Wild Apricot

MAY 23, 2014

'We''ve rounded up 20 free non-profit webinars for June 2014. Topics include: Smarter Email Marketing; the Future; Getting Your Donors to Fall In Love With You; and much more.

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Association Leaders

MAY 19, 2014

'Great leaders seem to always have a set of values upon which they rely when making decisions. These values are a barometer for them – If I make decision A, my company will be more profitable but we will violate one or more of our key values in doing so. I believe great leaders don’t abandon their values, even when they require more work, less profit or more stress.

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Aaron Wolowiec

MAY 20, 2014

'Imagine: Your conference is thriving. Rooms are packed and vendors are happy. Things are going swimmingly well and then it happens. You get the call that one of your attendees had a heart attack and has died. Imagine again: You’ve taken a chance on a new event venue that sits beautifully on a river. Your vendors seem to love the locale and the packed expo hall.

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YourMembership

MAY 22, 2014

Last week we hosted our monthly Thought Leadership Webinar , featuring a whitepaper published by Association Laboratory entitled Looking Forward 2014: An Environmental Scanning Whitepaper for the Association Industry. I recently shared some thoughts on the whitepaper, focusing on the statistic that 78 percent of the association leaders participating in the study identified managing the volume of information they receive as a major concern of their members.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 22, 2014

'Is your forum going like gangbusters or a virtual ghost town? Here are some tips to help get your members forum started or refresh an existing forum.

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Mariner

MAY 23, 2014

'I’ve spent lots of time this week with many different groups of volunteers and close the week with a sense of contentment. It''s been brought on by.

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Eric Lanke

MAY 19, 2014

'image source Two weeks ago, in Leading By Example , I wrote about my latest experiment in trying to make the values and behaviors described in my association''s values statement a more active part of the day-to-day interactions of me and my staff. Having asked everyone to make a commitment to more mindfully manifest a chosen behavior in the office--and having communicated that performance evaluations would, in part, be based on their willingness and ability to do so--I decided to lead by exampl

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Wild Apricot

MAY 20, 2014

'In this guest post, Leah Merrill suggests four ways you can use your membership management software to help you grow those members and perform outreach.

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Optimist Consulting

MAY 22, 2014

'I recently delivered a presentation about retention at the ‘Managing Membership’ event organised by Adapta Consulting and The I Am Group. It was a really good event. I enjoyed the presentation by the Woodland Trust about an acquisition campaign they recently undertook, so I thought I’d share what they did as I think it could provide inspiration to other membership organisations.

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Jamie Notter

MAY 21, 2014

'As I mentioned in last week’s post, Maddie and I spoke last week to some very different audiences–one made up of technology folks from some very large, global companies, and the other made up of mostly association executives from very small organizations. One thing that they both talked about (other than the grass being greener…) was the idea that organizational culture can often create conflict within an organization.

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KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup

MAY 20, 2014

'FastCompany recently featured an article by Jane Porter that was all about what the founder of ModCloth would tell her younger self. I got to thinking about my own history and what I would tell my younger self, if I had the chance. For now, I know of no time machines that will allow me to go back and change things. But when the time does come for the chance to go back, here are the five things that will be at the top of my list to teach myself. 1.

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Vanguard Tech

MAY 19, 2014

'Several years ago we evaluated all the CMS products on the market and chose to work exclusively with Sitefinity. We saw the Sitefinity CMS as a great fit for associations for a number of reasons including the ease of use, scalability and the fact that its.NET foundation made for easy integrations with the major association management software (AMS) systems.

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Optimist Consulting

MAY 22, 2014

'I was recently asked to talk about social media and sporting membership governing bodies at the MemCom conference; you can download my presentation here. At the event I enjoyed watching presentations from two sports’ governing bodies, and what struck me about them both is how listening to member feedback has helped them to grow their organisations.

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Jamie Notter

MAY 19, 2014

'Thanks to the Kansas City Society of Association Executives and the Kansas Society of Association Executives for bringing Maddie and me out to both Missouri and Kansas (my first ever trip to Kansas) to speak to their members. My part of the presentation was about Organizational Culture in the 21st Century, and my slides are embedded below for your viewing pleasure ( click here if you can’t see them).

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Idea Architects

MAY 23, 2014

'If there''s "gold in them there hills," there''s wisdom, ideas, and insights in a conference community. The challenge is helping participants more quickly connect with others who have the gold they seek. To do so, I''ve been experimenting with helping participants become Power Prospectors in a session. Imagine a room filled with participants (this exercise scales to any size) seated at rounds.

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Vanguard Tech

MAY 21, 2014

'Drive down any street at this time of year and a brief glance at all the real estate signs tells us a new season is approaching. Moving season.

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Optimist Consulting

MAY 22, 2014

'I was delighted to attend the launch of PARN’s 2014 ‘ Professional Body Sector Review ’last week. It was hosted by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in its 5 th floor conference suite; the views over the Thames were amazing. The report provides an overview of the sector, mixing research data with case studies. I thought I’d share three interesting facts from the report: 1) Chartership is on the rise.

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Associations Now

MAY 21, 2014

'A new survey by the American Psychological Association found that only 4 percent of American adults know what the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act is and how it works. The group launched a new education campaign to change that. How familiar are you with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 ? If you’re drawing a blank, don’t worry—you’re in a group with about 96 percent of the American population who are unfamiliar with the law, according to a new survey by the

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 23, 2014

'As young children, curiosity made us jump in a mud puddle. Try to catch fireflies. And chase our shadows. It was our motivation for learning and play. When we discovered that if we mixed red and yellow finger paint, we created orange, we went on a frenzy mixing all types of colors. Our final images were modern surrealist paintings of flowing purples, brown, blacks and grays.

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Association Adviser

MAY 20, 2014

'For most association leaders, wearing multiple hats and “doing more with less” is part of their DNA. But suppose you received a large and unexpected bump in your annual budget for communications and technology. Ever thought about how you would spend that windfall? Here’s what your peers told us and the results may surprise you. For instance, hiring more staff was not the leading response.

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Optimist Consulting

MAY 18, 2014

'There is so much content being produced and shared across social media channels. As a membership organisation you are probably producing lots of your own content and you might also be streaming third party information to members. Most organisations have separate social media channels and therefore separate audiences; however, there is a platform that aims to bring them all together – RebelMouse.

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Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

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Associations Now

MAY 19, 2014

'A recent study suggests that too much agreement on a board can weaken a company, even increasing the probability of fraud. Why you need to (nicely) cultivate dissent. Is an agreeable board bad for business? The Harvard Business Review recently highlighted research that suggests that when a board’s politics align with the CEO’s, the company suffers.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 21, 2014

'Most conferences are so safe. Yawn! So boring…so tame! Contagious yawn, setting off a chain reaction of conference meeting yawns. Don’t misunderstand me. I don’t think that conferences are supposed to be boring. But most are! Big yawn, time to sleep. Creating An Adventure What if your next conference was an adventure? Weren’t conferences created […].

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Association Adviser

MAY 20, 2014

'Tom Hubler. For the first time in history, four distinct generations of adults are now socializing, communicating and actively participating in the workplace. Countless theories, articles and study courses have been devoted to analyzing and understanding these dynamics. Marketers and demographers have defined these issues. Sociologists and psychologists have proposed each generation’s psychographic (behavioral) characteristics.

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Membership Marketing

MAY 20, 2014

'The famous quote from John F. Kennedy, “a rising tide lifts all boats,” certainly applies to membership. In our soon to be released Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report, we cross-tabulated organizations that reported an increase in membership numbers to the outcomes that they were experiencing in other areas of the association. When we compare associations who saw a decrease or no change in membership over the past year to associations reporting growth in membership, we see associations wit

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

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