Associations Now

MARCH 13, 2023

This year, she took a new approach to strategic planning for the volunteer groups she manages. Just as they help track a company’s strategic, financial, and operational achievements, KPIs can be a useful tool for associations to measure the performance of volunteer groups.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Event management: Plan, communicate and take registrations for your events. Let’s break things down into the two parts of putting on an event — planning it and running it. Room and floor plan organization: An event management system can help you organize room assignments, layouts and technical needs in one place.

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Mariner Management

JUNE 30, 2021

In order to be successful, you’ll need strong, consistent support from your national headquarters leadership, actively providing direction and the resources for that change to happen; and from your chapter leaders, who need a clear understanding what the plan is, what the goals are, and the role that the chapters will play.

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Eric Lanke

JANUARY 30, 2012

At a recent WSAE meeting I was asked to explain what we meant in our white paper on Innovation for Associations when we referred to the "mind of community." Had I had a copy of the white paper with me, I could have quoted from it directly. The added emphasis is mine, not the white papers. image source.

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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. It’s about planning for the future, beyond your current position. What about when things don’t go as planned? Digital transformation. Changing minds.

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Freestone

DECEMBER 12, 2023

According to the latest Community Brands Association Trends research, 71% of association professionals listed non-dues revenue as a top strategic priority in the coming year. Leveraging your learning management system (LMS) to generate non-dues revenue is the perfect way to prioritize your goals throughout the year. You’re not alone!

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 26, 2018

Whenever association consultant Elizabeth Engel releases a white paper, I pay attention. No matter the topic, her papers are always interesting and informative. Developing and Implementing an Effective Strategic Plan (Reston/Loudon County VA Idea Swap). Eating hot chili peppers makes you live longer, says science.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 4, 2015

An updated International Association of Exhibitions and Events white paper includes new tradeshow trends affecting the industry. The updated white paper looked at data in a number of ways. Do you agree with the trends identified in the white paper? The first was big data. What others would you add?

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GlowGlobally

JUNE 27, 2014

associations’ global strategic approach and operating environment. A white paper, the first report in the study series, is available from ASAE Foundation website and presents a detailed conversation about what growing U.S. Market & Bus Planning MegaTrends & Research' To view the podcast, click on the image.

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.orgCommunity

APRIL 18, 2019

the corner office of the Association for Ad Hoc Planning – Afternoon. As I recall, our strategic plan includes a section of membership goals. Everyone’s working on their own key performance indicators, it’s hard to get them to focus on the plan. But, whether the plan: Disappeared in the cloud. Executive Director.

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Associations Now

JUNE 30, 2014

A new white paper from Tagoras reveals how associations are incorporating social technologies into their learning products. Cobb said he hopes organizations continue to become more strategic in how they capitalize on social technologies to increase both the impact of learning and the value associations deliver. With over four-?fths

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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. 1 CAE credit. More info/register.

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Associations Now

JULY 18, 2016

Building a strategic board benefits any organization, but navigating the process is tricky. According to one expert, the goal of building a strategic board is achievable. In it, he emphasizes that strategic boards often have better results because “to act strategically has consistently resulted in superior decisions.

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Potomac Core

OCTOBER 13, 2015

The SAP and Oxford Economics White Paper encourages employers to consider the following: Prepare for increasing diversity, changing employee demographics, and evolving definitions of work. Free eBook “Accelerating Strategic Member Engagement” is available upon request for all Association Executives at www.potomaccore.com.

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Associations Now

JULY 24, 2017

Last month Vetted Solutions released a white paper, Diversity and Inclusion: Core Values Among Associations [PDF], that exposes similar challenges in the association community. Middle managers need to be trained and taught the history of the various subcultures of the people they manage and potentially hire,” he says.

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Delcor

JUNE 21, 2019

Now, associations and nonprofits are on board with that approach because they want their IT staff to spend less time managing servers and more time helping colleagues achieve strategic and business goals. Develop a plan to manage organizational files. To make this job easier, clean up your on-premise file server before migrating.

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Off Stage

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

For an information junkie like me, White Papers are the greatest thing since encyclopedias. One of the companies whose white papers I’ve appreciated (and cited in previous articles) is the Wav Group, which offers white papers on real estate technology trends. suggests this white paper from WAV.

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.orgCommunity

APRIL 18, 2019

The corner office of the Association for Ad Hoc Planning – Afternoon. As I recall, our strategic plan includes a section of membership goals. Everyone’s working on their own key performance indicators, it’s hard to get them to focus on the plan. But, whether the plan: Disappeared in the cloud. Executive Director.

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Aaron Wolowiec

APRIL 9, 2012

Coupled with cutting-edge educational opportunities, case studies and white papers, these individuals are thought leaders in their field and light years ahead of their time. So, my question to you is this: Do education research and strategic conversations about learning inform your annual meetings calendar?

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Beth Kanter

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The technology helps donors make investments that yield the highest impact or strategic system change. Before the pandemic, Rhodri Davies, head of policy at Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), authored the 2019 white paper, “ Machine Made Goods: Charities, Philanthropy, and Artificial Intelligence ,” describing the opportunities. “If

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SCD Group

AUGUST 6, 2012

Here are 5 articles that association executives will find valuable: The Insanity of Strategic Planning By Jamie Notter in Get Me Jamie Notter Blog In a keynote session last week about Humanize, I once again challenged the effectiveness of strategic planning. Content/conversation plan (how you’re telling your story).

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Associations Now

MAY 17, 2017

After the conference I spoke to Engel, who co-authored a white paper with Marts [PDF]. The paper makes the case that membership teams are in a unique position to help build more diverse and inclusive organizations. That seems pretty straightforward, but what does it look like in practice?

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Association Adviser

MARCH 31, 2017

Planning a large, industry-leading event can be quite the undertaking, and nearly every association knows that the months leading up to an annual conference can be a bit daunting. After that, you have to seek out strategic ways to not only promote your event but highlight all the content already embedded in your show.

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Idea Architects

MARCH 4, 2013

If my plans for the next several years aren’t of interest to you, feel free to stop reading now. Facilitating deep dives into a single strategic issue or question using design thinking principles to help organizations refresh or reinvent their competitive advantage. and now what? questions).

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Associations Now

JUNE 30, 2014

Associations looking to bolster their strategic planning can take heart. Meredith Low Consulting has a new white paper on that very topic. You can download the full paper here. Or is the search-engine giant too late to make an impact when countless competitors have already stepped into the ring?

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Associations Now

MAY 2, 2016

An association research expert says we’re spending too much time conducting surveys on member needs and not enough on strategic goals. But they do little help associations think about more forward-thinking strategic concerns. If only doing that were simple. Right away, a host of questions crop up.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 25, 2015

For example, we can no longer afford to plan education and content a year in advance of the conference. Usually, in conference planning, we put logistics in the center of the development process. Hat Tips: IDEO’s Empathy On Edge white paper. That’s not responsive to our attendees’ needs.

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Reid All About it

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Virtual event planning template. Speakers: Brad Weaber, Principal, Brad Weaber Consulting Group, LLC and Strategic Advisor to Community Leaders Institute. Why Associations Should Stop Planning Events and Start Designing Experiences. Create Your 2023 Personal Strategic Plan. 1 CAE credit. More info/register.

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Association Success

MAY 8, 2018

We set our Strategic Plan to deliver 50% of our membership benefits physically and 50% digitally through our website. Something drastic needed to be done. It became clear that the only way to address the problem cost effectively was to approach it digitally – to solve it on-line. That is where we began.

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Jamie Notter

JULY 30, 2013

Note: passing out copies of the strategic plan does not allow you to check this box.). I put out a white paper on performance management earlier this year that can help you start your thinking about it. We’re all at the strategic/leadership/culture table together. Run some experiments. Do it differently.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 14, 2014

It is more than distributing a report or white paper or hosting a lecture. If you are the one assigned to plan and prepare education programming for your audience, your job is to move from being a scheduler of experts and presenters to curating the content and learning experience.

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Association Adviser

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Providing more opportunities for members to become involved in an association’s activities, education programs, board, or staff is part of the larger topic of change that everyone has been talking about this year – changing strategic plans, changing membership models, changing pricing menus, and changing technology use.

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Slice-Works

MAY 8, 2014

Sometimes I have trouble falling asleep at night, planning my gardening activities for the weekend. Planning: What Does Success Look Like? Would you normally go on vacation without planning for food, gas and accommodations? If you haven’t done a strategic plan in awhile, that’s your first step.

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Off Stage

JUNE 25, 2009

Articles are short, and bigger issues are addressed in helpful ‘white papers’ (which, by the way, are an effective communication tool for your members—if you don’t know about them, go to Wikipedia or click here ). A word of warning, here, though—work hard to keep white papers interesting and informative.

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Membership Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

This information typically comes in the form of a free email newsletter or a white paper on an important topic of interest to visitors. Joel Book, Advanced e-mail tactics can shed light on new customers, DM News , Strategic Content, October, 2010, page 10. Marketing Planning. (28). White Paper. (4).

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Membership Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Labels: Marketing Planning , Membership marketing strategy. We often see trade associations, non-profits, and for-profits starting a strategic planning process and they can't simply focus on one or two things. I tell people strategic planning is really hard because you have to prioritize. Marketing Planning.

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The Hourglass Blog

JANUARY 31, 2011

Through these posts Hourglass readers got a sneak peek at the Innovation for Associations white paper we authored ( here , here and here ) and the assessment tool we developed for association executives to use in determining the innovation readiness of their associations ( here , here and here ).

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