September, 2016

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Re-energize your career center.

YourMembership

Reach more job seekers with the power of social networking. Technology doesn’t just change how we do our jobs; it redefines the skills needed to do them. Technology also makes it increasingly more difficult to find the most qualified job applicants. Consider that, according to scientists, the age of smartphones has left you and me with such a short attention span even a goldfish holds a thought longer.

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Clearing up association chapter confusion

Aaron Wolowiec

As I think I’ve mentioned before, I’m a member of Public Relations Society of America , and I’m actively involved in the Central Michigan Chapter of PRSA. While I enjoy attending PRSA functions across the country – during which I can network and learn from colleagues – I more frequently attend chapter meetings and events. Obviously, convenience plays a big factor, since venues for chapter events are within the Lansing area.

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Discover your new TopClass LMS at NiUG Discovery 2016!

WBT Systems

WBT Systems is delighted to announce their sponsorship of the NiUG Discovery 2016 Conference , hosted by NiUG International , April 11-13. At NiUG Discovery, attendees will have the opportunity to advance both their skills and their organization by attending training courses and breakout sessions to ‘Become an iMIS Superhero’! We are very excited to sponsor NiUG Discovery!

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September Update: We Take Your Feedback Seriously

Wild Apricot

We try our best to understand and respond to every one of your messages. It’s your feedback that has made Wild Apricot the product that it is today. Read about some of the struggles we've had and what we're doing about them.

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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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Association Brain Food Weekly: 9.30.16

Reid All About it

The future of learning has been on my mind lately. After reading Elizabeth Engel and Shelly Alcorn’s paper, The Association Role in the New Education Paradigm , I was inspired to write my own take on how associations could transform higher education. Why not dream big or dream differently—that’s how to design your own future. After publishing that post, I saw the news about LinkedIn’s new site, LinkedIn Learning.

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Alright stop: collaborate + listen, part 3.

YourMembership

Effectively capture + score member engagement in your social community. Editor’s note: This is the third installment in a four-part series looking at member engagement at associations and the importance of implementing a social networking platform equipped with the right tools to ensure early adoption and consistent engagement. Previously, we discussed the best way to recognize and leverage the knowledge of ambassadors within your association to help onboard new members and more directly engage

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What is Your Volunteer Culture?

Aaron Wolowiec

Jamie Notter, founding partner, WorkXO. This month’s guest blog post is by Jamie Notter , founding partner, WorkXO. I think a lot of associations have a love/hate relationship with their volunteers. At one level, these folks do a LOT of work — for free — so their contributions are highly valued. We couldn’t accomplish what we do, given our resources, without these members moving the ball forward for us.

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What makes an Association Education Program Successful?

WBT Systems

There is an association for every profession, trade, and interest. In the United States alone, there are tens of thousands of associations and non-profit organizations working to support, develop, and advocate for their respective members and industries. Many of these associations offer some form of professional development, continuing education, or training to both members and non-members, and increasingly this includes an online learning element.

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5 Ways to Find Volunteers on Facebook

Wild Apricot

Are you finding it harder to get volunteers these days? Why not use Facebook? That’s what one Wild Apricot customer, Patty Foley, the Membership Chairperson of Newington Community Television, did to find her latest volunteer.

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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 Associations Can Transform Higher Education

Reid All About it

Right now, today, in 2016 is the best time to start up. There has never been a better day in the whole history of the world to invent something. There has never been a better time with more opportunities, more openings, lower barriers, higher benefit/risk ratios, better returns, greater upside than now. Right now, this minute. This is the moment that folks in the future will look back at and say, “Oh, to have been alive and well back then!”.

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Can Email Make Online Community Gamification Fun?

Higher Logic

Watching the adrenaline-inducing Olympics inspired me to think about ways community professionals can refine our own systems for awarding our community users. How can we make gamification more authentic and fun? At this point, community professionals are all pretty well-versed in the value of enacting gamification campaigns for our communities. But another crucial part of gamification -- one that’s often overlooked -- is alerting members via email.

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Association member retention: hard lesson learned.

YourMembership

The day we lost a member, we gained perspective. As a previous association membership manager, one of my biggest challenges was dealing with member retention. As you can imagine, it was always a hard pill to swallow when we lost a member. Here’s how to best overcome that lump in your throat when it happens […]. The post Association member retention: hard lesson learned. appeared first on YourMembership.

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Bonus content – Event Garde E-news – October edition

Aaron Wolowiec

Angie Ahrens, director of meetings and events, Connect Meetings. Q & A with Angie Ahrens , director of meetings and events for Connect Meetings. Follow her on Twitter. Learn: Q: What’s your favorite part about learning something new? A: The excitement of figuring out how I can work with this new information, as well as how I can share it with someone else!

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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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Top Technology Strategy Tips for NiUG Discovery

WBT Systems

With less than a week to NiUG Discovery 2016 , we are excited to be sponsoring this great, interactive, learning and networking event for the iMIS Community! As we pack and ship our materials, arrange meetings with partners, clients and associations, and put the finishing touches on our TopClass demos, we started thinking about our top technology strategy tips for getting the most out of the conference.

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How to Recruit Volunteers from Your Email List

Wild Apricot

If you’re sending emails to your contact list, asking for volunteers, but not getting a lot of response, it’s likely that your emails are getting lost in your recipients’ inboxes. Here's one simple thing you can do to get your emails to stand out.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 9.23.16

Reid All About it

Let’s start with my desert hiking observations from last week in Sedona, AZ. I suppose this might bore 96% of you. But if you’re hiking out west soon, you’ll appreciate these thoughts, I hope. Greet fellow hikers as you pass by. People hiking trails rated “strenuous” are usually much friendlier than people on trails rated “easy” or “moderate”—must be a camaraderie thing.

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Turn Your 'Over Eager' Online Community Members into Super Users

Higher Logic

Do you have one member -- or several -- whose engagement is off the charts? Every time the average member posts, one of your over eager member posts many more times, far outshining the runner up. It might seem overwhelming, but don’t fret -- you actually hit a goldmine. Congratulations -- you just found a super user. Do you have trolls or super-users?

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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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Association member retention: hard lesson learned.

YourMembership

The day we lost a member, we gained perspective. As a previous association membership manager, one of my biggest challenges was dealing with member retention. As you can imagine, it was always a hard pill to swallow when we lost a member. Here’s how to best overcome that lump in your throat when it happens […]. The post Association member retention: hard lesson learned. appeared first on YourMembership.

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6 Steps to Pinpoint Your Most Engaged Members in 5 Minutes or Less (And Why You Need to)

Socious

Forbes , Associations Now , and Association Universe. What do these publications have in common? In the last several years they’ve begun touting engagement as a way to increase revenue, renewals, and customer acquisition. These and many other go-to industry hubs now frequently feature articles that highlight the importance of engagement as well as tips for how to encourage it.

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Associations Need to Lead Change with Education Programs

WBT Systems

“ The Association Role in the New Education Paradigm ”, a recently published whitepaper, outlines the potential for Associations to lead a much needed change in the current education industry. The authors of this whitepaper make a compelling case for associations to step in and bridge the growing education-to-employment gap by offering alternative, affordable, industry specific education programs for professional development and credentialing.

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Education: The Key to Member Growth and Loyalty

Wild Apricot

If your association targets recent graduates, young professionals, and those looking to gain more employable credentials (or would like to), you may be familiar with the current educational landscape.

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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 Brain Food Weekly: 9.16.16

Reid All About it

Does everyone have a cup of coffee and a maple-glazed donut? No? Just me? No matter, it’s time to review the many learning opportunities scheduled for next week. Then, you know the drill, select and register for one and add it to your schedule. Make time to invest in your future. Now, if your association or business hosts webinars or if you’re one of those smarty pants who regularly shares your expertise via webinars, this week’s list includes two items especially for you.

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Have You Seen the IDC MarketScape Report on Online Communities?

Higher Logic

Online communities are all about getting relevant, ongoing conversations to customers quickly and easily. The community industry is quickly becoming a frontrunner for the customer experience, with an emphasis on the growing importance of communities for customer relationships, feedback, and support. The new IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Online Communities 2016 Vendor Assessment highlights the strengths and advantages of incorporating community into any organization.

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It’s time for associations to exploit programmatic advertising.

YourMembership

Machine learning technology + analytics increase value + grow non-dues revenue. Associations and advertisers are capitalizing on the power of analytics and machine learning technology to drive non-dues revenue and sponsorship value. With improved online advertising technology, there’s an opportunity for associations to efficiently buy space for their advertisers and increase non-dues revenue.

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You May be Doing Innovation: Introducing the Association Innovation Continuum

Smooth The Path

The magnitude of an innovation project doesn’t determine whether the project is innovative or not. Innovation is synonymous with big. So innovation also might be just as well be synonymous with risky, scary and the domain of only a privileged few. This is dangerous thinking for association executives, boards and staff alike. The myth around the very word innovation can keep us from moving forward.

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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.