Spark Consulting

MAY 11, 2020

The whitepaper includes: An association content curation maturity model. An extensive list of resources in case you want to dig deeper on any of the topics addressed. People are overwhelmed with information, much of it false or untrustworthy, and are increasingly unable to discern what is reliable and what is not.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 25, 2022

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Brain Food resources. As you start to put policies and procedures in place around your model, understanding the “purpose” for gathering is more critical than alternating certain days of the week in the office. 1 CMP credit.

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Reid All About it

APRIL 19, 2019

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… If you haven’t already, you must read New Member Engagement Study , a collaboration between Kaiser Insights, Dynamic Benchmarking, 12 research partners and 160 association professionals. Dee McCurry, Ex Ordo ). Justin Housman, Adventure Journal ).

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Because of its broad scope and deep impact on both top line (productivity) and bottom line (efficiency) performance, the sales operations department has become a strategic and indispensable component of a mature sales organization, especially in the enterprise, SaaS and B2B space. . What are the key functions of a sales operations group?

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Reid All About it

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… I just bought a wreath at the farmers market and I’m listening to the Christmas Cocktail Jazz playlist on Spotify. Maddie Grant and Jamie Notter at Human Workplaces released a new white paper on a maturity model for workplace culture.

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Association Success

JUNE 17, 2019

It’s inevitable…older, long-established products eventually become less popular, hit maturity and decline. One association I worked for followed the standard product-line business model, too, so I thought we needed a way to visualize the health of the overall model. Like Nicolas Cage, it might be slow, but it happens.

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Jamie Notter

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In case you missed it, Maddie and I released a new white paper earlier this month about our new maturity model for culture management. In our model, we identify three distinct levels, and each has its own set of work: culture as a concept, culture as a practice, and culture as a system. There is NEW work to be done, folks.

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

America , has been making tweaks to the trade organization’s onboarding model in recent months, and just launched a refresh at the start of 2023. But by contrast, more mature members, who had been with the organization for many years and paid significantly more for their organization to be a part of Research!America,

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Delcor

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

To help the association achieve its goals, the CIO must be sure the IT department has the right stuff in its ‘bag’ to effectively manage the four pillars of The 501c IT Maturity Model™ : Technology management and strategy. For example, if your IT maturity score is low in one function, you’ll need to increase investment in that area.

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Aaron Wolowiec

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The demographic shifts, revamped business models, digitization of products, rise in big data analytics and new forms of competition require organizations to fuel perpetual skill upgrades,” King said in her new whitepaper. This involves making information available and actionable and connecting employees with the appropriate resources.

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Aaron Wolowiec

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The demographic shifts, revamped business models, digitization of products, rise in big data analytics and new forms of competition require organizations to fuel perpetual skill upgrades,” King said in her new whitepaper. This involves making information available and actionable and connecting employees with the appropriate resources.

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Disciple Media

JUNE 26, 2019

This page holds links too useful community resources from a wide range of places. This list is just getting started – Comment if you find it useful, have suggestions for additional resources or want to share an insight. We recommend using the Community Maturity Model (CMM) to help in building a community strategy.

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Jamie Notter

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In case you missed it, Maddie and I released a new white paper earlier this month about our new maturity model for culture management. In our model, we identify three distinct levels, and each has its own set of work: culture as a concept, culture as a practice, and culture as a system. There is NEW work to be done, folks.

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Higher Logic

JUNE 26, 2019

Whether you’re an executive looking to advance your strategy or a community leader in need of clear direction and resources, these statistics and action items will help inform your next steps. Resource: Customer Journey Mapping 101: The What, Why, and How. Communities are change agents, there’s no doubt about it. At 4 years: 6,295%.

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Reid All About it

APRIL 1, 2022

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Career changers. 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. AMS landscape. Employer denial. Surveys are often underused. Host: Sidecar.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 1, 2024

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Education programs. In this success kit from Nimble AMS, you get four resources: two half-hourish webinar recordings about AI for associations and two white papers, one an introduction to AI for associations and one on developing an AI strategy.

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Reid All About it

APRIL 21, 2017

After their series of posts on the joint national/chapter membership model, Billhighway is now delving into monthly auto-renewal membership—an attractive and affordable offer in our subscription economy. The Learning Business Maturity Model. By the way, do you listen to the Leading Learning podcast ? Columbia MD). 1 CAE credit.

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Leading Learning

JANUARY 12, 2023

A human resource team might hire professional coaches to enhance teamwork or coach employees in specific areas like communication, conflict management, delegation, and developing a career plan. A successful model for some learning businesses includes tapping into an outside network of coaches that learners can access for a fee.

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Protech

MARCH 11, 2020

For trade associations, institutional members might expect value in the form of internal educational resources they can share with their staff on community forums. What is a Data Maturity Model? . The data maturity model allows nonprofit executives to identify what can be improved in their data governance policy.

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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… In many associations, chapters are seen as PITA groups to manage, not as opportunities to leverage. Learn how to evaluate your association’s current analytics maturity using a scorecard for the key areas of Culture, Data, Technology and Process.

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Reid All About it

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Upcoming association events. Although these events are not free, they’re organized by people I respect and admire—and will be attended by people you’ll love getting to know, like me at People Powering Tech. Threats ahead. 1 CAE credit.

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Delcor

MAY 3, 2022

For example, we use The 501(c) IT Maturity Model (ITMM) , our tool for measuring the effectiveness of the four primary functions of an organization’s IT: management, data, digital, and infrastructure. One area in which associations can really set themselves up for success is IT leadership.

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Reid All About it

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

In part two, he discusses how to find the best people to teach, facilitate, and participate on panels; what resources chapter leaders need to put new knowledge into action; how to introduce change; and how to help chapter leaders continue the learning experience. She explains why this exercise is so important and how to do one yourself.

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Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Virtual conference pricing. DelCor’s IT Maturity Model is the perfect framework for evaluating your readiness to address these challenges and keep IT aligned to changing business requirements. Virtual conference FOMO. to 4 p.m. –

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Association Freak

MAY 21, 2022

Today, membership organizations’ headwinds come in many forms: increasing consumer demands to get anything they want “on-demand,”; huge shifts in the data economy and everything it touches, and pressure from every angle on the affinity marketing model. These headwinds have been building for some time. Table of Contents.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 22, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. His 21 tips to improve your corporate partnership program (with links to additional resources) is the place to start (and return to) if your sponsorship program needs tweaking or overhauling. Virtual networking incubator. Associations in 2021.

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Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Virtual sponsors/exhibitors. In conversations about virtual conferences, one question always arises: how to provide value to virtual sponsors and exhibitors. Good eats—skip down to the list of free webinars if you prefer take-out. More info/register.

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Association Adviser

JANUARY 18, 2019

So DirectJobs shifted its business model to the selling of job board software full time, and started batting around ideas for a new company name that would better encapsulate its focus on the tech behind posting and seeking jobs online. Top boxwoods require years of nurturing and care before they mature into healthy, established shrubs.

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.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

Resist the temptation to model the competition. Don’t try to accomplish 50 different initiatives that can create a land grab for resources. This attitude is vital to growth and keeps mature associations from stalling. But, our community doesn’t get the credit it deserves for invention. Are you ahead of or behind the curve?

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Higher Logic

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Adaptive Path and Nielsen Norman Group have great resources available to help you undertake customer journey mapping at your organization. Adaptive Path’s resources were especially helpful to us at Code42. Review existing data and resources. We relied heavily on Rail Europe’s customer journey mapping process and map as a model.

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Leading Learning

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

One of the challenges with virtual conferences – particularly with there now starting to be many, many more of them as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic – is that it is pretty easy for them to feel like bunch of Webinars strung together. In the virtual world, that force can be much harder to conjure. Defining Conference Curation.

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Reid All About it

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… If you use Creative Commons photos from Flickr for your blog, keep an eye on this developing story from Ernie Smith at Associations Now. The 4 Stages of Event Program Maturity: View Your Organization through the Lens of the Event Evolution Model.

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Associations Now

JUNE 7, 2019

The human resources department has found a surprising amount of cost savings from taking their software tools to the cloud. The report, among other things, highlights a maturity model for HR tech that shows four steps for organizations to follow as they integrate their processes with the more modern software approach.

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Reid All About it

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… The state of associations. Due to the pandemic and uncertain economy, associations are constantly creating new resources for members and making changes to business as usual—yes, they’re innovating! Frugal innovation. AMS considerations.

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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

I set the timer to 20 minutes. When it goes off, I read to the next natural stopping place. Next, I meditate for 20 minutes. After that I journal about anything on my mind, three things I’m thankful for, and three things I want to accomplish today. Then I get to work with my mind in the right place. Maybe that will change when I’m a stronger runner.

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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

I set the timer to 20 minutes. When it goes off, I read to the next natural stopping place. Next, I meditate for 20 minutes. After that I journal about anything on my mind, three things I’m thankful for, and three things I want to accomplish today. Then I get to work with my mind in the right place. Maybe that will change when I’m a stronger runner.

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Charlotte DC Washington Newsletter 150

Reid All About it

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. Host: ASAE Tue 7/11 at 12 p.m. CAE credit. .

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