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Seen Elsewhere: Resources for Trend Scanning, Gaming, Productivity

Idea Architects

Seen Elsewhere: Resources for Trend Scanning, Gaming, Productivity. It is one thing to remain current with association issues as well as news from the industry or profession your association represents. Dec 2011 (6). Nov 2011 (5). Oct 2011 (9). Sep 2011 (7). Aug 2011 (13). Jul 2011 (10).

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Humanizing Business and Helping CFOs with Change

Jamie Notter

The first is a session that I’ll be doing at BlogWorld Expo in New York City , along with my coauthor Maddie Grant and Amy Ward, who is the Membership Director at the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN). Free Resources. December 2011 (7). November 2011 (6). October 2011 (9). September 2011 (9).

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Failure is good: it's about learning. Mistakes are bad execution

Jamie Notter

On Tuesday, Maddie and I presented at the Blogworld New York conference, along with Amy Sample Ward from NTEN. Free Resources. December 2011 (7). November 2011 (6). October 2011 (9). September 2011 (9). September 2011 (9). August 2011 (8). July 2011 (7). June 2011 (7).

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Benchmarking and its Application to Your Member-based Organization

YourMembership

Your member resources are invaluable as you can provide an individual member up-to-date information on an entire industry — information they can not come by on their own. ©1998–2011, YourMembership.com Inc. As an association, for instance, your industry data repository is impressive. Associations. Nonprofits + Foundations.

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Out of Bloom: Lessons from a Nonprofit’s Demise

Associations Now

But the organization, founded as the Shared Learning Collaborative in 2011 , ended up announcing its shutdown this week, after parents and educators raised privacy concerns. The saga provides a cautionary tale for nonprofits in new spaces. “The people are not going to have it and we are going to fight back.”

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Advocacy and Governance 2.0

Association Adviser

Selection of Top 10 Association Communication Challenges 2011-2015. Source: Association Adviser Communication Benchmarking Survey 2011-216. This can lead to a significant and unnecessary shrinkage of family assets and an enormous waste of time and resources at the most inopportune time. 7 Maintaining position as industry’s No.1

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The (Questionable) Value of Being the Authority

Jamie Notter

In the New York Times article about the move, there was some discussion, as you might expect, about the Britannica/Wikipedia conflict and the role of the Internet in general on this issue, and Gary Marchionini, dean of Library Sciences at UNC, made an interesting point: “There’s more comprehensive material available on the Web,” Mr. Diversity.

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