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My Top 5 Blog Posts of 2017

Eric Lanke

As we end another year, here's a look back at the five posts on this blog that received the most page views in 2017. The Chairman's Gift Originally posted in July 2012, this one has now been on five of six possible year-end lists. As the authors continually remind the reader, people play differently when they are keeping score.

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Help Your Members Find the Signal in the Noise

Spark Consulting

Steal Like a Fundraiser: Innovations in Cause-Oriented Fundraising for Associations (PDF), co-authored with Sohini Baliga, December 2017. Include Is a Verb: Moving from Talk to Action on Diversity and Inclusion (PDF), co-authored with Sherry Marts, PhD, S*Marts Consulting, May 2017.

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Analysis: Lobbying Spend Increases in 2017, but Lobbyist Numbers Drop

Associations Now

A new analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics and The Hill found that lobbying spending was at a five-year high for the first half of 2017. With a new presidential administration in place in Washington, DC, overall lobbying spending saw a big jump during the first six months of 2017—but the players were a bit different.

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Study: After Shaky 2012, Business Travel Spending on the Rise Globally

Associations Now

percent increase from 2012, according to the Global Business Travel Association’s “Business Travel Index (BTI) Outlook—Annual Report and Forecast.” percent in 2017. This is welcome news in an industry that experienced a tumultuous 2012 due to economic and political uncertainty throughout the world.

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Report: Nonprofit Sector Employment Shows Resilience to Economic Trends

Associations Now

That’s a key point underlined in a recent report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies, which covers both the recession period between 2007 and 2012, and the recovery period between 2012 and 2016, leaning most significantly on the latter. The 2019 Nonprofit Employment Report, based on data from the U.S. percent). “In

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My Top 5 Blog Posts of 2016

Eric Lanke

Stop Calling It Strategic Planning This has been on every year-end list since it was originally posted in January 2012, and keeps getting a ton of traffic, including as the page through which the highest number of people enter my site. As the authors continually remind the reader, people play differently when they are keeping score.

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Why We Love Associations: 10 Top Stories From the Associations Now Archives

Associations Now

Associations Now didn’t have a digital news presence until 2012, but we’ve covered enough of the 2010s that we have a lot of association stories to look back at in our archives. A scene from Freed’s 2012 out-of-office message, titled “Andy Freed is Out of the Office: The Trailer.” How much is a lot? iStock/Thinkstock).

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