Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In general, members were certainly shifting to more online products and services, such as virtual conferences or online classes. And start segmenting data by categories that are relevant (e.g. Read more about this concept and how to assess the true value of your products in this blog. Start by tracking your members’ behaviors.

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Reid All About it

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. Conference and education teams. Virtual conference advice.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 29, 2016

How your audience responds will have a direct impact on your conference’s brand image and credibility. From a conference design perspective, we believe the current best practice is to bookend your conference by opening with a strong-thought provoking speaker and closing with inspiration.

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Eric Lanke

AUGUST 7, 2017

I heard a great way for organizations to give their core values "teeth" at a recent conference I attended. But what the organization I learned about at the conference has done takes their values a step further. These are both important steps and they have helped make our core values something more than just "a plaque on the wall."

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Reid All About it

APRIL 14, 2023

Abstract/conference management. Ex Ordo takes you through the steps of implementing conference and abstract management software for medical, technical, scientific, and academic events. They discuss configuring software for abstract submission and peer review, issuing the call for papers, designing the conference program, and more.

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Reid All About it

JUNE 4, 2021

Introvert-friendly conferences. Introverts everywhere want to hoist John Spencer up on their shoulders and thank him for the five suggestions he asks you to consider when planning your next conference—or, at least, I do. If you’re a home cook, check out the irregularly published In The Kitchen posts on my Grabbing the Gusto blog.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 14, 2020

Imagine how you might do your job differently if your performance and compensation were evaluated based on overall session attendance and industry presenter ratings at your annual conference. While this notion may seem a bit extreme, conference education systems need increased accountability, which in turn leads to a competitive advantage.

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Reid All About it

JUNE 23, 2023

The resulting benchmark report shares key trends, benchmarks within six marketing categories (research/analytics, branding/strategy, marketing/SEO, UX design/content, technology and team dynamics)—with breakout benchmarks for associations, and recommendations for increasing your association’s marketing effectiveness. Marketing benchmarks.

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Eric Lanke

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

We've been building and maintaining the ability to track and report numbers in strategic categories that make sense at the Board table and in the operation of the business, but we've done it only through the creation of an elaborate and increasingly interdependent series of spreadsheets and translation matrices. Now, don't get me wrong.

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YourMembership

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Categories: Social Media and Business Trends Tags: associations , career , conference , crowdsourcing , culture , member engagement , social media , social media strategies Happy Friday and Welcome to the Weekly Wrap Up brought to you by the team at YourMembership.com!

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Forj

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Web Courseworks, a leader in innovative learning management systems and virtual event technology, won a coveted Brandon Hall Group silver award for excellence in the Best Advance in Technology for Virtual-Classroom or Conferencing Technology category. Web Courseworks’ clients have benefitted from Conference Now in a variety of ways.

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Membersuite

JUNE 16, 2021

For example, the board asks for volunteers from different membership segments to serve on a task force on membership categories/types. This group evaluates existing categories, assists staff with research, and recommends changes to the board. #2: 2: Change the committee’s role from recruiters to advisors. Call lapsed members.

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Higher Logic

APRIL 24, 2018

You can even create different opportunities for each award category. Once you go through the applications you can announce the winners at your annual conference, on your website, or via email. To start, use your volunteer tools to accept speaker submissions for your conference or small, local events. Advocacy Programs.

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Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Boring conferences. Dean West at Association Laboratory bemoans the state of association conferences because “nothing is different” despite associations knowing the same ol’ same ol’ is boring the hell out of attendees. Here’s a cure for boring conferences. AMS implementation. Open Space events.

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Executive Connections

APRIL 5, 2012

Dear Readers, SLA is consolidating many of its blogs to make it easier for information professionals to learn about new professional education offerings, job postings, conference presentations, and other developments. All new blog content will now be published on SLA Blog.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 15, 2021

The Gold Circle Awards recognize excellence in marketing, membership and communications efforts across 15 different categories, and highlight the important role these campaigns have in moving associations forward. MemberSuite discovered that their most visited blog post was about creating a sense of belonging and community. Quick hits.

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Membersuite

JUNE 2, 2021

For example, members who were previously less active might have participated this past year in virtual conferences, courses , and networking meetups. Members also don’t renew when their career status changes , but lower priced dues categories can help. See who took advantage of specific programs. How to Improve Renewal Campaigns.

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Associations Now

APRIL 23, 2019

Associations are in a good position to help students manage this transition and get answers to some of those questions, and smart organizations welcome them with personalized resources, events, and member categories. Meanwhile, only 15 percent said they attended their association’s annual meeting or conference, usually because of cost.

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Associations Now

JUNE 4, 2019

Personalized conferences keep meetings relevant to audiences. writes the Eventsforce team on its blog. To ensure that chapters and their members feel valued, Sarah Garrity from the BillHighway blog suggests limiting award categories. “To The Eventbrite blog offers one way to find out. Next, dive into the data.

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Associations Now

APRIL 12, 2019

That’s why it’s crucial that event planners consider the different learning styles—visual, auditory, reading/writing, and kinesthetic—and schedule conference programming accordingly, the MemberClicks blog notes. The content management giant behind the popular blogging tool WordPress is no stranger to the notion of distance.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 18, 2019

Arianna Rehak, who organizes virtual conferences and curates content for Association Success, will explain how she uses data to harness and share collective knowledge while continuously focusing on the human element behind the numbers. Host: Event Manager Blog. Follow Blog via Email. 1 CMP credit. More info/register.

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Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Virtual conferences survey. If virtual or in-person conferences are part of your organization’s strategy—whether you’re a non- or for-profit, large or small organization—please complete the Tagoras 2021 Virtual Conferences survey. Subscribe to Blog via Email. Subscribe to Blog via Email. CAE credits.

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Reid All About it

MAY 28, 2021

With the switch this past year to online courses and conferences, many associations came to the troubling conclusion that their instructors and presenters didn’t know how to provide an enjoyable or effective learning experience. Agnes Amos-Coleman, MBA, CMP, education, conference, event, certification consultant, Amos-Coleman.

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Reid All About it

APRIL 1, 2022

Subscribe to Blog via Email. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Agnes Amos-Coleman, MBA, CMP, education, conference, event, certification consultant, Amos-Coleman. – Women Transforming Technology (WT2) Conference. Subscribe to Blog via Email.

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AssociationChat

APRIL 10, 2020

With the cancelation of the 2020 Marketing, Membership & Communications Conference due to COVID-19, ASAE will be taking a new, creative approach to recognize, celebrate and share the work of GCA Awardees. The 2020 competition received 189 submissions across 15 categories, including a new category for digital content.

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WBT Systems

APRIL 19, 2017

The article noted that the key benefits that millennials want from associations are job opportunities, credentials and training, and while other membership groups of other age categories prioritized different benefits, job opportunities and credentials were consistently important across the groups.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 25, 2022

Probably every reader of this blog is Gen N, a cross-generational consumer segment. Subscribe to Blog via Email. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Agnes Amos-Coleman, MBA, CMP, education, conference, event, certification consultant, Amos-Coleman.

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Eric Lanke

APRIL 27, 2019

The first screening question is, What category issue is this? Answering the category question concretely labels the issue as, respectively, one of ends, executive limitations, governance process, or board-staff linkage. Screening Questions This is from the pamphlet on “Planning Better Board Meetings.” An executive means issue?

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Associations Now

MARCH 5, 2019

Last year, TMSA held a March Madness membership drive , offering new members in any membership category a chance to save on future event and programming costs. The ScaleFunder blog has three examples of tactics that universities take. The Transportation Marketing and Sales Association is a case in point.

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Reid All About it

AUGUST 6, 2021

The benchmarking data will help you compare your chapters and association with others, assess how you’re doing in various categories and identify where you need to improve (or brag). If you’re a home cook, check out the irregularly published In The Kitchen posts on my Grabbing the Gusto blog. Subscribe to Blog via Email.

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Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 6, 2014

Secret shopping conferences and trade shows is something we do regularly. One week, we’ll be at a medical conference, surrounded by doctors as we watch live stream of surgery being performed halfway across the world. The next, it’s a conference designed for engineers or teachers. Conference Secret Shopping Checklist.

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Achurch

MAY 7, 2021

We have compiled the seven most essential technology categories every organization should have to operate remotely successfully. #1: Generally, payments fall into two categories: paying employees and paying outside vendors. That’s a big question without an easy answer. 1: Video Platform. 3: Payments.

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Aaron Wolowiec

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

In my experience, there are generally two types of speakers: Those who recycle the same three to five presentations from conference to conference with little (if any) customization; and. For the purposes of this post, we’re talking about this second category of speakers (i.e., Complimentary conference registration.

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Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Tue 9/20 at 2 p.m.* – The Highly Energized and Engaged Conference Experience. If your conference attendees are not engaged with your experience, what chance will they have to improve their job performance? Most organizations reach only a small slice of members with traditional place-based conferences. More info/register.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

Identify Your Public Associations have several broad categories of constituents including members, industry professionals, prospective members, and the public. Consider how you will integrate thought leaders into your current marketing plan and how your plan might expand with this additional support. Take Hardy’s advice.

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

In a blog post for Association Media & Publishing , Personius says the model has a number of weaknesses, among them the perception problem that is naturally raised: With higher prices and a hierarchy in names (platinum, diamond, etc.), Yet, most innovation and new solutions emerge from the latter category.

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Reid All About it

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Subscribe to Blog via Email. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. deadline – Personalized One-to-One Networking for Conference Pros. We’re kicking off a fun quasi event where we do a round of curated introductions among conference professionals.

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