Spark Consulting

JUNE 1, 2021

Organizations of ALL types – for profit and tax exempt – have been talking about digital transformation for many years, and yet association efforts, both to digitize and to go digital, continue to lag. …but were afraid to ask. Why is that?

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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2015

The theme of MCON 2015 is “The Power of Influence: Art, Media, Business and Place” and an incredible lineup of speakers from the corporate, nonprofit and public sectors will share stories of the successes and failures they’ve encountered while changing the world. Join us at MCON 2015 this week and discover the power of influence.

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Associations Now

OCTOBER 15, 2023

corporate C-suite roles are occupied by women, an 11-point jump from 2015, when the organizations began their annual survey. To address this gap, organizations need a data-driven plan. Improvement in overall percentages may not mean you’ve addressed more systemic biases. customer service).

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WBT Systems

APRIL 19, 2017

There are countless articles describing how we need to change the way we deliver learning to attract and engage millennial learners, but many of these articles seem to forget that organizations must deliver learning to learners across multiple generational groups.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 4, 2015

With less than a month to go until 2016 (Wow, what happened to 2015?!), noted that some of the major updates in the 2015 edition address data, including how it relates to capture, strategy, and security; education approaches; physical security; and the impact of the global economic picture. international banking system issues. “As

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Aaron Wolowiec

JANUARY 12, 2016

As further evidence, according to Associations Trends’ TRENDS 2015 Report , about two-thirds of survey respondents receive less than half their revenue from dues. It’s about rethinking association management systems, Abila says. At the same time, Abila predicts an increase partnerships. Or it learns how to better network.

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Association Success

JULY 23, 2020

In a 2015 TEDx Talk at Virginia Tech, Reed said individuals are not born prejudiced — they learn bias somewhere along the way. In a recent interview with NPR , DiAngelo said to be anti-racist, white people need to think about how they fit into racist systems. Take time to define and find the problem, Reed said.

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Blue Sky eLearn

JULY 31, 2018

The education systems themselves were not changing, but businesses were. In 2015 that number had decreased to 52%. labor force and those on the upper end of this generational spectrum are beginning to take on leadership roles within their respective organizations. Millennials make up the largest majority in the U.S.

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YourMembership

APRIL 24, 2015

Petersburg for Xperience 2015 , YM’s annual customer conference (you can view a recap video on our home page ). JP took a look at the past six months focusing on YM’s acquisitions of Job Target’s Career Center Division and Learning Management System provider, Digital Ignite. What I saw there (at Xperience 2015) is impressive.

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Higher Logic

MAY 23, 2019

Time, effort, and energy-heavy processes that require lots of hands-on, manual labor don’t scale well or get a high volume of renewals, especially for those who are new to the organization. So how are organizations evolving? In this digital era, these strategies are just not practical for associations who want to stay relevant.

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YourMembership

JULY 27, 2015

It’s been a great week in Dayton, Ohio as I wrap up my time at the 2015 Ohio Association of Association Executives Annual Conference. There is very little doubt that many associations will be faced with having to make the decision of when and how to implement an eLearning program for their organization.

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Aaron Wolowiec

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Learning Management Systems – A LMS is the second most popular technology platform. In fact, the percentage of LMS users increased from 51 percent in 2013 to 60 percent in 2015. Chief Learning Officer – About 40 percent of respondents said someone within their organization holds a title that incorporates the word “learning.”.

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Higher Logic

JANUARY 12, 2016

Forrester predicted branded communities were going to be “the next big thing” in 2015. This growing interest in communities is centered around organizations’ need to facilitate collaboration and accelerate organic engagement with their constituents. an AMS/CRM, marketing automation software, a CMS or other systems).

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Potomac Core

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Those organizations who utilize these 3 Association Growth Strategies can help impact member outcomes and as a result better position their members and their organizations for long term success. According to Corey Rosenbusch , President and CEO, GCCA , the organization is taking its partnership a step further.

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Beekeeper Group

JANUARY 31, 2023

With an aptitude for organization and a mind for business, she played a critical role in building the systems, teams, and events to take Beekeeper Group from a scrappy start-up to a thriving agency. Craig has been with Beekeeper since June 2015, and is responsible for leading advocacy campaigns and executing strategies for our clients.

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Eric Lanke

JANUARY 1, 2018

The book's subtitle is “Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals,” and it contains a deceptively simple and oddly compelling system for doing exactly that--with a lot of potential applicability for associations. the person responsible for ensuring that the organization achieves the program objective) will take in that quest.

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YourMembership

JUNE 12, 2015

The status quo for how organizations connect with members and prospects no longer holds up. Also, if you happening to be in Sacramento, CA on June 24 th , be sure and check out CalSAE’s TechTalks 2015 Conference. This relates to some of the thoughts Anna Caraveli, PhD.

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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This article was originally published as “Writing Online Content for Distracted Humans and Web-Crawling Spiders” in the Association Executives of North Carolina’s Success By Association magazine, November/December 2015 issue. ~~~. In April 2015, Google announced that websites must be mobile-friendly to earn a decent ranking.

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Higher Logic

AUGUST 28, 2018

Big things for your organization’s member strategy. It means you’re tracking your members’ activity with your organization across the board. The North American Spine Society (NASS) gets extensive data from their community, which all leads back into their CRM system using Protech’s Link integration. Increased ROI. What’s that?

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Reid All About it

MARCH 17, 2017

If your organization has a webinar scheduled in the next few weeks, please send me the link. declared 2015 the International Year of Soils, the Soil Science Society of America knew it had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build awareness of the value of one of the Earth’s most important, yet little-understood natural resources.

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 18, 2018

Often, we think of “high performance” as something only for large organizations, but smaller nonprofits can apply the ideas too. Their intention was to create a guide for nonprofit leaders who wanted to ensure that their organizations provided high quality, sustainable results for the people or causes they served.

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Higher Logic

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

We can all agree that every organization's CEO and leadership team is accountable for determining what adds value to the business. The very best ones are focused on creating and delivering value for all stakeholders inside and outside of the organization. The seeds of innovation are in your community insights.

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Associations Now

OCTOBER 5, 2015

The 2015 Nonprofit Employee Benefits Survey , recently released by benefits management and research firm PPI Benefit Solutions , has found that very few nonprofits understand the new demands the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has put upon employers. There are also requirements for organizations with fewer than 100 employees.).

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Associations Now

AUGUST 18, 2019

That shoe-leather approach to leadership among members (and potential ones) has paid off for the trade association: Since Berger took the reins, NAFCU’s revenue has grown 31 percent, and more than 465 new members have joined since 2015. But as an organization, you have to communicate over and over again.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 20, 2018

Having a sexual harassment policy at your organization is crucial, but that’s not enough to address systemic issues of abuse and inequality in the workplace. The message has to be owned by the board and the CEO so it can flow down to the rest of the organization,” she said.

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Freestone

AUGUST 17, 2023

Why PCNA chose Freestone to stream its annual conference Since 2015, PCNA has conducted its largest annual event, the Annual Cardiovascular Symposium. Offering a hybrid experience is a great option for busy learners (especially the nurses and health care professionals within their organization that often have unpredictable schedules.)

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Associations Now

APRIL 5, 2017

But the work they do needs to benefit the volunteer as well as the organization. In 2015, the ASAE Foundation, in partnership with Mariner Management and Whorton Marketing & Research, launched a study examining the challenges of engaging and managing volunteers. Volunteering doesn’t have to be on a committee or board. she says. “It

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Eric Lanke

DECEMBER 26, 2016

The book's subtitle is “Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals,” and it contains a deceptively simple and oddly compelling system for doing exactly that--with a lot of potential applicability for associations. the person responsible for ensuring that the organization achieves the program objective) will take in that quest.

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Associations Now

MARCH 31, 2016

trillion to the global GDP in 2015—and that accounts for nearly 9.8 The travel sector was responsible for more than 107 million jobs in 2015, a figure that’s expected to grow by 2 percent this year. More than 1 billion people traveled in 2015, while the WTTC predicts 1.2 Does your organization operate remotely?

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Association Adviser

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The logical take-away from that statistic would be to reduce the amount of information sent to members, but associations reported they communicate more frequently , touching members four more times per month (on average 30 times) than in 2015. Video jumped from 18 to 9, and, interestingly, Facebook jumped from 12 to 5. About the study.

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Idea Architects

JANUARY 2, 2015

In a four-hour span on December 30, I received emails from four organizations I support asking me to make a donation before year''s end. One was tailored to the organization''s announcement of just receiving a major grant. So here''s the oh-so simple way to avoid doing this again in 2015. Now go get to work. Now go get to work.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 13, 2020

When your organization is knee-deep in setting technical standards for the broader world, don’t forget that mere mortals have to use this stuff, too. At that time, the forum was on the way to releasing its successor USB-C, which appeared in a big way on Apple laptops starting in 2015. How USB Got Confusing. Deep breath. )

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 21, 2016

But the bowl system faces some challenges ahead. Sure, there’s the Rose Bowl and the Cotton Bowl (along with, reassuringly, a relatively new playoff system). Much of that came at the high end, where individual games during the 2015-2016 season produced as much as $93.7 million in economic impact in cities around the country.

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Higher Logic

MAY 8, 2019

The logic here being, if someone wants to be a member, then that person also wants to receive emails from the organization. If you send out different kinds of emails (newsletters, event information, system communications about your technology etc.) Editor’s note: This post was originally published in 2015 by Katie Oakes.

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Beth Kanter

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Bullet Journal (BuJo) started as “an analog system to track the past, organize the present and plan for the future.” Within a few years, it grew to be a community of people who use it as a tool for planning, organizing, and adjusting the methodology to their life habits and routines. What is the Bullet Journal System?

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Aaron Wolowiec

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Fundamentally, it’s a systems approach to analyzing, designing, developing, implementing and evaluating any instructional experience. Was the content well organized? Now think about the education sessions your organization offers. ” I’ll also help define what’s in it for your organization. So, on Feb.

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Jamie Notter

JANUARY 28, 2016

0, as in let's upgrade work to the newest version, continuously, because many of us are still running LAST CENTURY'S operating system! This is something that Charlie started in 2015 that we helped develop. When you have that information in your hands, you can actually start building an organization that's truly worth working for.

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