Leading Learning

JULY 12, 2021

It also requires re-thinking significantly how the stakeholders in your learning business interact, the assumptions they bring to the table, and how new perspectives translate into new strategies. And that means we need to be on the lookout for the tools and technologies that will enable us to change. So why aren’t we doing it?

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.orgCommunity

APRIL 18, 2019

Strategy Meltdown —The screen play. Sharon Rice ,orgSource’s managing director of business strategy, and I recently had a conversation about how an integrated approach to strategy gives plans the muscle to be actionable. The staff, the budget and the organization’s technology resources were not an integral part of the equation.

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Strategy Analysis Membership Management Leadership 40

Beth Kanter

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

SOS Children’s Villages International uses cloud technology to help fundraise for children in need. How To Use Microsoft Technology To Supercharge Your Fundraising guest post by Justin Spelhaug, General Manager, Microsoft Philanthropies. Photo courtesy of SOS Children’s Villages International.

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Technology How To Discount Tools 36

Associations Now

JULY 15, 2015

A new study from the Global Business Travel Association Foundation suggests that technology remains an important part of the equation for business travelers—and that tech element goes far beyond simply having access to WiFi. Among the areas in which travel managers say the technology experience at hotels could be improved: Smoother check-ins.

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Membership Marketing

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Innovation through Collaboration. We are always looking for new innovative ways to do things better. So I wanted to share two items that I came across this week that attribute successful innovation to collaboration. It’s a modern strategy based on two assumptions. First, innovation is collaborative.

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Association Success

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

How I adopted the innovative start-up strategy for the benefit of my association. If you want to find out more, the white paper I co-wrote with Elizabeth Engel, Innovate the Lean Way: Applying Lean Startup Methodology in the Association Environment can be downloaded for free here. The rest will follow.

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Project Review Tools Innovation 68

Beth Kanter

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As COVID accelerates innovative uses of AI in many areas, we are also seeing more development of AI-powered data mapping tools for philanthropic advising and to support donor investment decisions. The technology helps donors make investments that yield the highest impact or strategic system change.

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Reid All About it

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In this post, he addresses three tricky issues: negative consequences of technology, climate change, and ideological divisiveness. Fri 12/2 at 10 a.m.* – Association Community (Coffee with Innovators). Hear the most critical learnings from the New Member Engagement Study and essential strategies they couldn’t fit into the report.

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Tips Video Content Marketing 41

High Context

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Thoughts On Strategy: If you can’t innovate now… If you are unable to innovate your web presence now you never will. What features of your existing technology are you not using? Can social media be applied to your core strategies? The power of social media when used as a long term engagement strategy.

Strategy 40

Strategy Report Social Media Revenue 40

Associations Now

APRIL 14, 2015

The rest of us—including in the association space—should probably take a wait-and-see strategy, but even if you’re not making smartwatch apps, the early apps provide important lessons. Let Evernote figure out the best way to take wrist-based technology to the next level.

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Guidelines Technology Innovation Software 40

Associations Now

JUNE 8, 2016

Associations face no shortage of challenges in tracking the ROI of their myriad programs and services, and perhaps just the latest head-scratcher is figuring the ROI of an online member community platform—a technology endeavor that comes with a pretty big I. The primary reason to calculate ROI is that it forces you to define value.

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Reid All About it

OCTOBER 18, 2019

If you’ve ever been in charge of a technology implementation project without the benefit of project management experience, then you know what a wild ride it is. Even with all the technological innovations revolutionizing membership recruitment strategies in today’s world, the membership brochure remains a mainstay of membership marketing.

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North Carolina Education Project Communications 34

Beth Kanter

APRIL 1, 2012

focusing on how information consumption patterns are changing in light of these two technological developments. But it is also theme of a panel that I’m moderating at the Innogive Conference on Monday, April 2 that will focus on how this trend is and will continue to impact nonprofits’ communication strategies.

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Resources Conference Tools Sample 28

Reid All About it

DECEMBER 10, 2021

They suggest an excellent (and entertaining) white paper to read on this topic and steps you can take to start your association’s journey from digitized to digital. At Strategy+Business, Elizabeth Doty says great teams build a habit of continuously improving their meetings by taking a moment to reflect on the meeting before it’s over.

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SCD Group

AUGUST 13, 2012

New additions to plans are content marketing strategies and incorporating social throughout your entire organization – see Spredfast white paper on that topic. 17 Develop a LinkedIn marketing strategy for your association from American Academy on Communications in Healthcare via AMR. #18 via the Bostrom Corporation.

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Membership Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Her fundamental thesis is that “three key shifts in our society have caused a decline in membership: economic rescission, demographic shifts, and rapidly changing technology. That definition has changed in recent years, partly because of demographic shifts and economic dips but largely because of technology. Associations Now. (8).

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Membership Marketing

MARCH 8, 2012

” The program he highlights is run by Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) using Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn posts to request donations to fund scholarships for their annual conference. Cost of Wrong Strategy. (8). growth strategies. (4). Growth Strategy. (43). Membership marketing strategy. (17).

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Social Media Marketing Price Survey 40

Tom Morrison

OCTOBER 22, 2009

The world of business is changing every day, and it is critical for associations to tap into the innovations in technology to help enhance our value to members and create a connection between them that cannot be separated. You must have an “intentional plan” to engage your members into the network.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 23, 2016

The problem of fermenting innovation in the association world is well-documented, but the solutions are a little harder to come by. Could the lean startup strategy for building out ideas be one way to shift the conversation in your association? This strategy, Engel says, highlights a point of common ground for associations.

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.orgCommunity

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Technology creates paradoxes that are as upside down as Alice’s adventures in Wonderland. Set Strategy. At the wide end of this funnel, your decisions will determine the overall campaign strategy. You can strengthen anecdotal information with research such as member needs surveys, white papers and case studies.

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Marketing Case Study eBook Social Media 68

Reid All About it

MAY 26, 2017

Your weekly list of free webinars and events for the association community… Earlier this week, I finally read the new white paper from Elizabeth Engel and Sherry Marts, Include Is a Verb: Moving from Talk to Action on Diversity and Inclusion. Don’t be fooled, this is not a wonky paper. Host: TTC Innovations.

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Raleigh North Carolina Texas Chicago 150

Idea Architects

MARCH 4, 2013

Ensuring engagement and collaboration in face-to-face leadership and learning experiences : making the most of having people together in real-time, appropriately incorporating varied learning formats and technology tools to maximize the value received and created. My response to all this? Count me in.

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Association Subculture

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Management book after study after thesis after white paper on leadership has never even come close to detailing what an organization could or should be like the fiction of Star Trek does. You cant have innovation without it. innovation. (6). strategy. (5). innovation. (6). strategy. (5). They argue.

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