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Joint Membership: The “Special Sauce” for Chapter Relations

Associations Now

Joint membership can offer big benefits for associations with component relations for both the national organization and state or local chapters. Apparently, there’s another type of special sauce that the association world is craving right now—joint memberships in national organizations and their chapters. I love Big Macs.

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Association E-Learning: 3 Tips to Provide Member Value

Fonteva

Your association is now competing against similar organizations and off-the-shelf solutions such as LinkedIn Learning and Pryor Learning Solutions. Beyond effective assessments, we recommend capturing the data from courses and assessments in your association management software (AMS). She currently serves on the board of ATD Detroit.

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Why The Structure You're Staffing is Stifling Progress

Idea Architects

Speaking at a leadership conference for volunteers this weekend, I was reminded why some organizations struggle to get volunteers. 15, Detroit, OACS-MACS Fall Conference. Participative decision-making forms like quality circles have become mainstays in many organizations. Monday, June 11, 2012. Let that someone be you.

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Thoughts on Adopting a Digital Mindset

SCD Group

In their book When Millennials Take Over , Jamie Notter and Maddie Grant devote a chapter on the importance of organizations to have a digital mindset. demand for fuel efficient cars and hit the market with vehicles that caught the Detroit Three by surprise, permanently altering the ranks of the biggest auto makers.

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6 Simple Ways to Facilitate Conference Connections

Idea Architects

While Im a heavy user of sophisticated electronic community-building software whenever it is part of a conference, here are a few easier-to-implement tactics: 1. Organize your registration area not alphabetically, but by local affiliates, states, or some other demographic that makes standing in line a potential networking opportunity.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Seen Elsewhere: Crowdsourcing.

Idea Architects

If youre interested in trying this approach, two free or low-cost online software options are IdeaScale and Skild. Each year, almost 2,000 training and learning professionals gather in Orlando, Florida, for the annual Masie Center Conference, hosted by "futurist, analyst, researcher, and organizer" Elliott Masie. Blog Archive.

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Seen Elsewhere: Resources for Trend Scanning, Gaming, Productivity

Idea Architects

Here are two invaluable resources for doing that: Springwise , an organization spotlighting information gleaned by a network of more than 15,000 "spotters" from around the world. It offers a daily or weekly newsletter as well as a database of ideas, trends, and innovations organized into more than 20 industry categories. Blog Archive.