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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Join or Die. I’d love to see that phrase in membership marketing copy. But, seriously, has anyone seen the movie Join or Die yet? I’m hoping to somehow. Featuring Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone , it looks like a PSA for association membership.

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OCTOBER 29, 2021

Sponsor survey. To help associations increase sponsorship revenue, the Partnership Professionals Network and Dynamic Benchmarking are conducting a survey of association sponsors to find out: Why companies sponsor associations. What companies want to sponsor. What sponsor benefits are of greatest value to companies.

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JUNE 25, 2021

Tracy King has come to the rescue with an excellent idea: host the trade show/expo on your learning management system (LMS) —a long-lasting and sustainable solution for exhibitors, prospective customers and your association. Exhibitors. Chapter benchmarking data. Online learning. Virtual expo. This is so me.

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LMS Revenue Tips America 361

Higher Logic

MARCH 19, 2020

Kaila Timmons, Community Manager, Strategic Services. Shannon Emery, Community Manager. As COVID-19 forces events from in-person to virtual , the first and most essential thing is a mindset shift: Going digital was not your plan, but it’s your chance to make the most of a bad situation. Let’s refocus together. Turn on the cameras.

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MAY 21, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Niche conferences. The riches are in the niches, says WBT Systems. They make an argument for adding smaller, niche virtual conferences to your event lineup. Intellectual humility and curiosity. Intellectual humility and curiosity. Yes, please!

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Accepting reality. If you know an association professional or board member who needs a wake-up call, this MemberSuite post should do the trick. They urge associations to stop living in limbo and start planning virtual events for 2021. CEO skill set. Quick hits.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

Elisa Brewer Pratt, CAE, of Brewer Pratt Solutions invites you to participate in a Chapter Staff & Chapter Board Training Needs survey until Friday, December 25. Virtual exhibitor/sponsor data. The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Chapter training needs survey.

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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. Hybrid conferences. Bias in conferences. Chris Bonney, Gulo ).

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

They explain why and how to get buy-in from staff and executives, how to manage an implementation when you barely have time for your real job, and why you should focus on business outcomes, not processes. The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Must-read newsletters. Credentialing support.

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Membersuite

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

If you align member and market needs with your mission, you’ll discover plenty of overlap where you can offer revenue-generating solutions. Sponsors fund scholarships for those who can’t afford the tuition. Instead, many of them had to lay off staff and suspend programs. Nonprofits rely on profits to fulfill their mission.

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MARCH 8, 2024

Their solutions will help some people, but can’t association chapters play a role too? The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… 2024 association trends. Fíonta shares what they’ve been hearing and seeing lately in the association community and what they suspect is on the horizon. Loneliness.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

Virtual exhibitors. Exhibitors really don’t like virtual trade shows , say Sue Hatch at MeetingsNet. Read the article (and report) to get the exhibitor perspective. The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Session recordings. Chapter bright spots. All is not gloom and doom.

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Revenue Learning Management System Certificate LMS 341

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JANUARY 5, 2024

The State Bar of Texas partnered with Lead Marvels to provide an online resource library for members that generated $160,000 in revenue for the association this past year—plus lots of leads for their sponsors. The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Reflection time. Predictions for 2024.

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MARCH 1, 2024

When associations canceled their conferences during the pandemic, sponsors and exhibitors found other ways to achieve their marketing goals. The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Education programs. TopClass LMS shares another recap of a session from the Learning Business Summit.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Wes Trochlil at Effective Database Management describes the benefit of belonging to an AMS users group : you can “tap tens if not hundreds of other organizations that are using the same or similar software.” The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Event recordings. Gen Z education.

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MAY 22, 2020

Virtual conference complaints—and solutions. Virtual event sponsors/exhibitors. Billhighway explains how virtual events can help sponsors and exhibitors achieve their marketing goals —while helping chapters achieve their revenue goals. Already you can hear some constructive criticism if you listen for it.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

Exhibitors were psyched about the numbers, so provide free education for members—or a decent selection of education, for example, keynotes, game changers and basic-level sessions. The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… #ASAE20. Originally, the registration was about $600.

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APRIL 28, 2023

Learn how an online community can help you attract, engage and retain members, and read their useful plan for launching and managing a community. The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Credentialing programs. Membership marketing has come a long way since I first started in associations.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 15, 2019

People often attend your conference because they’re looking for solutions to their problems. If your exhibit hall is attracting sponsors and bringing in revenue, it could be scary to even think about changing things up. They wanted solutions to their problems, plain and simple,” Currie said. “So

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Revenue Conference Education Survey 88

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Membership benchmarks. iMIS invites you to participate in their 9th Annual Membership Benchmark Survey. Career website. The competition for talent is as tough as ever. TopClass LMS highlights distinctive site features from several excellent examples.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Virtual networking incubator. Together, with your cohort, you will solve the virtual event networking problem while participating firsthand in a variety of virtual networking experiences. Applications are open until January 29. Rockefeller habits. Sponsorships.

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WBT Systems

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

With less than a week to NiUG Discovery 2016 , we are excited to be sponsoring this great, interactive, learning and networking event for the iMIS Community! NiUG conferences offer expert instructors who have real-life experience, networking, and exhibitors that feature the newest technologies. Tuesday 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 15, 2021

Our roundtable of leading association event pros continues to discuss their challenges in applying solutions to these risk factors (financial, member affiliation and health and safety). Managing Up. In part one of this post, I covered some of the significant risks our clients are facing as they bring back face-to-face events.

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MAY 15, 2020

Chapters can continue to generate non-dues revenue by partnering with their sponsors in new ways. Billhighway explains how to help chapters leverage their event and content assets to deliver desperately needed revenue to their bottom line and value to sponsors. Virtual event sponsors and exhibitors. Chapter sponsorships.

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JUNE 26, 2020

Barbara Palmer at PCMA Convene lists eight ways conference organizers, sponsors, speakers and attendees can make conferences more racially diverse. Commsor, a community management software firm, held a two-day virtual conference in late May. There’s much work to be done and I hope that at last we’re all ready to do it. Implicit bias.

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AUGUST 28, 2020

With the information collected in this research, we hope that we can pinpoint the areas of improvement with manageable takeaways for event professionals across the industry.” Sponsors and exhibitors. The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Racial diversity in events.

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Montana North Carolina Content Certificate 359

Association Success

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

It’s also changed how they get them sponsored. “We still get a lot of our sponsorships through our prospectus,” said Tina Wilson, the program manager for the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity. They ended up with multiple sponsors, including 3M Health Information Systems. . The benefit?

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

The survey explores how association executives are managing member engagement and retention, achieving operational goals, crafting digital transformation strategies and coping with the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. High-performing committees.

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Revenue Committee Strategy Technology 195

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

At Managing Editor , they provide advice for creating culturally inclusive marketing because… “Empty words won’t fix racial injustice, and as content producers, we need to refuse to be accomplices who write pretty but meaningless words in times of crisis to help companies gloss over their realities of racial disparities at their companies.”.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

They explain how to deliver value to virtual event sponsors—value that will generate more revenue for your association. Ten ways to provide value to your virtual event sponsors and exhibitors. The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Diversity benchmarking. Career pathways.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Corporate member training programs. WBT Systems explains how to become the corporate training partner for your member companies. The HR and training staff at your member companies are under duress right now. The remote work IT bag. Virtual event production.

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Revenue Review Content Strategy 300

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MARCH 4, 2022

Results Direct describes how WordPress makes it easy for associations to manage reader- and SEO-friendly websites. The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. If you’d like updates from Ukraine plus expert commentary, I created a Twitter list of Ukraine journalists, academics and others.

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MemberClicks

JANUARY 26, 2023

Mobile event apps are personalized apps for your event that put everything your attendees and exhibitors need at their fingertips. When you’re planning a major event like a conference or annual meeting, you want to do everything to make sure that it runs smoothly and is successful. Usually a lot of somethings. What are mobile event apps?

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Forj

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Web Courseworks, a leader in innovative learning management systems and virtual event technology, won a coveted Brandon Hall Group silver award for excellence in the Best Advance in Technology for Virtual-Classroom or Conferencing Technology category. Technology is the great enabler of human capital management initiatives.

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APRIL 16, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Member behavior. WBT Systems was inspired this week by the latest news about muons—subatomic particles influenced by unknown forces so they don’t obey the standard laws of physics. Education programs. Aspiring Black women executives. Digital accessibility.

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Protech

JUNE 13, 2023

The world of association management (and all of the technology designed to support it) is vast. alone, and each one likely has a different way to manage its membership base. How do associations use CRM and association management software? There are over 66,000 trade and professional associations in the U.S.

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Velvet Chainsaw

OCTOBER 1, 2020

While there are many excellent solutions out there, none are “perfect” and many are adding features and improvements on a regular basis. Since most solutions were created post-pandemic, conducting due diligence on how secure the platform is paramount. And it’s a murky and often frustrating experience. Platform Research & Decisions.

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