Principled Innovation
FEBRUARY 12, 2013
This post originally appeared last Wednesday on the ResultsDirect AssociationCentric Blog. Remarkable…simply remarkable. I find it remarkable that it is February 2013, and I am still reading magazine articles advising associations to create strategic plans every five or six years, and encouraging leaders to review those plans just once a year. Do association leaders still believe we live in that world?
Wild Apricot
FEBRUARY 15, 2013
How do the findings from our Small Membership Insight Survey and the 2013 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report compare?
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YourMembership
FEBRUARY 11, 2013
The YourMembership.com team has created a fun treasure map infographic for the #AMCI2013 attendees to explore the St. Pete area while they are in town for the AMCI conference this week! As we all know, Thursday is Valentine’s Day, so if you’re staying in St. Pete over the weekend, discover the various cool landmarks the city has to offer!
Reid All About it
FEBRUARY 15, 2013
Everyone (well, most everyone) knows the benefits of content marketing. But you can’t just say to your staff, “Yeah, good idea, start doing social media.” Valeria Maltoni says, “There are three crucial challenges to overcome if you want to implement a successful content strategy ” – resource allocation, workflow planning and governance. Over at Copyblogger, Barry Feldman shares nine ways you might be losing your audience’s trust without even realizing you’re doing it.
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Spark Consulting
FEBRUARY 13, 2013
Content marketing: how often? As usual, ask your audience. Top 10 innovations of all time. Agree? Disagree? Subtext, have we become too dependent on technology? The 2013 Blackbaud Charitable Giving Report is out and John Haydon breaks down the key insights. Associations Now recaps a Pew study that indicates that Facebook may be beginning its inevitable decline.
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YourMembership
FEBRUARY 15, 2013
Happy Friday and Welcome to the Weekly Wrap Up brought to you by the team at YourMembership.com! The weekly wrap-ups are a great resource to find industry provoking articles, blog posts, upcoming events, fun facts, and provide up-to-date news and tips found throughout the association and workforce space each week. Please feel free to leave a comment, ask a question or just enjoy the week’s top ten picks!
Thanks For Playing
FEBRUARY 13, 2013
Content marketing: how often? As usual, ask your audience. Top 10 innovations of all time. Agree? Disagree? Subtext, have we become too dependent on technology? The 2013 Blackbaud Charitable Giving Report is out and John Haydon breaks down the key insights. Associations Now recaps a Pew study that indicates that Facebook may be beginning its inevitable decline.
Spark Consulting
FEBRUARY 12, 2013
Have you checked out the Association 101 webinars yet? We’ve now held two: one on volunteer management (with Peggy Hoffman of Mariner Management ) and one on branding (with Erin Fuller of the Alliance for Women in Media. Next up? 10 things you need to know about Government Relations in association management with Stefanie Reeves (American Psychological Association) on Friday, March 8.
Wild Apricot
FEBRUARY 13, 2013
Here are 5 tips for finding new ways to get your event’s message out this year.
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Eric Lanke
FEBRUARY 11, 2013
This is a recording of the webinar I gave on November 2, 2012, to kick off The New World of Member Engagement webinar series sponsored by Young Association Professionals , Aggregage , Association Universe and Infinite Conferencing. In it, I talk about the work I had been doing with the WSAE Innovation Circle on Member Engagement , especially some of the challenges and solutions we had identified and discovered through our process.
Thanks For Playing
FEBRUARY 12, 2013
Have you checked out the Association 101 webinars yet? We've now held two: one on volunteer management (with Peggy Hoffman of Mariner Management ) and one on branding (with Erin Fuller of the Alliance for Women in Media. Just as a refresher, the monthly FREE webinars provide 10 tips in 20 minutes on a variety of topics in association management. They always take place on the second Friday of the month at 1:30 pm ET, and are brought to you be Dave Will ( Peach New Media ), Scott Oser ( Scott Oser
Spark Consulting
FEBRUARY 11, 2013
These days, if you’re looking for technology to support collaborative work, you have a lot of options. Actually, probably too many. Dropbox. Trello. Yammer. Sharepoint. Central Desktop. Google Apps. Which one should you use? Small Business Computing to the rescue! They’ve identified the top tools for people-centric collaboration, task-centric collaboration, and file-centric collaboration.
GlowGlobally
FEBRUARY 11, 2013
. The following article was written by Nikki Walker, MCI’s Global Vice President, Association Management & Consulting. No longer can associations continue with their traditional “one size fits all” approach to membership. For decades now, associations have maintained a very traditional approach towards “membership” and membership dues. However, the time has come for organizations to catch up with the realities of today’s consumer habits and reconsider how and why people around the wor
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Portage Group
FEBRUARY 15, 2013
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Thanks For Playing
FEBRUARY 11, 2013
These days, if you're looking for technology to support collaborative work, you have a lot of options. Actually, probably too many. Dropbox. Trello. Yammer. Sharepoint. Central Desktop. Google Apps. Which one should you use? Small Business Computing to the rescue! They've identified the top tools for people-centric collaboration, task-centric collaboration, and file-centric collaboration.
Velvet Chainsaw
FEBRUARY 11, 2013
Attracting first-class, first-rate, quality attendees is one of the most complex and important keys to your conference’s business model. Too many conferences attempt to be all things to all people and end up with a watered-down offering. You need a process to help you identify your various attendee segments and who your target market is. Once you peel back the layers to see who is really attending your event, you may not like what you see.
Vanguard Tech
FEBRUARY 11, 2013
One of my favorite advertising slogans ever is a cheesy campaign NBC ran in the 90 to get people to watch reruns over the summer with the tagline “If you haven’t seen it, it’s new to you!” (Ok, this WAS before everyone had a DVR and was streaming TV series on Netflix). So what does this have to do with associations and website content? Let’s start with a few questions: If you assume a member churn rate of 10%-20%, over a period of 5 years how many new members do you have that never read your old
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Portage Group
FEBRUARY 15, 2013
'Ever wonder how your compensation package, or the compensation program within your nonprofit stacks up? Calling all Canadian charities! CharityVillage®''s third annual Canadian Nonprofit Sector Salary Survey is live and awaiting your input! This is the only comprehensive study that focuses specifically on compensation and benefits in nonprofit organizations from across Canada.
Jamie Notter
FEBRUARY 13, 2013
So I got more than a couple of tweets and emails from friends the other day who noticed a post on Seth Godin’s blog, called “ Humanize It.” Their first suggestion, of course, was that we send him a book. (For the record, we already had sent him one, though I have no idea if he read it or not. I should actually follow up with him on that…).
Velvet Chainsaw
FEBRUARY 15, 2013
What type of experiences do you crave? Have you ever had any of those types of experiences at a conference or tradeshow? Conferences and tradeshows have a long way to go to merge the experiences we crave and want with those that actually occur at the event. Four Critical Elements To Success. The recent report, Scenarios For The Future: Convention Exhibits & Tradeshows of 2016 by The ASAE Foundation, Center for Exhibition Industry Research Foundation, Freeman, Gaylord Entertainment and PCMA E
Vanguard Tech
FEBRUARY 15, 2013
Welcome to this week’s issue of our 5 For Friday series. Here are five articles or resources that caught our eye this week for people buildling and managing association websites. Five Forces Reshaping Associations. Jeff Hurt calls out the elephant in the room with this insightful post. The fact is that association management and the business of associations is changing at a faster and faster pace.
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.
Association Adviser
FEBRUARY 15, 2013
This month, the Corner Office spotlight shines on Eric Wulf, CEO of the International Car Wash Association , which serves 2,000 member companies that represent more than 15,000 car washes around the world. We don’t think of ourselves as association management people. We think of ourselves as car washers. We’re very connected with our customers.
SCD Group
FEBRUARY 10, 2013
When sharing information for your association’s members, why wait for a “Monthly Newsletter?”. I love ASAE’s digital Associations Now , the daily electronic newsletter providing valuable information for association professions. It is totally focused on topics and issues related to association management. It doesn’t try to “sneak in” ASAE “news.” It provides its readers (like me) a look at what is happening around the world that impacts associations.
Velvet Chainsaw
FEBRUARY 14, 2013
Can we talk? I certainly hope so! Two-way communication is an extremely powerful tool that your conference needs to foster. Discussions are critical to cement learning in the brain. Without peer discussions, your conference education sessions are nothing more than audio voices blowing in the wind. Let’s Talk. Talk! We can’t get enough of it.
Robert M Barnes
FEBRUARY 10, 2013
Just now thinking about all the things I already have on my agenda to achieve this year.
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