Sat.Feb 18, 2012 - Fri.Feb 24, 2012

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Storytelling Tip ? Capturing the Difference

YourMembership

Membership Software Association Management Software. Home. Solutions. Associations. Nonprofits + Foundations. Chambers + EDCs. Corporate + Social. Education + Alumni. Advantages. Branding. Control. Add-On Products. Support. Pricing. Company. News + Press. Customers. Technology. Management Team. Partner Programs. Corporate Responsibility. Inside YM. Careers.

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Telling Your Story Through Video

Wild Apricot

Here's an overview of an article on video editing software and a reminder about the DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards.

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Microvolunteering: More Opportunities for Member Engagement

Reid All About it

“I wish I could, but I don’t have the time.”. Are you hearing that more frequently? As life becomes more complex, members have more options for spending their time and, consequently, more demands on their time. Juggling their work, family, and social lives with association service isn’t as easy as it used to be. The traditional membership experience—volunteering for committee and board service—requires a commitment of time and energy that many are no longer able or willing to give.

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Thanks For Playing: What I'm Reading

Thanks For Playing

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Thanks For Playing. Seeking community in associations since 2008. 22 February 2012. What Im Reading. Innovating from the middle : not a mythical creature. Not only can you innovate if youre not the CEO, if you want to be the. CEO some day, you MUST learn this skill. Shelly Alcorn takes on trends for 2012 and how they might affect associations.

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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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Throw Me Some Beads Mr.! Lessons from Mardi Gras

YourMembership

Membership Software Association Management Software. Home. Solutions. Associations. Nonprofits + Foundations. Chambers + EDCs. Corporate + Social. Education + Alumni. Advantages. Branding. Control. Add-On Products. Support. Pricing. Company. News + Press. Customers. Technology. Management Team. Partner Programs. Corporate Responsibility. Inside YM. Careers.

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Do the Leaders in Your Association put the Association Interests or Personal Interests First?

Association Leaders

If you read my blog regularly you know I read (and write) a lot about leadership. I believe good leaders make organizations (their companies or associations) successful. I also know that no one is perfect. It is impossible for good leaders to be good all the time. I have been bothered by something I have noticed in some organizations for some time. I haven’t been sure how to describe it.

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Thanks For Playing: Examining One's Habits

Thanks For Playing

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Thanks For Playing. Seeking community in associations since 2008. 23 February 2012. Examining Ones Habits. Although I celebrate Mardi Gras every year with gusto, Ive never taken the next step: making a Lenten resolution. No doubt, the fact that Im not Catholic has something to do with that. But I do like the idea of a defined annual period of time in which to consciously examine and focus on ones habits.

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Get Out There: Friday Fix

YourMembership

Membership Software Association Management Software. Home. Solutions. Associations. Nonprofits + Foundations. Chambers + EDCs. Corporate + Social. Education + Alumni. Advantages. Branding. Control. Add-On Products. Support. Pricing. Company. News + Press. Customers. Technology. Management Team. Partner Programs. Corporate Responsibility. Inside YM. Careers.

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Membership Site Software - Build or Buy?

Wild Apricot

Here are some thoughts, tips and resources for organizations considering your membership site software options.

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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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Privacy: It’s Personal, or Is It?

Reid All About it

Google’s new privacy policy takes effect on March 1. It allows them to collect and consolidate user data from all its web properties — Search, Gmail, YouTube, Picasa, Maps and about 50 other Google services. You can’t opt out. Google has always collected this data at its individual sites. Now it will combine them to get a fuller profile of each of us.

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Eric Lanke: Whose Job Is It to Be the Facilitator?

Eric Lanke

Eric Lanke. Association executive and author. Pages. Home. Leadership. Innovation. Member Engagement. Generations. Books Read. Fiction. Monday, February 20, 2012. Whose Job Is It to Be the Facilitator? image source. Have you been following the weekly series on facilitation on Jeffrey Cufaudes blog? I am--and Im getting a lot out of it. So much of what I do as an association CEO is about facilitation--about helping a group achieve consensus and determine a productive path forward--that I typicall

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Tell Your People

Jamie Notter

Blog. Consulting. Speaking. About. Contact. Generations. Humanize. Books: Jamie Notter. Leadership insight.right when you need it. Tell Your People. Posted February 23, 2012. in Leadership , Managing People , Truth - 4 comments. Tweet. When I first started in consulting, I was on a big project with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It was an extensive assessment of “organizational issues” broadly speaking.

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Are Your Members Getting Ready to Walk the Plank?

Portage Group

'Megan Rockett wrote an excellent post on her blog and started an interesting discussion on the CSAE LinkedIn Group. She asks: “On any given day, some proportion of your members are probably a bit less engaged with your association than they were the day before. Those ups and downs are natural. But when the relationship becomes weak enough, you run the risk that some members will leave the organization.

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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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6 Simple Ways to Facilitate Conference Connections

Idea Architects

Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects. Jeffrey Cufaude is an architect of ideas. custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. He also teaches presentation design and facilitation to subject matter experts. Monday, February 20, 2012. 6 Simple Ways to Facilitate Conference Connections. Peekaboo by Flickr user lintmachine.

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Sharing my blogging experience with others

Association Advocacy Chick

Late last year, I had the opportunity to present before the local chapter of Zeta Phi Beta sorority on social media. I talked about SEO and Facebook and Twitter. I gave stats on who’s using social networks. However, the part that generated the most interest and discussion centered around blogging. As I talked about starting and maintaining Association Advocacy Chick , many in the audience wanted to know the pros and cons of blogging.

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Stronger by Association: Shake it Up to Avoid Silence on.

AMR Management Services

Pages. HOME. CONTRIBUTORS. AMR MANAGEMENT SERVICES. Tuesday, February 21, 2012. Shake it Up to Avoid Silence on Conference Calls. By Alison Keller. I facilitate conference calls for two committees of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO). Communicating with a large group to drive decisions via conference calls can be difficult for staff and for volunteer committee chairs or board leaders.

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Are Your Members Getting Ready to Walk the Plank?

Portage Group

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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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Using Stories to Advance Your Strategy: Quotes and Questions

Idea Architects

Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects. Jeffrey Cufaude is an architect of ideas. custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. He also teaches presentation design and facilitation to subject matter experts. Tuesday, February 21, 2012. Using Stories to Advance Your Strategy: Quotes and Questions.

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Membership Marketing Blog: Three Membership Renewal Tips you.

Membership Marketing

Membership Marketing Blog. Membership marketing – acquiring, engaging, upgrading, and renewing members – is the cornerstone for associations and relationship driven organizations. Whether you are an association professional or a relationship marketer, join the discussion on the Membership Marketing Blog and share your ideas and counsel. Speaking Engagements.

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When Conferences Go Awry

Velvet Chainsaw

Tweet. Most nonprofit organizations host some type of annual meeting every year. Generally their bylaws require that they hold at least one annual membership meeting. Similarly, many corporations and associations organize, plan and implement one or more conferences every year that have other goals beyond the annual membership meeting. Some corporations hold customer events to showcase new products and services or increase loyalty.

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Assessing the Usability of Your Online Community (Part 2)

AssociCom

In the first part of this blog post, I talked about creating personas for your community. Although the title of that post included the word usability, it turns out that I didn’t really have much to say about usability per se in that post. That was intentional. People often think that usability is an absolute measure; either a site is usable or it is not.

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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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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Facilitation Friday #8: Help Surface.

Idea Architects

Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects. Jeffrey Cufaude is an architect of ideas. custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. He also teaches presentation design and facilitation to subject matter experts. Friday, February 24, 2012. Facilitation Friday #8: Help Surface the Invisible. Effective facilitation helps individuals and groups identify and discuss the important issues they may be unaware of or unwilling to address, as well

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Member Record Inspection Rights (California Outline)

Association Law

skip to main | skip to sidebar. This blog focuses on legal issues of interest to association leaders, including executives, volunteers and members. It is NOT intended to provide legal advice, but rather to share my informal thoughts on legal issues commonly faced by trade and professional associations, as well as foundations and other charities. This blog does not focus on homeowners associations or religious organizations.

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I'm Just So In Love With All - KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup

KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup

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Association 141+: You've Got to Know When to Hold 'Em

Association 141+

Association 141+. Monday, February 20, 2012. Youve Got to Know When to Hold Em. I was recently reading a great post on the Mizz Information blog (thanks Maggie!) on Why Having Staff be Facebook Emissaries is a Bad Idea when I came across this comment: "My advice? Hold steady with your Facebook page." Good advice - except do associations really excel at deciding to hold steady?

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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.