Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

A recent survey on Technology Trends for Nonprofits suggests that, compared to email and social media engagement strategies, nonprofits have a long way to go to tap into the fast-growing mobile audience.( read more ). Tags: E-mail marketing mobile nonprofit non-profit Non-profit Communications Non-profit technology nptech research surveys website websites.

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Reid All About it

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

“As you sit down with your loved ones to celebrate Thanksgiving this year, what is one thing you’ll be especially thankful for?” Only one thing? But there are so many things I’m thankful for. As I think about that I lean back into my chair and glance around the room. My eyes settle on the red, orange and yellow leaves of the trees outside the window.

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Association Subculture

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Wednesday, November 24, 2010. Association Subculture Salute to the Blogosphere Thankfest 2010. "See Lainie, this is all we need. A couple of smokes, a cup of coffee and a little bit of conversation. You and me and five bucks.". Its been a while since the movie Reality Bites hit the screens but it still holds a special place in the hearts of many a Gen Xer like me.

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Idea Architects

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Yesterday's Twitter chat for associations (#assnchat) focused on volunteer recognition and appreciation. It was encouraging to see all the great ideas participants had for this important topic, but somewhat discouraging to realize how few organizations seem to have a comprehensive, systematic approach to volunteer development. Answer me this: would any credible, successful HR professional manage paid staff the way volunteers are managed in your organization?

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Technology in the Arts has just released a well-researched and well-written review of the legal issues surrounding the use of video footage, Social Media, Video Footage, and the Law: What performing arts managers need to know. It’s a timely publication, too: Arts marketers work with rapidly changing technologies on a daily basis. Therefore, they must know how current laws and emerging legal trends will affect their online marketing plans and be prepared to advocate within their organizations for

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GlowGlobally

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

GrowGlobally.org. global association strategy, regional planning and local infrastructure to grow your business. Home. About. Channels. MarCom. Market & Biz Plan. Meetings. Membership. Products. Public Affairs. Services. « ASAE CRS Lunch Virtual Session – “International Expansion” Global MegaTrends Part 3 – Govt Intrusion, Labor Shortages, Massive Population Growth » Nov. 24. 2010.

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Idea Architects

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

No. No. No. NO. No. Maybe. No. No. No. No. No. No. Nada. Yes. Non No. NO. Never. No. Maybe. That's probably a routine list of responses from Marissa Mayer , formerly Google's vice president of search projects and user experience, to ideas about how to improve the Google home page. It's also a response more meeting planners, product developers, task forces and many others should be offering. but instead they keep adding in features, thinking that more options—more stuff—means more value.

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Blog posts and articles on Membership and Leadership led the links tally at AssociationJam.org this month, in terms of the numbers of submissions, views and reader votes, followed by Fundraising and Social Media , among other topics of interest for associations and nonprofits. Here’s a look at the most popular links submitted to Association Jam in November 2010, by category: Membership Association Horn-Tootin' and Why Being Member Driven is Only Half the Battle Carol-Anne Moutinho | Association

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KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

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GlowGlobally

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

GrowGlobally.org. global association strategy, regional planning and local infrastructure to grow your business. Home. About. Channels. MarCom. Market & Biz Plan. Meetings. Membership. Products. Public Affairs. Services. « European View of Member ROI – Trade Associations. Global MegaTrends Part 2 – Tech, Health Care and Global Business Cravings » Nov. 24. 2010.

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Portage Group

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

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The Hourglass Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Friday, November 26, 2010. Next Steps for Association Innovation. This is an exciting time for the WSAE Innovation Task Force. At our last meeting on November 19 we talked about several new initiatives whose success will clearly depend on getting people in the broader community engaged, so I thought Id share an update here on Hourglass and see if theres anyone out there whod like to get involved with our objective of defining an evidence-based model of innovation

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KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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GlowGlobally

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

GrowGlobally.org. global association strategy, regional planning and local infrastructure to grow your business. Home. About. Channels. MarCom. Market & Biz Plan. Meetings. Membership. Products. Public Affairs. Services. « Global MegaTrends to Rock Your World – Part 1. ASAE CRS Lunch Virtual Session – “International Expansion” » Nov. 22. 2010.

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Portage Group

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

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Associations Live

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Associations Live. Connecting MSAE members and a world of ideas! Tuesday, November 23, 2010. Managing Your Time. The Young Professionals Group met for a discussion about Managing Your Time on October 15th. This was a hot topic and apparently we all needed a refresher on some organization tips. Here are the top takeaways from this discussion: Workspace: 1.

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The Hourglass Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Saturday, November 20, 2010. The Bedrock of Innovation. I was combing through my backlog of HBR blog posts recently and came across this one from shortly after Google pulled the plug on their Google Wave experiment (remember that?). I think it was way back in August 2010. The blogger, Karim R. Lakhani , is reacting to the hue and cry that followed Googles "failure.

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BlogClump

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. BlogClump - Blogging About Associations From a Gen Xer. A Gen Xer giving his thoughts and opinions on the Association world. Tuesday, November 23, 2010. Developing a Mobile App. Lindy Dreyer over at Social Fish has a great blog post about mobile apps for associations. Are they a waste of time? We had some extra money in the budget to use by the end of the year, so we decided to dip our toe in the app world.

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ChatterBachs

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

ChatterBachs hosted its weekly #SMfastfwd tweetchat on Wednesday, November 24th. Here is a recap of the tweetchat. I’ve tried to put in a format where the actual flow is easier to follow and makes sense, background chatter has been minimized, and so that the most valuable information and insights from #SMfastfwd are presented without this blog post getting too long.

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Associations Live

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Associations Live. Connecting MSAE members and a world of ideas! Wednesday, November 24, 2010. Animoto - Free Video Tool. Animoto was the featured discussion at MSAEs Communications Networking Group on September 14, 2010. Here are our top takeaways and recap: What is it? Its a free site that lets you create professional looking videos and/or slideshows.

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Reid All About it

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I’m taking part in the virtual book tour Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer are doing to explore concepts from Open Community: a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. In this post, Maddie and Lindy answer a few questions I had after reading the book. So for my readers who haven’t seen the other posts about Open Community, give us a little background.

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Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

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BlogClump

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. BlogClump - Blogging About Associations From a Gen Xer. A Gen Xer giving his thoughts and opinions on the Association world. Tuesday, November 23, 2010. Rogue Mobile Apps. Maggie McGary had a great question to my earlier post about Mobile Apps: Now--whats your call on this: a member contacts your association saying theyve developed an app that includes content created by your association (say a Twitter or blog feed).

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ChatterBachs

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

ChatterBachs hosted a #SMfastfwd tweetchat with a retrospective on EventCamp East Coast (#ecec10) on Wednesday, November 17th. EventCamp East Coast was held in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania on November 12th and 13th; I wrote a blog post on that weekend entitled: “14 Personal Highlights from EventCamp East Coast” Here is a recap of the November 17th tweetchat.

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Associations Live

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Associations Live. Connecting MSAE members and a world of ideas! Wednesday, November 24, 2010. Wufoo - Free Form Builder. Wufoo was MSAEs Communications Networking Group topic on November 16, 2010. Here are the top takeaways and recap: What is it? Wufoo is a web-based application for creating online forms of all kinds.

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Associations Live

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Associations Live. Connecting MSAE members and a world of ideas! Tuesday, November 23, 2010. Managing Relationships: Clients, Members & Co-Workers. The MSAE Young Professionals group has discovered we can learn a lot from one another. In our monthly learning circles (or discussion circles) we tackle topics relevant to our industry and help one another improve as professionals.

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