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Music City, Our Thought Leadership Team, and a Memorable 2014

YourMembership

Downtown Nashville also provided the perfect setting to host the second YM Thought Leader Summit, where we pulled together many of the people who so generously share their time and talents to help drive YourMembership’s thought leadership initiatives. In 2014 the emphasis turned to video and webinars. Xperience 2014.

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Associations 101

Spark Consulting

This Friday, we’ll be kicking off the 2014 Associations 101 #10in20 webinar series with a presentation by Rob Barnes on organizational culture. Register now and learn how to kickstart your organizational culture in 2014! Same great format (10 tips in 20 minutes), but lots of new content and speakers!

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Why Do People Volunteer for Professional Associations and Trade Groups?

Higher Logic

of the US population volunteered in 2014. Budgets rarely cover everything we want to do and recruiting volunteers is one way your association can meet more of its goals. Many hiring companies and recruiters are looking for professional experience and, in this case, less is not more. And what brought them to your door?

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Time to get in the game. There’s a game being played?

YourMembership

Last week we hosted our monthly Thought Leadership Webinar , featuring a whitepaper published by Association Laboratory entitled Looking Forward 2014: An Environmental Scanning Whitepaper for the Association Industry. In a recent online poll, 83 percent admitted they would be actively looking for a new position in 2014.

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New Member Engagement – Looking For Value Beyond the Welcome Kit

YourMembership

We recently held a webinar called Flipping the Membership Equation: Thinking Different About Member Retention and Recruitment. In the webinar we highlighted the work being done at the Association of Otolaryngology Administrators (AOA) to recruit and retain new members. That’s where member engagement lives. See you in NashVegas!

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Online Communities Reap Benefits From Volunteer, Executive Leadership

Associations Now

Strategy, governance, and executive leadership. The Community Roundtable (The CR)—the community for community managers—published the 2014 edition of its “ State of Community Management ” report a few weeks ago, and it focuses on the key elements that mark success in “mature,” or best-in-class, online communities.

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The World of Opportunities for AMCs: A YM Perspective

YourMembership

This week YourMembership.com is “on the road” in Tempe, Arizona attending the 2014 AMC Institute Annual Meeting. The loss of leadership vital to the health of the organization. The leadership of these organizations find it difficult to move away from the “status quo” mentality that no longer serves their member’s best interests.