Wild Apricot

MAY 3, 2016

May means nicer weather and I know you want to go outside, but here are 18 great reasons to stay glued to your computer screen!

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Reid All About it

MAY 6, 2016

Here’s the learning line-up for the association community for the week of May 9. Since it’s not a big list, if you know of something I’ve missed, please let me know and I’ll add it. Tue 5/10 at 12 p.m. EDT* – Providing Multilingual Communications at Your International Event. From hiring interpreters to ordering collateral translations, this webinar will walk you through how to decide what’s a “must have” for your international event, as well as how to book and promote these services effect

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Higher Logic

MAY 5, 2016

You’re going on a week-long South Pacific vacation next month and need a house sitter. How do you find someone you trust enough to take care of your dogs and house? Maybe you know someone who knows someone who has an awesome house sitter. Or, you could go online, scout what’s on Yelp and trust the advice of strangers. Or, you could log onto NextDoor and see who your closest neighbors recommend.

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Potomac Core

MAY 3, 2016

In an era of unending economic challenges and uncertainty, industries must be relevant in order to grow. KPMG’s 2016 report “Setting the Course for Growth: CEO Perspectives” underscores how today’s CEO is laser focused on staying relevant in a turbulent global market. In order to remain relevant to their members Trade Association CEO’s focus more on understanding industry challenges then helping drive industry outcomes.

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Eric Lanke

MAY 2, 2016

Last week I tweeted this post by Amanda Kaiser of the Smooth the Path blog. In it, she wonders which members association staff should pay the most attention to: those most or those least actively engaged in the association's activities. She makes points on both sides of the argument, but eventually comes down on the side of those most engaged. It is okay to welcome everyone.

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Higher Logic

MAY 4, 2016

Engagement is a big word these days -- we want everyone in our community to be “engaged.”. We want them to engage with each other, and engage with our organizations. The more engagement, the merrier everyone will be. This is where so many community builders measure value and a return on investment -- if people are logging into the community, talking to each other, creating content and contributing, that’s a sign they’re satisfied with their membership and see community as an important asset.

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Smooth The Path

MAY 3, 2016

We are sitting around the conference table having the same conversation we always have. There’s a major problem for which there is no good solution. The same solutions are each brought up and reviewed and discarded because the solutions are just to painful to consider. So the problem continues to be a problem. We spend time and mental energy discussing the problem but all that time and energy is wasted because there’s no reasonable solutions.

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Associations Now

MAY 3, 2016

At events, we use social media to engage with our attendees and to keep the hashtag flowing. Should event social media be a deeper part of the process? A new startup makes the case for social strategizing months before the event. When it comes to event social media, is your association’s problem a lack of planning? Not like planning a couple of weeks out, just to be sure that people are aware your event has a social presence.

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Association Adviser

MAY 6, 2016

Associations shouldn't be afraid of failure, but of falling behind & letting innovation pass them by because they don’t have the courage to try new things. The post Why Associations Can’t. For more about this topic, click on the headline.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 6, 2016

Brain science research continues to prove that our brains function best when we’re engaged in meaningful We-centric conversations. We are a highly social species. This research illustrates our need to design conferences that promote deeper and more meaningful conversations, especially in our networking. These We-centric conversations, as organizational anthropologist and author Judith Glaser states, move us from l ess surface what I can do into deeper conversations of what we can do together.

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Smooth The Path

MAY 1, 2016

There are two big benefits of networking. One benefit is problem solving which associations are good at nurturing and talking about. The other is emotional support which associations tend not to focus on at all but which holds tremendous opportunity. Just like there are two sides to networking there are two sides to professional development. One side associations focus on and the other is a unleveraged opportunity.

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Associations Now

MAY 4, 2016

With the Every Student Succeeds Act underlining in federal law the value of music education for the first time, the National Association for Music Education is on an upswing—and to take advantage of the renewed interest in the subject, the group is boosting its educational resources for new members. With a new law giving fresh attention to the role of teaching music in schools, the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) is using its recent legislative victory to attract new members.

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Membersuite

MAY 5, 2016

If you’ve never attended a webinar before, you probably aren’t in a league of your own. If your association has never administered a webinar before, you definitely aren’t alone. Many association executives are just getting onboard with social media , let alone the idea of a webinar. Some of you may be asking, “what is a webinar anyway?

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GlowGlobally

MAY 4, 2016

Sector Opportunities. The prosperity and progress of people dwelling beside the Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf of Arabia have been intertwined for more than 6,000 years. Through the centuries, trade and the presence of global powers have created a vast cultural and economic melting pot. Today, a shared heritage underpins massive flows of goods, investment and people.

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Smooth The Path

MAY 5, 2016

Related posts: Professionals are in pain. A new mantra for the association community. Turning our member’s problems into opportunities. The post Associations Can Help Members Reflect appeared first on Smooth The Path.

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Associations Now

MAY 6, 2016

NBC Sports is making Snapchat a central part of its coverage of this weekend’s Kentucky Derby. Here’s why it’s time for your association to consider doing the same at its events. Last year 16 million viewers tuned in to watch the 141st Kentucky Derby. And as the 20 horses competing in this weekend’s race, including favorite Nyquist, take their positions just before the 6:34 p.m. post time, millions of people will once again be glued to their TV.

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Membership Marketing

MAY 4, 2016

Whether you serve members in a trade association or individual membership association, value is something that members want to receive from you. And sometimes one of the most valuable benefits that can be uniquely supplied by a membership organization is research conducted with or on the behalf of your members. Here are some examples of association sponsored research that members value either because it provides guidance to them or visibility to their profession. · Member Polling Research – Gath

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Achieve

MAY 4, 2016

Editorial Note: The following blog is based on themes from Derrick Feldmann’s new book, Social Movements for Good. , and first appeared on. Philantopic. . Here’s a situation: A few hundred people, maybe more, start acting like they care about what you do, decide to follow you on social media, and/or sign up for your email list. But when it comes to needing them to actually take action for your cause, they pretty much disappear.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 2, 2016

This is part four of a series on being more future focused in our planning. See part one here , part two here and part three here. So how do we develop, foster and leverage future focused leadership? How do we encourage our committees, volunteers, staff and customers to laser focus on what’s next, what’s coming and co-creating a future together? It’s so hard to look ahead when we are often struggling with the past.

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Associations Now

MAY 4, 2016

Reflecting on this week’s World Press Freedom Day, media groups around the globe are asking the United Nations to take steps to further protect and speak up for correspondents. And one group is determined to keep the work and memory of slain journalist James Foley alive. At a time when journalists are facing the risk of arrest for doing their jobs, both globally and domestically , the value of World Press Freedom Day, which takes place annually on May 3, is all the more evident.

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Effective Database

MAY 2, 2016

When I work with my clients on implementing a new software system, one of the first things I tell them is this: “We will make some decisions that ultimately are wrong. Because things change. We’ll make the best decision we can make, given the information we have at the time, but we may find later on that it was the wrong decision to make.

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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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Achieve

MAY 1, 2016

The idea of doing something good in the community is a popular notion. Research tells us that the attitude towards giving, serving and using one’s talents to help others is a noble and desired idea. This idea goes back to the roots of the nonprofit and social sector and is embedded in the ethos of every individual because of the empathy we have to help one another.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 4, 2016

As a conference organizer you have the amazing opportunity to create some noble and transformative meeting mojo! We just need the right thinking tools to do conferences better. We have to reframe our lens, filters and thinking so that we can propel our customers into the future advantageously. We have to move beyond gathering and reviewing our surface stats from the past.

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Associations Now

MAY 2, 2016

An association research expert says we’re spending too much time conducting surveys on member needs and not enough on strategic goals. Association executives know the rule: If there’s a decision you need to make, the first thing you need to do is gather data on the issue. If only doing that were simple. Right away, a host of questions crop up.

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Higher Logic

MAY 3, 2016

There’s no one right way to run a community, so it should come as no surprise to anyone that there’s not a single path to becoming a community manager. In fact, when people ask me about what makes someone great at community management, I tend to describe more personality traits than anything else: adaptability, curiosity, an analytical mind. And yet, there are plenty of things you can do to prepare yourself for getting a job as a community manager.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

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