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Mission possible: Finding and keeping volunteers

Aaron Wolowiec

Unfortunately, many organizations are stuck when it comes to volunteers, she said. Like zombies, committee members engage in busy work instead of generating new ideas to further the mission of the organization. The most innovative volunteer opportunities I’ve seen recently are related to tasks like crowdsourcing,” Hoffman said.

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Innovation, Freeloaders, Mistakes & 3 Other Reads for Association Executives

SCD Group

We Are All Becoming Millennials By Darcy Jacobsen via Globoforce It’s hard to read anything about business today and not trip over references to millennials, and the changes they are bringing to the workplace. I’ve been surprised that millennials do not differ from the workforce at large in as many areas as you’d think.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.15.20

Reid All About it

This series of 15-minute videos cover hot topics and issues related to 501c organization management. But creating great communities that serve this purpose, or any purpose, can be difficult to perfect, even for the seasoned Community Manager or enterprise organization. We want to educate, inspire and innovate together.

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Tuesday Buzz: The Secrets to Making Bland Brands Grand

Associations Now

Google’s big announcement has organizations wondering how you make your brand pop. The decision to make Google a subsidiary of a larger entity, named Alphabet, is prompting other companies to take another look at their own brands for innovative opportunities. Plus: What #assnchat is up to during #ASAE15.

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Is Your Association at a Crossroads?

Association Adviser

If you’re asking the right questions and acting on what members tell you, data-driven organizations will be more successful than those driven by instinct and intuition. Jeff DeCagna , chief strategist of Principled Innovation , agreed you need to have a balance of both personality types on your staff and on your board. Innovation.

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Association Brain Food: 5.20.22

Reid All About it

Move your organization from wait-and-see to a chance-to-lead. This series of 15- to 20-minute videos covers hot topics and issues related to 501c organization management. Presenters: Joe Schwinger, Co-founder and Chief Product/Innovation Officer, MeetingPlay + Aventri. Quick hits. Best practices on amending bylaws. every Monday.

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Mo Rocca on Creativity, Comedy, and Obit Con vs Comic Con

AssociationChat

He’s the host and creator of My Grandmother’s Ravioli on the cooking channel host of the Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation on CBS and also published a book called Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving. To the association people and you… everyone knows the organization people are super boring. Mo is a journalist. Thank you, Eric.