Associations Now

AUGUST 1, 2013

Heading to the 2013 ASAE Annual Meeting & Expo? Today we break from your regular Lunchtime Links programming to bring you a special set of reading material from a crew of content leaders at the 2013 ASAE Annual Meeting & Expo. Read: “ The Business Case for Quiet ,” by Kristin Clarke, Associations Now , July 2013.

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Associations Now

APRIL 2, 2013

Ready for ASAE 2013 yet? The Atlanta Convention Center knows how to tease its conference attendees—especially when the conference they’re teasing is this year’s 2013 ASAE Annual Meeting and Exposition. “They remain stuck on the status course which is a fast track to irrelevance.”

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Beth Kanter

APRIL 2, 2013

The 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference takes place in Minneapolis next week. April 13, 2013 – 8:30-10:00. Plenary: Placing Little Bets: Failing Informatively for NPTECH Innovation: Beth Kanter, Erin Shy, Megan Kashner, Brian Reich, Allison Burns. April 12, 2013 – 1:30-3:00 PM. April 13, 2013 10:30-Noon.

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Associations Now

JUNE 28, 2016

This is not easy: As new features get added, the company has to figure out how to keep all those things simple without removing the flow that people love. The problem, of course, is that an iterative strategy can hold you back from more bleeding-edge design approaches, such as those shown on the anonymously curated design platform SiteSee.

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Associations Now

JUNE 25, 2014

Measuring the effectiveness of a membership-model change requires an apples-to-apples comparison on a metric whose definition doesn’t change in the course of a restructure. and Jeff De Cagna, FASAE, chief strategist and founder of Principled Innovation. Of course, don’t throw out your membership number completely.

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 2, 2015

Adjunct Professor and Guest Teacher: This past year I enjoyed my first experience teaching a graduate course at Middlebury College/Monterrey Institute for International Education. I’m particularly obsessed with how to design for the modern learning , so stay tuned for more on that. 2015 will be another year of learning for me.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 20, 2015

Earlier this month, the association and nonprofit software provider Abila—a company that, notably, acquired Avectra in 2013 —put out a set of recommendations on what it saw as the next steps for the association space in the year to come. Perhaps the most interesting one? But there are other directions this could go, too.

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 4, 2016

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. Adjunct Professor and Guest Teacher: This past year I enjoyed my second year of teaching a graduate course at Middlebury College/Monterrey Institute for International Education.

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Beth Kanter

DECEMBER 31, 2013

My favorite posts were interviews with authors from outside of the nonprofit sector, including Adam Grant , Give and Take and Eric Ries , Lean Start Up and coverage of the Social Innovation Summit: Future of Technology. Measuring the Networked Nonprofit Wins 2013 Terry McAdam Nonprofit Book Award.

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Principled Innovation

MARCH 25, 2013

This post originally appeared on the Associations Now Leadership Blog on March 7, 2013. Of course, this is extremely difficult to do, so in Part II later this month, I will explore how boards, CEOs, and C-suite executives can work together to overcome the association value gap.

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Association Adviser

MAY 14, 2013

Search engine marketing is the fastest growing area of internet advertising, and many associations have members who are struggling with how to use it to market their small businesses, according Underwood. “Education (how to do it) and cost concerns (how to control them and prove ROI) are the two biggest factors,” added Underwood.

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Association Adviser

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

.” Associations put a great deal of time and effort into their annual conferences, even though only a small portion of their membership actually attends, noted to Jeff DeCagna, founder of Principled Innovation. But, over the course of their jobs, “the fun meter starts to go down.” Why don’t they?

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Mizz Information

APRIL 8, 2013

One of the attendees asked the Senior VP of E-Media & Publishing from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), if the association had figured out how to monetize social media, or something to that effect. Surprisingly, the answer the SVP gave was "no, we''re using social media but we haven''t figured out how to monetize it yet".as

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 14, 2014

The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact. After completing the course, the students will be doing an internship as part of their field work, being placed in international organizations in the US and other places in the world. 2013: A Year in Social Media.

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Associations Now

JULY 30, 2014

A trade association eliminates dues for its smallest companies, an inclusive effort to boost innovation and safety more broadly across its industry. The math has to work, of course; revenue has to come from somewhere. ” Of course, NWFPA sells other products and services and hosts meetings that drive nondues revenue.

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