Reflections on Membership in 2011
Wild Apricot
JANUARY 2, 2012
Here's a look back at some of the hot topics that resonated with our association and membership audience in 2011 - and a reminder about our Top 3 Membership Trends Survey.
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Wild Apricot
JANUARY 2, 2012
Here's a look back at some of the hot topics that resonated with our association and membership audience in 2011 - and a reminder about our Top 3 Membership Trends Survey.
Wild Apricot
JANUARY 17, 2011
Is your organization one of the 49% of nonprofits who said they have no formal marketing or communications plan for 2011? If you are still developing your plan or are curious to see what other nonprofits are planning this year, you should have a look at the 2011 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report.
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Wild Apricot
DECEMBER 22, 2010
A number of regular webinar hosts are still finalizing their schedules for January 2011, but nonprofit folks will find a great variety of professional development and training opportunities – free and online – already lined up for January 2011. Emergency Preparedness for Public Libraries Wednesday , 5 January 2011 10:00 am (Central).(
Wild Apricot
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
Here are the top 10 posts on Association Jam in September, 2011. The posts that received the highest votes were in the Membership, Leadership and Social Media categories. read more ).
Wild Apricot
JUNE 29, 2011
Here’s a look at the highest rated posts on AssociationJam - a forum for association and non-profit staff and volunteers - for the month of June 2011.( read more ).
Reid All About it
MAY 26, 2011
Several nuggets of survey wisdom have recently floated through the online association community on ASAE’s Executive Management listserv and in tweets from the California SAE, Digital Now 2011 and ASAE Marketing, Membership & Communications conferences. Associations want accurate understanding and actionable data about their members.
Wild Apricot
FEBRUARY 24, 2011
Here's a look at some of the most popular links submitted to Association Jam in February, 2011 by category: ( read more ). In February, blog posts and articles on Social Media, Membership, Volunteers, Leadership and non-profit communications (listed under "Other") were the top rated links on AssociationJam.org.
Wild Apricot
JUNE 2, 2011
Here’s a look at the most popular links on AssociationJam.org for the month of May, 2011. This month, the top-rated blog posts and articles were in the membership, social media, volunteers, and events categories.( read more ).
Wild Apricot
JULY 25, 2011
Here’s a look at the most popular links in each “AJam” category for the month of July 2011.( In July the top-rated posts on Association Jam were about time management, technology for tracking influencers and blog measurement. Posts in the membership, fundraising and leadership categories also ranked high. read more ).
Reid All About it
FEBRUARY 8, 2011
Read more when it’s published on Wednesday, February 9, 2011. Jared Cohen, Director of Google Ideas and an Adjunct Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, sent that tweet last week. Graphic by Mike Licht.
Wild Apricot
JANUARY 28, 2011
Here's a look at some of the most popular links submitted to Association Jam in January, 2011 by category: Membership: Three Reasons Why Representation of Member Needs is the Biggest Challenge for Associations.( There were also some highly rated marketing-communications articles posted in the "Other" category. read more ).
Jamie Notter
DECEMBER 30, 2011
2011 Year End. Posted December 30, 2011. 2011 was a crazy year. 2011 also marks the end, for the most part, as my role as Executive Director of association clients at MSP. Here’s 2011 by the numbers: Miles running: 216 (up 43. December 31, 2011 at 8:43 am. December 31, 2011 at 9:26 am.
Wild Apricot
MARCH 25, 2011
Here’s a look at the most popular links on Association Jam in March 2011 - where blogs or articles on events, leadership, volunteers and social media received the highest number of votes from the visitors to AJam this month.( read more ).
Aaron Wolowiec
JANUARY 7, 2022
In December 2011, with the goal of planning large association conferences for multiple concurrent clients, I launched Event Garde. In honor of these 10 years, we looked under the hood at just a few of the numbers to help illuminate just how far we’ve come and the mark we’ve left on the association industry (so far).
Wild Apricot
DECEMBER 30, 2011
Here is a round-up of the top-rated posts on the Wild Apricot blog during 2011.
Reid All About it
AUGUST 4, 2011
While the association community flies this weekend to St. Louis for the annual ASAE conference, I’ll be driving a few hours to spend a week with lots of family and friends at beautiful Ocean Isle Beach here in North Carolina.
Association Subculture
AUGUST 11, 2011
Thursday, August 11, 2011. Association Subculture Reflects on ASAE 2011 in St. August 11, 2011 2:07 PM. August 11, 2011 2:11 PM. August 12, 2011 7:43 AM. August 12, 2011 9:17 AM. ▼ 2011. (27). Association Subculture Reflects on ASAE 2011 in St. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Newer Post.
Reid All About it
JUNE 23, 2011
I know that you’re all on the edge of your seats waiting for the next installment of the Writing for the Web series, but first I want to catch you up on some of my blog posts elsewhere.
Reid All About it
APRIL 26, 2011
I’m spreading myself around, but not too thin, oh no, plenty of bandwidth here. My recent posts on other blogs — Avectra, Socialfish and SmartBlog Insights – include: Member Communication: Have It Their Way. Member communication is getting crazy. Just when you thought email was the way to go, now we hear young people don’t use it.
Reid All About it
MARCH 31, 2011
I’ve been cheating on my blog again. Here are some of my posts on other blogs — Avectra and Socialfish. Yes, You Can Be Private in Public. Do you have a hard time convincing your members to get active online?
Reid All About it
APRIL 20, 2011
What do I do when I’m not writing? Every now and then I share what I know with others. Recently I did a few presentations that I thought I’d share with you too. Of course it’s not like the real deal when you get to experience my witty banter and stories. Consider this the Cliff Notes version.
Reid All About it
MAY 5, 2011
Next week I plan to go offline for an at-home retreat. I envision lots of reading, thinking, planning and creativity exercises. That means I’m finally digging into Patti Digh’s Creative is a Verb and some writing books that have been wooing me. I’m starting the week with a massage on Monday. Isn’t that how all retreats start?
Wild Apricot
DECEMBER 21, 2011
A quick note to say Happy Holidays! Our Version 4.3 has been released, Version 4.4 is on its way, and if you're looking for Wild Apricot support over the next few weeks -- don't worry, we'll still be around to answer the phones and help you out!
Reid All About it
MARCH 16, 2011
A moment of unexpected bliss came to me this week while watching the trailer for the documentary, Desert of Forbidden Art. If only this film were coming to the NC Museum of Art (hint hint). In the 1950′s and ’60′s, Igor Savitsky traveled throughout the Soviet Union to collect (and save) 40,000 works of avant-garde art.
Wild Apricot
NOVEMBER 30, 2011
Our product design team has already moved on from Version 4.3, our developers have stopped all the work on new features and changes quite a while ago and are only fixing bugs. Thus, our QA team has the lead on Version 4.3. Our current estimate for.
Reid All About it
MARCH 10, 2011
Here are some interesting stories about art that I’ve come across recently– an endlessly fascinating topic for me. When does a work of art stop being itself? When does it stop being by the artist who originally created it? These are questions I would expect to ponder in a conceptual art exhibition, not while reading the news.
Wild Apricot
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
This month, our Software News post provides an in-depth look at the final stages of the upcoming Version 4.3, and a closer look into the major changes to our CMS for Version 5.0. Check out screenshots of our upcoming changes to e-mail templates and https security, and a peek at some of the new developments our support team is working on.
Wild Apricot
AUGUST 25, 2011
Initial screenshots from 2012's Version 5.0 are ready to be shared! Significant changes to our CMS are coming, and we're ready to show off some of our progress.( read more ).
Wild Apricot
AUGUST 25, 2011
Initial screenshots from 2012's Version 5.0 are ready to be shared! Significant changes to our CMS are coming, and we're ready to show off some of our progress. read more ).
Association Adviser
NOVEMBER 10, 2011
December 2011 -- Features Association Adviser readers are hungry for answers about technology, member communication, non-dues revenue and peer benchmarking. We present a list of our most popular articles from the past year. By Association Adviser staff.
Wild Apricot
JUNE 30, 2011
This month, our Chief Apricot goes behind the scenes to share information about our support team, and how we track our support metrics. He also provides more information about our future releases, including screenshots of our proposed event redesign! read more ).
Wild Apricot
MAY 31, 2011
Version 4.2 was published on May 19th as announced earlier. This upgrade went smoothly, though we did hit a last minute snag as we had to install the latest service patch for Microsoft SQL Server and the system did not properly restart after that - delaying the upgrade by about 90 minutes.
Wild Apricot
APRIL 28, 2011
Version 4.2 is well on its way to being released around mid-May. This month, the Chief lets us in on the last behind-the-scenes updates before it goes live, shares screenshots of Version 4.3, and fills us in on some other Wild Apricot news! read more )
Wild Apricot
OCTOBER 26, 2011
Meet our Product Design Team, get updates on the upcoming Version 4.3 release, and hear all about our progress on next year's future product updates.
Wild Apricot
MARCH 31, 2011
Calling all web designers! We need your help with Version 4.2! Also this month, reflections about e-mail communication, more updates on May's upcoming Version 4.2 release, and a sneak peak into Version 4.3.( read more )
Association Adviser
DECEMBER 13, 2011
December 2011 -- Features Research shows membership holding steady in a year of mobile, social and non-dues revenue evolution. Now is an excellent time for associations to get a leg up on their for-profit competitors. By Hank Berkowitz.
Wild Apricot
NOVEMBER 28, 2011
Here is the round-up of free non-profit webinars being offered in December. Along with our Wild Apricot product overview and Membership Database webinars, we've found 22+ on topics ranging from non-profit sustainability to Facebook enhancements.
Wild Apricot
JANUARY 31, 2011
The New Year started on a pretty good note for us at Wild Apricot - we released version 4.1 on January 12th. This Software News post offers an overview of the key new enhancements in version 4.1 as well as an update on our next upgrade - 4.2 - scheduled for May.( read more ).
Wild Apricot
NOVEMBER 22, 2010
A recent survey on Technology Trends for Nonprofits suggests that, compared to email and social media engagement strategies, nonprofits have a long way to go to tap into the fast-growing mobile audience.( read more ).
Wild Apricot
AUGUST 19, 2011
There are over 23 free non-profit webinars in our round-up for September. You'll find webinars on cause marketing, fundraising, volunteer management, social media, constituent engagement and much more.( read more ).
Wild Apricot
JUNE 17, 2011
Here are 20 free webinars for non-profits and membership organizations in July. This month we've found webinars on topics such as: online event marketing for nonprofits; ramping up Facebook results; your board and fundraising; and measuring social media return on engagement. So check out this round-up of July webinars.( read more ).
Association Adviser
JANUARY 12, 2011
January 2011 -- Question of the Month Tell us and your peers what the standards for association communication excellence will be in 2011.
Wild Apricot
MAY 27, 2011
Here is our round-up of free non-profit webinars for June. Along with the Wild Apricot product webinars, this month's topics include: Online Networks and Offline Community Building; Promoting Nonprofit Events With Social Media; Using Google Analytics to Improve Your Website; Ten Best Practices for Year-end Fundraising and much more.( read more ).
Mizz Information
JULY 26, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011. Blogcation 2011. I think Im up to about 30 movies so far in 2011. December 2011 (4). November 2011 (8). October 2011 (2). September 2011 (8). August 2011 (7). July 2011 (6). June 2011 (7). May 2011 (4). April 2011 (4). March 2011 (10).
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