Wild Apricot
JANUARY 31, 2011
The New Year started on a pretty good note for us at Wild Apricot - we released version 4.1 on January 12th. This Software News post offers an overview of the key new enhancements in version 4.1 as well as an update on our next upgrade - 4.2 - scheduled for May.( read more ).
Reid All About it
JANUARY 27, 2011
Norman Rockwell took me on a trip through American political and cultural history earlier this week. The North Carolina Museum of Art exhibit, American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell , i ncludes 47 years of his covers for The Saturday Evening Post plus dozens of other paintings. I first got a deep look at Rockwell almost ten years ago when the Corcoran Gallery of Art presented Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People.
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Association Subculture
JANUARY 20, 2011
skip to main | skip to sidebar. Thursday, January 20, 2011. Association Executives: Provocative Proposals Research Project. Second stage is cut. Were now in orbit. Stabilizers up, runnning perfect. Starting to collect. requested data. "What will it affect. when all is done?". thinks Major Tom. Major Tom, Coming Home - Peter Schilling. The Short of It.
Association Advocacy Chick
JANUARY 31, 2011
Recently, the Congressional Management Foundation released a survey of congressional staffers and their thoughts on advocacy. The results were quite interesting. Among the findings, the survey identified the most important factor that influences an undecided Member of Congress. No, not the lobbyist or the media. It’s the legislator’s constituent.
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Idea Architects
JANUARY 25, 2011
The President makes an annual address. Publicly traded companies release quarterly earnings. Sports teams compile stats for every game. There was a time when most companies and associations produced annual reports. That seems to have diminished over the years. But has our need to track progress? Has interest in the health of our organizations? Has the value of weaving together isolated facts into a coherent narrative about a company, an association, a profession, or an industry?
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Wild Apricot
JANUARY 28, 2011
In January, the top rated links on AssociationJam.org were for blog posts and articles on Membership, Volunteers and Fundraising, with Technology and Social Media not far behind in the votes tally. There were also some highly rated marketing-communications articles posted in the "Other" category. Here's a look at some of the most popular links submitted to Association Jam in January, 2011 by category: Membership: Three Reasons Why Representation of Member Needs is the Biggest Challenge for Assoc
Reid All About it
JANUARY 26, 2011
I’m taking a break today on Reid All About It. Instead of publishing a new post here, I’d like to lure you over to my other blog, Grabbing the Gusto , where I’m celebrating its 100th blog post with a review of the five posts that delivered the gusto. Why have these five posts had more views than any others? That’s what I try to figure out over on my Gusto blog.
Association Subculture
JANUARY 6, 2011
skip to main | skip to sidebar. Thursday, January 6, 2011. Why Being Anti-Indispensability is Pro-Membership. You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar. When I met you. I picked you out, I shook you up, and turned you around. Turned you into someone new. Now five years later on youve got the world at your feet. Success has been so easy for you.
Association Advocacy Chick
JANUARY 11, 2011
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, social media divas Lindy Dreyer and Maddie Grant, CAE of SocialFish have published their first book, Open Community. The book offers advice to associations looking to either create or expand their online communities with the help of social media. From an advocacy perspective, this is an excellent resource for government relations professionals.
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Idea Architects
JANUARY 24, 2011
To break things up a bit in 2011, I will be offering a leadership limerick each Monday, highlighting an idea or strategy about effective leadership in limerick form. If you’re weary of ideas that seem lame You must think in ways not so tame Big questions you should ask Of those minds up to the task In groups of people who are not the same. When we plan strategy conversations, the invite list too often consists of the usual suspects.
Association Adviser
JANUARY 12, 2011
January 2011 -- Leadership This month’s Corner Office spotlight shines on the remarkable leaders we profiled in 2010 who are not just leading their organizations forward, but are changing the association landscape. Here are some of our favorite takeaways that should help you navigate 2011.
Wild Apricot
JANUARY 26, 2011
We launched a Wild Apricot Blog Reader Survey to find out what type of information would help small membership-based organizations thrive in 2011. If you want to have a look at what our Blog followers told us - here is an overview of our survey results.( read more ).
Reid All About it
JANUARY 18, 2011
Clay Shirky ’s Foreign Affairs article, The Political Power of Social Media (registration required), is a fascinating read that rebuts and shreds Malcolm Gladwell’s view about the power of social media to facilitate change. Shirky doesn’t like our Administration’s “instrumental” approach — social media used as short-term action-oriented political tools with the focus on computers rather than phones — because it “overestimates the value of broadcast media while underestimating the val
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GlowGlobally
JANUARY 12, 2011
GrowGlobally.org. global association strategy, regional planning and local infrastructure to grow your business. Home. About. Channels. MarCom. Market & Biz Plan. Meetings. Membership. Products. Public Affairs. Services. « When Will China and India Surpass the West? The Face of Innovation from the East » Jan. 12. 2011. MCI to Host International Meeting Planners at IMEX’11 in Frankfurt.
Association Advocacy Chick
JANUARY 5, 2011
Every year around this time, I make a list of 10 goals I want to accomplish by 11:59 pm eastern time on December 31. Like everyone else, I want to drop a few pounds, exercise more and spend quality time with family and friends. However this year, I decided not to make a list. Why? Because I only have one goal: to be me, only better. . What does better mean to me?
Idea Architects
JANUARY 18, 2011
To break things up a bit in 2011, I will be offering a leadership limerick each Monday, highlighting an idea or strategy about effective leadership in limerick form. To make new or better I behest Thou shalt not dally nor rest Start thinking big now Use your existing know-how And put your ideas to the test. Innovators call it rapid-prototyping. In Built to Last , Jim Collins and Jerry Porras describe Trying a Lot of Stuff and Seeing What Works.
Association Adviser
JANUARY 12, 2011
January 2011 -- Marketing & Communication A focused strategy that recognizes all member communications under a single brand has the ability to create unification and consistency where there was once confusion and chaos.
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Wild Apricot
JANUARY 24, 2011
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 powered by our Wild Apricot Membership Management Software. Why Add Plugins? As Rebecca Leaman (our non-profit tech blogger) noted in a Wild Apricot blog post a while back , "better insights into how and where Facebook users are interacting with your n
Reid All About it
JANUARY 13, 2011
“Technology killed criticism,” says Morgan Meis in On the State of Criticism 2011. Everyone’s a critic now, writing reviews on Amazon and blogs, and ranting or raving on Twitter. Netflix, Pandora and Amazon make personalized recommendations based on algorithms, decreasing our reliance on professional critics. Meis sees this loss of authority for critics as an opportunity for them to share their experience and love of art, rather than merely judge it. “The death of the critic-as-autho
Robert M Barnes
JANUARY 9, 2011
Back then it was two walkie talkies. Today it is iPod Touch. Same, same but different.
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Idea Architects
JANUARY 10, 2011
Every Monday I offer a leadership limerick, highlighting a leadership fundmental in limerick form. Delegation gets lots of things done If people have the permission to run Your support is what they need Don't overmanage or underlead Or their success is sure to be none People exercise initiative only when they have freedom of choice and the power and authority to act.
Association Adviser
JANUARY 11, 2011
January 2011 -- Features In this digital era, traditional media properties become smarter about connecting with members and reinforcing the membership value proposition. By Hank Berkowitz.
Wild Apricot
JANUARY 21, 2011
It looks like February is going to be as busy month - with 31 (and counting) free non-profit webinars already scheduled. There is a wide range of webinar topics, so have a good look through this round-up, since there's bound to be something of interest to you or other folks in your organization.( read more ).
Reid All About it
JANUARY 11, 2011
You can’t go far on the web without tripping over a productivity expert, or lifestyle guru but that’s another story. Unlike many productivity posts, this list from Lifehacker of ten ways to upgrade your morning routine is well worth reading. It includes a few ideas I hadn’t seen before — ideas that make sense and are doable. My mornings have been more productive lately not only because of the push-ups that Lifehacker encourages, but also because I’m using time blocks to schedule my day.
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