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Association Brain Food Weekly: 1.15.21
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JANUARY 15, 2021
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. ASAE Gold Circle Awards.
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Association Brain Food Weekly: 12.11.20
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DECEMBER 11, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. 2021 attendee intent survey.
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Association Brain Food Weekly: 12.4.20
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DECEMBER 4, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Urgent request for participation in an association professional development survey.
Association Brain Food Weekly: 12.18.20
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DECEMBER 18, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Welcome to the last Association Brain Food of 2020. I’ll be back on Friday, January 8 after a (hopefully but probably not likely) two-week holiday break.
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Association Brain Food Weekly: 11.20.20
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NOVEMBER 20, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… 86 “normal,” please. Joy S. Davis, CAE, who works at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, said: “I need to operate now and look forward, not try to claw may way back to ‘normal.’
Association Brain Food Weekly: 11.13.20
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NOVEMBER 13, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Looking forward. The Association Laboratory Research Alliance invites association executives to participate in the Looking Forward 2021 study.
Association Brain Food Weekly: 10.9.20
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OCTOBER 9, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… I’m back in the saddle again—and this photo captures my hiking buddies climbing up a tricky portion of the saddle between Big Spring and Squaw Canyons in the Needles district of Canyonlands National Park in Utah—one of my favorite places. Association mojo.
Association Brain Food Weekly: 10.30.20
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OCTOBER 30, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Session recordings. Professional development is a must in uncertain times. To remain relevant and employable, you need to keep your skills sharp.
Association Brain Food Weekly: 9.18.20
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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Association marketing. In a changing world and uncertain economy, if you want to hold on to a job—or find a new one—you need to acquire and demonstrate mastery of new skills.
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Association Brain Food Weekly: 11.6.20
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NOVEMBER 6, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Un-hybrid conference. At some point in 2021, associations will switch from virtual-only conferences to hybrid conferences. Or will they? Can you imagine planning and producing two simultaneous conference experiences—one for on-site attendees and one for the virtual audience? Yikes. WBT Systems proposes a different doable solution: host your in-person conference first and your virtual conference later.
Association Brain Food Weekly: 10.16.20
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OCTOBER 16, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… The state of associations. Cecilia Sepp, CAE, founder of Rogue Tulips, recently released the findings of their September association survey, What’s Next for Associations.
Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.31.20
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JULY 31, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Economic outlook for associations. Please consider participating in Marketing General Inc.’s s (MGI) second annual Association Economic Outlook survey.
Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.24.20
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JULY 24, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Associations and the future of colleges. Jeff Cobb of Tagoras/Leading Learning asks a provocative but reasonable question: Could associations replace colleges?
Build or Buy an LMS? How to Pick the Right Solution for Your Budget
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Association Brain Food Weekly: 8.14.20
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AUGUST 14, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… #ASAE20. I took three days off this week to dedicate my time to ASAE’s Virtual Annual Meeting aka #asae20. Originally, the registration was about $600.
Association Brain Food Weekly: 9.11.20
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SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Virtual conference pricing. WBT Systems describes the different factors you need to consider when pricing a virtual conference , and right at the top they say, “Your virtual conference should not be free.”.
Association Brain Food Weekly: 8.28.20
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AUGUST 28, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Racial diversity in events. I’ve got another important survey for you—this one is on racial diversity in the events industry.
Association Brain Food Weekly: 8.21.20
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AUGUST 21, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Diversity benchmarking. Association Success is running a survey to benchmark diversity in the association industry.
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Association Brain Food Weekly: 9.25.20
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SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… I’m not publishing Brain Food next Friday (10/2) because I’ll be hiking in southern Utah, so this edition includes all the events I know about in the next two weeks. Virtual conference communications survey.
Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.10.20
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JULY 10, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… You know what really gets under my skin and makes me crazy? The emergence of, quoting here, “a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity.”
Association Brain Food Weekly: 11.29.19
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NOVEMBER 29, 2019
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Will I see you at ASAE TEC next week? For me, TEC is like a reunion, camp and retreat combined in one. If we haven’t met and you see me walking around, please introduce yourself, I’d love to meet you. Association silos have been a topic of conversation for years now.
Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.5.20
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JUNE 5, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… What a week. This tweet summed it up for me. It feels somewhat like that week in March when the impact of COVID-19 hit us all. It’s been hard to focus. I find myself staring blankly at whatever I’m writing while my mind is far away. Then I lose myself reading articles on Twitter or in newsletters, and, one of my favorite activities, compiling a list of more things to read.
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Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.17.20
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JULY 17, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Design thinking demystified. Are you just a tiny bit intimidated by the idea of design thinking? It’s okay, we’ve all been there. Design thinking is completely doable when you get it explained to you like WBT Systems does in their post, Design Thinking for Associations: Let’s Take It from Conceptual to Practical. Pandemic engagement strategies.
Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.1.20
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MAY 1, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… For the last six weeks, virtual events have been the focus of my reading and writing time—which is why you’ve seen the topic popping up so frequently here and on my Twitter stream too. So, I’m sorry or you’re welcome, whichever one applies. Virtual worlds for association events. Here’s a pair of posts about a virtual event format I’ve only recently come around to.
Association Brain Food Weekly: 1.18.19
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JANUARY 18, 2019
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Maddie Grant and Jamie Notter have a new book coming out, The Non-Obvious Guide to Employee Engagement. The book presents a provocative alternative solution to one of the biggest problems in workplaces: declining employee engagement.
Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.29.20
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MAY 29, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Reboarding members. In a recent webinar, Reggie Henry introduced many in the association community, including WBT Systems, to the “ reboarding members ” concept—taking time each year to reacquaint yourself with a member’s goals, needs and interests, and reintroduce them to membership benefits and resources. WBT shares ideas for using what you learn during reboarding to better serve members.
Webinar Survey 2020 Association Universe
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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.12.20
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JUNE 12, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Motivation and focus enhancer. If you’ve been distracted at work and dispirited by what’s going on in our country, WBT Systems has some timely advice: remember your purpose. You may look at your to-do list and wish you were working on bigger issues but the fact is, as their post reminds you, you’re already making a difference. CRPs explained.
Association Brain Food Weekly: 1.11.19
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JANUARY 11, 2019
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… It’s time for Marketing General Incorporated’s (MGI) 11 th annual Membership Marketing Benchmarking Survey. The resulting report from this survey provides benchmarking data and insight into how more than 1,000 associations recruit, engage and retain members and certificants.
Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.22.20
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MAY 22, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… New member onboarding. Does your association have a new member onboarding, orientation or welcoming program? If you do, please participate in the 2020 New Member Engagement Survey from Amanda Kaiser (Kaiser Insights) and Dynamic Benchmarking. The report that came out of their first survey two years ago was full of good information and great ideas so I look forward to this edition.
Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.3.20
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JULY 3, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… DEI education. WBT Systems opens their most recent post with a quote from Maya Angelou: “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” Your association can help staff, volunteer leaders, and members know better by offering (and requiring for some) diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) education. Inclusive leadership.
AMC-Managed Organizations are More Stable than Standalone Organizations
Why do organizations managed by Association Management Companies outperform standalone organizations? This paper seeks to answer that question through the results of a study examining the rates of change in the length of chief staff executive tenure and changes in office locations of membership-based organizations between 2009 and 2015.
Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.26.20
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JUNE 26, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Inclusive conferences. Barbara Palmer at PCMA Convene lists eight ways conference organizers, sponsors, speakers and attendees can make conferences more racially diverse. There’s much work to be done and I hope that at last we’re all ready to do it. Implicit bias. In an interview with Knowable Magazine, social psychologist Anthony Greenwald explains what works and what doesn’t work to curb implicit bias.
Association Brain Food Weekly: 4.12.19
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APRIL 12, 2019
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… If you’re at the digitalNow conference next week and see me wandering around, please let me know you read Association Brain Food, you’ll make my day, plus I’d love to meet you if we’re not already acquainted. Association professionals, please consider participating in the 2019 Association Communications Benchmarking Survey.
Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.19.20
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JUNE 19, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Inclusion advice. A fellow NAHB alum and friend, Lakisha Woods, CAE, has three pieces of advice to share in her “Letter of Thanks and Ideas for Growth from an African-American CEO.”. Inclusion strategy. If your association wants to create a more inclusive association, you must identify and remove the barriers standing in the way of a member’s desire to volunteer or serve in leadership , says MemberSuite.
Association Brain Food Weekly: 4.24.20
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APRIL 24, 2020
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Zoom fatigue—or is it? I’m reading a lot about “Zoom fatigue” these days, which concerns me because associations are relying on Zoom (and other web-conferencing platforms) to educate and connect members to each other. Evan Selinger says the problem isn’t Zoom fatigue, it’s mourning life as we know it. Makes sense. Using Zoom for professional development.
Smart Tactics to Keep Members and Sponsors Engaged During Challenging Times
With conferences being canceled due to COVID-19, associations need to be nimble by implementing alternative strategies and tactics that can continue to bring value to their members, keep sponsors/exhibitors, generate revenues for the Association.
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