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2019 State of Community Management: What Now? 5 Stats with Action Items for Executive Stakeholders + Community Leaders

Higher Logic

The data published in The Community Roundtable’s 10th Annual State of Community Management report was collected from 325 community programs between January and March 2019. The 2019 State of Community Management report reveals that communities are transforming organizations in fascinating (and profitable) ways.

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39 Online Community Stats You Should Know in 2019

Higher Logic

The Community Roundtable annually releases the The State of Community Management Report, and it’s chock-full of timely online community stats to help inform your strategies in the year ahead. Lower support costs (52%). Lower support costs (52%). Communities with advanced strategies are 2x as likely to be able to prove value.

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A Last Look at Leadership in 2019

Associations Now

Much of what I wrote about in 2019 for this blog revolved around the challenges and opportunities created by these upsides. One of my favorite association stories of 2019 was the American Astronomical Society stepping up in a hurry to purchase Sky & Telescope magazine , a foundering publication that found new life through AAS.

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Mapping Out a Roadshow Strategy

Associations Now

As my colleague Samantha Whitehorne has written, roadshows can be a convenient and cost-effective way to engage members face to face, and they come in many varieties for associations. To save on staffing, costs, and other resources, the Endocrine Society taps engaged members as event ambassadors, who help to plan and execute each roadshow.

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Three Strategies to Keep Cloud Spending in Check

Associations Now

But if you’ve looked at your bill from Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, or another service lately, you may have wondered, “Why does this cost so much?”. But “very little progress has been made from 2018 to 2019 in increasing the use of automated policies,” the report explains. That’s the bad news.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 1.25.19

Reid All About it

Some quick hits before we get to the list of next week’s free webinars: More calendar talk: why your association should use a content calendar in 2019. New Year, New Digital Strategy (Association Coffee Talk, Alexandria VA). Let’s start 2019 with a discussion around your digital strategy. Tim Ebner, Associations Now ).

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Five Tips for Conference Sponsorship Pricing

Velvet Chainsaw

In my experience, most large conferences this year are realizing about 80 percent of their 2019 revenue performance. Cost-plus is the most common method for pricing sponsorship. Calculate your cost of sales and delivery for each of your offerings. Which of these strategies are you currently using for sponsorship pricing?

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