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JULY 19, 2019

Does your small association emphasize member retention as much as it should? The recent Community Brands benchmark study on associations with small staffs suggests it may not. Your association likely has some type of membership renewal program to support retention goals. Most member-based organizations do. But, in a recent benchmark study of small associations, Community.

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JULY 19, 2019

Managing your donors doesn't have to be difficult. Explore these 19 donor management software solutions to engage, nurture and give value to your donors!

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JULY 19, 2019

The coalition Business for Nature, announced earlier this month, plans to play a big role in global negotiations around biodiversity, using the Paris climate agreement as a template. A new business coalition realizes that changes in climate and businesses’ use of natural resources could threaten the broader ecosystem. And it wants to counteract that problem.

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JULY 19, 2019

While Neil Armstrong was walking on the moon 50 years ago today, July 21, I was working in the garage of his parent’s home in Wapakoneta (Wapak). covering perhaps the world’s largest news story as a reporter for The Associated Press (AP). (BTW: in the photo at the upper left, that's me interviewing Mrs. Armstrong.) A note on dates: The lunar launch was on July 16, 1969; the lunar module landed on July 20; Armstrong stepped on the moon 6 hours later on July 21.

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JULY 19, 2019

Give your annual meeting a tech refresh with an event app. Here’s how to get stakeholders on board. Also: Are mid-career members mentees, mentors, or both? Looking for a way to upgrade your annual conference? Try a meeting app, says Arlene Marie Karole on MeetingsNet. “Apps have infiltrated every part of our lives—checking email, making an airline reservation, depositing checks, listening to books, or calming ourselves at the end of a hectic day—and are serving the conference niche, too,” says K

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Associations Now

JULY 19, 2019

Microsoft’s chat and collaboration service Teams now has a bigger daily user base than Slack, but their use cases differ in important ways—particularly in terms of how they integrate with other tools. Slack is popular, but recently it was revealed that one of its competitors is outpacing it. Of course, Microsoft’s ownership of that competitor probably gave it a leg up in the market.

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Associations Now

JULY 19, 2019

The American Public Transit Association challenges members to take a pledge that they will operate sustainably, creating support for a key policy issue and building community within the organization. How to hack it? Sustainability is a key issue for the American Public Transportation Association, and it encourages members to develop greener transit systems and operations by taking a sustainability pledge.

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