Spark Consulting

JANUARY 21, 2015

'Last week, I was teaching the volunteer management course for ASAE’s Association Management Week with the smart and talented Andrea Rutledge (Executive Director of the National Architectural Accrediting Board), and she and I got chatting about membership recruitment. Andrea’s been a volunteer with ASAE’s research committee, which supports the work of the ASAE Foundation, and we specifically got talking about the Future of Membership project.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 19, 2015

'If you''re looking for some insight into using sponsorship to generate some non dues revenue, here are some ideas shared by our Small Membership Advisory Community members.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 22, 2015

'If you’re looking for me, check out my food blog, Grabbing the Gusto. I write several times a week over there. You can also find me online writing on the blogs of some of the best technology vendors in the association market, but I’m doing that undercover in collaboration with some of the best brains in the industry. I’m also helping them with case studies, white papers, tip sheets and articles.

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Association Leaders

JANUARY 21, 2015

'NBA great and Basketball Hall of Famer Charles Barkley once famously said, “I am not a role model” I like Sir Charles and even can understand his point to a certain extent – I think he was trying to let parents and teachers know that they have daily interactions with children and should be their role models. Unfortunately, Charles was wrong and so are many leaders.

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JANUARY 23, 2015

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Aaron Wolowiec

JANUARY 20, 2015

'January has nearly come and gone. It’s hard to believe. Just this week my chiropractor reminded me that 2015 is about 1/12 over. It seems like only yesterday I was gearing up for the hustle and bustle of the holidays: decorations, cards, presents, baking, parties and the like. And then New Year’s Eve passed us by in the blink of any eye, too. In fact, my friends and I caught the official countdown on TV just moments before midnight.

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Mariner

JANUARY 22, 2015

'Shifting from product to service, the c''s of successful teams, examining your website, your LinkedIn profile and your membership recruitment. lanaguage. from my reading list.

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Virtual

JANUARY 21, 2015

'Are your in-person board meetings the ideal environment for your directors to do their email? (Or, worse, play the latest Angry Birds release?) Does your Board struggle to be conversational around critical or strategic topics? While every board is certainly different, below are some methods that have moved the needle within some of the most engagement-resistant groups: Plan a pre-meeting social event or dinner: Board meetings generally have an aura of formality to them, and not everyone is comf

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Jamie Notter

JANUARY 20, 2015

'Everyone knows that the speed of change has gone through the roof these days, but that’s not precisely what I’m talking about when I suggest you’re falling behind. I’m talking about management. I don’t think people realize that management–those assumptions we hold about how you need to run things inside organizations in order to be successful–is starting to change at a rapid pace.

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Association Navigator

JANUARY 19, 2015

'The Year Without Pants and the future of work is Scott Berkun’s account of his year working for Automattic, Inc. the company behind WordPress, the online, open source website creation software that many consider the easiest and most powerful blogging and website content management system (CMS) available today. According to Amazon: 50 million websites, or twenty percent of the entire web, use WordPress software.

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Eric Lanke

JANUARY 19, 2015

'Last week I wrote about my experience as Board Chair for the Wisconsin Society of Association Executives (WSAE). I stepped down from that position at the end of 2014 and, although I had written about some of my takeaways from that experience before, I thought it was time to reflect on the experience as a whole, and offer some words of advice to any association staff person who was thinking of taking on a similar volunteer position.

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Association Adviser

JANUARY 19, 2015

'The Evolution and Importance of Resource Guides and Membership Directories. The post Hold Your Ground appeared first on Association Adviser - Best practices, news and leadership strategies for. For more about this topic, click on the headline.

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Jamie Notter

JANUARY 22, 2015

'Or, at least, you shouldn’t be. On Tuesday I posted about a great article on LinkedIn about a company that gives its employees a MINIMUM number of vacation days they must take each year. They do this because they care about their employees and want them to be healthy, and not burned out. Within the article, Mathias (the CEO of the company) makes an important point: A company has to learn how to function when people are on vacation and unavailable, however important their role is.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 22, 2015

'After a lengthy effort to reform the patent system stalled in the Senate last year, a new “super-coalition” led by the National Retail Federation hopes to show that the reform efforts come with massive industry support. Patent reform might not have gotten through Congress last year, but the fight against so-called patent trolls is getting more organized.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 19, 2015

'Every person in a team is a leader. ~ Alison Levine , 2015 PCMA Convening Leaders. Leadership matters! Whether leading an entire conference team or working in a meetings department as part of a team, leadership matters. So are you a conference leader? Do you lead others in a way to get their brains, hearts, minds and souls to see a strategic picture that leads to results?

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Association Adviser

JANUARY 20, 2015

'It’s going to be a fast-moving, bumpy, exciting year. Strap in tight. Enjoy the ride and bag yourself a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal). The post Keys to Making It Through 2015 appeared first on. For more about this topic, click on the headline.

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Mizz Information

JANUARY 18, 2015

'Long time, no see, Mizz Information readers! Another year, another bout of blog burnout.what else is new, right? I wrote that post in 2011 and this one just a few months ago, and, I''d imagine, if I''m still blogging a year or five years from now, I''ll continue to grapple with blogging just as others who blog are doing and have always done. For me, the reason I''ve been able to keep plugging along with Mizz Information for so long (February marks the seven year anniversary of this lil'' slice

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Associations Now

JANUARY 21, 2015

'Two research studies on volunteer motivations and experiences offer new clues about how to find and keep happy member volunteers at your association. We talk a lot about member engagement here at Associations Now and in the association community at large, and one end of the member-engagement spectrum is volunteering. However, even within that group of members who step forward to help the association do its work, there exists a range of commitments, from multi-year board or committee terms to sh

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 22, 2015

'Having an audience at a conference is no longer a novel idea. It’s expected and a given. Unless you’re a speaker that didn’t resonate with this audience in a past meeting. Then you probably have a very small or limited audience if any. How you define your conference audience defines how you design your event. The audience matters. And the way you define your conference audience matters more than you think!

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Association Adviser

JANUARY 20, 2015

'With all of the talk these days about social recruiting [recruiting through Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.], you’d think there would be a good understanding of how best to communicate with high caliber. For more about this topic, click on the headline.

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SCD Group

JANUARY 18, 2015

'[Editor’s note: I originally planned to create several posts about this event; but, alas I’ve been sick in bed since returning from Dallas.] The first College Football Championship became a major event in colleges and athletics. As I wrote earlier [link] the challenge organizers faced involved making the inaugural event more than just a game. I recognize that this multi-million dollar mega event is far beyond the scope of most associations; however, associations – no matter how large or small –

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Associations Now

JANUARY 20, 2015

'A new report from the National Governors Association argues that states could help their residents’ healthcare dollars go further by giving pharmacists a larger role in patient treatment. Two leading pharmacists groups agree. The National Governors Association (NGA) says there’s an easy way to expand the current healthcare infrastructure, and it’s as close as your local drug store.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 20, 2015

'We seem to always be looking for the next quick tip, idea, or feature to implement for our next conference. But not so fast — there’s some work that needs to be done first. Just copying someone else’s success and ideas is an easy way out. Give Me Your Great Ideas…Fast! We like to see and hear about others’ great ideas. We like lists of practical tips or steps to solve an issue.

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Association Adviser

JANUARY 20, 2015

'If you’re an introvert—or have a lot of introverts on your staff—we’ve got good news for you. Results of our latest unscientific reader poll show that your peers overwhelmingly agree that some of the. For more about this topic, click on the headline. Did You Know?

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SCD Group

JANUARY 21, 2015

'NATIONAL JOURNAL Graphic As a long-time association speech writer, I often watch major speeches not for what is said but the delivery styles and other components of the speech. This is one reason I continue to be shocked when U.S. Presidents give State of the Union speeches lasting an hour or longer. The graphic above shows the average length of presidential speeches.

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