YourMembership
JANUARY 3, 2013
Categories: Member Engagement + Retention Tags: ashley withers , attracting members , content , engaging members , event , event management , guest blogger , managing events , membership organization , yourmembership.com I am so excited to share this guest post by Ashley Withers, a support specialist at YourMembership.com. She holds a Bachelor’s in English & Sociology from Stony Brook University in New York.
Principled Innovation
JANUARY 3, 2013
2013 is the year when association leaders will need to get serious about transformation. So as the year begins in earnest, I want to share six ideas on which I will focus my attention over the next 12 months. These are high impact ideas for association leaders who are serious about taking their organizations to the next level. I look forward to your questions, as well as your thoughts on how these ideas may reshape your association’s work in the year ahead.
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Wild Apricot
JANUARY 2, 2013
Here is a round-up of non-profit, membership, marketing and event predictions and trends for 2013.
KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup
DECEMBER 31, 2012
What if 2013 was the year of living dangerously for associations? What kind of changes would we see? Fear is such a pain. It saps our energy; develops more of the same old thing. Fear creates doubt in the place of excitement. Fear sucks. And yet, when we drill down into why many decisions are made the way they are in organizations, we find fear at the root.
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Thanks For Playing
JANUARY 4, 2013
My 2013 resolution is to learn to play poker. And I'm off to a good start, as dear friends hosted a poker party for me on New Year's Day. Seven of us played a full round of everyone getting shot at dealer for 7 card stud, and then two full rounds of Texas Hold 'Em. And Tim did an AMAZING job of putting together cheat sheets about the hands, the rules, the types of games, betting.basically everything you need to know to get started.
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Wild Apricot
JANUARY 4, 2013
Here is a look at charitable giving in 2012 and trends that might continue into 2013.
Eric Lanke
DECEMBER 31, 2012
image source As we end another year (without the world coming to an end, fortunately), here's a look back at the five posts on this blog that received the most page views in 2012. 1. Don't Rush to Fill the Silence A lesson I've learned about what a leader can learn from silence, and how that opportunity will be lost if one rushes to fill it. Remember, it is not the job of the leader to have all the answers, only to identify all the real problems. 2.
Thanks For Playing
JANUARY 3, 2013
My resolution in 2012 was to do Photo365 , which I documented on a Tumblr. I started a little before January 1, 2012 and took at least one photo nearly every day for the entire year. I know I did miss a handful of days (likely about 5, without going back to confirm), but many days I took more than one photo, resulting in 688 posts to the blog Most of the photos were taken in and around DC, although there are also photos from New Orleans, rural Virginia, the Philadelphia area, the Jersey shore, r
Idea Architects
DECEMBER 31, 2012
Image credit: Big Car Given that I do a fair amount of public speaking each year, I wasn’t overly concerned about appearing onstage at TEDx Indianapolis. But most of my work is done in half-day or full-day facilitated workshops or 60-minute keynotes, not a 10-minute presentation. And while some of what I’ve gleaned presenting 5-minute IGNITE talks ( on innovation and on personal priorities) applied, I learned (and relearned) a few important lessons.
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Wild Apricot
DECEMBER 31, 2012
Here are the 20 top rated posts from the Wild Apricot Blog in 2012.
Association Subculture
DECEMBER 29, 2012
For those of you who have not seen this video - cup stacking is a real thing. Here's the link. In fact, if you watch some of the other cup stacking videos you will be amazed at the speeds people are reaching. And the dexterity it takes is really stunning. What is so cool about this video is this individuals intense concentration and then the sheer, unadulterated joy of hitting her goal.
Thanks For Playing
JANUARY 2, 2013
Short list this week - lots of writers were off for the holiday. Tips for networking in the real world (these work, trust). Five important fixes for your 2013 content marketing efforts. Does "Big Data" just equal " data models behaving badly "? Five trends to IGNORE in 2013. What do you think? Agree? Disagree? Want to be more productive? FOCUS.
Association Navigator
JANUARY 3, 2013
Fortune magazine. I did some reading about Coach Nick Saban’s leadership philosophy and style in anticipation of the BCS National Championship game Monday night between Alabama and Notre Dame. There’s an interesting article in the September 24, 2012 Fortune magazine, “ Leadership Lessons from Nick Saban ” by Brian O’Keefe, a former Birmingham resident who spent time earlier this year inside the Saban bubble in Tuscaloosa.
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Jamie Notter
JANUARY 1, 2013
Time once again for my annual year in review post. This has been a year focused heavily on the Humanize book. We’re very pleased to have sold nearly 4,000 copies in the first year of the book, and we look forward to more. I’ve also been particularly happy with the growth in keynote speaking as a result of the book. I’ll be honest: I didn’t start my career with the intention of being a professional speaker in addition to the consulting, but I really do love it.
Idea Architects
JANUARY 2, 2013
The wonderful Indianapolis Museum of Art is free to all visitors, so becoming a member is an optional activity. Because I value the institution and its work, I chose that option and paid my $50, receiving the online confirmation you see above. It is wrong on so many levels I can barely stand it, but let's review a few of the most critical ones: 1. It treats joining the community of individuals freely choosing to support the museum with an optional membership fee the same way it treats any other
Thanks For Playing
JANUARY 1, 2013
It's easy to forget this simple truth: enriching other people's lives enriches your own life. So what's the secret? Stop focusing on being successful, and start focusing on being helpful. I can scarcely imagine better advice for us as individuals and for membership associations for 2013. Happy New Year.
AMR Management Services
DECEMBER 31, 2012
by Brian Reuwee. Project management requires structure. As a more free-form, creative person, I'm not always a big fan of structure, but I do love it when a plan comes together. So I make structure and organization a means to an end with the projects I'm leading. Fortunately, most volunteer association leaders have structure, organization and expertise available to them through their association staff.
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Velvet Chainsaw
JANUARY 2, 2013
It’s that time of year again. Time to think of what trends might have an impact on conferences and meetings in 2013. So what can we expect to see as far as demands from our participants this year? Five Trends To Watch. Here are five trends to watch during 2013. 1. The Participation Economy. From passive information consumption to actively contributing, discussing, creating and participating.
SCD Group
JANUARY 2, 2013
Fred Myers, a retired editor friend of mine, recently emailed me questions related to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports showing that 42% of the U.S. work force are in some form working as an independent contractor. His comment to me: “Following closely behind are those associations that are ignoring the growing trend of independent thought and action that's replacing the traditional top down order of things.
Thanks For Playing
DECEMBER 31, 2012
Geek heaven! Just in time for the end of the year, it's Mashable's annual innovation index winners ! Some of my personal favorites include: Flipboard The Kitchen Aid Mixer Crowd funding Quirky What do you love in this list? (I know I'm going to get shout-outs for Fitocracy.).
AMR Management Services
DECEMBER 31, 2012
'Project management requires structure. As a more free-form, creative person, I''m not always a big fan of structure, but I do love it when a plan comes together. So I make structure and organization.
Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker
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Velvet Chainsaw
JANUARY 3, 2013
As a conference organizer, are you designing for the four stages of a conference experience? Or are you only designing for attendees to consume information? If you are planning only didactic, one-way, information transfer such as lectures and panels, you are missing some great opportunities to give your attendees a more robust experience. Four Stages Of Conference Experience.
SCD Group
JANUARY 3, 2013
As 78 million Millenials (aka Gen Y or Digital Natives) come of age, some professional associations are watching and wondering what to do while others are embracing generational differences. In a guest post last February 19 , Jim Nagel outlined the generational issues decimating most service organizations and/or monthly lunch clubs (chapters). Sarah Sladek’s The End of Membership as We Know It also provides valuable information about associations and the coming wave of Generation Y (aka Millenia
Plexus Consulting
DECEMBER 31, 2012
By Virgil Carter Unfortunately, many non-profit organizations are not known for their data-based research and decision-making. Instead, it seems, volunteer leaders may often arise in a quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors, make a motion, second and vote favorably for a decision to commit sizable amounts of staff time and money for an unstudied “good idea”!
ChatterBachs
JANUARY 2, 2013
My first career was as a teacher, coach, and camp director. Being a camp director is the most fun I’ve ever had at a job, but there were also numerous lessons. Keep the kids active and happy, and the parents will be happy. They’ll keep coming back, and they’ll tell their friends. One way we saw success is that while growing in enrollment each summer we also filled all spaces with earlier registrations each spring.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions
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