Beth Kanter

JANUARY 9, 2020

Rituals are intentional small, tangible acts done routinely and carry meaning. Our family has several New Year’s rituals, including a nature hike. This year we hiked by Pacific Ocean near Moss Bay.(Pictured Here they are: Rituals. Here they are: Rituals. Year in Review. Pictured above).

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Mariner

DECEMBER 28, 2016

With the new year fast approaching, our social media accounts are full of tips for tackling that oft-dreaded annual ritual – New Year’s resolutions. This got me thinking and I thought I’d take a crack out seeing how we can apply the 3Rs concept to associations.

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Mariner Management

JANUARY 9, 2020

For many the new year brings new resolutions most of which are about change. In his post, he promised change could come without making new year resolutions. In his post, he promised change could come without making new year resolutions. This is perhaps why Gene Hammett’s blog post caught my eye.

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Reid All About it

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Thank you for reading and sharing Association Brain Food with others in the association community this year. Virtual conference as ritual. He provides a “few thought starters for the virtual expression of the secular rituals that might help elevate spirits and engage your audience.”. New episodes are posted by 1 p.m.

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Eric Lanke

JULY 1, 2019

It's a pretty popular post, making most of my year-end Top Five lists, and capturing the eighth most number of pageviews from among the more than 600 posts that have appeared on this blog. Over the years we have given a great variety of items, usually enlisting the secret help of the chair's spouse to help us identify the right thing.

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 3, 2019

And while illness isn’t the most energizing start of a new year, I kept replaying the words from the ballon song in the new Mary Poppins movie, “ there is no place to go but up.” ” Rituals are intentional small, tangible acts done routinely and carry meaning. Here they are: My Three Rituals.

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Beth Kanter

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

I’m excited to co-presenting a session at this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference called “ Activating A Culture of Resilience for Sustainable Impact ,” with fellow NTEN board members, Ananda Leeke & Meico Whitlock as well as Carrie Rice. I’ll be talking about workplace rituals and the link to resilience.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 9, 2019

Legacy rituals and age-old programming will keep your meeting—and organization—from future growth. If your annual meeting isn’t offering anything new, excitement will dwindle and attendance will dip. Improving your conference starts with the right leaders at the helm. Also: Learning programs should be transformational.

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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

MemberSuite suggests five new ways you can offer more value to exhibitors. On Sunday, I made this brothy chicken soup with hominy and poblano from the New York Times so I had something ready to go during the week. A new episode is posted every Monday by 1 p.m. Digital First: A New Mindset to Expand Association Influence.

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Idea Architects

APRIL 29, 2011

Today's royal wedding is a good reminder about the role and importance of rituals. Every organization or community has its own rituals that, if appropriately attended to, can knit together meaning, shared values, and connectivity across generations of members, customers, or stakeholders.

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Reid All About it

JULY 23, 2021

They suggest tactics for establishing boundaries, such as shut-down rituals, and protocol for meetings and communications. I can attest to that after spending three days hanging out with my 11- and 13-year-old nephews. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. CAE credit.

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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

A fascinating look back at the menus for White House state dinners in the last 86 years. Find out how to avoid unapproved miscellaneous charges, and contract wording needed to protect the meeting sponsor under the new privacy laws, and much more. Personify’s new benchmarking study, Young Members 2.0, Hickey, Foreign Policy ).

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Reid All About it

MARCH 10, 2023

Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Where are things at with the results of ASAE’s last DEI strategic plan (2019-2021) and with a new one? Over the last 10 years the industry has seem the rise of platform-based systems.

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 5, 2018

During the first week of January , I use the quiet time for three New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead and identify professional growth areas. I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful. I also use it as a year in review tool. Year in Review.

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 4, 2017

I would like to wish all my readers, colleagues, and friends a happy new year! I also use it as a year in review tool. In early January, I read through the year’s journal and think about accomplishments:What gave me a sense of purpose and feeling of professional fulfillment? How about you? I look for patterns.

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WBT Systems

OCTOBER 17, 2017

That is one of the many questions that will be discussed by the credentialing community next week, October 23 to 26, in New Orleans at the ICE Exchange —the Institute for Credentialing Excellence ’s annual conference. Use stories and testimonials to illustrate how their new knowledge is valuable and transformative.

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Eric Lanke

JANUARY 7, 2013

image source One of my rituals at the end of each year is to go through all the bloggers and tweeters I'm following and to drop some that haven't given me enough value in the past year. One of the new people I'm trying out in 2013 is Dorie Clark on the HBR Blog Network.

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Beth Kanter

DECEMBER 13, 2016

I just published this piece guest blog post over at MarketsforGood about how nonprofit data nerds can use data to set some new goals for 2017 to become healthier – Enjoy. The practices for self-care that we describe in the book are based on insights that we gleaned from putting the techniques into practice over the past few years.

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Reid All About it

JULY 9, 2021

They do so by investing intentionally in a strong foundation—structure, policies, and rituals—that can weather change without crumbling or cracking.” Anne McCarthy at Sidecar recaps a panel discussion at SURGE Forward about the new approaches to member engagement taken by associations during the pandemic. Makes more sense now.

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Eric Lanke

OCTOBER 21, 2013

image source If you follow me on Twitter , you''ve seen a number of tweets lately from the Corner Office series in The New York Times. I''ve found a lot of wisdom in these summaries, and reading one each morning before I start my busy day is a ritual I''ve come to look forward to. I’m challenging you to make the impossible possible.

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Associations Now

OCTOBER 12, 2016

.” The campaign, which is is being led by two videos that will air on television and digital platforms and be shared on social media, was produced by Mother New York and RSA Films. The post Diamond Producers Association Says “Real is Rare” in New Campaign appeared first on Associations Now.

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Associations Now

MARCH 26, 2015

But, similar to the hype around the tournament itself, news of lost productivity during March Madness has become somewhat of an annual tradition, and some people are over it. This yearly ritual is a little overblown,” The Washington Post ’s Jena McGregor wrote in a column last week. This yearly ritual is a little overblown.

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 4, 2016

Happy New Year ! Last year, I decided that I didn’t need to wait until New Year’s to establish happy, healthy habits in my life. I also have New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for a new year. Year in Review. How about you?

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Velvet Chainsaw

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Association governance and bureaucracy were de rigueur a quarter of a century ago, but we have much less of an appetite for rituals today. State-of-the-industry or year-in-review general sessions look in the wrong direction. What other ways could you breathe new life into your conference? Lose the PowerPoint templates.

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Idea Architects

AUGUST 4, 2009

25 This is the time of year when so many look to reduce the clutter in their lives and use cheap prices to entice us to increase ours. It's a time-honored ritual in which we ignore the sentimental value and meaning attached to objects and instead opt for the joy of empty shelves and a bit more breathing room.

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Reid All About it

JUNE 10, 2022

Mark Athitakis at Associations Now says these leaders hope to get “back to pre-pandemic standards and rituals”—rituals they incorrectly assume lead to better results for the organization and its staff. If your AMS doesn’t help you recruit, engage and retain members , you better start shopping for a new one. Board governance.

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Associations Now

JULY 18, 2017

Case in point: Watching a show on Netflix is a pretty satisfying ritual, isn’t it? But for years, it was a vaguely imperfect experience. The resulting decision, which came after four years of debate in the online community, was not warmly accepted by the technology’s critics, to say the least. Lots of people do it.

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Associations Now

JUNE 4, 2013

Short, snappy videos are the new social media fad on the block. That, and more on mobile apps, in today’s Lunchtime Links: A Vine new world: Twitter’s mobile video app, Vine, has reached a whopping 13 million users in about four months, and it’s not stopping there. Has your association jumped on the Vine bandwagon?

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Associations Now

AUGUST 5, 2015

Practice a relaxing bedtime ritual. A lack of sleep could be hurting employees’ productivity, according to a new study. According to a new study by Harvard Medical School’s Division of Sleep Medicine, the exact opposite holds true, at least in regards to worker productivity. Stick to a sleep schedule, even on the weekends.

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Idea Architects

APRIL 6, 2011

It's good advice so long as one remembers that over time every fresh perspective or new way of thinking will become a new box from which you must escape. It's something I try to do every year. People looking to innovate have long been admonished to think outside the box.

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Beth Kanter

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I have a couple of New Year’s rituals that help prepare me for a new year. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. Year in Review. Workshops, Keynotes, Webinars, and Conference Panels: This year I did over 75 speaking engagements and presentations.

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

My 4-year-old son and a lot of his friends struggle mightily with it, but truth be told, grown-ups aren’t always paragons of patience. For those scoring at home, that’s eleven years. Every third year it elects what it has called a “wild card” president-elect from its nomination process. Wait your turn. Nobody likes to hear that.

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Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 10, 2012

That way you’ll meet new people and build new connections. Take some time to reflect on the new content and write some notes on how to apply those learnings when you return to the office. Do as many things with the new content as soon as you learn it so you can recall it. Take the path less traveled by your friends.

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 2, 2015

This year I took off a full two weeks during the holiday, spending time with family on the Big Island on a coffee farm and mostly offline. I have a couple of New Year’s rituals that help prepare me for a new year. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness.

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Association Subculture

JANUARY 2, 2012

So my year end ritual is complete. Even though today is still technically a holiday, I feel like 2012 is officially underway and now its time to reveal the 5 Terms for 2012 that will be front and center at Alcorn Associates Management Consulting this year. (By Times Like These - My 5 Terms for 2012.

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Beth Kanter

DECEMBER 29, 2015

As many of you know, I am working on a new book The Happy Healthy Nonprofit with co-author Aliza Sherman. January starts a new year and a good time to reflect, recharge, and establish healthy habits that make us more effective in our nonprofit work. And you’ll get your writing in front of new readers.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 29, 2014

It was the first time in two years that almost all of us had been together in the same place, and as expected, we had a great time. I mean, I grew up in New Jersey, home of the shore and its accompanying boardwalks. Some make it a mission to try all the new and more unusual food choices at the fair each year.

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