Higher Logic

MAY 23, 2019

The Big Picture: Why Rethink Your Onboarding Strategy. In this digital era, these strategies are just not practical for associations who want to stay relevant. You’re starting to see why onboarding needs to a big focus of your retention strategy, right? If the answer to any of these was no, don’t worry.

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Associations Now

MARCH 5, 2015

A new survey of nonprofits forecasts employment growth within the sector in 2015, but many nonprofits report they’re struggling with recruiting and retaining employees. The nonprofit sector could grow more than its corporate counterpart this year, according to Nonprofit HR’s 2015 Nonprofit Employment Practices Survey [PDF].

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Higher Logic

AUGUST 28, 2018

Big things for your organization’s member strategy. This should be driving your content strategy. Delivering personalized, hyper-relevant content has transformed their engagement strategy. How do you think members like IASBO’s new strategy? These communities and activities then get saved back into the AMS. Hint: A lot.).

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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. As 2016 progresses, associations will increasingly use AMS for strategy – not just tactics.

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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. We just held our Monthly Thought Leadership webinar entitled 5 Must Haves for Your Association’s eLearning Efforts.

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Higher Logic

AUGUST 29, 2019

So it pays to have a great support system. One company employing this strategy is Jama Software. Your team can use this data for any number of account growth strategies (cross-sell, upsell, seat expansion, resource expansion). They use their community as a knowledge base for customers to consult before submitting a ticket.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 18, 2015

But what if we have this information-spreading strategy upside down? ” Think he has a point—and think you could rejigger your email strategy to make this work for your organization? — Richard Millington (@RichMillington) August 17, 2015. Also: Reconsider your messaging formula. When Less is More.

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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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YourMembership

JUNE 12, 2015

In it Jeff pushes back on the traditional practices of member engagement and suggests an alternative strategy that he has labeled “stakeholder development.”. As Jeff so rightly pointed out, there is a lot of discussion in the association world these days focused on identifying and implementing new member engagement strategies.

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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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WBT Systems

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The 65 to 74 year old segment of the workforce is expected to grow 55 percent between 2015 and 2024. To prepare your association and professional development strategy for an aging workforce and, therefore, an aging membership, you need to know what’s going on in your industry. Understand the employment trends in your industry.

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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%. In the late 1990s, higher education and the importance of a four-year college degree started to change. It had been a national standard that in order to get a start a successful career you must first earn a college degree.

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AvidXchange: Association Management

MAY 3, 2017

Kern is the director of research and publications for Yardi Systems, Inc., The Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act of 2015 will ease REIT tax provisions and research and development (R&D) tax credits for E&C companies. and Europe. What have been the advantages or challenges of this intersection?

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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 Crucible by Arthur Miller The only newcomer to this year's list, this was originally posted back in January 2015.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 17, 2017

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. Host: WBT Systems. Linda Bowers, CTO, WBT Systems. When the U.N. 1 CAE credit. Host: ASAE.

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Higher Logic

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Through a community strategy, businesses are able to gain valuable insights on product and service investments as well as marketing and communications initiatives. An active community can eventually become an efficient addition for the corporate customer support system. The seeds of innovation are in your community insights.

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Association Adviser

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Unfortunately, doing more with less is a new reality, but with appropriate planning and a written strategy, associations of all sizes can move toward an A+ communications program. Online communication opportunities gained steam in the category of top communication channels, with most jumping significant ranking points over 2015.

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Leading Learning

JULY 12, 2021

It also requires re-thinking significantly how the stakeholders in your learning business interact, the assumptions they bring to the table, and how new perspectives translate into new strategies. Review your legacy systems and processes. We have you covered: Assess where you are now. Secure leadership support and a funding commitment.

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Higher Logic

MAY 8, 2019

Follow our tips to improve your association’s email open rate and boost member engagement, building a stronger communications strategy along the way. If you send out different kinds of emails (newsletters, event information, system communications about your technology etc.) Association Email Strategy Takeaway.

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Higher Logic

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Every community needs to align with organizational goals and set up a strategy for scale and efficiency. One example of a successful community launch that has sustained its momentum is the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), which launched its community in May 2015. NSBE was founded in 1975 and has around 30,000 members.

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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. It summarizes my takeaways from the book The 4 Disciplines of Execution.

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Reid All About it

JUNE 17, 2016

Presenter: Kristi Casey Sanders, director of digital marketing strategy of Plan Your Meetings @ Meeting Professionals International. Host: Altai Systems. Presenter: Florence May, President & Managing Member, The Registration System (TRS). More info/register. all times are Eastern Daylight Saving Time. Tue 6/21 at 12:30 p.m.

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Associations Now

MARCH 26, 2015

With its new Businesses on Messenger strategy, Facebook wants to help replace annoying customer-service phone calls with less-annoying chat messages. The new Businesses on Messenger strategy is meant to make chat communication between a customer and a support staffer incredibly simple—by making the process akin to a traditional conversation.

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Associations Now

APRIL 27, 2017

Pai, a noted critic of the 2015 plan who voted against it as a FCC commissioner, said his goal was to take a lighter touch with internet regulations. “Nothing about the internet was broken in 2015.” “Nothing about the internet was broken in 2015.”

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Associations Now

JUNE 17, 2016

Around 1 million ended up in consumers’ hands in 2015, according to The Economist. In response, AMA in conjunction with the Federal Aviation Administration and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International. And as drone purchases increased, so did concerns of aviation officials and groups.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 26, 2017

But NWSEF may have found the perfect strategy to draw kids’ attention—and keep it. In 2015, the group opened up the National Winter Activity Center (NWAC), a New Jersey-based nonprofit ski facility, which happens to be the first of its kind in the country. “It

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WBT Systems

DECEMBER 6, 2016

A flexible, structured Digital Badge Strategy applied to your planned and existing online learning programs will help to validate your badging initiative – ensuring that you meet your learning and organisational goals. What Does Designing a Digital Badge Strategy Look Like? How Do I Use the Digital Badge Strategy Design Canvas?

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GlowGlobally

JANUARY 31, 2015

For many years, MCI has been active globally among corporations, governments, university and non-profit sectors to develop, implement and promote sustainability strategies for meeting industry destination and service suppliers as well as corporate and association executives seeking to reduce the negative impact of their meetings.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 19, 2016

When it comes to human capital, the survey found strategies shifting “from a belief that talent is readily available on the marketplace toward internal development and engagement.” The majority of nonprofits do not have dedicated HR talent or systems,” Nonprofit HR President and CEO Lisa Brown Morton previously told Associations Now.

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Associations Now

MARCH 20, 2015

If there’s one critical piece of advice for the videogame industry in 2015, it’s this: Ignore smartphones at your peril. With smartphones becoming as feature-packed and powerful as game systems like the Nintendo 3DS and the Sony PS Vita, it was perhaps only a matter of time before the ESRB took this step.

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Idea Architects

JANUARY 2, 2015

Always a good strategy to link a solicitation to noteworthy and very timely news. One was deeply heartfelt in reflecting on all the good that the organization had accomplished and what more might be possible in 2015. So here''s the oh-so simple way to avoid doing this again in 2015. Now go get to work.

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Associations Now

JULY 6, 2016

In 2012, just 1 percent of graduating student members applied for the FACC designation, but 31 percent did so in 2015. In 2012, just 1 percent of graduating FITs applied for the FACC designation, but 31 percent did so in 2015. The American College of Cardiology is one such fortunate association.

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Idea Architects

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Always a good strategy to link a solicitation to noteworthy and very timely news. So the strategic question if you want 2015 to be a year of greater friend-raising and fundraising is this: how might we make our appeals more appealing and what systems and processes must we create to do so with a consistent level of quality and timeliness?

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Associations Now

JUNE 26, 2017

Expansion is still worth it, but be careful about your strategy. McNulty wrote about this challenge , proposing that leaders make a shift from being leaders of a system to leaders in a system. Global trust in institutions is at a low ebb, which presents a challenge for associations reaching beyond the United States.

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Associations Now

MAY 10, 2017

It’s a strategy associations can learn from. Chipotle was a breakout success in the restaurant industry’s fast-casual space, but in 2015 the company was in full on crisis mode. In large part, Espey succeeded in bringing customers back to Chipotle , and last week he shared some of those strategies with MMCC attendees.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 29, 2015

It’s this delicate balance that the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities is exploring through the theme of its 2015 annual meeting , “Bold Vision, Courageous Voices: Forming a New Generation.” The Week Ahead. Down the Line.

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

According to Building Trust in a Cloudy Sky [registration], a recent McAfee report, more than 80 percent of respondents said they are following a cloud-first strategy, meaning that 80 percent of their IT budgets would be spent on some form of cloud services in the next 12 months. Large organizations tend to be the drivers of cloud strategies.

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