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6 Reasons Why an Enewsletter is a Must-Have for an Association’s Communication Plan

Association Briefings

Digital elitists have tried to “kill” email since 2009. It’s funny looking back at the , Wall Street Journal article that started it all, coining the phrase email is dead : “Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over.” Wait, what?!

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Higher Logic Acquires Vanilla

AssociationChat

“We have always been impressed with Vanilla’s commitment to innovation in engagement and their ability to serve key business use cases in the B2B and B2C space for customers like Oracle, TeamViewer, Acer, Charter Communications, and more,” says Higher Logic CEO, Kevin Boyce. Founded in 2009, Vanilla started as an open source project.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.1.20

Reid All About it

Pair his post with this one from Northstar Meetings Group: 17 ideas for incorporating revenue-generating opportunities into your online meetings, conferences and webcasts. Explore strategies for generating revenue through sponsorships, partnership and other sales opportunities through virtual events. 1 CMP credit. Wed 5/6 at 12 p.m.

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MTI's Story: Harnessing Community to Digitally Transform

Higher Logic

MTI adopted an online community in 2009. Wondering how your association can stay relevant, effectively connect with younger members, save staff time, increase revenue, and boost retention? Before MTI adopted an online community, it was short on staff, didn’t have an AMS, and its revenue was decreasing.

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Why you need to be intentional about culture

Association Success

No matter how you look at it, taking good care of your employees so that they can take good care of your customers is a brilliant business decision,” he writes in his 2009 book “Awesomely Simple.” . As Spence, who joins AssociationSuccess.org as a keynote speaker during SURGE Growth from Nov. 6-8, will tell you, “Culture equals cash.” . “No

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Disruptive Associations

Potomac Core

Be assured that the current slow growth environment or an economic downturn will inflict significant pain on your revenues and membership at some point. Organizational Association balance sheets took significant hits in 2008 and 2009, and there little reason to think otherwise in the current environment. Traditional .

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How to Drive Engagement with Data-Driven Email Campaigns

Association Briefings

Who knew that something so trivial would revolutionize the way we communicate. And it seems that since that simple email was sent, communication visionaries have predicted the death of the medium. Now, I would definitely agree that the email of 2009 is certainly dead. workers prefer email for communication purposes.

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