Associations Now

AUGUST 14, 2019

Many meetings incorrectly focus on logistics when they should be centered on strategy. In planning a meeting—whether a team meeting at the office or a major conference—you may be focusing on the wrong things, says Priya Parker, author of The Art of Gathering. Also: one last snapshot of ASAE’s 2019 Annual Meeting & Exposition.

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GrowthZone

AUGUST 2, 2022

Shop Near Home for the Holidays encouraged the Sandusky County, Ohio, community and visitors to shop local during the holiday season. It was featured in print editions of local publications, and the chamber’s team created a text and email strategy for the public at large and passholders based on check-in totals and prize redemptions.

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Communications Directory Social Media Massachusetts 78

Reid All About it

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Scott Wiley, CAE, president and CEO, The Ohio Society of CPAs and chair of the ASAE Board. Learn how you can increase the flow of non-dues revenue into your association with four ready assets you can tap: marketing and membership lists, conferences and exhibitions, conference and exhibition content, and “non-endemic” event sponsorships.

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SCD Group

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

When I played hockey at Ohio State, my coach -- with his fine Canadian accent -- once told me, “Drake, you’d be a lot better hockey player if you were mobile, agile and hostile.”. Funny how you never forget such pointed advice! Our departments provide staffing to meet our member needs. Are we evolving in different directions in a healthy way?

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Reid All About it

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Scott Wiley, CAE, president and CEO, The Ohio Society of CPAs and chair of the ASAE Board. Learn how you can increase the flow of non-dues revenue into your association with four ready assets you can tap: marketing and membership lists, conferences and exhibitions, conference and exhibition content, and “non-endemic” event sponsorships.

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Velvet Chainsaw

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Having our roots in Ohio, Michigan is public enemy #1. His professional growth in meetings strategy has impressed me and ultimately drove the decision to ask him to join our team. VCC is laser focused on large and/or complex conferences and tradeshows. VCC will now a team member in Michigan.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 27, 2019

In the association and meetings industries, there are spaces like ReviewMySpeaker.com and ReviewMyAMS where professionals go to rate conference speakers and AMS vendors. What’s your monitoring and engagement strategy for online reviews? Maybe your profession or trade has these websites too. Weaponized reviews. Post your comments below.

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.orgCommunity

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Teachers look forward to their Professional Development Day because they’ll learn about new instructional strategies and acquire new skills. But you want members to think of your association as a place they can turn to when it comes to online education throughout the year, not just for your conferences.

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.orgCommunity

NOVEMBER 29, 0002

Teachers look forward to their Professional Development Day because they’ll learn about new instructional strategies and acquire new skills. But you want members to think of your association as a place they can turn to when it comes to online education throughout the year, not just for your conferences.

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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Many of us are eagerly awaiting the release of Amanda Kaiser’s book, Elevating Engagement: Uncommon Strategies for Creating a Thriving Member Community , on February 14. You put a ton of effort into planning, promoting and hosting a conference, but once it’s over, you watch as attendees drift away. Member recruitment. 1 CAE credit.

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SCD Group

MAY 22, 2013

Growing up in Ohio, my grandparents used to regale me with stories about Ohioan Thomas Edison and his unwillingness to give up. (I I think they related to Edison because they were in the same generation and like him, grew up in small Ohio towns.) I really like Mazda’s campaign and strategy. It works for me.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 14, 2018

Youth engagement is central to its new recruitment strategy. A report on last weekend’s StampShow conference in Columbus, Ohio, included some troubling numbers about lead sponsor, the American Philatelic Society. The American Philatelic Society’s membership numbers are well down from its 1980s peak.

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Idea Architects

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Every Monday, I offer a leadership limerick, highlighting an idea or strategy about effective leadership in limerick form. Increasingly effective conference design is not about face-to-face OR virtual, but about the AND.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 25, 2017

While most associations are plotting out recruitment strategies for millennials, membership professionals need to be thinking about a younger generation entering the workforce this year. Some associations are beginning to adapt their membership strategies to target Gen Z. “A Are you using a specific strategy or tactics to engage them?

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Associations Now

MAY 11, 2016

In a Columbus Dispatch interview in January, Lash noted that many newspaper shifts have been part of a larger publishing strategy—say, a newspaper drops a daily print edition to bring back a glossy magazine. “We need to go and put our money where our readers are,” Lash told the Dispatch.

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Idea Architects

MARCH 11, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Your dashboard indicators or balanced scorecard become not just metrics for gauging progress, but also mantras by which all strategy and tactics are determined? July 29, New Orleans, NYIB Leadership Pre-Conference.

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SCD Group

JUNE 17, 2012

Content marketing & management represent a growing strategy for association executives. After providing a brief overview of associations and content management, participants will develop key strategies/tactics for their associations. (I’ll Strategy | Content | Discovery. My main thought is: Why is this a question?

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SCD Group

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Free to Fee: Maximizing Association Membership via Engagement Strategies. And, ever since reading Chris Andersen’s The Long Tail have wondered why many associations have not adopted the strategy. Tomorrow, I’ll share an in-depth interview with the CEO of an association that has converted to the FREE to FEE strategy.

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Idea Architects

JUNE 13, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. How would you adjust your recruitment and involvement strategies to capitalize on this potential shift? July 29, New Orleans, NYIB Leadership Pre-Conference. 14, Santa Fe, ISAS Admissions Conference.

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Idea Architects

DECEMBER 19, 2011

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Every Monday, I offer a leadership limerick, highlighting an idea or strategy about effective leadership in limerick form. July 29, New Orleans, NYIB Leadership Pre-Conference. 2, Columbus, PIA-Ohio Board Workshop.

Leadership 60

Leadership Columbus DC Louisville 60

Idea Architects

DECEMBER 5, 2011

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Every Monday, I offer a leadership limerick, highlighting an idea or strategy about effective leadership in limerick form. July 29, New Orleans, NYIB Leadership Pre-Conference. 2, Columbus, PIA-Ohio Board Workshop.

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Idea Architects

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Every Monday, I offer a leadership limerick, highlighting an idea or strategy about effective leadership in limerick form. July 29, New Orleans, NYIB Leadership Pre-Conference. 2, Columbus, PIA-Ohio Board Workshop.

Leadership 60

Leadership Columbus DC Louisville 60

Idea Architects

MARCH 4, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Do your meetings and conferences intentionally facilitate connections between like-minded individuals as opposed to meandering networking opportunities in a crowded ballroom? Labels: mission , strategy , values , vision.

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SCD Group

JULY 11, 2012

Your association may call it education or publications or something similar but it all refers to the content that we create (whether in journals, conferences or the like). 2) Conferences/Educational Sessions. Number (or percentage) “connections” to the conference registration page on the website. Columbus, Ohio.

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Idea Architects

DECEMBER 12, 2011

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Every Monday, I offer a leadership limerick, highlighting an idea or strategy about effective leadership in limerick form. July 29, New Orleans, NYIB Leadership Pre-Conference. 2, Columbus, PIA-Ohio Board Workshop.

Leadership 60

Leadership Columbus DC Louisville 60

Idea Architects

JANUARY 11, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Over the years, Ive developed a dozen questions to draw on during strategy conversations, ones that while timeless in nature almost always can generate new and timely responses. Labels: facilitation , questions , strategy.

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Idea Architects

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. During the past four weeks, Ive had a chance to contribute to the learning line-up at some amazing conferences, as well as hear some provocative presentations from thought leaders I admire. Wednesday, November 09, 2011.

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Idea Architects

DECEMBER 26, 2011

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Every Monday in 2011, I offer a leadership limerick, highlighting an idea or strategy about effective leadership in limerick form. July 29, New Orleans, NYIB Leadership Pre-Conference. Monday, December 26, 2011.

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Leadership Columbus DC Louisville 60

Association Adviser

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Technology is a strategy, not just a department for keeping the lights turned on and the trains running on time. Tech should have a seat at the table whenever business strategy is discussed. ” Members are increasingly looking for apps to help them navigate conferences and other association events. Yates concurred.

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Idea Architects

JUNE 23, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. But the most meaningful learning happens in the workplace—before and after the sessions or conferences—when people attempt to apply their new insights and ideas. 14, Santa Fe, ISAS Admissions Conference.

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SCD Group

AUGUST 8, 2012

Think of the best conference you have ever attended and how it left you feeling – energized, connected, inspired and excited to go back to work? That was this conference for me as a content marketing professional. I tried not to listen to it, I tried to tell it to be quiet, but it was a persistent little thing.

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The white paper suggests that many associations already have a grasp of the employment environment and career paths in their industries—what’s left is to build a strategy and delivery system around it. In the paper, they point to a handful of associations that have ramped up and broadened their education efforts.

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Idea Architects

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Hold meetings in rooms and locations that foster creativity—no windowless hotel conference rooms allowed! Invite “wild cards,” to participate in your meetings and strategy sessions. Wheres Jeffrey.

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SCD Group

AUGUST 30, 2012

So, the organization explored a LinkedIn marketing strategy. · For more information about content marketing for associations, I invite you to attend the CONTENT MARKETING/MANAGEMENT FOR ASSOCIATIONS AND NONPROFITS WORKSHOP at the 2012 Content Marketing World Conference. Columbus, Ohio. This is an awesome conference.

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Idea Architects

JUNE 1, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Strategy sessions are about the future. July 29, New Orleans, NYIB Leadership Pre-Conference. 14, Santa Fe, ISAS Admissions Conference. 28, Columbia, CAI-SC Annual Conference. Friday, June 01, 2012.

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Idea Architects

JULY 20, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. I often present them at volunteer leadership conferences, as staff or board training. sessions, at conventions as a pre-conference or as part of the main. July 29, New Orleans, NYIB Leadership Pre-Conference.

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Columbus DC Louisville Houston 60

Idea Architects

MAY 11, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Facilitating a workshop for a group of colleagues has a different dynamic than facilitating a session at a state conference where the participants dont know each other. July 29, New Orleans, NYIB Leadership Pre-Conference.

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