YourMembership

JULY 31, 2013

'We’ve been attending ASAE Conference for years now but every year is a great new experience for a multitude of reasons. Sure, there are the amazing locations. There are the fun association parties. Oh…and the swag. Gosh, I love light-up pens. Those things are all part of what makes conference a great time but there’s [.] ( Read more. ) The post ASAE2013: Mental Mountain Dew for Associations appeared first on YourMembership.com.

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Wild Apricot

JULY 30, 2013

'Since we have just celebrated 7 years since we released the very first beta version of Wild Apricot, this is a good time to review some interesting statistics related to how we''ve grown, and how organizations are using Wild Apricot!

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KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup

JULY 30, 2013

'Guest Post by Sandra Giarde, CAE. By now you’ve read about what to bring to ASAE. Your travel arrangements are all confirmed and reconfirmed. And your schedule is likely taking shape with sessions and parties identified as “must attend” and “might attend.”. However, there’s one more thing to prepare for at ASAE and nobody talks about it. And it has to do with feelings.

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Aaron Wolowiec

JULY 30, 2013

'Sarah Sladek, founder of XYZ University. We’re in the middle of a generational alphabet soup, a “perfect storm” as Sarah Sladek, founder of consulting company XYZ University , calls it. You’ve probably heard of Generation X and Generation Y , but what about Generation Z ? As a Gen Xer, I’ve grown up listening to how our generation craves economic diversity and demands social justice.

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Spark Consulting

JULY 31, 2013

'Google has made some changes to Gmail, and they WILL affect you. Hubspot has the details. (See below for a great video from John Haydon to help you straighten out your own Gmail inbox organization.). MIT’s Technology Review has some good (and less rah-rah) information on the Gmail changes as well. New data proves that diversity promotes innovation.

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Virtual

JULY 29, 2013

'I’m not quite old enough to have seen the television commercials for Fletcher’s Castoria children’s laxative when they aired in the ‘60s. They carried the memorable tag line “Better than Prunes.” The commercials asserted that Fletcher’s Castoria was better than prunes because Fletcher’s removed the guesswork: “are three prunes enough, are six too many?”.

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Jamie Notter

JULY 29, 2013

'My second White Paper in the “Making it Work” series is out! Click here to go to the download form and get it for free. This one is about one of my favorite topics: conflict. I started my career twenty years ago in the conflict resolution field, and to this day it surprises me how bad our organizations are at dealing with conflict. You’d think we’d know better by now.

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Spark Consulting

JULY 30, 2013

'I know – this slideshow is SUPER long, but it’s also really interesting. Hubspot breaks down the history of advertising, starting in 3000 BCE (yes, really), and going forward the whole way to the future (or at least next year). The Evolution of Advertising: How Consumers Won the War for Their Attention from HubSpot All-in-one Marketing Software.

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Wild Apricot

JULY 29, 2013

'Did you know that your association’s choice of renewal cycle might impact increases in membership or your renewal rates?

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Association Navigator

JULY 29, 2013

'The Beautiful Trees at Highlands Swim and Tennis Club – McLean, VA. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s recent book Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead is in my stack to read. My wife was inspired by it and quickly passed it on to a friend. Doug Conant, former CEO of Campbell’s and now head of ConantLeadership recently shared one of Sandberg’s simple yet powerful suggestions – “done is better than perfect.”.

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Jamie Notter

JULY 31, 2013

'That’s what Robert Barnes did. Rob’s the General Manager at Fitness Australia (and my one and only Guest Poster here on this blog so far!), and he and I will be speaking this weekend at ASAE’s Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Rob’s leading the session and telling the story of how he turned a twitter hashtag (#teamcool) into an organizational culture, which included using a lot of the ideas that Maddie and I put forward in Humanize.

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Spark Consulting

AUGUST 1, 2013

'I’m at the Bridge Conference today, presenting on Attention Doesn’t Scale , the Spark white paper first released last fall. The basic premise of the white paper is: Information overload, while not a new problem, has gotten so much more severe in the last few decades as to turn a difference in quantity into a difference in kind. Nonprofits are making this problem worse for our stakeholders.

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Mariner

AUGUST 2, 2013

'I admit it - even though I’m currently not on vacation, I’m in a “summer vacation state of mind.” There’s just something about this time of year that makes us this way. And with both bosses out of the office, that “vacation state of mind” is even harder to resist. Especially since, with them away, the phones are quiet and the emails have slowed.

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Idea Architects

AUGUST 1, 2013

'It''s that time of year again when I dive deep into the stacks of books that have accumulated the preceding six months. Each week this month, I''ll be reading 3-5 books on the same topic and posting a summary of some key takeaways the following Monday, concluding on Labor Day. Monday''s post will include three books rich with insights about sales and service: To Sell Is Human by Dan Pink Give and Take by Adam Grant Youtility by Jay Baer Subsequent week''s themes (not necessarily in this order)

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Jamie Notter

JULY 30, 2013

'Thanks to everyone who read last week’s Open Letter to HR post. And particularly thanks to those who said “I’m with you, so what’s next?” In this post, we’re going to get started. And I really should apologize for the deceptive post title today. I made the point last week that our challenge is not to fix HR, but instead to create new practices that work better with human organizations.

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Associations Now

JULY 29, 2013

'Diversity at the top is rare, and so is strong support for those leaders once they become CEOs. A close look at your board makeup can help. We know that associations struggle to promote women and minorities to leadership positions. Some recent research suggests even deeper problems: Women and minorities tend to become CEOs during rough patches, and they receive limited support to clean up the mess they’ve inherited.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 30, 2013

'Note: This post was originally published on July 11, 201 and has been slightly edited. Attention is a payment of the brain’s resources. It requires that we adjust, engage and sustain each of our nine brain areas involved in attention. We must also exclude, suppress or ignore external and internal distracters–and often that’s the real difficult part.

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Association Adviser

JULY 30, 2013

'Bob Alexander. More members than you think may be wondering what to do next with the businesses they’ve worked so hard to build. Here are three basic types of buy-sell agreements and 21 key issues to consider. Without appropriate “exit” plans in place, ownership changes can be worse than Hollywood divorces–bitter, expensive and devastating to all involved.

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Jamie Notter

AUGUST 2, 2013

'I’m mixing it up a little this week, and my Friday quote is NOT from Humanize. In fact, I’m going to go back in time a year or two (0r 50) to pull a quote from the great Bob Dylan: Come mothers and fathers. Throughout the land. And don’t criticize. What you can’t understand. Your sons and your daughters. Are beyond your command.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 2, 2013

'In hopes of staving off regulations that limit business opportunities for food trucks, the SoCal Mobile Food Vendors Association is offering to help other cities’ vendors get their own associations up and running free of charge. A lot of times when you first start up an association, you jump into the argument that’s already being had instead of creating your own talking points.

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SCD Group

JULY 31, 2013

'Knowing Your WHY creates a sense of belonging. Walking through a very crowded Midway Airport the other day, I thought about a key point Simon Sinek makes in his awesome book Start with Why. “All people of all cultures share the basic need to belong. When we feel like we belong, we feel connected and we feel safe. Our desire to feel like we belong is so powerful that we will go to great lengths, do irrational things and often spend money to get that feeling.”.

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Association Mavens

AUGUST 1, 2013

'We’ve dramatically undervalued introverts in our society and don’t truly understand how much we lose in doing so. Susan Cain , NYT bestselling author of Quiet , charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal in the twentieth century and explores its far-reaching effects. During this interview talks with me about her book and what she’ll be presenting to Association Executives at ASAE’s 2013 Annual Conference in Atlanta during her opening keynote.

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Mizz Information

JULY 30, 2013

'(This post originally appeared on Socialfish ) If your association has a Google Grant for AdWords, be on the lookout for a renewal form. Google is requiring that existing grantees who have been in the program for six months or more to submit a renewal form with their current nonprofit status documentation and AdWords Customer ID. Once you receive the renewal request, you’ll have three weeks to submit the required information.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 1, 2013

'No matter what career stage you are in, creating a personal brand can be an important investment in forging your professional path. Being a leader doesn’t have to start with a promotion or move into the C-suite. “You can be a leader at any level in an organization,” said Kara Freeman, CIO and vice president, administration at the American Council on Education, during an interview for the August issue of Associations Now in which she discussed the IT career journey.

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SCD Group

JULY 28, 2013

'This is just a great way to describe the mentality when things are going well. When the water is high, all the problems seem to disappear and the mood is elevated and working on long term results seems less important. When the water is low, the problems (stumps) show above the surface. The mood of staff and boards gets a bit ugly. Tempers can flare.

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