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Understand the Three Professional Stages to Improve Association Value

Smooth The Path

These professionals are gaining tons of technical skills, they might be learning the systems and process of their organization, and they are learning soft skills like how to collaborate with team members, how to manage up, and how to be an excellent communicator. Why long-time members are reluctant to leave your association.

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Associations Increasingly Adopting Communications Popular in Mainstream Life, But Do Members Care?

Association Adviser

The 2018 Association Communications Benchmarking Study results show the needs for a balanced approach to technology and tradition as association communicators strive to keep members’ attention. Communicating member benefits effectively” fell back to the second most frequently cited communication challenge.

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7 signs of a successful enterprise association

Nimble AMS

We continue to grow our offerings in Nimble Communities and reach higher levels of member engagement,” said Michael Blake, Chief Technology Officer at American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA). Authentic leadership How would you measure your association’s culture ? “We are very fortunate to have Nimble AMS.

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Is New Technology Worth The Investment?

Association Adviser

Last month Reggie Henry, CIO of ASAE, recounted a story about an exchange with a University of Maryland student in which the student explained that younger people aren’t communicating by email anymore, but almost exclusively through social networks. MU: Relationships are formed when there is two-way communication.

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Building Buy-In for an Online Community at Your Association

Higher Logic

Your goal should be to demonstrate how the community aligns with and leads to achieving the goals of your association’s strategic plan. This is how you can prove your new member community will be a valuable technology investment. 5 Common Organizational Priorities for Associations. Member Engagement and Retention.

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

.orgSource

Is technology tying your audience in knots? Associations revolve around relationships, but the shape of those connections has changed. The association value proposition should be revised to meet the moment. It is still possible to create that community, but on a smaller scale. Trust is tied to value.

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Mobile Apps Then & Now: Learnings from a Year of Digital Acceleration

Protech

Events & Communications Specialist . Over the past year, associations have found creative ways to leverage virtual technologies—and mobile apps are at the center of many of those efforts. Mobile reduces friction in all those communications. By Heather Hughes – Sr.

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