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Building Buy-In for an Online Community at Your Association

Higher Logic

It’s easy to say, harder to do – but we’ll walk you through what you need to get there, including aligning with your association’s overall priorities and overcoming common objectives. How to Align with Your Board and Executive Team's Priorities. Communities are a great way to promote your association’s status in the industry.

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Ringing the Bell for Member Engagement

YourMembership

I focused on it in my presentation “How to Build an Online Community” and received a lot of interesting feedback from those association professionals attending. During his presentation Greg Melia shared an interesting graphic of a pyramid breaking down the typical levels of involvement for members of an association.

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Solve the Virtual Networking Problem

Smooth The Path

The team at Matchbox Virtual Media and I have been hard at work thinking about how to solve the virtual networking problem. Because this is a hard nut to crack, we are convening a team of association professionals to join us. This has been a year virtually without networking because virtual networking is so difficult.

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Why Long-Time Members Are Reluctant to Leave Your Association

Smooth The Path

This is good news because it buys us some time to figure out how to re-engage them.

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Virtual Networking is Poised to Solve Some Big Problems

Smooth The Path

Learn how to do things better. This need presents associations with a unique opportunity, the chance to bring back networking now and bring it to our whole membership. Let’s figure out how to include great networking opportunities in our upcoming virtual events. Solve problems that make people’s lives better.

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How to Improve Your Call for Presentations Process

Velvet Chainsaw

When Velvet Chainsaw Consulting conducted speaker research with 120 associations with research and consulting company Tagoras Inc. Associations value member input. This puts the reviewers on more equal ground with the paying attendee in terms of how to evaluate which sessions to attend. Mask the speakers name and company.

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