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Add Chapters to Make an Old Association Feel New

Associations Now

Launching a chapter network has helped PEN America, a literary organization with almost 100 years of history, recruit new members and reinvent opportunities for member engagement at the local level. This process helped Werner and her team identify the first six chapters.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 2.2.18

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events for the association community… Amanda Kaiser (aka Smooth The Path) and Dynamic Benchmarking just published the New Member Engagement Study. Last week, I shared an excellent article from The New York Times Magazine about Bitcoin and its underlying technology.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 9.21.18

Reid All About it

Don’t Wait for a Class Action to Find Out (webinar & New York, NY). The stats are staggering: We have seen more than 900 complaints filed in district courts around the country since the start of 2018 – and more than 750 in New York alone. Location: online and New York, NY. CLE credit. CAE credit.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.22.18

Reid All About it

I just saw a New York Times article about this too. Member Engagement or Old Baggage? There’s a member engagement channel that too many associations aren’t leveraging. Call them chapters, affiliates, sections or any other name and the potential is member engagement, awareness, sales and growth.

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Increasing Readership Engagement: eNewsletter Briefings

Association Adviser

With little free time, members no longer feel like they have as much time in their schedules to fully engage in reading a magazine. According to the 2018 Association Communications Benchmarking Study, one of the top reasons for declining reader engagement with association publications revolves around members’ full schedules.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.14.19

Reid All About it

Good eats: One of the best dishes I’ve ever made in my Instant Pot: pressure cooker spicy Korean pork shoulder from Melissa Clark at the New York Times. 1 CAE credit More info/register – free for DFWAE members, $15 for non-members. 3 New Strategies to Boost Your Member Onboarding, Engagement, and Retention.