May, 2012

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The Trick to Innovating with Gen Y

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Remembering Volunteers and Leaders

Association Leaders

This weekend was Memorial Day. Memorial Day isn’t just a three day weekend, an extra day off of work or school. Memorial Day is a day we remember and recognize the volunteers, the leaders who died in service of our country. Just about everyone has a friend or relative who died fighting for or has served in the military protecting the freedoms we hold so dear, yet so often take for granted.

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Adding Facebook Plugins To Your Wild Apricot Website

Wild Apricot

Have you been wondering if you should add social plugins - such as a Facebook Like Button or Activity Feed - to your website? Our helpful support Apricots have developed easy-to-follow instructions on how you can add 5 Facebook plugins to websites.

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Thanks For Playing: Gone Fishin'

Thanks For Playing

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Thanks For Playing. Seeking community in associations since 2008. 22 May 2012. Gone Fishin. With ASAEs Membership, Marketing & Communications Conference this week and an upcoming vacation, T4P is going on a little hiatus. I know, I know - I hit 1000 posts and decide to slack off right away, right? Back around June 4!

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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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Word of the Day: Truthiness

Reid All About it

Is that even a real word? Yes, it is, says Dictionary.com : truth·i·ness [troo-thee-nis] (noun): “the quality of seeming to be true according to one’s intuition, opinion, or perception without regard to logic, factual evidence, or the like: the growing trend of truthiness as opposed to truth.”. And Wikipedia says: “Truthiness is a quality characterizing a “truth” that a person claims to know intuitively “from the gut” or because it “feels right” without

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The Number One Thing Successful Networkers Do

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Facebook – Is Mark Zuckerberg a Great Leader?

Association Leaders

It seems nearly everyone has heard of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook co-founder and CEO. Mark and his team have transformed an idea designed to connect people into a huge business that was taken public last week in the largest IPO in US history. Mark and many of his team members are millionaires and billionaires today as a result. So does that make Mark a great leader?

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Free Non-profit Webinars for June 2012

Wild Apricot

Here's our round-up of free non-profit webinars for June 2012. Topics include email marketing best practices; nonprofit sustainability; executive compensation; social networking; grants and much more.

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Thanks For Playing: Always the Last to Know: PaperKarma

Thanks For Playing

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Thanks For Playing. Seeking community in associations since 2008. 21 May 2012. Always the Last to Know: PaperKarma. Want to stop junk mail and save some trees in the process? Ive been using the relatively venerable Catalog Choice website for years, but now theres an app for smartphones called PaperKarma that makes it even easier.

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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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How’s Your Association Attitude?

Reid All About it

Quiz time: How often do you try a new recipe? A different gas station or restaurant? An unfamiliar magazine or radio station? When’s the last time you talked with someone about an idea or project that flopped, or asked for constructive criticism? When did you last seek ideas from someone with a different perspective? Or collaborate with a colleague from another department?

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Eric Lanke: Don't Say It If You Don't Mean It

Eric Lanke

Eric Lanke. Association executive and author. Pages. Home. Leadership. Innovation. Member Engagement. Generations. Books Read. Fiction. Monday, May 28, 2012. Dont Say It If You Dont Mean It. image source. Think of this as part two to last weeks post, Dont Rush to Fill the Silence. How many times have you witnessed (or been a player) in the following scene: Board member has an idea.

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Share Some, Gain More: Membership and You

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Are you a Manager or a Leader?

Association Leaders

Many people in leadership positions are also in management positions. As a result, these two concepts are sometimes mistakenly considered to be similar or even identical. They are not. Even the dictionary thinks they are similar. Management is defined as the act of directing, handling or controlling. While leadership is defined as guiding or directing a group.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

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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Wild Apricot Software News May 2012

Wild Apricot

Since Wild Apricot is an Internet company, we don’t usually get a lot of opportunities to actually meet with our customers in real life. So this past week, we tried out something we have never tried before: we sent an invitation out to a group of local customers, and asked them to meet in our office!

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Thanks For Playing: Friday Top 5

Thanks For Playing

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Thanks For Playing. Seeking community in associations since 2008. 18 May 2012. Friday Top 5. For those who havent heard, DC musical legend Chuck Brown, the Godfather of Go Go, passed this Wednesday night, May 16. I dont recall the first time I heard Go Go, but Im guessing it was Browns Bustin Loose, DCs unofficial city anthem.

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Not just any top five list: Innovative and interactive learning formats according to you

Aaron Wolowiec

On May 23, Destination Michigan hosted its annual Michigan Meetings Expo at the Bavarian Inn Lodge in Frankenmuth. This year, instead of a traditional keynote session, the opening general session comprised five different speakers – each delivering one of five top Michigan meetings trends in five minutes or less. Trend topics were solicited from local, state and national media outlets, as well as various social media channels, last year’s attendees and registrants of this year’s event.

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Everybody lies

Golden's Rules for Association

The series had its ups and downs and wild swings in quality, but there is no question that Fox Television’s “House M.D.,” which came to an end after eight seasons this week, was consistently ambitious and compelling TV. Held together at its center by the bravura performance of Hugh Laurie in the title role, the [.].

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Is Your Member Organization Evolving? Don't Do It Alone.

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Eric Lanke: Don't Rush to Fill the Silence

Eric Lanke

Eric Lanke. Association executive and author. Pages. Home. Leadership. Innovation. Member Engagement. Generations. Books Read. Fiction. Monday, May 21, 2012. Dont Rush to Fill the Silence. image source. This is one of the toughest lessons Ive had to learn as a leader. And it is something I still dont always get right. In a staff meeting, on a conference call, at the Board table--there are invariably times when silence occurs, when a difficult issue has presented itself, and everyone is looking f

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Nonprofits Going Mobile - Submit posts to the Nonprofit Blog Carnival

Wild Apricot

How is our increasing use of mobile devices (Smartphones, tablets, etc.) impacting non-profits and membership organizations? We're hosting this month's Nonprofit Blog Carnival and we want submissions on mobile for non-profits.

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Thanks For Playing: The 1000th Post

Thanks For Playing

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Thanks For Playing. Seeking community in associations since 2008. 17 May 2012. The 1000th Post. Actually, the 1000th post was yesterdays What Im Reading. I just realized the milestone was approaching - well, passed - today. Oops. Ive been writing this blog since July 2008 - almost four years. I still have 65 subscribers, same as when I reported on my 500th post (hm, probably ought to try to promote subscribing a little harder).

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5 Habits of Growth-Oriented Associations

We’ve identified the five defining characteristics of future-focused associations. Adopting these traits allows your organization to chart a course for long-term growth and success. Find out: Why some organizations are more adept at navigating and overcoming challenges facing all associations. The success formula for thriving associations, including a behind-the-scenes peek at some flourishing organizations.

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Association Subculture: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff - Thoughts on.

Association Subculture

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Friday, May 18, 2012. Dont Sweat the Small Stuff - Thoughts on Loss. It struck me yesterday how many of us seem to be suffering losses of different sorts. Whether parents, siblings, pets, friends or colleagues each loss seems very immediate. We tend to feel a certain sense of melancholy when we lose celebrities we dont even know.

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8 top tips for great new member lunches

Optimist Consulting

I was talking to a membership contact last week and we were discussing the success of their lunches for new members. I have also found this a helpful way to introduce members to the organisation. Typically these lunches are fairly informal and are a chance for new members to hear directly about the organisation’s benefits and what the organisation is planning over the coming months.

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Handling Social Media Strife & Other Unpleasantries

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Eric Lanke: I Don't Want to Serve on Your Committee

Eric Lanke

Eric Lanke. Association executive and author. Pages. Home. Leadership. Innovation. Member Engagement. Generations. Books Read. Fiction. Monday, May 14, 2012. I Dont Want to Serve on Your Committee. image source. This may come as a shock, I know, but I dont view it as an honor. I view it as a timesuck, and its not clear to me what kind of value (if any) Im going to get out of the experience.

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How to Design a Seamless & Personalized Digital Donor Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.