Reid All About it

AUGUST 7, 2020

They offer webinars, blog posts, and maybe even conferences to your members. Summer’s been weird for all of us, but take one bite of a tomato sandwich and, oh yeah, it’s definitely summer. Host: Adrian Segar, founder, Conferences That Work. Presenters: Michael Ryan, TEDx Global Partnerships, TED Conferences.

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Aaron Wolowiec

AUGUST 23, 2016

Jennifer Grau, president, Grau Interpersonal Communication. This month’s guest blog post is by Jennifer Grau , president of Grau Interpersonal Communication , who is a listening trainer, coach, facilitator, speaker and consultant. People rarely design conferences with quality listening in mind. Words wash over them.

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Reid All About it

AUGUST 11, 2023

But there’s no replacement for conferences. On the expo floor, at industry partner parties, and in restaurants, what a joy it was to be amidst my community. They shared a definition of “community” on LinkedIn: a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests and goals. 1 CAE credit.

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Leading Learning

AUGUST 20, 2020

We have been tracking and reporting on virtual conferences—not to mention hosting our own—for years, but clearly interest in and demand for them has skyrocketed in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, interest in finding the best virtual conference platforms has also risen dramatically. What Is a Virtual Conference?

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Reid All About it

APRIL 16, 2021

Laura Lewis, Chief Communications Officer, Commercial Real Estate Women Network. Agnes Amos-Coleman, MBA, CMP, education, conference, event, certification consultant, Amos-Coleman. Virtual & Hybrid Events: Customer Stories to Inspire Your 2021 Conference. – The Conference Roadmap to Recovery. Tue 4/20 at 3 p.m.

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Reid All About it

MAY 29, 2020

Ellipsis Partners and Achurch Consulting have been burning the midnight oil on a virtual events ebook that’s definitely worth checking out. During a virtual conference, attendee attention is more focused on the educational content. Virtual conference success story. Virtual conference of the week. More info/register.

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Leading Learning

MAY 5, 2020

When we put together a Webinar called “A Why-To and a How-To: Virtual Conferences in the COVID-19 Era,” we reserved ample time for Q&A. How do you ensure engagement of attendees in learning the content versus just having it [a virtual conference session] on in the background?” “Our Defining Virtual Conference.

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Leading Learning

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

One of the challenges with virtual conferences – particularly with there now starting to be many, many more of them as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic – is that it is pretty easy for them to feel like bunch of Webinars strung together. This post is based on a talk I delivered at virtual conference earlier in 2020.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 19, 2024

TopClass LMS explains why you should keep the conversation going and the community gathering after a course, conference or educational program ends. The focus will range from online communities to ways to recognize members and from creating engaging events to effective advocacy efforts. Post-program campaigns. Membership.

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.orgSource

MARCH 20, 2023

One thing has definitely changed. The Gartner Technology Glossary offers these definitions. The second definition explains the purpose of digital transformation and the reasons why it is a continuous process. Those statistics were not surprising in 2017. Today, few leaders would call their IT activities unimportant.

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Aaron Wolowiec

AUGUST 23, 2016

Jennifer Grau, president, Grau Interpersonal Communication. This month’s guest blog post is by Jennifer Grau , president of Grau Interpersonal Communication , who is a listening trainer, coach, facilitator, speaker and consultant. People rarely design conferences with quality listening in mind. Words wash over them.

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Higher Logic

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Automate your communications. An AMS makes it easy for you to gather important information about your members, communicate with them, and help them take part in your programming. Updated member data is essential for communicating with your members and understanding their reasons for getting involved with your association.

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Spark Consulting

JUNE 25, 2014

Also, Associations Now has a nice roundup post on the conference, and the MMCC website has a good summary , too. From that, you should definitely take that, if you’re in any way responsible for your association’s social platforms, you need to be following John Haydon. Did you know she created a post about it?

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 23, 2014

No joke—Santa can really teach you how to improve membership communication. Plus: the best ways to open a conference. Taking a look at kids’ letters to Santa, there are many styles of communication that can be found in the notes shipped off to the North Pole. The same approach applies to member communications.

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Higher Logic

MAY 16, 2019

They might hear about you through a direct mail flyer, send in a check to join, and attend a conference once a year. Many definitions of digital transformation focus exclusively on technology and can be confusingly complex. A member’s experience with your association or nonprofit used to look different. That was association membership.

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Reid All About it

APRIL 9, 2021

5 tips to attract and engage the next generation of leaders—excellent advice from members of ASAE’s Healthcare Community Advisory Committee. How to communicate price increases: a timely post if you’re planning to charge a more appropriate amount for your virtual events this year. – Facilit8me: Community of Practice. .

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Reid All About it

APRIL 23, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Member communications. Help yourself and others benchmark member communication efforts and strategies by participating in Association Adviser’s 10th annual Association Communications Benchmarking Survey. Speaker diversity.

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Reid All About it

JULY 10, 2020

Community karma, baby. Communications. Take a look at Naylor’s 2020 Association Communications Benchmarking Report , an in-depth look at the communication challenges associations currently face, including issues related to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Virtual conference success. Timely stuff. Zoom fatigue.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 26, 2021

The webinar will cover physical distancing layouts, enforcing mask/sanitization policies, keeping attendees engaged and enjoying the event, lessons learned, and how communication between all parties has never been more important. Agnes Amos-Coleman, MBA, CMP, education, conference, event, certification consultant, Amos-Coleman.

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

But the conversations that ensue won’t necessarily map to American definitions of inclusion. “In As an example, he points to a recent conference ASIS hosted in Saudi Arabia. O’Neil, FASAE, CAE, CEO of ASIS International, a Factum client. We’re making sure that we’re using words that resonate in the region or the locality.”

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 11, 2015

Want to spike your conference registration? Applying Groupon Tactics To Your Conference Marketing Groupon offers one of the best examples of a company that is going all in on neuromarketing. For conferences, you can highlight your best seller or most popular package or preconference workshop. Try an emotional call to action.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 12, 2024

Bulletin describes how a member app helps you nurture member engagement by providing a centralized communication channel for your members. You might not have given serious thought to these doable ideas, but you definitely should take the advice of people who live and breathe data every day. Member mobile app. Dirty data. 1 CAE credit.

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Reid All About it

JUNE 23, 2023

Host: Fridays@4 Speaker: Carolyn Nopar, former Chief Development Officer for the YWCA Metro Chicago and Director of Development & Communications for Family Focus Mon 6/26 at 8 a.m. More info/register. 1 CMP credit. 1 CMP credit. More info/register. Host: Meetings Today Speaker: Zoe Moore, president, Grow With Zomo Wed 6/28 at 2 p.m.

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Reid All About it

AUGUST 28, 2020

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Racial diversity in events. Learn how to take events online in a way that will deliver high value, create an engaging experience, and preserve the outcomes you were seeking to achieve with your in-person conference. 1 CMP credit. 1 CAE credit.

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Montana North Carolina Content Certificate 359

Reid All About it

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. This survey data will provide quantitative insights to help guide associations planning 2021 conferences. MemberSuite shares nine ideas for member networking meetups that go well beyond the chat box at virtual conferences. Chapter ROI.

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Association Success

APRIL 6, 2020

While checking my LinkedIn feed recently, and seeing a number of virtual conferences, webinars, and other digital offerings being promoted, one virtual event stood out. WQRF’s other fundraising events are at WQA’s Leadership Conference in the fall. Our Leadership Conference was cancelled in 2018 due to Hurricane Florence.

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WBT Systems

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Just as we are seeing more organizations delivering education and certification programs through online Learning Management Systems , there is a growing expectation for organizations to be able to communicate and share knowledge with their customers, members, or employees efficiently and expertly online. What is an Online Community?

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 16, 2014

Peer conversations are more important to your conference than you know. You know when it’s happening at conferences because the rooms are buzzing with discussions. The Industrial Conference Is Dead. Most of us still depend upon and expect an outdated model of conferences: the industrial conference.

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Velvet Chainsaw

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

What type of emotions does your conference experience activate? My conference is supposed to connect on an emotional level with attendees?” Whether you like it or not, your conference does initiate some type of emotion. Unfortunately, many conference experiences are bland, sterile boring events. So how do you do that?

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 5, 2024

I’ll definitely make her party prosciutto bundles and double blue canapés again. Right before Christmas, I bought Nigella Lawson’s Christmas cookbook , which inspired many dishes on my Christmas Eve menu. The ladies enjoyed Poinsettias to start the evening—the guys stuck with beer. 1 CAE credit. More info/register.

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Reid All About it

MAY 1, 2020

This helps foster a sense of shared culture and brings back ‘water cooler’ opportunities and unplanned social collisions that just don’t happen on a conference call.”. Sarah Michel at Velvet Chainsaw Consulting recorded a shortish video you should definitely watch: five tips to guarantee engagement at your virtual event.

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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. Open Space events.

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

When members gather at conferences, you have a big opportunity to collect their stories to showcase the people who make up your community. Face-to-face communication has grown scarcer in this digital age, when emails, texts, and social media posts often replace direct, two-way conversation.

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Reid All About it

JUNE 5, 2020

Oh yeah, pandemic, virtual conferences, faltering economy and all that. What happens after your virtual conference. MemberSuite says, “The virtual conference is where the attendee experience begins, but not where it ends.” Virtual conference success story. AAM’s Twitter stream gives you a sense of the conference program.

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Eric Lanke

MAY 30, 2016

And when that's the case, staff will often expend a tremendous amount of energy in order to "teach" members their definition of success. You must read our newsletters and attend our conferences. Because association members generally have little loyalty to the vehicle of their association's newsletters and conferences.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 3, 2017

I definitely agree with the #1 blogging tip: create a content strategy. The ASAE Great Ideas Conference kicks off this weekend — Sunday, March 5. Today’s communication strategies are a mix of media relations, social media, original content and paid advertising. Facilitator: David Harrison, founder, Harrison Communications.

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Associations Now

JUNE 13, 2023

You can definitely stay in the city if you’re going to sit in a conference room and meet for three days straight,” said Tricia Duffney, sales manager for Rancho de los Caballeros, a dude ranch in Wickenburg, Arizona. “I Embrace the Outdoors Want to revolutionize a meeting? Take it outside.

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