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Of Crowdsourcing and Cassandras

Spark Consulting

Jeff Howe , who is credited with coining the term “Crowdsourcing,” was the opening keynoter at the 2009 ASAE Technology Conference, where he mad the point that no matter how smart the people around you are, most of the smartest people work somewhere else. Which revenue, may I remind you, is NOT necessarily going to the workers.

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Managing Learning at your Association Annual Conference

WBT Systems

Organizations offer a wide variety of professional learning opportunities to their members, employees, and partners which range from online courses and webinars, to regional or annual conferences, to classroom-based learning. Integrated conference management in the LMS facilitates: . Reasons Members Attend Events.

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Are you getting the most out of your retention data?

Association Analytics

Are you using it to increase revenue and lower costs per renewal? While wrangling all of this data into one place for analysis can be quite the challenge, it’s worth figuring out how to do it. At the same time, your analysis might show that members who attend your annual conference have a high renewal rate.

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Are you getting the most out of your retention data?

Association Analytics

Are you using it to increase revenue and lower costs per renewal? While wrangling all of this data into one place for analysis can be quite the challenge, it’s worth figuring out how to do it. At the same time, your analysis might show that members who attend your annual conference have a high renewal rate.

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Hone in on what your virtual conference is telling you.

HighRoad Solution

While in-person conferences will start to crawl back out of the cave, the sheer flexibility, potential cost savings, and, yes, data traceability afforded by virtual conferences will undoubtedly turn hybrid event models into the norm. Whether we're prepared for it or not, virtual events are happening.

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Association Brain Food: 12.1.23

Reid All About it

Conference/abstract management. Ex Ordo describes how to implement conference and abstract management software for medical, technical, scientific, and academic society events. Their guide covers configuring software for abstract submission and peer review, issuing the call for papers, designing the conference program, and more.

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Time to Audit Your Sponsor Offerings

Velvet Chainsaw

The first two steps are critical for organizing your sponsor data for analysis. On a spreadsheet, list every sponsor item that you offered for your 2019 and 2023 major conference. Competitive sponsor pricing intelligence from a couple of other conferences can help guide and validate your pricing decisions. Add new inventory.

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