Higher Logic

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The data gathering process was also time consuming, especially if they wanted to spot check particular members or organizations. In the first few months of 2017, Corporate Official Representative engagement almost exceeded their 2016 engagement numbers. While valuable, there was more to gain from the data.

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Reid All About it

JUNE 16, 2017

If you’re in the IT department, you have to walk the fine line between saying “no” to some ideas while not shutting down your staff’s innovation muscle. DelCor explains how to both encourage innovation and reject ideas with no future. Tue 6/20 at 12 p.m.* – Driving an Innovation Strategy. Host: Community IT Innovators.

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Reid All About it

AUGUST 25, 2017

Tue 8/29 at 12 p.m.* – Driving an Innovation Strategy. Associations must innovate or become obsolete. Explore how an orchestrated strategy that concentrates on how informed leadership, streamlined processes, future facing technology, and concierge service can accelerate your movement along the innovation spectrum.

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Mariner Management

APRIL 1, 2020

Volunteering was officially named a driver last summer recognizing that associations must innovate their volunteering systems along with all the other systems on which associations depend. In fact, the Mutually Beneficial Volunteerism: Opportunities for Enhancing Volunteer Management Systems sounded the alarm in 2017.

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Reid All About it

MAY 12, 2017

Presenter: Whitney Johnson, expert on disruptive innovation and personal disruption. 2017 Membership Trends: How to Grow Your Program in a Changing Environment. 50% of technology projects fail—the technology moves forward, but the organization does not. Host: Community IT Innovators. More info/register. Host: Hubspot.

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Reid All About it

MAY 5, 2017

I still get an uneasy anxious feeling when I think about leading an AMS implementation project at my last association job. Tue 5/9 at 12 p.m.* – Spark Your Innovation Engine. Is your association starting to focus more on innovation? What processes should be in place? How can you foster a culture of innovation?

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Association Success

OCTOBER 23, 2017

However, with finite resources, you can’t afford a long, slow process of trial and error. It takes strategic thinking to calculate which projects to throw your weight behind. Cast a critical eye over the projects meant to be bringing in revenue at your association. Don’t be afraid to admit that a project has failed.

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Smooth The Path

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Too late to reflect on 2017 and plan 2018. Urgent projects will come due. When we come back to the office January 2nd, it will be too late. That sounds odd, doesn’t it? As of January 2nd, we will still have more than 360 days to go. Surely it cannot be too late. Everyone will clamor for our time.

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Associations Now

JUNE 12, 2017

The class of 2017 has collected its hard-earned diplomas and is ready to head into the workforce. When you allow for members to feel like they have some control of their participation level, it allows for them to take ownership of their projects and foster a real connection to the mission of your association.”. Event Planning Errors.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 10, 2017

Check out these five ideas from Fast Company for “soft projects” to wrap up each workday. 2017: A Year of Disruption. Gain a better understanding of the economic environment and how structural changes will have an impact in 2017 and beyond. Host: Community IT Innovators. Tue 3/14 at 1 p.m. Wed 3/15 at 10 a.m.

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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… “It’s not the technology that makes your association innovative; it’s what you do with technology,” said WBT Systems. We’re all familiar with the project approach to a website redesign. billion robocalls last year, up 46 percent from 2017.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 23, 2017

Gig workers come in many flavors including solopreneurs, independent contractors, project specialists, and even consultants like me. Most processes and actions involve some human effort that is aided by technology,” Klososky said. According to Forbes, by 2020, 50 percent of the U.S.

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Association Success

AUGUST 16, 2018

A culture playbook contains defined structures, systems and process that will lead your organization to its desired culture. Arlene Pietranton, CEO of the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA), has fostered a culture of innovation at ASHA with a shared leadership model. The Process Play. The People Play.

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Reid All About it

OCTOBER 21, 2016

After completing the survey, you’ll have the chance to win one of five registrations to Learning • Technology • Design 2017 – and, if you win, I’ll be very envious. Mon 10/24 – Design Thinking for Innovation (Coursera). 5 Keys to Association Website Success in 2017 (Columbia MD Idea Swap). Tue 10/25 at 12 p.m. –

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Associations Now

MAY 23, 2017

Also: Xperience Design Project premieres with innovative viewing formats. Does HR handle the process, or is it a senior leadership team? — Tobin Conley, CAE (@TobinConley) May 23, 2017. — Sarah Sladek (@SarahSladek) May 23, 2017. Why it may be time to reassess your organization’s leadership path.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 21, 2022

Learn more about the application process, including tips for a successful submission and insider knowledge about what the judges seek, during a 1/28 webinar—details below. Innovating Meetings & Events: The Way Forward ( Chatting with Agnes & Cecilia). Sticky learning. Email chains. More info/register. Host: Vanilla.

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Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 3, 2017

Personalization—it seems to be the 2017 buzzword for nonprofit associations and conferences. This entire personalization process, as well as the learner’s progress, is also highly visible and easily accessible to the learner. Pane, a senior scientists and distinguished chair in education innovation at RAND.

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Association Success

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Innovation is not easy. Consider first why you want to change your organization: is it a specific policy, procedural shift, or project you’re working on? Keep the innovation process dynamic by checking in on progress along the way. But we should never let complacency get in the way of progress. Track progress.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 19, 2018

A key ingredient for successful technology projects is collaboration. But Nicholas Kristof at The New York Times explains why 2017 was the best year in human history. Discover innovative methods to advance professionally, despite these new challenges. Discover how this process helps save money. Wolcott, Quartz ).

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Association Success

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Lean startup is an innovation system developed by Eric Ries that came out of his experiences with lean process improvement, which is all about reducing waste and defects and working more efficiently and effectively. Associations can really stand to benefit from lean startup methodology -- and employing it doesn't have to be scary!

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Association Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

This article is partly a response to people’s interest in the project, but I have my own agenda too – which will become clear as you read on. Before SURGE 2017 took any tangible form, I had a collection of ideas. Thus was born the beginnings of SURGE 2017. The second moment of creative contrarianism occurred months later.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 22, 2015

and Cuban governments continue the historic process of normalizing relations, it is important that people and cultures that have been separated for more than 50 years have a structured and meaningful framework in which to engage and learn from each other,” said NAFSA Executive Director and CEO Marlene Johnson in a statement.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Innovation Trigger. The concept of distributed ledgers has usefulness outside of its thriving use in financial transactions and currency speculation, and it is actively triggering innovation in healthcare IT. We use our knowledge of practical use cases to put the media and marketing hype in perspective.

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Association Success

JULY 5, 2017

Generating revenue from non-traditional sources has become integral to an association’s success, and we must use advanced and innovative tech solutions to meet these needs. Being an expert at building technology isn’t required in 2017. There are always situations where some groups are outliers and this would make sense.

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 4, 2017

For 2017, we be launching an online site that includes the content and facilitator guides so that any nonprofit or trainer can provide leadership development for emerging nonprofit leaders. Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 18, 2014

In a letter sent to the federal Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs earlier this month, the Association of American Universities (AAU) and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) stated their case for less restrictive drone regulations and a speedier process for approving drone research permits.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 12, 2017

. “If you are just starting out as an event planner and you have no experience with all of this, I would advise you to hire a consultant who can walk you through the process or hire an event producer that has that kind of experience,” he says. ChatterBachs) January 11, 2017. Check out Stegeman’s post for more.

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Reid All About it

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

When a technology project comes to a close, you want it to be done, over, finished, let’s move on. How you communicate with your members—and how you show them the value you provide—is the top factor members use to determine if they stay or if they go, according to the 2017 Member Loyalty Study by Community Brands. More info/register.

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Beth Kanter

MAY 7, 2019

Toronto has been at the forefront of the blockchain effort, with the Blockchain Research Institute (BRI) ( @blockchainRI ) founded there in 2017. The Innovation Economy. The Everledger process is also being used for things like recovering rare earth minerals (cobalt, lithium) from batteries, in the sustainability space.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Encourage supporters to use this information when creating their own fundraisers, which can help protect your nonprofit’s digital brand (and, make the process easier for the users creating fundraisers!) When it comes to thanking the users who create fundraisers, that process is slightly easier. Being inconsistent is.

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Association Adviser

JUNE 29, 2016

We’re also trying to get all members—not just the younger ones—adopt computerization and advanced productivity techniques in the construction process. They are the creators and innovators who see the challenges and want to make a difference. Do you have a formal innovation process or is it more ad hoc?

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Association Adviser

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Matt explained to Association Adviser how he lives out ISACA’s core values of being “one,”accountable, dedicated, authentic and innovative to help its growing community of more than 160,000 professionals in 180 countries better serve their organizations at a time when their work has never been more important.

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 5, 2018

” I create a few pages in the beginning to write about my themes, what makes me happy, what to improve, and major projects for the year. In early 2017, we completed a two week book tour. When I look back on 2017, it was a very rich and productive year. And, I expect no less in 2018. What about you?

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Leading Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2023

In 2017, The Economist declared lifelong learning an “economic imperative,” and it has hardly been the only publication in mainstream and business presses to insist on the importance of learning in a world where the scale, scope, and speed of change seem much higher than ever before. How Big Is the Adult Lifelong Learning Market?

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Association Adviser

MARCH 11, 2019

In 2017 we started a consolidated weekly email digest for our chapter leaders called the “Chapter Leader Link.” How do they help you with longer-term projects? . And then using innovation to find solutions. These groups help share our messages but also meet the needs of our members so they can continue to be engaged.

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Association Adviser

DECEMBER 20, 2017

To close out 2017, we’re looking back at some of the most thoughtful insights these association professionals have shared: On creating content for members, by members: Meena Dayak, American Public Power Association. We keep reader interests top of mind, break down complex topics, and strive to make content accessible to all audiences.

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Association Adviser

DECEMBER 20, 2017

To close out 2017, we’re looking back at some of the most thoughtful insights these association professionals have shared: On creating content for members, by members: Meena Dayak, American Public Power Association. We keep reader interests top of mind, break down complex topics, and strive to make content accessible to all audiences.

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