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Overcoming the association value gap: part II

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It is an invention designed to create artificial predictability and a sense of security for risk-averse organizations. We want everyone (or at least everyone who is eligible) to want membership in our organizations, even when membership benefits us more than them, which is almost always. Are you ready to get started?

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Jeff De Cagna elected chair of RedRover Board of Directors

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Jeff will begin his two-year term in January 2013. They perform the organization’s most important work: helping defenseless animals across the country who need our kindness and love everyday. RedRover is a national organization that focuses on bringing animals out of crisis and strengthening the bond between people and animals.

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Empathy, new value creation and the stakeholders of the future

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SED is a term I coined to inspire association leaders to shift their conversations about the future in a more generative direction. On the one hand, blogger Sara Wachter-Boettcher describes empathy in sharp emotional terms: We can’t begin being empathetic when another person arrives. Here is what I wrote about SED [.]

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Jeff De Cagna joins ATA Board of Directors

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Tinnitus is the medical term for the perception of sound in one or both ears or in the head when no external sound is present. Tinnitus is the medical term for the perception of sound in one or both ears or in the head when no external sound is present. 50 million Americans experience tinnitus to some degree.

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Five reasons why membership is killing association business models: Part I

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Indeed, for many organizations, the membership imperative defines the very existence of the association: membership is who they are and what they do. Reason #1: Membership-centric business models organize all value around the membership relationship. Membership is perhaps the most sacred tenet in all of association orthodoxy.

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Five reasons why membership is killing association business models: Part III

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Indeed, for many organizations, the membership imperative defines the very existence of the association: membership is who they are and what they do. For some organizations, these investments have produced a meaningful return. In the short-term, membership likely will remain a primary line of business for most associations.

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Associations Unorthodox Shift #1: De-emphasize membership

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Indeed, the phrase, “membership organization” may well be the most orthodox description of an association’s organizational identity. It is extremely difficult for association leaders to reconsider their unswerving commitment to membership as the organizing premise for future business models. The Problem. Additional Thoughts.

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