Wild Apricot
MAY 11, 2015
In this guest post, Lamees Abourahma outlines what she feels are the common mistakes that associations make that are keeping them from realizing their website’s full potential.
Spark Consulting
MAY 14, 2015
The Spark blog has been a little quiet lately because I’ve been working on an exciting project with Anna Caraveli ( The Demand Networks ). Yes, the next Spark whitepaper is about to launch! Associations have been talking a lot about engagement in the past several years, and that’s good, but we’re mostly still not doing a great job of actually nurturing real member engagement.
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Jamie Notter
MAY 12, 2015
I wrote a few months ago about Zappos' experiment with Holacracy , a system of management that discards the traditional hierarchy in favor of a flexible and dynamic one where employees are more responsible for managing themselves. Zappos (1,500+ employees) is the largest company to implement the system, so I'm curious to see how it rolls out. They started by implementing it in just a few departments, but as they move towards a full roll-out, CEO Tony Hsieh recognized that not everyone would real
Aaron Wolowiec
MAY 12, 2015
So apparently I’m right brained. At least according to this test. I guess that’s not surprising considering I’m a writer. But I’m also extremely detail-oriented and analyze everything, so I think I’m a good mix. Yeah. I’ll go with that. While most people think with mostly their left side or mostly their right side, it’s crucial to have a bit of both.
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Wild Apricot
MAY 13, 2015
Recently our Membership Advisory Group discussed their challenges with volunteer engagement and retention and offered up some advice and ideas to help their membership peers.
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Optimist Consulting
MAY 13, 2015
I was delighted to be asked to deliver a workshop on using the telephone in the marketing mix. Many membership bodies only use the phone when chasing for renewals – which is a missed opportunity to cut through the information overload to reach and then engage members. Download my presentation. If you would like more information about how I can help your organisation improve your member engagement and marketing communications please contact me for a no-obligation quote.
Association Adviser
MAY 15, 2015
Have you offered the same event sponsorships year after year? Are your event sponsorship revenues stagnant or declining? It may be time for a facelift. The post Is It Time For an Event Sponsorships. For more about this topic, click on the headline.
Wild Apricot
MAY 14, 2015
Here are highlights of an interview with Joe Bednar, president of the Whitman Syracuse University Alumni Club in New York City, who offers insight into how to provide value and help an alumni organization flourish.
Eric Lanke
MAY 11, 2015
What does your association need from its Board of Directors? It needs leadership. It needs engagement. It needs what I'll call mindshare. A highly productive Board is comprised of people who are thinking about the issues facing that association more frequently than just the time they spend around the Board table. And this is increasingly difficult to get.
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Optimist Consulting
MAY 13, 2015
Last month I highlighted six membership bodies that I felt made good use of crowdsourcing; a term coined ten years ago to describe the act of outsourcing tasks to a wide audience. This month I want to share my recommendations for creating your own crowdsourcing plan, which will may well help lead your organisation to similar success. Just to recap, crowdsourcing is defined by crowdsourcingweek.com as: “the practice of engaging a ‘crowd’ or group for a common goal – often innovation, problem solv
Association Adviser
MAY 15, 2015
Market smarter, not harder, simply by using fewer generic pronouns and more real names in your association’s communications. Here’s our successful experience with email personalization. Traditional, For more about this topic, click on the headline.
Associations Now
MAY 14, 2015
A new study shows that managing work-life balance is getting harder for workers around the world. Not a terribly surprising finding, yet one that shows how workplace dynamics continue to change with greater connectivity and increased demands. Google “work-life balance” and the results yield a telling picture: an article extolling “Five Tips for Better Work-Life Balance” shows up above an article detailing the decline of work-life balance, which is right above another article declaring work-life
Velvet Chainsaw
MAY 14, 2015
In order to grow, your organization must change. Organizations that refuse to move become stagnate. They become trapped, treading water through a set of regular routines while getting nowhere. Without lasting change, organizations become dull, sluggish and deteriorate. They eventually die, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly. Unfortunately, the majority of organizational change fails, misses the mark or makes things worse says author Mick Cope.
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Optimist Consulting
MAY 13, 2015
I was interested to read the second annual membership organisations’ survey from accountancy and business advisory firm, PKF Littlejohn, which shows renewed optimism for the sector again this year. These are the three insights that stood out for me: 1. 24% have introduced more member services for a higher fee. It’s positive news to see that organisations are developing their membership package and exciting that membership organisations are now being bold enough to cover the costs of these new se
Association Adviser
MAY 15, 2015
Nearly 90 percent of respondents to our poll told us their association either offers or plans to offer a mobile conference app for their live events. The post Mobile Conference Apps Continue to Gain. For more about this topic, click on the headline.
Associations Now
MAY 12, 2015
Associations Win Webbys Last month’s Webby Awards brought home the bacon for two association websites: Visit California , which won top honors in the category, and the volunteer platform Do-It.org , which won the People’s Voice award. Other association nominees included the UK domain registry Nominet’s Story of the Web , San Francisco Travel , and Oscars.org.
Velvet Chainsaw
MAY 15, 2015
How can you unlock the grip of failure on your organization? “What?” you ask. “My organization is not operating at a loss or failing.” Oh, I beg to differ. If your organization strives to achieve status quo, a failure mentality has taken hold. Fear of failure and fear of change are probably your organization’s biggest obstacle to innovation and growth.
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Optimist Consulting
MAY 15, 2015
I was delighted to be invited to attend the recent launch of the Professional Associations Research Network’s ‘ Professional Body Sector Review 2015 ’ at the Law Society’s impressive building in London. This annual publication collates the latest research and first-hand accounts of more than 15 professional bodies. Below are the five findings I found the most interesting: Only 23% of governing-body members are given a formal review.
Mizz Information
MAY 15, 2015
One of the best things about working for a small staff association is that I get to do so many things--some of which I still have a lot to learn about. Web design is definitely one of those things. While I know plenty about some aspects of web development, design is one thing I have never had to do, and I'm not particularly good at it. Yet. : ) One of the projects I've been working on is launching a digital publication, a task which involves designing a responsive html email template and a micro
Associations Now
MAY 12, 2015
Children these days are learning to navigate an iPad almost before they know how to stand on their own two feet. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association views that as a major problem. Signs we live in the digital age: The typical two-year-old probably has a better handle on Candy Crush Saga than she does constructing a complete sentence to ask her parents for a piece of actual candy.
SCD Group
MAY 11, 2015
Britain’s election shocked the country (and much of the world) not because Prime Minister David Cameron and his Conservative Party won but because of the size of their victory. Last week’s election results once again demonstrates to associations the dangers of over-reliance of polls and surveys. So what happened in Britain’s elections? And, what does it mean for associations?
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Optimist Consulting
MAY 15, 2015
I was delighted to be invited to attend the recent launch of the Professional Associations Research Network’s ‘ Professional Body Sector Review 2015 ’ at the Law Society’s impressive building in London. This annual publication collates the latest research and first-hand accounts of more than 15 professional bodies. Below are the five findings I found the most interesting: Only 23% of governing-body members are given a formal review.
Beth Kanter
MAY 15, 2015
We know that sitting is bad for your health and has been dubbed “the new smoking.” Two years ago I got put on a fitbit and started walking, and haven’t stopped. It’s benefited overall physical health and boosts cognitive function. I’ve been incorporating sitting, standing, and walking into my work and doing sessions at nonprofit conferences about walking as work.
Associations Now
MAY 12, 2015
More than 100 associations in the engineering, technology, and scientific spaces—led by the American Association for the Advancement of Science—have asked members of Congress to better balance cost concerns with the benefits of conferences for the scientific community at large. Federal scientists, who have long represented the bread and butter of many scientific organizations, have been conspicuously missing from events in recent years, thanks in large part to the high-profile federal travel res
Plexus Consulting
MAY 9, 2015
By Ann Rosser, Consulting Senior Advisor at Plexus Consulting Group, LLC WHAT IS EXECUTIVE COACHING? The coaching process helps executives improve their performance and personal effectiveness while reducing stress. It offers the executive a rare opportunity to stand back and take a fresh look at the experiences and assumptions of a lifetime. The process enables the executive to … • Identify inner resources. • Target areas for growth. • Promote a healthy balance between career and personal life,
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