Wild Apricot

MARCH 14, 2013

One way to keep members and supporters coming back to your website, is by creating a sense of community. Here are some tips and ideas for building community through your website.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 29, 2013

Friday, already?! Time to get it done and get to the weekend. I’ve got your leisure time reading selections all ready for you. Curated Post of the Week. No surprise, I love curated posts. The Verge publishes The Best Writing of the Week on Sundays. It usually introduces me to well-written posts that I might have missed during the week, usually about the intersection of life and technology.

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Spark Consulting

MARCH 28, 2013

Back in the mid-1990s (so, in Internet time, 500 years ago), I was a member of a thriving online community on the Runner’s World website. We shared training regimens, asked each other questions, told race stories, got injury and gear advice, told stupid jokes, gave each other a lot of s**t, got into arguments and then made up, and generally had a ball. “Wait!

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YourMembership

MARCH 19, 2013

'Categories: Association Management Tags: associations , member community , member organizations , member retention , online community , online member communities , online member community , private online community , yourmembership.com If they don’t think of you, they won’t volunteer. If your event doesn’t come to mind, they won’t attend.

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Thanks For Playing

MARCH 15, 2013

If you're a regular reader, you probably know by now that I started my own business, Spark Consulting , this past summer. My new website has been live in a dev environment since November, but it recently moved to its permanent home. With that, it's time to retire Thanks for Playing, at least in its current incarnation. I still blog just about every week day, only now I'm doing it over at the Spark Blog.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 12, 2013

The DoGooder Video Awards - presented by See3 Communications, YouTube, the Nonprofit Technology Network and sponsored by Cisco - are calling for submissions until March 22, 2013.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 22, 2013

Every time I see the word media in this post by Jeff Jarvis, I think associations. He talks about media’s business model : “building a pay wall around content because content is valuable, damnit.” And then says, “I’ve been arguing to media that relationships are more valuable. Knowing people because you have their trust and give them value builds a rich and deep relationship — builds data about that relationship — that can be far more valuable for far longer than a mere transaction.

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Spark Consulting

MARCH 27, 2013

Looking for innovation? Better create a culture of unique strategy, leadership, trust, autonomy, comfort with failure, and GSD. Want to blog better? Social Media Examiner has a list of tools to help you get there (also, my head just exploded from TOO MUCH AWESOME). Guy Kawasaki’s 10 tips for nonprofits using social media. “Segment by service” – can I get an amen?

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YourMembership

MARCH 19, 2013

If they don’t think of you, they won’t volunteer. If your event doesn’t come to mind, they won’t attend. If your conferences are not on their calendar, they’ll go elsewhere. If they don’t know what you do for them, they won’t renew their dues. If your private online community is not part of their daily Internet ritual, you won’t see them there.

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Thanks For Playing

MARCH 6, 2013

Did you observe the National Day of Unplugging last week? What did you learn? You know what's awesome? Minimum Viable Awesome. Jeff De Cagna challenges boards to be better in the March issue of Associations Now, and offers advice on how to actually do that in the online supplement. Hiring? Make sure you respond to all applicants , whether or not you intend to interview them. 6 words that stop change at associations, and how to get around them.

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Association Leaders

MARCH 5, 2013

I met a leadership lover recently. Her name is Ann Tardy. She has a great story – the short of it is after successfully practicing corporate law, she discovered she had a passion for leadership and mentoring. She stepped away from her law career to become a leadership and mentoring trainer and consultant. The story is much deeper than this and you can find out more about Ann at her website.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 8, 2013

In this guest post, Kristen Grimm of Spitfire Strategies offers insight to "help nonprofits and volunteer-led groups of all sizes navigate a trail of influence by identifying—and eliminating—blind spots before they sabotage change strategies.".

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Reid All About it

MARCH 19, 2013

Although I didn’t participate in today’s #assnchat about ASAE’s Great Ideas Conference , it still inspired a blog post. Thank you, KiKi! Here’s why. I must confess I never went into the creativity rooms at Great Ideas. I peeked into one, but it looked like a dolled-up regular meeting room to me. Maybe I missed something. Maybe I missed it completely.

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Spark Consulting

MARCH 26, 2013

It’s conference season, which means a lot of us are working on presentations. Sadly, the majority of those presentations will suck. But it doesn’t have to be that way. What Would Steve Do? 10 Lessons from the World’s Most Captivating Presenters from HubSpot All-in-one Marketing Software. My favorite tips? Want people to care? Tell a story.

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YourMembership

MARCH 15, 2013

'Categories: Social Media and Business Trends Happy Friday and Welcome to the Weekly Wrap Up brought to you by the team at YourMembership.com! The weekly wrap-ups are a great resource to find industry provoking articles, blog posts, upcoming events, fun facts, and provide up-to-date news and tips found throughout the association and workforce space each week.

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Thanks For Playing

MARCH 5, 2013

Buzz words. What a disaster. You think they make you sound cool and in-the-know. They actually make you sound like a doofus who doesn't care that she's murdering the English language. So stop it already! (Also, excellent graphics.) 15 Marketing Buzzwords to Stop Using from MarketingProfs Also? Stop slapping "-ize" on to the end of everything. Really.

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Principled Innovation

MARCH 31, 2013

Jeff De Cagna , chief strategist and founder of Principled Innovation, has been selected as the opening keynote speaker for the Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives (CESSE) 2013 Annual Meeting. Jeff’s keynote talk, which will take place on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at the Omni Providence Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island, will focus on themes and ideas shared in his provocative free e-book, Associations Unorthodox: Six Really Radical Shifts Toward the Future. “For

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 27, 2013

This month, Software News offers a number of updates on the “State of the (Wild Apricot) Nation", including: insight into future releases, API, billing, mobile, and more.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 15, 2013

Google Reader is where I go first thing in the morning for my professional reads about associations, marketing, digital media, technology, etc., and at the end of the day for my personal reads about food, culture, etc. I have hundreds of RSS subscriptions in dozens of Reader folders. Yes, I find a lot to read on Twitter, but its randomness, although appreciated, is no substitute for Reader.

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Spark Consulting

MARCH 25, 2013

Last week, I was in the process of signing a new client. We’re moving fast, because they need the main piece of the project done and ready to share with their Board at the end of April. So we’re working on formalizing the relationship (aka “contracting and billing”) at the same time as we’re getting started on the actual work.

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YourMembership

MARCH 15, 2013

Happy Friday and Welcome to the Weekly Wrap Up brought to you by the team at YourMembership.com! The weekly wrap-ups are a great resource to find industry provoking articles, blog posts, upcoming events, fun facts, and provide up-to-date news and tips found throughout the association and workforce space each week. Please feel free to leave a comment, ask a question or just enjoy the week’s top ten picks!

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Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Thanks For Playing

MARCH 4, 2013

Not getting the most out of your Facebook ads? John Haydon breaks down how to use Facebook Insights to better target your outreach.

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Aaron Wolowiec

MARCH 25, 2013

It’s been several months now, but I was invited by Bryan L. Crenshaw, southeast zone adviser of the Michigan District of Key Club International, to present two breakout sessions on public speaking and confidence building at the organization’s 2012 Fall Rally in Wayland. As a former club president and district board member, I was eager to give back to this next generation of leaders and (fingers crossed) association professionals.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 1, 2013

Here's a look at the February Nonprofit Blog Carnival - hosted by Marc Pitman the Fundraising Coach - about keeping donors wanting to come back.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 1, 2013

On Monday, it looked like all the smarty pants in DC were tweeting from the xPotomac conference. Search for the #xpotomac13 hashtag to get a taste of the brain candy, or check out Jay Daughtry’s notes and links to other xPotomac posts. Hopefully, if your job requires you to develop relationships with the media, you use Twitter to do that. If not, start by creating Twitter media lists.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

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