Spark Consulting
MAY 26, 2015
I’m excited to share the launch of the sixth whitepaper in the ongoing Spark whitepaper series, Leading Engagement from the Outside-In: Become an Indispensable Partner in Your Members’ Success. Co-authored with Anna Caraveli ( The Demand Networks ), the whitepaper tackles the question: if engagement is so critical to associations (and we would argue that it is), why aren’t we doing a better job of it?
Wild Apricot
MAY 26, 2015
In June, we are hosting the Nonprofit Blog Carnival and looking for the best advice, ideas and tips about: motivation for the nonprofit nation. Here are the details on how you can submit your ideas to the Carnival.
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Aaron Wolowiec
MAY 26, 2015
Jeff Cobb, co-founder of Tagoras Inc. This month’s guest blog post is by Jeff Cobb, co-founder of Tagoras and co-host of the annual Leading Learning Symposium , a high impact event for leaders in the business of lifelong learning, continuing education and professional development. It was originally published on the CommPartners blog. With the global e-learning market now valued at more than $100 billion, we are well past the point where e-learning is simply a trend.
YourMembership
MAY 29, 2015
All during May we’ve focused on member engagement , from the strategies you should consider to increase you success in your efforts, to the overall impact to any association when member engagement isn’t successful or a focus or priority. We were able to debut to Leading Engagement from the Outside in: Become an Indispensable Partner in Your Members’ Success , a new whitepaper co-authored by Anna Caraveli, Ph.D and Elizabeth Weaver Engel, M.A., CAE, which focuses on case studies.
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Spark Consulting
MAY 29, 2015
As part of the release of the new Spark/ The Demand Networks whitepaper, Leading Engagement from the Outside-In , co-author Anna Caraveli and I had the opportunity to present a webinar for YourMembership.com’s Thought Leader series. The free recording is now available: In the webinar, Anna and I introduce the concept of outside-in engagement, share details of three of the eight keys we identified in our research, and touch on the stories of several associations who are doing this work succ
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Aaron Wolowiec
MAY 28, 2015
Amanda Toy, associate director of sales, Greater Lansing Convention and Visitors Bureau. Q & A with Amanda Toy, associate director of sales, Greater Lansing Convention & Visitors Bureau. Q: It’s a beautiful summer day in Michigan. What would we most likely find you doing? . A: I hear it is supposed to be nice, mild weather this summer: my favorite!
Jamie Notter
MAY 26, 2015
This Thursday, May 28th, at 1pm ET we will convene the next #CultureChat session, and this month's focus will be on hierarchy. Specifically, we'll be digging into something that has emerged as a bit of a hot topic these days: Holacracy. In case you haven't heard, Holacracy is a system of management for organizations that is arguably the first viable alternative to a command-and-control hierarchy that we have seen since management was invented 100 years ago.
Potomac Core
MAY 28, 2015
Association Innovation Delivers Growth. What capabilities should your association have in order to deliver revenue growth and strong retention? In the Strategic Member Engagement Survey , Associations & Professional Societies reporting upward 3-year operating results are far more likely to have a very high level of board understanding and strategizing about the business and professional outcomes members seek, and actively engage members in creating new solutions.
Wild Apricot
MAY 29, 2015
Here are are highlights and the top 7 tips from our Expert Webinar: Raise More Money With Win-Win Sponsorships.
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Eric Lanke
MAY 25, 2015
You need time to think. Not time alone in your office thinking about strategy. If you're anything like me, you probably need that, too, but that’s not the time I’m talking about. I’m talking about the time that exists between when someone asks you a question and when you open your mouth to respond. That, I've discovered, is one of the most critical moments of all.
Association Adviser
MAY 29, 2015
Job postings and other material from your association's online career center is content gold you didn’t know you had – and a powerful membership benefit. The post Online Career Centers: Content gold. For more about this topic, click on the headline.
Associations Now
MAY 27, 2015
Is your association guilty of “tell us your story” engagement? Maybe it’s time to dig deeper and refocus on engagement that serves members, not the association. There’s an old adage in journalism that says “everyone has a story to tell.” The lesson for writers: With a little effort, compassion, and the right questions, a good reporter can find a compelling story in anyone.
SCD Group
MAY 25, 2015
Typical associations spend two-thirds of their annual budgets on personnel costs. Over the years, I’ve watched some “budget funding battles” that demonstrated the boards didn’t really know what their association staff was doing on behalf of the organization. During these debates, I discovered that it is hard to explain WHAT you do but even more difficult to share HOW you do it.
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Beth Kanter
MAY 26, 2015
Last week, Andrea Kihlstedt and I did a reprise of our Guidestar webinar, “ Healthy and Productive Meetings ” as a learning session for Guidestar staff. Guidestar has multiple office locations, so this session was done as a virtual meeting using a platform and apps that offered features like chat, desktop sharing, polling, white board, sticky notes, and audio and video conferencing.
Plexus Consulting
MAY 29, 2015
By Steven M. Worth, President at Plexus Consulting Group, LLC The concept of credentialing has been growing strongly—particularly since the late 1980s when the signatory countries of the Uruguay Round Multilateral Trade Agreement stipulated for the first time that global standards should be developed by competent authorities (i.e., organizations made up of reputable professionals with no political or nationalistic agendas) using inclusive and transparent processes as defined by the International
Associations Now
MAY 29, 2015
All meeting planners want to make it easier for conference attendees to connect. Is the way to go about that to think of all attendees as introverts? Maybe. As a self- and Myers-Briggs-diagnosed introvert, my ears perked up earlier this week as I was using Twitter to lurk online around BizBash’s Elevate conference (a classic introvert technique, I suppose): Avoid speed-networking sessions and the rush to secure as many business cards as possible.
SCD Group
MAY 28, 2015
Local Chapters are Building Blocks for Association Engagement I was going to write today about declining church memberships and closing colleges and suggest they could be a forerunner of trends impacting associations too. But then, my son, brothers, cousins and nephew attended the Memorial Day services at Dorton United Methodist Church in Crossville, Tennessee.
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Beth Kanter
MAY 27, 2015
Note from Beth: My colleagues at Network Impact have released an important report about measuring and evaluating “civic tech” based on their experience working with Knight Foundation grantees. It goes beyond just analytics tools to exploring tools, techniques, and data for measuring deep civic engagement, open governance, and inclusive decision-making.
Idea Architects
MAY 28, 2015
Getting to know you, Getting to know all about you. Getting to like you, Getting to hope you like me. —Anna in The King and I Can we ever learn enough about our friends, work colleagues, or collaborators? Probably not. That's why so many organizations engage in retreats and other teambuilding sessions: to strengthen interpersonal relationships and effectiveness.
Associations Now
MAY 27, 2015
With nine FIFA executives indicted on a wide array of corruption charges, the organization that governs international soccer and manages the World Cup has become a poster child for leadership gone wrong. Here’s why. This is definitely not the way an executive committee meeting usually goes. On Wednesday morning, seven leading executives of FIFA, soccer’s worldwide governing body, were arrested in Zurich on a variety of charges, including fraud, bribery, and money laundering.
Velvet Chainsaw
MAY 28, 2015
This post, Delivering Experience , by Anthony Iannarino stuck in my mind as it sparked new ideas about conference experience design. Iannarino recounts a dining experience with his wife at a “funky, cool, eclectic” restaurant. Within moments of arriving, drink orders were swiftly taken and delivered. Entrees arrived moments later. Then the check, lickety-split.
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.
Associations Now
MAY 28, 2015
Diversity on Display The annual BookCon and BookExpo conventions are known for drawing big crowds and big names, but one thing that has been questioned in is the lack of diversity at the events. After getting caught off guard by complaints last year, event organizers worked closely with the author coalition We Need Diverse Books (WNDB). As a result, this year’s events have diverse sessions at the forefront. “They’ve heavily invested themselves in it (diversity),” WNDB cof
Associations Now
MAY 26, 2015
You may not be required by law to save your left over food, but you can still keep your event ahead of the sustainability curve. Here’s how. Also: It’s OK to admit you’re wrong. The social effects of food waste are becoming hard to ignore—just ask France. Last week, the French parliament unanimously passed a bill requiring grocery stores to stop throwing out unused food and instead donate it to charities or for use as compost or animal feed.
Associations Now
MAY 29, 2015
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which has long allowed advocacy messages to be posted throughout its system, this week chose to ban all issue-related ads, rather than let an anti-Muslim group display cartoons of the prophet Muhammad on the city’s trains, buses, and stations. The many advocacy ads that line the sides of trains, buses, and Metro stations in Washington, DC, may be a thing of the past—at least for a while.
Associations Now
MAY 26, 2015
Too often, it seems like we’re fighting things that should be making our lives easier. A few smart words from a guy who built his life in technology could help you figure out your own technology balance. What if Woz was one of us? That sounds like an unusual question, but it was posed to me recently in the form of a blog post by an association management company.
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