Wild Apricot
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
Here is the round-up of free non-profit webinars for October. We've found more than 32 webinars on topics from RESPECT for your data, to e-strategy; LinkedIn Fundraising and much more.
Thanks For Playing
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
WAY back on Tuesday, August 1, the weekly #assnchat topic was productivity and time management , a personal favorite. I didn't exactly do a rigorously scientific poll, but the #1 answer to "biggest productivity killer" was: meetings. Planned meetings, unplanned meetings, drop in meetings, "do you have a few minutes?" meetings - just about everyone hated meetings.
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YourMembership
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
Categories: Member Engagement + Retention , Social Media and Business Trends Tags: Facebook , linkedin , pinterest , social media , social proof , twitter They love you. They just told you. Best event ever! Love the new online community! Whatever the compliment don’t let it fall by the wayside. Your members took the time to tell you about it. Give them the respect and appreciation they deserve.
Association Subculture
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
People try to put us d-down (Talkin' 'bout my generation) Just because we get around (Talkin' 'bout my generation) Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talkin' 'bout my generation) I hope I die before I get old (Talkin' 'bout my generation). The Who - 1967. Seriously, this video shows The Who were FIERCE.:D. There is no generation that has felt understood by the generation that came before.
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Wild Apricot
SEPTEMBER 26, 2012
In this month's software news, Dmitry muses on the thought-process around displaying pricing -- or not -- when trying to sell a product online.
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YourMembership
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
Categories: Membership Management Tags: award-winning membership software , best-of-breed , convergence , integrated , membership management software , membership organization , Membership Software I wish there was a magic coordinator; one that could link up all parts of my life. From my social profiles to my Amazon Prime account to my TV. I know there are pieces that will help me with this but it is so much easier if you started it all from scratch and created [.] ( Read more.
Reid All About it
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
“Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back toward the chasm’s edge…”. He’s a dark one, Edvard Munch. I always knew he was the broody type, but until I learned more about him from John Coffey, deputy director for art at the N.C. Museum of Art, I had no idea how haunted and anxious he was.
Wild Apricot
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
Small organizations may not have BIG data, but they can "think big" about analyzing and acting on the data they are already capturing.
Thanks For Playing
SEPTEMBER 26, 2012
Focus groups: the next generation. Jamie Notter asks: should you fire 2/3 of your employees ? " Done " is better than "perfect" (amen). Paywalls, member versus non-member access , and "information wants to be free!" at the MLA. 10 office technologies that are on their way out (confession: I still use two). It's impossible to overstate the importance of asking the right question.
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Principled Innovation
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
This is the fourth (and profoundly delayed…sorry!) post in my series on the six shifts presented in my new e-book, Associations Unorthodox: Six Really Radical Shifts Toward the Future , created in collaboration with CHIEF. (Please check out the previous posts in the series.) If you have not done so already, I hope you will download the e-book , and please join me this Wednesday, September 26 from 2 pm-3:30 pm EDT for my webinar on the e-book, presented in collaboration with Peach
Reid All About it
SEPTEMBER 22, 2012
I’m keeping it light. My favorite subject line this week was on a message posted by an association executive director in ASAE’s online community: “I need to shoot my leadership.”. What?! Having trouble with the board? Nope, he was only looking for a photographer to do some head shots. How disappointing, but what a hilarious subject line, good job. My favorite tweet of the week came from @capricecrane: “It’s weird there aren’t more songs about pizza.”.
Wild Apricot
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
Here are 5 fresh links that we've bookmarked on Apricot Jam this week.
Thanks For Playing
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
I'm on the train on my way to Philly AND doing my first post from my shiny new iPad! Number one, please excuse any formatting weirdness. Number two, isn't technology cool? Top 5 things I love about train travel: 1. No complicated security lines to get through. 2. It seems so civilized! The seats are actually reasonably sized, and there's plenty of room for your legs, no matter how long they are. 3.
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KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
0. 0. 1. 307. 1752. Amplified Growth, Inc. 14. 4. 2055. 14.0. Normal. 0. false. false. false. EN-US. JA. X-NONE. Is social media b t? I've had some days when I've wondered about that myself. With audiences that include people who still don't know how to turn on their smartphone sitting next to people who have jailbroken their iPhones and used them to tether their WiFi, it can be a nightmare to serve all during a presentation.
Jamie Notter
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
Organizational culture is a funny thing. I think most people would agree that it’s important. I don’t hear people saying, “Nah, it doesn’t matter what our organizational culture is; we’ll perform well regardless.” And if you ask a boss what the culture is like at their organization, they’ll typically use positive descriptors.
Optimist Consulting
SEPTEMBER 26, 2012
I was interested to read about a relatively new (well 4 years old) membership organisation, the Society of Digital Agencies being discussed on the Drum recently, a marketing and social media magazine and site. Following that article, a few days later I saw that a new organisation has been established – the Internet Association. It has Google and Amazon amongst its first members.
Thanks For Playing
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
Google Scholar. Seriously, how did I not know about this? Not even playing. Thanks John Chen ! (Now, if I just had access to a research library so I could actually read the full text of all the articles it indexes, we'd really be cooking.).
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Eric Lanke
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
image source I had the pleasure of facilitating a few roundtable discussions at WSAE's second annual National Summit on Association Innovation last week. Our topic was "Creating a Culture of Innovation." The first thing I did was reflect on the presentations we had heard prior to the start of our roundtables. WSAE brought several valuable perspectives to our attention, and as I listened to their calls for our organizations to do things like taking more calculated risks, rewarding creativity, and
Aaron Wolowiec
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
1. Website launch. We’re so proud this week to showcase our new and improved website. Check it out and let us know what you think. From services to clients and from testimonials to social media, it’s all there. Special thanks to the The Image Shoppe for breathing life into this project. 2. Meeting Minds. Following a presentation I delivered for Experience Grand Rapids on justifying conference expenses , writer Cami Reister developed this post chock-full of planner tips.
Association Subculture
SEPTEMBER 26, 2012
The new Myspace from Myspace on Vimeo. Nope, Paul wasn't dead and apparently neither is Myspace. Any way you slice it, there is always something new getting ready to roll out. When Myspace first slammed onto the scene, it had a really cool vibe and was based in large part on encouraging people to share their most personal thoughts on blogs, and information about their favorite music and entertainment personalities.
Optimist Consulting
SEPTEMBER 26, 2012
Your membership organisation is likely to have a membership fee, however do you know and communicate what the value of membership is to your members and potentials? The value of what they receive from being a member, should outweigh the fee. I recently carried out a project for a client and as part of that I spoke to some of their members. It was interesting to hear how many of them had received referrals from their entry on the organisation’s website.
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Jamie Notter
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
Organizations cling to strategic planning (despite strong evidence of its ineffectiveness), partially because many have experienced the downside of randomness. New boss, new direction. New Board Chair, new direction. One really aggressive employee in another department pushing a particular activity, and you end up shifting time and attention away from what you know needs to be done.
Golden's Rules for Association
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
Associations have garnered their share of attention from the Hill in the last year, but no one expected a thoroughly gridlocked Congress to actually get anything done about it … at least until after the election. And after that? Read my latest commentary in AssociationTRENDS to learn why I don’t think any of the association [.].
Mariner
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
September 28, 2012. That seemingly simple question related to association member chapters sparked what I hope will be a discussion around the real issue. The question was posted on the ASAE Component Relations discussion group by an association exec looking to bolster a case to her board to charge components for the cost of collecting their dues because it utilizes resources without reimbursement and incurs – again without reimbursement – credit card charges.
Idea Architects
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
Here's a very simple principle anyone who makes presentations or leads workshops should commit to memory: for every segment of content, a more engaging way to present it exists. As a result, designing powerful learning experiences requires us to go through a simple process for each content segment of a program: brainstorm possible ways to teach it, ones that move participants from passive to active whenever possible; select one of those options as our initial planned format/teaching technique; o
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