Sat.Jun 13, 2020 - Fri.Jun 19, 2020

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Why You Might Need a Volunteer Newsletter + 3 Templates

Wild Apricot

Do you find yourself sending a thousand emails to your volunteers that never get opened? Here's why you might want to send them a volunteer newsletter instead, plus great examples and templates you can use.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.19.20

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Inclusion advice. A fellow NAHB alum and friend, Lakisha Woods, CAE, has three pieces of advice to share in her “Letter of Thanks and Ideas for Growth from an African-American CEO.”. Inclusion strategy. If your association wants to create a more inclusive association, you must identify and remove the barriers standing in the way of a member’s desire to volunteer or serve in leadership , says MemberSuite

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Online Communities in 2020: Unlocking the Power of Community with Data

Higher Logic

Heather is Higher Logic’s Chief Community Officer. She was the first to hold the position at Higher Logic and one of the earliest to hold the title in the industry. I’ve been involved in community management for around 13 years. When I started, I didn’t even know it was a profession, and I was flying solo. I think a lot of us started that way in the early years.

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4 Silver Linings for Associations Right Now—and Signs of Your Future Success

WBT Systems

4 Silver Linings for Associations Right Now—and Signs of Your Future Success. Read more about 4 Silver Linings for Associations Right Now—and Signs of Your Future Success.

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Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Association Member Education

Unlock More Profit and Smarter Packaging for Member Learning Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your association’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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How to Create a Church Membership Form in Wild Apricot + 3 Examples

Wild Apricot

Adding a church membership application form to your website is made easy with Wild Apricot's website builder. Here's how to do it in just a few steps.

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Virtual Event Engagement Can Be Low Because the Switching Cost is Nearly Zero

Smooth The Path

Imagine sitting in the middle of a conference room with about 100 other people surrounding you. The speaker is talking, and everyone is listening intently, you could hear a pin drop. Your phone gives a little chirp; it’s an incoming tweet. A few minutes later, email dings, and just a few minutes after that, you feel the vibration of someone leaving a voicemail.

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Pilot Online Training Course on Rapid Culture Change

Jamie Notter

The rules of the game are changing almost constantly these days, and we know from our experience that if your culture doesn’t keep up with the changes, your performance will suffer. So I have developed a one-week, online “bootcamp” to help managers and leaders make quick changes to the existing patterns inside their culture patterns that will translate into concrete performance improvements, right away.

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Humor in the Time of Coronavirus with Mo Rocca

AssociationChat

Couldn’t we all use a good laugh right about now? “A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.” ~Laura Ingalls Wilder. I remember when I was in 5th grade and sitting near the front of the church on Sunday. All the kids my age would attend Sunday school classes in the morning and then be ushered in to sit in the front and center of the church for the full Sunday sermon.

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How content curation combats information overload

Association Success

Associations need to focus more on content curation and less on content creation, according to a new collaborative whitepaper from Spark Consulting and Content Company Inc. As the abundance of available content increases, the ability to understand and recognize what is truthful and important becomes more and more difficult. . Spark Consulting published its first whitepaper, “Attention Doesn’t Scale,” which discussed the emerging issue of information overload and provided content curation as a po

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2024 Association Survey Results Report

2024 Association Survey Results Report For the 10th year, association professionals across the U.S. and Canada provided a look at the inner workings of their organizations when they replied to GrowthZone’s annual survey. Read the 2024 survey results report to see how your association compares: Top Challenges Retention Rates Non-Renewal Reasons Automatic Renewals Reinstatement Strategies Member Engagement Changes & Strategies Why Members Join Non-Dues Revenue Sources Dues Increases, and more

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A Season of Change: Break Down Barriers to Belonging and Leadership

Membersuite

Most likely your staff and leadership are identifying the changes you can make and the steps you can take for your association to become more inclusive. And successful change depends on how well you communicate. Break down barriers with these tips.

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Pilot Online Training Course on Rapid Culture Change

Jamie Notter

The rules of the game are changing almost constantly these days, and we know from our experience that if your culture doesn’t keep up with the changes, your performance will suffer. So I have developed a one-week, online “bootcamp” to help managers and leaders make quick changes to the existing patterns inside their culture patterns that will translate into concrete performance improvements, right away.

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Hope for the Best and Plan for the Worst – A Conversation with Max Brooks

AssociationChat

How we can learn from fictional threats with real-world solutions? Max Brooks is used to using fictional metaphor (like zombie lore) and historical events to facilitate discourse around large-scale problem-solving. He regularly explores new ways to attack old problems as well as new concerns, which is a valuable exercise when we are all in the midst of a global health crisis. .

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Finding focus in the midst of uncertainty

Association Success

In these unsettling times, refocusing on the future is both difficult and critical. Over the past few months, we have been forced to face crises head on. We’ve had to quickly adjust to working virtually, rethink in-person events, lead our teams and families through massive change, and acknowledge and internalize the racial inequalities that persist in our country.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

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.

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If You Only Had One Job Responsibility Right Now, What Would it Be?

Smooth The Path

If you could distill your job down to one main responsibility, what would it be? A top contender would be to stay unstuck. The enormity of the problems before us tend to get people stuck. Our lack of resources pushes us to hunker down and protect what we have. Not knowing how the future is going to unfold can make us throw up their hands. The pressure encourages us to play small, say less, and maybe even give up.

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If You Build It, Will They Come? How Two Large Fall Shows Are Forging Ahead

Velvet Chainsaw

As many associations wrestle with decisions for their fall conferences and shows, the question on everyone’s mind is, if you build it, will they come? Join this interactive webinar to learn how organizers of two very large events—one a trade association and the other professional—are tackling, planning and preparing for this fall. They have two scenarios in mind: hybrid or virtual?

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Podcast: How the Fisheries Council of Canada is Building and Sustaining Future Association Leaders

Association Adviser

Future Leaders Canada exposes seafood professionals to the fisheries supply chain and expands their personal network of industry individuals and companies. The post Podcast: How the Fisheries Council of Canada is Building and Sustaining Future Association Leaders appeared first on Association Adviser.

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10 tips to bring your Zoom events to life

Association Success

The shift to online meetings has exposed a number of weaknesses in how we present material. . Public speaking isn’t easy at the best of times but the new considerations that accompany a Zoom reality are sabotaging even seasoned pros. Bad lighting, a loss of personal connection, and a flat screen interface may seem impossible to overcome, but there is hope for anyone committed to shaking things up and re-engaging with their online colleagues.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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5 secrets for getting the most out of remote AMS demos

Nimble AMS

The most important aspect of association management software selection are the vendor demos. Here’s how to make sure you get the demos you need, even when you and your vendors are working remotely. When you’re searching for your next association management software (AMS) solution, product demos are extremely important. That’s when you move from just talking about the software and what it does to seeing the software in action.

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Building Trust in Community in 2020

AssociationChat

Technology was supposed to help us. . Do you remember the promise? Tech was supposed to help us to unite, to come together. We had the vision of our virtual hands reaching out across the world…to one another. Freedom in the fiber-optics! What happened? Isolated and afraid. How do you explain how we can live in a time when we have something like social media and endless online groups to choose from, and yet we have more people who are reporting feelings of social isolation than ever before?

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Minimizing Lapsed Members: 5 Tactics to Try

MemberClicks

Member lapses are normal, and to an extent, inevitable. But many of them CAN be prevented — with the right strategy in place. Need help minimizing lapsed members at your organization?

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Hello, neighbor: What to include in a welcome packet for new residents

Ungrated

By Erik Robinson, CMCA, AMS. Moving into a community association, especially if you’ve never lived in one before, may seem daunting. There’s a lot to know—from governance, operations, and assessments to rules, architectural standards, amenities, and more. A well-crafted welcome packet can help simplify new residents’ lives. The welcome packet is a vital tool for making a good first impression, cultivating positive feelings toward the community, and potentially getting someone involved as a volun

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Statement On The Introduction Of The “Limiting Section 230 Immunity to Good Samaritans Act”

InternetAssociation

Washington, DC – IA interim President & CEO Jon Berroya released the following statement on the introduction of the "Limiting Section 230 Immunity to Good Samaritans Act": "Section 230 is the law that empowers online platforms to moderate and delete harmful content that no reasonable individual would want online. Opening up those moderation decisions to second-guessing via a never ending slew of frivolous lawsuits would not make the internet better or safer.

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ICYMI: “How Can Police Rebuild Trust?”

AssociationChat

The murder of George Floyd was the tipping point for generations of frustration. Faith in the social contract that citizens have with the police has crumbled. Listen in on this flash chat segment from Thursday, June 11, when Former DC and Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey answered my question about trust during the webinar, “Justice and Peace: A Dialogue on Anti Racism and the Future of Policing in America.”.

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How to Explain a Price Increase to Your Members

MemberClicks

From time to time, prices have to go up. You’ve experienced this on the consumer end, and now, you may be experiencing this on the producer (or provider ) end. The tricky part is relaying that news to your members. How do you do it without 1) upsetting them, and 2) pushing them away?

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Webinar Recap -> Connectors Redefined: Integrations Done Right

ReviewMyAMS

Guest post by Mani Jagadeesan, ShuffleExchange Integration is a hot topic right now, particularly in the Association world. The significant increase in integrations taking place is largely due to the number of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications that have emerged across industries. What does "connector" really mean? As SaaS applications continue to grow, the term ".

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Here’s a Powerful Marketing Tool Designed for Associations

Show the Benefits of Membership to Your Toughest Prospects. Download this FREE infographic from GrowthZone AMS, Why Join an Association, and start using it as your go-to recruitment and retention marketing tool. Post it on your website. Use it in sales presentations. Or use it as inspiration to create your own version. Infographics have power. They're a quick read.