Associations Now

JULY 9, 2014

Another cautionary tale for association pros deeply involved with social media, regardless of whether the context is personal or professional. Plus: A police department takes to social like a duck to water. The possibilities of social media are endless, both for associations and for employees using these tools.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 21, 2014

More details in today’s Social Media Roundup: Coming of Age. Read our latest blog post: Managing the Member Journey [link] #membership #associations. — Silverbear (@SilverbearLtd) January 21, 2014. — Votenet Solutions (@votenet) January 21, 2014. The Secrets of Voter Turnout. link] #assnchat.

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Beth Kanter

MAY 28, 2014

Last week, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating the ultimate social media practitioner panel at the Social Media on Purpose Conference hosted by Stanford Social Innovation Review. James Nickerson , Social Media Strategist, San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus.

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Associations Now

MARCH 11, 2014

From thinking differently about workspace to expanding reach via pop culture, the 2014 Great Ideas Conference brought out plenty of concepts worth taking to your staff and board—even if you weren’t in Florida this week. — Jamie Notter (@jamienotter) March 10, 2014. — christytj (@christytj) March 10, 2014.

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Aaron Wolowiec

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Today, we blur the lines between public relations and marketing, especially thanks to digital and social media. The 2014 State of Digital Marketing in Associations benchmarking study was administered mid-October through mid-November, with membership associations holding the largest response rate. The same goes with blogs.

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WBT Systems

APRIL 25, 2017

Before the rise of social media and cloud computing, associations competed to attract new members — but only in a subtle “non-profit” sort of way. Recipients can display these badges on social media, websites, email signatures and online resumes. Here are a few strong examples: American Institute of CPAs.

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Optimist Consulting

JULY 9, 2014

I have blogged before about content marketing for membership bodies. 3) Opinion pieces – members can be invited to blog for your website or to blog on behalf of your organisation. I feel that membership bodies are in a lucky position in that they already have an engaged audience that can be ‘used’ to create content.

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ISAE

OCTOBER 12, 2023

For example, the color blue evokes trust and professionalism, red is typically associated with health and passion, and green often aligns with feelings of growth and prosperity. Social media icons. Encourage your members to share your event with their personal networks by including social media icons on your event page.

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Spark Consulting

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

According to the Association Lab survey, the association executives who responded believe that information management, including both volume and quality of information, is their members’ top concern in 2014. It always was, of course, but now everyone has blogs and social media.) Download your free copy.

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Beth Kanter

APRIL 23, 2014

As of March, 2014 Instagram has 200 million users. Nonprofit Examples and Getting Started or Rebooting A Strategic Approach. If your nonprofit wants to get started or set up a presence it is “meh,” the first step is to check out what other nonprofits in your space are doing on Instagram and other inspiring examples.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 7, 2014

Yahoo’s recently refreshed Yahoo Sports app is a good example of this in action. Deadspin , for example, has a guy who spends his days finding and creating them— complete with an epic multiscreen setup fit for a stockbroker—but they’re hard for the average person to find, let alone make. Get Your CEO a Social Presence.

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Beth Kanter

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. Participants were a mix of CEOs and senior staff. This blog post is a summary of my notes from the day. 3: Social Networking. Digital Trends.

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

If you’re searching for a new position and bouncing from job board to job board, you may be missing opportunities (think social media and creating your own blog) to help in the process. If you’re in the market for a new job, are you making use of social media and other online resources to help get a leg up?

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Association Adviser

JANUARY 21, 2014

Now that Twitter has joined the ranks of publicly traded social media companies, the pressure to generate consistent and growing revenue takes on more urgency. For example, in October, Twitter launched a feature that allows images and videos to show automatically in a user’s timeline. Twitter Images - January 2014.

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Associations Now

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Media is constantly changing—and that is definitely reflected in today’s new media space. At the 2014 Independent Sector Conference earlier this week in Seattle, media pros offered up a few ideas about how nonprofits can support new media initiatives to help get their message out.

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Leading Learning

MAY 24, 2022

What’s happened over the past 15 years, of course, is that social media has become a deeply ingrained part of everyday life for billions of people globally. As with video, it would be hard to underestimate the impact of social media. Facebook acquired Oculus in 2014. Impact on the Learning Business Landscape.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 22, 2014

Having a social media department isn’t enough—your membership team has to embrace social media too. A key one is this: “The web has changed our organizations more than simply ‘adding a social media arm,’” she writes. — MediaEdge (@AssocContent) August 21, 2014.

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Associations Now

APRIL 12, 2016

London & Partners has been working diligently to attract technology conferences to the city, launching London Technology Week in 2014, an annual event that takes place June 20-26 this year. Read my new @PARNglobal guest blog: 4 Reasons Why You Should Have a Social Media Content Calendar https://t.co/iY7VHsKw6S

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Association Adviser

DECEMBER 15, 2017

According to the 2014 Economic Significance of Meetings to the U.S. Clearly understanding the tolerance of your target audience to receive communication by email, phone, text, social media and print, as well as how many touch points they’ll tolerate in a single day, week or month will help you find your marketing sweet spot.

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Association Adviser

DECEMBER 15, 2017

According to the 2014 Economic Significance of Meetings to the U.S. Clearly understanding the tolerance of your target audience to receive communication by email, phone, text, social media and print, as well as how many touch points they’ll tolerate in a single day, week or month will help you find your marketing sweet spot.

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MemberClicks

OCTOBER 27, 2023

We’ll cover the best video marketing strategy for associations and how you can take advantage of video in social media marketing to drive the results and widen your impact. Since 2014, Google has been including video in search engine result pages. This presents a crucial opportunity for your organization. Currently, 137.4K

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Associations Now

JUNE 13, 2014

Writing for the Event Manager Blog , Scarlett Entertainment’s Amy Capron offers up a wide variety of ideas—some cheap, some gimmicky, some simply mind-blowing—that will get attendees engaged with your brand. Hook your DJ or performers up to social media and have them take requests from the stage. Expanding on Events.

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Slice-Works

JUNE 5, 2014

Who would have guessed that this would be our 100th blog post? We decided to use this post to highlight the newest of our social networks—The unveiling of our Pinterest account! I will be answering that objection with ideas and real-time examples farther down in the post. Are you trying to drive traffic to your blog?

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 18, 2014

In a way, ASAE’s 2014 Technology Conference & Expo , at Maryland’s National Harbor, was an early Christmas treat—with gifts of useful data and insights from some of the association world’s greatest minds. — Jennifer Bly (@jennbly) December 16, 2014. — Ernie Smith (@ErnieSmithAN) December 16, 2014.

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Associations Now

JUNE 3, 2014

Last week’s Business Insider story covering the digital marketing agency Huge and its in-depth approach to social media planning got more than a few guffaws due to its somewhat brutal headline, which implied that a single tweet promoting a type of fancy cheese took the agency more than a month to plan from start to finish.

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Vanguard Tech

JULY 8, 2014

This is the first in a series of blog posts based on the “5 Website Improvements to Make in 5 Minutes (or Less)” session I co-presented with Maggie McGary at the ASAE Membership, Marketing and Communications Conference in June 2014. This is your hook.

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Associations Now

MARCH 12, 2015

According to Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom , users of the social media platform share more than 70 million photos and videos each day. The visual social media platform Instagram continues to rise in popularity. 300M+ The number of users Instagram reported late last year.

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Associations Now

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

That’s not a lot of time to attract an eyeball or two, but according to Event Manager Blog writer Holly Krenek , it can be done. She recommends keeping presentations short, citing TED Talks’ 18-minute rule as an example of how effective that strategy can be. — Nate Ellis (@in8ls) November 9, 2014.

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Higher Logic

DECEMBER 22, 2015

James Baumann (ACUHO): AS a director of communications, I was interested in community as an outgrowth of social media. In 2014, ACUHO’s board reevaluated the association’s committee work and the online community concept came up—we launched in June 2015. I was also already an ASAE member and active in its community, Collaborate.

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Recent example for a child of the ’90s like me: Jimmy Fallon reuniting the Saved by the Bell cast on The Tonight Show.). Here are few other ways I thought of—with some examples of groups that have actually done it. Why not have one at your next meeting? Here’s a link to a video montage of a handful of them.)

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Associations Now

JANUARY 16, 2015

Then, a few days later, I came across this somewhat-related discussion about whether you should survey members who do not attend your events in the Meetings & Exposition section on Collaborate (ASAE member log-in required), which served as inspiration for this blog post. Did you receive emails and other marketing materials?

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 20, 2013

A few days back I was pointed to an article on Forbes.com called “ How to Be Better at Your Job in 2014.” Technology, social media, and too many other things to list are changing the way meeting planners have to do their jobs. For me, the thing I was most scared of but also excited about was blogging.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 21, 2015

Full disclosure: Part of the reason I decided to blog on this topic was I’m not the best at post-meeting follow-up. For example, I’m more than a week out from ASAE’s 2015 Annual Meeting & Expo, and a notebook filled with notes from sessions and some business cards clipped to it still sits on my desk.

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Beth Kanter

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

There are many nonprofit, social media, and technology conferences all year long. SXSW: March 7, 2014. What Social Media Analytics Can’t Tell You I’m thrilled to be on a panel organized by Alexandra Samuel, Vision Critical , along with Jeremiah Owyang and Colby Flint. Photo by George Galanais.

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Associations Now

MAY 20, 2014

As he read it, he found himself disputing a number of its points, and he highlights those on his blog. See, what he found when reading was a number of examples of language that suggested associations were “governed and supported by the baby boomer generation” and that they had to make room for millennials.

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Association Adviser

JANUARY 21, 2014

Part 3 will discuss measuring your data through branding, social media and website scorecards. ” Some 19 percent of business leaders expect to recruit a CDO in 2014, while 17 percent foresee a CDO appointment, according to a study by Gartner. For example, is your website responsive on mobile devices.

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Beth Kanter

APRIL 22, 2016

Note from Beth: In the decade or so that I’ve been doing social media, I’ve always been an advocate of the “Listen, Learn, Adapt” approach to doing social and a decade later, it is still very important for success. If you manage social media accounts, you’re probably already doing some of this.

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