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MARCH 8, 2024

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… 2024 association trends. Fíonta shares what they’ve been hearing and seeing lately in the association community and what they suspect is on the horizon. TopClass LMS published another recap from the recent Learning Business Summit.

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WBT Systems

MARCH 20, 2018

What does it take to make a seven-figure income from online courses? She’s a multi-millionaire online marketing expert who says, “Webinars are the backbone of my business model.” Her free webinars act as lead generators for her paid online courses. Ask Amy Porterfield. How to use webinars for lead generation.

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WBT Systems

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

If you’ve taken a continuing education class, you’ve seen how students fade away over time. Online learning presents additional challenges. Online students must have the motivation and discipline to work in isolation. 1 – Prepare students for the online learning experience.

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Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Because I’m away most of next week at the Non-Dues-A-Palooza conference, Association Brain Food isn’t publishing next Friday, September 8. Who has the time to learn? But where and how do you even begin to improve that culture?

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Reid All About it

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Grassroots advocacy. Project success stories. Sherry Budziak of.orgSource recaps accomplishments and lessons learned by the association execs and tech partners who shared their project stories at Solutions Day. Member recruitment.

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Blue Sky eLearn

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Whether the association is made up of people in the same professional field or just those with common interests, members appreciate an association that offers a variety of events and learning opportunities. Check out these strategies to help improve your digital operations as well as increase member engagement: Optimize your website.

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Higher Logic

DECEMBER 2, 2019

We’re always talking about building community and how engaged communities can have an undeniable impact on our organizations. However, sometimes the concepts behind an online community can feel a bit abstract. Aren’t communities built in person? How can an army of strangers online make a customer feel seen?

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Reid All About it

JUNE 16, 2023

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… “The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.” WBT Systems explains what associations need to know about launching a podcast and how a podcast can contribute to the success of your professional development programs.

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WBT Systems

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

You can learn more about the “iconic advantage” approach to marketing straight from the inventor of the concept, Soon Yu , at the NiUG Discovery Conference next week (October 2-4) in Arlington, Virginia. An iconic advantage helps your association build deeper member and customer loyalty and allows you to expand your online learning offerings.

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Reid All About it

JUNE 4, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Of course, you know they have a good answer, which they share in their latest post along with examples of how two associations use chapter benchmarking data to spark change. Benchmarking chapter data. Digital credentialing for the next gen.

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Reid All About it

APRIL 14, 2023

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Extreme brainstorming. Michelle Maher at Highland reports on what they learned after talking with 30 association membership leaders. Quick hits Follow these tips to counteract ten major survey response biases and improve your survey data.

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EventMobi: Association Events

JUNE 26, 2023

Improving member engagement is important for many organizations—but why is it so essential for associations in particular? Foster a sense of community. Engaging members year round is how you grow a real community that members can’t find elsewhere. We’ll get into a more detailed list of member engagement ideas below!

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Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Must-read newsletters. CAE (moderator), Senior Director of Faculty Development and e-Learning at the American Dental Education Association *All events are online at Eastern Daylight Time unless otherwise noted. Credentialing support.

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WBT Systems

JANUARY 9, 2018

We’re bringing six of them to your attention because we think they’re also non-obvious online learning trends for 2018. 1: Light-Speed Learning. Bhargava predicts: “The road to mastery on any topic gets faster through the help of bite-sized learning modules that make education more time efficient, engaging, useful and fun.”.

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Reid All About it

JULY 30, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. 55 days from now, you could be in Nashville hanging around with people whose associations are rolling in non-dues revenue and people who want to emulate their success. Online learning programs. Volunteer learning journey.

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Reid All About it

JUNE 11, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. If members are burnt out on virtual everything, how do you convince them to make time for online education? Christi shared lessons learned so far, including five prerequisites for a chapter benchmarking project. Successful Assertion.

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Reid All About it

MAY 8, 2020

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Chapter virtual events. Student/fraternal chapters. Will college students return to campus this fall? If you have student chapters, WBT Systems shares some ideas for creating a virtual fraternal or student chapter experience.

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Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The weekly list of free professional development and events for the association community… Politicians and pundits need to listen to these two women whose friendship survives their opposing politics. The volume of online information has made it increasingly challenging for learners to find what they need to stay current in their fields.

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WBT Systems

MARCH 6, 2018

However, by focusing only on in-person event sponsorships, you miss an opportunity to build stronger partnerships with industry vendors through online learning sponsorships. An online learning sponsorship program offers more than insert a sponsor’s logo on a webinar slide or displaying their advertising in a sidebar.

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Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Virtual conference pricing. The folks at Fíonta do too, which is why they say integrating Salesforce (or any CRM/AMS) with a learning management system (LMS) should be on your association’s to-do list. Virtual conference FOMO. A true LOL.

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Reid All About it

JUNE 21, 2019

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Maggie McGary shares insights from the Community Roundtable’s 10th Annual State of Community Management report and cross-references them with findings from MGI’s Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report. 1 CAE credit. 1 CAE credit.

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Membersuite

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Consider whether your association might find success with: Student memberships with dues based on their year: sophomore, junior, senior, or graduate student. Lots of people, not just young professionals, prefer an online content subscription because they’re not interested in other membership benefits. Learning Pass.

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WBT Systems

JULY 5, 2017

If your association’s learning management system (LMS) is only used by staff in the education department, you’re not taking full advantage of its potential. An LMS can do so much more than help you manage online courses, certification and accreditation programs, digital badges, and webinars. Get the most out of a conference.

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Reid All About it

JUNE 5, 2020

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… What a week. I’ve always thought of myself as fairly woke, but realize I could listen, read, learn and feel much more no matter how uncomfortable it is, and so I am. Will they have online courses instead? Fri 6/5 at 12 p.m.

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WBT Systems

JULY 24, 2018

Associations want to know how their membership recruitment, retention, and marketing tactics compare to others so they can improve member growth and engagement. Every summer, the association community looks forward to the release of the Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report from Marketing General Incorporated (MGI).

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Leading Learning

JANUARY 12, 2023

While I do work as a coach, my primary focus is as a learning professional in a learning business—I oversee professional development and conferences at the School Nutrition Association. What Is a Learning Business? A learning business has to self-identify as a business. Offer Coaching Courses. What Is Coaching?

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WBT Systems

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

They end up getting overwhelmed with new information and falling victim to the forgetting curve—which means they will forget 70 percent of what they ‘learn’ within 24 hours. To resolve these issues, try a different approach to conferences: make a plan to continue the conference learning experience.

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WBT Systems

APRIL 25, 2017

Success depends on the ability to create value for their brand. Many solutions have been proposed to address this disconnect, including expansion of apprenticeships and online continuing education. Regardless, success depends on tying more “agile” education and development opportunities to desirable competencies as they evolve.

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Reid All About it

JULY 8, 2016

Back in the saddle—here’s the list of webinars and other events for the association community for the week of July 11. Demand Metric recently conducted a study to learn about the current state of referral marketing. Hear about trend data and the interest in, evolution of, and success with referral marketing. More info/register.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 26, 2018

The weekly list of free educational events for the association community… The world wants you just as you are—you are enough. Your teaching feels slightly off and inauthentic to students. WBT Systems explains what to do if one of your online courses fails , how to identify the problem and what to do about it.

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Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In the association community, it feels like we’re always playing catch up to the world around us. This paper is one in a series that Elizabeth has written with other smarty pants in our community. What we need to learn and know will change. Here are some of the courses I’d require: Strategic thinking and goal-setting.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 30, 2018

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… The team at Velocity Partners has scrutinized the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and come up with seven requirements for Generally Dickish Practice Retirement (what GDPR really means) that you need to start working on right away.

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Socious

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Online Communities. Online communities have been springing up since before the world learned just how exciting Myspace could be. And since that popularity has proven to be sustainable in the long-term, there’s also been a rise in community-based membership organizations that compete directly with associations.

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Protech

MARCH 11, 2020

For trade associations, institutional members might expect value in the form of internal educational resources they can share with their staff on community forums. The data maturity model allows nonprofit executives to identify what can be improved in their data governance policy. What is a Data Maturity Model? .

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. To wit, we in online learning are often in the business of managing transactions. If implemented, that will make a big difference.

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Higher Logic

OCTOBER 16, 2018

There was never one dedicated space that offered a sense of community beyond the walls of a school building or district. The DEN evolved from disparate groups connecting across social platforms to an engaged, active online community hub. It’s a testament to a powerful combination of engaged users and great community management.

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Reid All About it

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. It also shares onboarding tactics and success factors. Do you remember early last year seeing a slew of LinkedIn updates about an online DEI course at the University of South Florida (USF)? New member engagement. Quick hits.

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