMembership

MAY 8, 2014

The Internet. The end all to be all. Everything you could want to know or gain access to can be found there. This technological wonder delivered the information age to us front and center, much under the content giant we know as Google, and the world that associations knew for over a century was instantly turned upside down. Type in any phrase you want to look up and there was something there – pages and pages of links to content, destinations, websites, people, and new competitors for associati

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Wild Apricot

MAY 6, 2014

'Are events your association''s biggest challenge? In this guest post, Lamees Abourahma offers 3 proven strategies that might help.

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Aaron Wolowiec

MAY 6, 2014

'I recently facilitated two sessions on meeting planning and professional development for the Michigan Society of Association Executive’s (MSAE) Academy of Association Management. It’s again a reminder of the important intersection and relationship between learning and logistics, particularly as it relates to association education programs. The course content primarily focuses on two chapters of Professional Practices in Association Management, Second Edition : Chapter 26 on education programs a

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YourMembership

MAY 8, 2014

The Internet. The end all to be all. Everything you could want to know or gain access to can be found there. This technological wonder delivered the information age to us front and center, much under the content giant we know as Google, and the world that associations knew for over a century was instantly turned upside down. Type in any phrase you want to look up and there was something there – pages and pages of links to content, destinations, websites, people, and new competitors for associati

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Eric Lanke

MAY 5, 2014

'image source I''ve been writing a lot about the process I used to develop a values statement for my association, and even more about the experiments we''ve been running to try and make the values and behaviors it describes a more active part of our day-to-day interactions. Our latest experiment is one of the simplest in its construction. Our values statement has four broad values, and for each value it includes a dozen or so behaviors by which we will know an individual is acting in accordance

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Spark Consulting

MAY 6, 2014

'We all do, and most of us who aren’t professional designers aren’t doing to spring for InDesign. Fortunately, there are a bunch of free resources out there for normal non-designer folks like us, who just don’t want our websites and presentations to suck: 29 Design Resources That Work Miracles from SEO.com. MUST remember to use Compfight and Pixabay !

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Jamie Notter

MAY 5, 2014

'Last week, Maddie and I visited Menlo Innovations , a software company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. You may remember my book review a couple of months ago of Joy, Inc., written by Rich Sheridan, the founder and CEO of Menlo. Menlo has been covered fairly extensively in the business press for their unorthodox (and highly successful) methods, including having everyone work together in pairs (literally two people per one computer).

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Mariner

MAY 3, 2014

'Elizabeth Engel and I published a research paper last week about evidence-based decision-making (see [link] ). The paper offers a variety of insights regarding the role of data, value of new analytical tools, the importance of intuition in the decision-making process, etc. Whenever I finish a project like this, however, I invariably come away with a multitude of second thoughts and questions.

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Associations Now

MAY 5, 2014

'An association’s brand is more than just a logo—it’s the stories people tell about you. Are you listening to what’s being said in connection with your organization’s name? If you want a sense of just how intimately connected branding and leadership are, take a look at the animated GIF in Rob Stott’s story last week about ousted Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 5, 2014

'Recently, I wrote about how most conference organizers are really bad at measurement. Oh, we’re fairly good at measuring our conference goals. As long as those goals are based on common conference inputs and outputs. You know, expenses/revenue, attendance, exhibitors and sponsors. But rarely do we measure anything else that proves ROI, ROO or ROA (return on attendance).

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Jamie Notter

MAY 7, 2014

'Take six minutes to watch this TED talk given by General Stanley McChrystal , in which he makes the case for sharing information, rather than keeping it secret. He worked for years leading the fight against Al Qaeda in Iraq, and he said that THE biggest factor in the success that they had was not due to better tactics, better weapons, or better strategies—it was their ability share information across silos and agencies that had previously been kept secret. “Information is only of value if

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SCD Group

MAY 6, 2014

'The other day, an association executive called me about coordinating member research needed after a “failed” strategic planning session. He shared the association’s major issue: a board that doesn’t understand the organization and doesn’t seem to be able to look toward the future. “It dawned on me that my own board wasn’t able to distinguish the organization from its convention.

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Associations Now

MAY 6, 2014

'Chemistry is the only science without a national teachers association. The American Chemical Society has a formula to fix that: It’s launching the first-ever association dedicated to K-12 chemistry educators to help support them in the classroom. If you can name most of the elements on the periodic table, you can probably thank your high school chemistry teacher, who until now has not had an association of his or her own.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 5, 2014

'Recently, I wrote about how most conference organizers are really bad at measurement. Oh, we’re fairly good at measuring our conference goals. As long as those goals are based on common conference inputs and outputs. You know, expenses/revenue, attendance, exhibitors and sponsors. But rarely do we measure anything else that proves ROI, ROO or ROA […].

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Mizz Information

MAY 3, 2014

'Since when is the answer to a lagging product multiplying the crappiness and thinking that somehow twice as much of what already isn’t working will somehow do better? Apparently since now, based on reports this week of Foursquare splitting into two apps. It’s been almost a year since I’ve written about Foursquare , and even then my feeling was that it had already jumped the shark.

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SCD Group

MAY 8, 2014

'Alliance Red Shirts Jam Planning Board Hearing For my entire association management career, I’ve been involved with national or international associations. I’ve seen our profession from that perspective. Yesterday, my wife and I joined about 300 of our neighbors at a city planning board hearing with regard to changes our developer wants to make to our community.

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Associations Now

MAY 8, 2014

'Stuck in a rut? Trying to come up with a new innovative solution? Try these three evidence-based methods for increasing your creative potential. Whether you’re trying to drum up new content ideas , design new membership benefits , or revamp a tried-and-true product , you probably won’t get very far without a healthy dose of creativity. Yet, everyone has days when they’re not at their most inventive.

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Beth Kanter

MAY 8, 2014

'@kanter A walking meeting in progress. Gotta take advantage of these #nyc streets + great weather! cc @ynpnnyc pic.twitter.com/RkZDLoG77T. — Christopher Chavez (@mr_tumnus) May 2, 2014. Last week, I wrote a blog post called “ Walking for Work ” about the benefits of incorporating walking into your work day, not as a break, but to help you do your work.

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Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

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Mizz Information

MAY 6, 2014

'I’ve been reading and thinking about the collaborative economy for a while now, and of course can’t help but wonder what it means for the association industry. Never heard of “collaborative economy”? Jeremiah Owyang defines it in this post : “the Collaborative Economy enables people to efficiently get what they need from each other.” Going by that definition, I’d say the association world definitely has something to worry about.

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SCD Group

MAY 4, 2014

'I’ve written before about the power of story telling for associations and nonprofit organizations. Storytelling Builds Success for Association Execs On a Blog or In the Boardroom, This is Still the Most Powerful Way to Persuade by Jerod Morris Well, as we’ve seen over the last decade, video often powers stories better than words. This touching video shows us a group of chimpanzees that are released in the wild (islands that are part of a sanctuary) after they were treated by the rescuers (inclu

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Associations Now

MAY 5, 2014

'Why a “business out front, party in the back” strategy may help you better leverage your online community. Also: Terminology matters when you describe your content leaders at events. It’s great to have a presence on a big social network. It shows you mean business. But when you want your community to really get into it, it definitely helps to have a place to let it all hang out.

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Beekeeper Group

MAY 7, 2014

'Beekeeper Group is excited to host the DC chapter of Mobile Monday, better known as DCMoMo, next week. Not only will our own Account Manager Tatenda Musapitake be on the panel, but our Senior Digital Products Manager Justin Kutner is now on the Board of Directors. Here are the details: The Future of Wearable Technology From the Fit Bit, to Google Glass and Galaxy Gear, the wearable technology market is growing fast.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

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