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SCD Group: Using Stories and Member Perceptions to Shape Your.

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In this day and age where associations of all types are being challenged to find relevancy, membership value that enhances retention and organizational benefits that enhance recruitment, your association has to stop referring to “what it’s always said and does” and find out what members and prospects want it to be.

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Executive Connections: Adding Value

Executive Connections

While the staff works to implement a new Association Management System (AMS), our leaders and committees are making great progress on the activities occurring in 2008 and beyond, and I have been traveling to some very interesting conferences and meetings. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Adding Value : Comments.

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7 Takeaways for Associations and Association Executives

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Here are some excerpts of Kavita Kumar’s story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. There’s no reason why CPI didn’t invent Instagram,” he said, referring to the photo-sharing service. Know what is happening that impacts your and your association. Was this a sign of the decline of the portrait industry as a whole?