Associations Now

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Why having an event sponsor as excited about your event as you are is so important. Also: One event pro breaks down the moment when an association was showing its age. Anyone with a checkbook could sponsor an event of yours, but there’s more to event sponsorship than slapping a logo in a few places.

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Higher Logic

JANUARY 29, 2019

By consistently keeping members engaged, you won't just attract and keep more members , you'll have leverage to push through legislative wins, the ability to promote your advocacy agenda, and an increase in event attendance and other types of revenue. Editor’s note: This post was originally published on August 28, 2014 by Joshua Paul.

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YourMembership

APRIL 24, 2014

Last week we shared the most noteworthy association management concepts from the Xperience2014 Customer Conference, held March 31 – April 1, 2014 at the Vinoy Renaissance Resort in St. This event provided an Xcellent platform for YourMembership.com customers, employees and industry thought leaders to connect, engage and grow.

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Association Adviser

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Association Event Do’s and Don’t’s. Speaking Out About Employee Recruitment, Membership Retention and Non-Dues Revenue. Game Plan 2014: Seeing Around the Corners. Source: Association Adviser eNews and Naylor, LLC 2014. Advice for Increasing NDR. Association Careers, Compensation, Communication.

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Associations Now

MAY 11, 2015

If the findings of online volunteer recruiting platform VolunteerMatch are any indication, organizations should expect a brighter future for volunteer engagement. billion benefit resulting from VolunteerMatch users in 2014. .” billion benefit resulting from VolunteerMatch users in 2014. Other Good Reads.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 7, 2014

Rebelmouse: Check out Associations Now ‘s live event page to see the latest updates. Heading to the 2014 ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition in Nashville? In advance of 2014 ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition , several expert content leaders shared their wisdom in articles and interviews with Associations Now.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 28, 2017

The many-hats conceit is often discussed with a smirk, or as a point of pride, especially in small-staff organizations—Monday I’m an events coordinator, Tuesday I’m a publisher, Wednesday I’m in credentialing, and so on. Many association leaders are well aware of the Bad Hat Management problem.

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Take a few cues from Olympic athlete recruiters on creating your powerhouse team. Yet, according to Mashable contributor and ClearCompany CEO Andre Lavoie , recruiting the best of the best is easier said than done. And how can you reduce no-shows at your events? So why do attendees go AWOL?

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Associations Now

MARCH 14, 2014

Also: Publicity professionals share pointers on how to gain more attention for events. How to Get More Publicity for Your Events [link] #eventplanning #eventprofs #PRprofs. — BizBash (@BizBash) March 11, 2014. Online engagement keeps your members involved and gives them extra value. Retention involves constant engagement.

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Associations Now

APRIL 18, 2014

— MultiBriefs (@MultiBriefs) April 17, 2014. Eventbrite Community Manager Sara Altier recommends that event planners recruit a social media expert to monitor hashtags, share photos, and schedule content in advance. Stay 10 Steps Ahead. There are 10 crucial steps forward-thinking #associations are taking: Are you?

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Associations Now

JULY 29, 2016

After making diversity and inclusion a priority in 2014, the National Venture Capital Association formed a task force to take on what is a male-dominated profession. In just months, the group has increased diversity internally, as well as in the field, and encouraged members to invest in minority-run businesses.

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Associations Now

MAY 8, 2013

That impression boils down to the type of experience your association is offering members and event attendees. Maintaining member relations: Even though it’s a tough time to incentivize membership, careful planning and realistic expectations can make a difference during the recruiting process.

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Associations Now

MARCH 31, 2014

Also: Design events for introverts. From the @guardian "How charities can recruit, retain and distance celebrity supporters": [link] #assnchat #nfp. — Silverbear (@SilverbearLtd) March 31, 2014. "6 Tips to Plan #Introvert Friendly Events" – [link] via @connectmeetings #assnchat #eventprofs.

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Associations Now

MARCH 21, 2014

Entice members to register for your events without sounding self-serving. Stuffing inboxes with self-serving hype about the awesomeness of your association’s upcoming events is passé. Again, posting ‘Attend my great event!’ — Lifehack (@lifehackorg) March 19, 2014. messages is the quickest way to get shut out.”.

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

A finding backed up by a 2014 study by Jobvite [PDF] that found 94 percent of recruiters use LinkedIn as part of their recruitment efforts. Another digital resource: online job fairs, which can help job seekers save the time and money that comes with traveling to an in-person event. Try a virtual career fair.

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Associations Now

MARCH 12, 2014

Also: why more event planners should take Pinterest for a spin. In the event that your association has slipped into online obscurity, she says, it’s even more imperative to take action. How can you use #Pinterest for event planning? — Tourisme Montréal (@MeetMontreal) March 11, 2014. Don’t you know who I am?

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Associations Now

APRIL 25, 2014

Also: A celebrity event planner offers her trendsetting, customer-focused tricks of the trade. 8 Rules for Events from Celebrity Wedding Planner Sharon Sacks ( @sacksprods ) [link] #eventprofs #eventplanning. — BizBash (@BizBash) April 24, 2014. Recruiting your office rock stars was just the first step.

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Associations Now

MARCH 19, 2014

— Shelly Alcorn, CAE (@shellyalcorn) March 10, 2014. — Incline Marketing (@InclineMktg) March 19, 2014. New Assn Subculture: The New Question Assns Should be Asking Every Day [link] #assnchat. A Pin Is Worth a Thousand Words.

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Associations Now

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

percent in 2014—a huge comedown from the 52.5 — MediaEdge (@AssocContent) November 25, 2014. Long story short, at an event over the Labor Day weekend, when temperatures were still soaring, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution used a clever hook—free Popsicles! The tablet still matters. percent increase the year before.

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Associations Now

JULY 10, 2015

For instance, during the American Urological Association’s 2014 Annual Meeting, AUA TV was broadcast daily throughout the convention center and on shuttle buses, as well as on 15 official hotel channels. daily live stream throughout the course of the multiday conference. Or they may combine the latter effort with live coverage.

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Associations Now

APRIL 14, 2014

Plus: Don’t turn off the introverts who attend your events. Similarly 44 percent who reported an increase in recruitment spending and 39 percent who reported an increase in onboarding and engagement spending saw an increase in renewals.” — Julius Solaris (@tojulius) April 14, 2014. Tweet of the Day.

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Associations Now

APRIL 2, 2014

The winter of 2014 was a long, cold slog for many of us, but the end is in sight. For association membership pros, now is a great time to refresh your recruitment, retention, and engagement practices. Invite college students and graduates to register for your online community or attend your events at a deep discount.

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Associations Now

MAY 13, 2014

found that more than 200 million records were lost or stolen in the first quarter of 2014—that’s the equivalent of 93,000 records an hour for those three months. A recent report from information security firm SafeNet, Inc.,

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Associations Now

APRIL 18, 2014

Here’s a look at three ways to use photo-sharing tools effectively at your upcoming events—from associations that have tried these tactics out. Take some advice from the Association of Donor Recruitment Professionals. The winning prize: complimentary registration to ASLA’s 2014 meeting. Keep It Simple. Choose a Creative Hashtag.

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Association Adviser

MAY 20, 2014

There’s an eye-opening chart you’ll see soon from Association Adviser’s 2014 Association Communications Benchmarking Report. The annual benchmarking data, compiled in association with Naylor LLC, shows that the four most common uses of association social media are: event promotion/awareness (56.6 percent agree); member recruitment (10.8

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

What’s missing is specifically framing content to solve problems, optimizing it for search engines, getting readers’ contact info in exchange for content, tracking them as leads over time, and moving them along the recruitment funnel with additional, more targeted content and resources. If they’re so good at content, though, why not?

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 21, 2014

Remember That Last Event You Attended. Think back to an event that you attended. Big consumer events, like the Super Bowl, the Olympics, and Spring Break are incredibly successful at providing sponsors that matter. Quick: Do you remember any of the sponsors? Who were they and why do you remember them?

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Events should be the same way—especially when it’s an end-of-the-road moment like someone making a big exit. — Modern Healthcare (@modrnhealthcr) December 16, 2014. Making Reddit work for your association isn’t exactly easy, but Recruitment Advisor has some association-specific tips. New Association of the Day.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 3, 2014

ELEVATE 2014 had two primary strategic priorities: Participant professional development. Recruit volunteers and leaders to help embed connexity and professional development in the meeting design. This has been a winning formula for us says Gina Sutherland, CMP, CalSAE Director of Education and Events. Fostering community.

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Beth Kanter

APRIL 8, 2014

What’s the best way to recruit and train volunteers on a Giving Day? After processing about 66 donations per minute during their 2013 event, the website crashed at 12:30 p.m.—for We plan to update the Giving Day Playbook throughout 2014 with insights as we capture them, so keep checking back for the latest. for five hours.

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Associations Now

JULY 25, 2014

Also: advice on how to keep “lobby rats” in check at your event. “By becoming more transparent with our employee data, open in dialogue throughout the company and rigorous in our recruiting, hiring, and promotion practices, we are making diversity an important business issue for ourselves.” Stop Ambushers.

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Associations Now

OCTOBER 16, 2014

In July, Peace Corps Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet announced major reforms to the organization’s recruitment and application process that included allowing candidates to choose the country where they want to serve, shortening the process, and permitting same-sex couples to serve together abroad.

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Association Adviser

JANUARY 21, 2014

The title event has a Wikipedia entry, which defines the role as “a corporate officer responsible for enterprise-wide governance and utilization of information as an asset, via data processing , analysis, data mining information trading and other means.”

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Associations Now

MARCH 12, 2015

Earlier this year, a survey on social media usage from Pew Research Center found that, for the first time, more than half of young adults (ages 18-29) use Instagram, and, between 2013 and 2014, usage of the platform increased significantly in almost every demographic. Nonprofits should be looking to visualize compelling true stories.”.

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Associations Now

MARCH 2, 2016

As shared here in January , SPE began to offer free student memberships in 2014, via a partnership with Society of the Plastics Industry, which acts as a sponsor to subsidize the student memberships. Throughout the year, the sponsors are promoted through advertising, banners at events, and other communications.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 20, 2016

He told me SPE had been spinning its wheels in recruiting student members for all the presumable reasons. ” SPE decided to run an experiment in 2014, eliminating the $31 membership fee for plastics engineering students, “to see if the modest dues were a roadblock,” he says. Sure enough, students came pouring in.

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Associations Now

JUNE 4, 2014

Words like web , data , chapter , event , campaign , and board only speak further to this variety in job functions within membership. More Words From Membership Jobs Words appearing more than 100 times in membership job listings on CareerHQ.org in 2013: develop. communication. lead, leadership. relationship. annual, annually. committees.

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