Spark Consulting
JANUARY 6, 2015
'And you can’t claim to have a relationship with people you don’t know. This topic has come up frequently with clients in the past six months, both within full engagements, where we’ve been looking at how to increase membership, and in speaking engagements, where I’m trying to help chapter leaders learn how to be more effective.
Wild Apricot
JANUARY 9, 2015
'Check out the seven key insights for using social media to recruit, engage and grow your membership – shared during one of our Small Membership Advisory sessions.
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Aaron Wolowiec
JANUARY 4, 2015
'Heidi Brumbach, CEO, Technisch Creative. Q & A with Heidi Brumbach, CEO, Technisch Creative. Q: New Year resolutions – Do you make them? Why or why not? A: I try not to make the same old resolutions like “lose weight,” “get organized,” etc. If I make a New Year resolution, it has to be specific, the timing has to be right and the goal has to be realistic, as well as measurable.
Association Leaders
JANUARY 5, 2015
'Many times leaders are presented with ideas by their teammates. How they respond to these ideas separates the good leaders from the bad leaders. Think for a minute about how you responded the last time an idea was presented to you by one of your teammates. Did you keep a positive look on your face or a negative one? Were you enthusiastic or dejected?
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JANUARY 8, 2015
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Aaron Wolowiec
JANUARY 6, 2015
'A new year means new professional development opportunities. Admittedly, I’m a PD nerd. So I’ve been excitedly surfing the web for all things writing, media relations and public relations. But if I have to pick, I’m going to choose an event hosted in a hotel with comfy beds, free Wi-Fi, probably a restaurant….and the list goes on. Thanks to PD nerds like me, in 2015 hotels should get a big financial boost.
Jamie Notter
JANUARY 5, 2015
'On the last day of 2014, I made the mistake of getting a prescription filled. I didn’t intend to do it that day. That just happened to be the day I went to the doctor and he called it in to my local CVS. I showed up at the pharmacy a good six hours after it was called in, and waited in a line that was much longer than usual. The person in front of me was upset that her Rx wasn’t ready (though she had called hers in after mine).
Mariner
JANUARY 5, 2015
'It’s the first Monday of the New Year and many of us have headed back to work, school or whatever routine that is part of our. daily lives. It is also the day when we start getting serious about those New Year’s resolutions we so eagerly made just last week. And it''s the day. that marks the beginning of the end because we all know we’ll scrap the whole resolution thing – if not most of it – by March.
Wild Apricot
JANUARY 5, 2015
'Start the New Year off with some non-profit learning. Take a look at the 17 free webinars that are available this January.
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Virtual
JANUARY 7, 2015
'This week I had the opportunity to attend the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. This is a massive show—covering 2 million square feet of exhibit space. For those keeping score at home, the Chrysler Building in NYC is about that size. That’s big. Every year, CES is a showplace of the latest gadgets: TVs, mobile devices, and more. This year, the buzz around the show was dominated by four categories: connected cars, wearable technology, drones and the Internet of Things.
Jamie Notter
JANUARY 7, 2015
'…the first thing you do, is stop digging. Don’t get in the way of your own progress. Your own behavior is actually the piece of the puzzle over which you have the most control, so take advantage of that. When faced with a problem, don’t rush to evaluate all the external factors. Look at what you’re doing and see you can do things differently that will create some space.
Eric Lanke
JANUARY 5, 2015
'I''m thinking this week about the opening paragraph of this post from the Demand Perspective Blog: I am sure that hearing references to information technology as something that resides in an entirely different universe from the one the rest of the organization inhabits, is not new to most of us. Technology is the realm of IT departments, social media community managers, web architects and other specialists; a means for process enhancements and delivery; or a nod to the “younger generation” of m
Wild Apricot
JANUARY 7, 2015
'Here are highlights of our 1-On-1 interview with Connor Finnigan of the Young Men''s Business League of Austin.
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Vanguard Tech
JANUARY 5, 2015
'The new year''s fresh start gives us an opportunity to regroup, refresh and recommit. Many create personal resolutions such as being healthy or making time for family. But what about professional resolutions? For web managers, the new year is also a chance to take a fresh look at their website and make resolutions to better their organization’s most visible asset.
Idea Architects
JANUARY 4, 2015
'Failure has become a fetish. Media profiles focus on what entrepreneurs and other leaders have learned from their failures. Conference panels regularly feature thought leaders discussing the the importance of failure. Here in Indianapolis last year, we celebrated failure with an entire day devoted to the topic: Fail Fest. That all of this is happening is not surprising.
Robert M Barnes
JANUARY 4, 2015
'The decision to join the Aptify team in 2014 was 70% cultural, 20% professional and 10% emotional. Here is a privately owned company selling a market leading technology directly into the association sector (which I love).
Associations Now
JANUARY 7, 2015
'Changing organizational culture is a difficult job, but associations are in a special position to influence culture—the 2014 Merriam-Webster Word of the Year—among both staff and members. Last month, before we all checked out for the holidays, dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster announced its 2014 Word of the Year : culture. That might strike you as a particularly ho-hum word.
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Velvet Chainsaw
JANUARY 7, 2015
'It’s past time for conference organizers to learn about learning! Our conference success depends upon it. We’ve got to stop saying that it is someone else’s job to manage the content, programming and the attendee experience of the conference. That all we do is work on the logistics of the conference. If we want to increase our value as conference organizers, we have to understand the two primary attendee outcomes: networking and education (with a focus on improving on-the-job performance).
Membership Marketing
JANUARY 5, 2015
'We all want to increase membership retention. Here are some tips that you can implement this year to help make your membership stickier and encourage members’ to stay with your organization. 1. Increase the number of contacts and relationships you have within a member’s organization. This is particularly applicable for trade group memberships where it is important to identify the membership champion, decider, approver, and user. 2.
SCD Group
JANUARY 6, 2015
'Go or Sick: A Choice for Associations I watched as a couple of four-year-olds raced ahead of mom on a sidewalk. It reminded me of a parents’ phrase from years ago: For kids that age there are two speeds: go and sick. Associations seem to have a go or (not and) sick mentality. I’ve watched over the years as some – usually successful – associations are in the “go” mode. in member development, in education and conferences, in board development and more.
Associations Now
JANUARY 7, 2015
'College campuses nationwide have become hotbeds of protests against racial profiling and use of excessive force by police—but campus law enforcement associations have worked to show that they’re taking the issue seriously. With the attention focused on killings of unarmed black men by police, U.S. colleges and universities have become major sites for protests.
Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker
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Velvet Chainsaw
JANUARY 6, 2015
'It’s one of the biggest confusions in the meetings industry today. That improving your conference operations—registration, food and beverage counts, room capacities, room sets, project management, vendor practices, partnering, benchmarking, following industry best practices, conference management tools—improves your strategy. It doesn’t! Improving your conference operations is not strategic positioning!
Membership Marketing
JANUARY 8, 2015
'We have just launched the questionnaire for the 2015 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report and I want to invite you to participate. The annual Benchmarking Report is the association industry’s most comprehensive study on membership marketing and gives you the opportunity compare your organization against almost 1,000 other associations. If you are a previous participant, please use the personalized link that you received in our email directed to you.
Wired4Leadership
JANUARY 6, 2015
'Will “Castle and Moat” Strategies Help You Win Engaged Members? Active, engaged members remain the number one challenge for associations and professional societies. Why do so many nonprofits end up leaving them stranded? There are great strategies for assuring success in recruiting, retaining and engaging members if you’ll commit the time and resources to making … Continue reading Six Ways to Attract Engaged Members in 2015 → You are reading Six Ways to Attract Eng
Associations Now
JANUARY 7, 2015
'As it gets underway this week in Sin City, the International Consumer Electronics Show offers lessons in event planning that can inspire innovation in association tradeshows of all kinds—even if they don’t feature the latest cool gizmos. The 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), taking place this week in Las Vegas, brings together two industries that are under constant pressure to innovate and uncover the next big idea.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions
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