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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Looking for additional work. I usually work with association industry partners on blog posts, case studies, and other content marketing pieces , but am open to learning about other interesting projects outside that scope. Association podcast.

Tools 272

Tools Strategy Revenue Technology 272

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Got a writing project ? I usually work with association industry partners on blog posts, case studies, and other content marketing pieces , but am open to learning about other interesting projects outside that scope. New association event.

Certificate 281

Certificate Price Tools Technology 281

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Grassroots advocacy. TopClass LMS explains how education programs can help your association’s grassroots advocacy efforts. Good things happen when you have good relationships with technology partners. Conference/abstract management.

Arlington 266

Arlington Technology Strategy Los Angeles 266

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Membership benchmarks. iMIS invites you to participate in their 9th Annual Membership Benchmark Survey. Many associations are putting great emphasis on career websites , so they can help industry employers with workforce development.

LMS 256

LMS North Carolina Recruiting Recruitment 256

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JANUARY 12, 2024

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Free education. If you’re a regular reader of Association Brain Food, this post from TopClass LMS will be familiar ground for you. Have you forgotten you have a job and career with purpose? Need to reignite your spark?

LMS 266

LMS Member Engagement Education Revenue 266

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JANUARY 19, 2024

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Association AI survey. Post-program campaigns. TopClass LMS explains why you should keep the conversation going and the community gathering after a course, conference or educational program ends. Membership. Membership, again.

Revenue 256

Revenue Strategy Member Engagement United States 256

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AUGUST 11, 2023

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Association community. which is why I’m already looking forward to seeing many of you again at Non-Dues-A-Palooza (NDAP) in Denver next month. Cutting back or eliminating management training programs certainly doesn’t help.

Chicago 195

Chicago Certificate Marketing Content 195

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MAY 14, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. If you’re frequently under pressure to come up with clever and compelling marketing copy, I feel for you. Either you have it or you don’t but you have to produce anyways. Marketing copy. Event safety. API basics. Hybrid work.

St. Louis 341

St. Louis Technology Strategy Conference 341

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MAY 7, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Research on associations. Amith Nagarajan writes at Sidecar about the potential for associations to issue accreditations and certifications on the blockchain. Association myths. Intriguing. I found myself saying “Yes!”

Technology 370

Technology St. Louis Strategy Products 370

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MARCH 10, 2023

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… ChatGPT. WBT Systems explains how you can use ChatGPT to manage and market your association’s education programs. But busy association professionals can definitely save time using ChatGPT as a starting point on many tasks.

Committee 195

Committee Education Software Technology 195

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APRIL 1, 2022

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. With all the job- and career-hopping going on right now, it’s a good time for associations to extend their marketing and educational efforts to career changers. Real-time messaging, video chat, better intel for associations—yes, bring it on!

Revenue 195

Revenue Technology Education Video 195

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Because I’m away most of next week at the Non-Dues-A-Palooza conference, Association Brain Food isn’t publishing next Friday, September 8. Hope to see you back here for the next edition on Friday, September 15. Project management.

Revenue 227

Revenue Survey Education Strategy 227

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MARCH 24, 2023

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… I’m going away for eight days on a hiking vacation in southern Utah, so I’m not publishing Association Brain Food the next two Fridays, March 31 and April 7. Thank goodness, many associations are rethinking new member onboarding.

Revenue 227

Revenue Chicago Leadership Education 227

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Must-read newsletters. I was happy to see Association Brain Food in Lead Marvel’s list of eight must-read newsletters for association professionals. They also suggest topics you should ask about during your discussions with vendors.

LMS 256

LMS Revenue Arlington Education 256

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APRIL 14, 2023

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Extreme brainstorming. If you want to kick your association out of the box in which it finds comfort, give these extreme brainstorming questions from WBT Systems a try. Abstract/conference management. Memorable membership moments. “We

Leadership 195

Leadership Education Revenue Strategy 195

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MARCH 12, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Association technology and analytics. Pay special attention to the four philosophies on the AMS’ role in the association tech stack, and the pros and cons of each. Association role model. It means “jumping out of the system.”

Nashville 370

Nashville LMS North Carolina Recruiting 370

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JULY 7, 2023

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… A month from now, many of us will be at ASAE Annual in Atlanta. Two months from now, I hope to see some of you at Non-Dues-a-Palooza in Denver too. Check out the content lineup if you haven’t already. Association leadership.

Tools 195

Tools Education Newsletter Chicago 195

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MARCH 19, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Association innovation. Start at her website , check out more on Association Innovation Today , and follow her on LinkedIn for the latest updates. There’s no easy solution for overwhelm, but this might help. Celebrating a new season.

LMS 370

LMS Nashville Strategy Video 370

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. I hope to see many of you there. WBT Systems explains how your association’s education programs can provide three things that research says are missing for many who work remotely : meaning, belonging and informal learning. So excited!

San Diego 195

San Diego Education Social Media Content 195

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JULY 2, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. This week, they discuss peer advisory groups for association members who want to learn from and with each other. They explain how these groups work and why your association may want to consider offering them. Peer advisory groups.

Technology 370

Technology Strategy System Education 370

EventMobi: Association Events

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

What do you hope your members feel when they think about your organization? So how do you improve your member experience? You can foster better membership experiences both in person and online by providing a range of benefits and opportunities for engagement. place on what your membership program has to offer.

Member Experience 130

Member Experience Tips How To Software 130

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AUGUST 18, 2023

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Love. Vista Cova’s white paper, Strategic Frameworks: The Future of Strategic Planning , explores how association executives are working with strategic plans in the post-COVID environment. Thriving (or not) associations. Hybrid work.

Certificate 195

Certificate Education Revenue Marketing 195

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… I’m back in the saddle again—and this photo captures my hiking buddies climbing up a tricky portion of the saddle between Big Spring and Squaw Canyons in the Needles district of Canyonlands National Park in Utah—one of my favorite places.

Utah 370

Utah LMS Conference Technology 370

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JUNE 11, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. If members are burnt out on virtual everything, how do you convince them to make time for online education? Because of new safety-related expenses for in-person events, your old event budget templates are of no use to you now. Quick hits.

Certificate 322

Certificate Technology Communications Revenue 322

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APRIL 16, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. WBT speculates about the invisible forces affecting your members , causing irregular or new behavior, and disturbing the regular attraction between them and your association. Jeff suggests learning formats you might want to consider.

Revenue 363

Revenue Strategy Team Content 363

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Check out the 30 ideas featured in their post and see if you can “yes and” any of them into revenue generators for your association. I keep hearing, “You get what you pay for” echoing in my head. Non-dues revenue.

Revenue 195

Revenue Technology Conference Education 195

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. This is the last edition of Association Brain Food for the year. I’ll see you again on Friday, January 7, 2022. Wishing you and yours a very merry Christmas and a festive, fun holiday season. AMS/CRM software selection survey.

Proposal 195

Proposal Project Austin Certificate 195

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APRIL 21, 2023

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Free member education. Should associations list education programs as a membership benefit if members have to pay for them like everyone else does? Sadly, associations only merit one mention—as has-beens. AI and associations.

Education 195

Education Committee Recruiting Recruitment 195

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. ASI invites you to participate in their 7th annual benchmark survey on membership performance. to identify five membership strategies of high-performing associations. She says you can prevent that by giving attendees something to do.

Revenue 195

Revenue Committee Strategy Technology 195

AvidXchange: Association Management

JANUARY 16, 2023

Our guest for the first episode of “The Power of Change with Michael Praeger” is Cat Carmichael, the Chief Executive Officer for Strategy 123, a strategic community association management (CAM) consulting company focused on acquisition preparation, increased profitability and creating successful exit strategies and succession plans.

Strategy 130

Strategy Association Management Innovation Price 130

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APRIL 9, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Every association professional has one thing in common: more work than time to do it. In #3, he talks about the positive impact you can make on search traffic if you do a few simple things with on-page SEO. #4 Ideation session.

San Diego 370

San Diego Revenue Strategy Content 370

AvidXchange: Association Management

MARCH 9, 2023

In our first episode of the “Middle Market Report” podcast , we covered three pervasive trends happening right now in the community association management industry. Let’s set the table with a few figures: There are more than 357,000 community associations in the U.S.

Association Management 130

Association Management Charlotte Report Technology 130

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OCTOBER 29, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. To help associations increase sponsorship revenue, the Partnership Professionals Network and Dynamic Benchmarking are conducting a survey of association sponsors to find out: Why companies sponsor associations. Sponsor survey.

Revenue 195

Revenue Survey Leadership Education 195

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MARCH 26, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Association innovation. The research revealed that associations with a more innovative mindset and culture were more successful at navigating the early challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. You deserve to thrive, not just survive.

Innovation 259

Innovation San Diego LMS Strategy 259

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APRIL 2, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Post-pandemic association workplace. The greater the participation, the richer the data available to you on industry trends regarding workforce models, compensation, and security, so please participate. Future conference attendance.

Revenue 335

Revenue Conference Industry Strategy 335

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MARCH 20, 2020

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Is it over yet? I’ve got more to share than usual—I think that might be a pattern for a while. Associations are already taking a huge financial hit by having to cancel conferences. Emerging member needs. Conference sponsorships.

North Carolina 221

North Carolina Technology Strategy Revenue 221

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Ashley Neal at Sidecar wonders if associations should create a new position: accessibility specialist. The fifth lesson might seem out of place but it could be what differentiates your courses from the competition. . Online education.

Chicago 195

Chicago Social Media Education Recruiting 195