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6 Tips for Effective Board Meetings in 2020

YourMembership

Simple yet effective tips to help you hold efficient board meetings now and into the coming year. Do you sometimes feel like you’re living in a world of meeting overload? I know I do. And it’s safe to say that your board members feel the same way. A meeting that has no direction can be unproductive and annoying – especially when the meeting is after hours.

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Make Ethics Support a Member Benefit

Associations Now

If a member faces an ethical dilemma, does your association offer a helping hand? At the Institute of Management Accountants, ethical guidance is a critical member benefit and engagement opportunity. Ethical dilemmas can arise in any industry or profession, and while an association might have a code of conduct, ethical guidelines, or an ethics committee, the organization may not be the first place a member thinks to turn when facing a murky gray area.

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Providing a Memorable Experience for Event Attendees

Membersuite

How do attendees choose which events to attend each year? It’s not only the information they take back to work that matters - it's the experience. Read the blog post to see how to provide a memorable experience for attendees during your events.

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Five-Step Framework for Effective Collaborative Design

Velvet Chainsaw

Your conference strategy should include a plan to inject fresh content or experiences each year as part of an ongoing improvement process. There are a million ways to make these improvement plans. Some work and many don’t. Working with one of our clients, we devised a simple framework to help develop innovative plans for meaningful and lasting change.

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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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If you prove your value, members will invest

Association Success

When I was a sophomore in college, I was recruited by a little known agency to work full-time. To this day, I give that agency credit for giving me the best sales training I could ever have in my life. . My job involved doing thorough research. I learned to really look at so many different, unique and innovative ways to research people and organizations.

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Our Member’s Decisions Are Not What They Seem To Be

Smooth The Path

Do you ever find yourself wondering why members make the decisions they make? Why join, but then not engage? Why go to an inferior conference put on by a competitor? Why don’t they participate in the benchmark study when they need the data? Sometimes member’s decisions seem so irrational. Why are our members so irrational? They are not. They are just as logical as we are.

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10 Steps to Improve Your Association’s Video Content Marketing

Association Adviser

Navigating the world of video content strategy and video marketing can be complicated for associations. Here's how to succeed at video content marketing. The post 10 Steps to Improve Your Association’s Video Content Marketing appeared first on Association Adviser.

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Daily Buzz: Optimize Your Online Member Application

Associations Now

Membership applications hold a lot of valuable data on prospects—but don’t use that as an excuse for a lengthy submission process. Also: Which posts drive more engagement on Instagram? Your online membership application can be the ultimate tool in turning prospects into full-fledged newbies. Well, as long as it’s built accordingly. On one hand, it’s important to acknowledge that people don’t have time to fill out a lengthy application.

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10 Steps to Improve Your Video Content Marketing

Association Adviser

Navigating the world of video content strategy and video marketing can be complicated for associations. Here's how to succeed at video content marketing. The post 10 Steps to Improve Your Video Content Marketing appeared first on Association Adviser.

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2024 Association Survey Results Report

2024 Association Survey Results Report For the 10th year, association professionals across the U.S. and Canada provided a look at the inner workings of their organizations when they replied to GrowthZone’s annual survey. Read the 2024 survey results report to see how your association compares: Top Challenges Retention Rates Non-Renewal Reasons Automatic Renewals Reinstatement Strategies Member Engagement Changes & Strategies Why Members Join Non-Dues Revenue Sources Dues Increases, and more

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American Medical Association Expands Anti-Burnout Efforts

Associations Now

While the problem of physician burnout has decreased in recent years, AMA says more progress is needed. The association will work on new research exploring the issue and expand existing programs. The American Medical Association this week announced a new campaign to get at the root of a persistent problem in the medical profession: physician burnout.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Making Accommodations In Workshops

Beth Kanter

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. The workshop was focused on personal resilience and self-care based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and was part of series of workshops on resilience. Co-Act is a unique organization, a hub for accelerating collaborative action in Southeast Michigan’s nonprofit community.

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Cloud Security Becomes a Challenge at Scale, Reports Say

Associations Now

A pair of reports highlight the dangers that organizations could face from the use of multiple cloud services, due to the additional ways that attackers can breach an organization’s data. Many modern organizations—big or small—don’t just have one cloud. They have many. And getting those clouds, whether private or public, on the same page can be extremely challenging—which can create some big security headaches.

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