Fri.Mar 22, 2019

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Association Staff Stretched to the Limit? How to Get More for Your Association Without Breaking Your Team

Association Adviser

The new norm is to have more work to do than can possibly be done with the current level of resources. What can association professionals do to make the most of the resources they have without leading to staff burnout? Slightly more than half of respondents to the 2018 Association Communications Benchmarking Survey reported feeling understaffed. Organizations can find themselves in this situation because of any number of circumstances.

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ICANN Proposal Would End Price Caps on.Org Domains

Associations Now

Associations and other tax-exempt groups could find it a lot costlier in the future to renew their website domain names ending in.org if a new contract proposed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is approved. ICANN, the entity that currently manages over 180 million domain names and 4 billion network addresses on the internet, has proposed lifting price caps on.org and.info domains—a change that could lead to tax-exempt organizations paying domain registries thousands of

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March udpdate

Wild Apricot

The countdown to PersoniFest 2019 is on! In just under 3 weeks our user conference will kick off in Savannah, Georgia, April 7-10. It’s going to be packed with product training, sessions on marketing and growth , and of course cocktail hours, networking.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 3.22.19

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… In a two-part series ( part 1 and part 2 ) on Association Adviser , Jeff De Cagna, FRSA, FASAE, executive advisor for Foresight First LLC, writes about building a future-ready association. Notice he didn’t say “future-proof”—he explains why. He also describes how the behavior and mindset of association staff and volunteer leaders must shift if they are to understand, anticipate and prepare for the futur

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Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Association Member Education

Unlock More Profit and Smarter Packaging for Member Learning Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your association’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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Daily Buzz: It’s Time for a Needs Assessment

Associations Now

A needs assessment isn’t a once-a-year (or longer!) gig—it’s something your association should be focusing on habitually. Also: networking opportunities for remote employees. When is the last time your association conducted a member needs assessment? As jobs, technology, and industries continue to evolve at a fast pace, the old standard of every three years is too long, says the WBT Systems team.

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Membership Hack: Association StoryCorps

Associations Now

Association members have stories to tell. The American Geophysical Union has enlisted StoryCorps, a nonprofit that collects and archives audio conversations with everyday Americans, to document its members’ accounts of their journeys through science. How to hack it? Maybe you’ve heard of StoryCorps , the nonprofit organization whose recorded audio conversations with everyday Americans are regularly featured on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition.

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American Cable Association Drops the “Cable,” Focuses on Connections

Associations Now

The group, which represents small cable providers, is rebranding to ACA Connects in part because it wanted to put the focus on what its members’ technology does, not what it is. In the world of telecommunications, things are moving so fast that the term “cable” is old hat. Case in point: The American Cable Association announced this week that it would shed the term from its name and call itself ACA: America’s Communications Association.