Sat.Jan 19, 2013 - Fri.Jan 25, 2013

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Small Membership Organizations - Funding and Futures

Wild Apricot

Here are more highlights from our Small Membership Insight Survey - with a look at findings about budgets, income sources and growth patterns.

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Engagement: It's Not About You

Thanks For Playing

There was a lot of talk about measuring and scoring member engagement at December's ASAE Technology Conference. People talked about scoring systems. People talked about tech platforms to track and report on the scores. People talked about engagement as the key to recruitment, retention, and upselling, whether that means getting members to invest money by buying stuff or invest time by taking volunteer positions.

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Weekly Wrap-Up for Associations

YourMembership

Categories: Social Media and Business Trends Tags: affiniscape , associations , jamie notter , weekly wrap-up , yourmembership.com Happy Friday and Welcome to the Weekly Wrap Up brought to you by the team at YourMembership.com! The weekly wrap-ups are a great resource to find industry provoking articles, blog posts, upcoming events, fun facts, and provide up-to-date news and tips found throughout the association and workforce space each week.

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Reads of the Week: January 25, 2013

Reid All About it

Over at CopyBlogger, Georgina El Morshdy shares 30 ways to build the “know, like, and trust” factor that grows an audience. She tells content marketers — meaning any individual or organization that uses content to educate and build relationships: “The reality is, your audience won’t pick up real momentum until you’ve mastered the “know, like, trust” factor.

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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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Our Dream For Small Non-profits in 2013

Wild Apricot

The Nonprofit Blog Carnival wanted to know our "Big Dream for 2013" so here's our dream for small non-profits.

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Leadership Lessons from Abraham Lincoln

Association Leaders

Abraham Lincoln is best known for leading our country through what many think was its most challenging time. Lincoln was in fact, an amazing leader who inspired people when he was living and does so still today. What made him such a great leader? We have explored leadership in many of these blogs. We have discussed leadership qualities, leadership characteristics and leadership do’s and don’ts.

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Actors in the Play

Eric Lanke

image source I keep finding myself in discussions about the role of committees in association governance and management. Some folks think all committees must report to the Board. That is their natural home, they say. They're made up of volunteer members, after all. Who better to supervise them but the volunteers they and their peers have elected to leadership?

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Association Evolution: What Association Leaders are Thinking About for 2013 and Beyond

Portage Group

Well, it's 2013 and we're still here. The Mayans mixed things up, got tired of writing their calendar or maybe they just wanted to freak us out a bit. Whatever the reason, I know that all you association leaders out there are constantly thinking about how to do things better and how to better serve your members in what in all likelyhood is a profession or industry that is going through a lot of change.

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What I'm Reading

Thanks For Playing

Everyone's all excited about Facebook's new Graph Search, aka Facebook takes on Google, including Social Media Examiner , ASAE , and SocialFish. Personal branding trends for 2013 (I'm not so sure these are new this year, but they are good remidners). An interesting look at why innovation is so hard. My favorite? Innovation is a product of CONSTRUCTIVE conflict.

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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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Ziggy Stardust and the Members From Mars

Association Subculture

Ah, David Bowie at his perfect best - here is the link if you can't see the video embed. I am getting ready to give a presentation this evening and starting thinking about how technology continues to revolutionize association membership. It's the hope of technology that gets us closer and closer to our members both in terms of proximity and time. I remember in the good old days we got as close as the mailbox.

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Are Local Chapters Still Relevant?

AMR Management Services

by Brian Reuwee. A member of the American Society of Association Executives LinkedIn group recently posted a question for discussion: Where have all the local chapters gone and what will fill the void? As reluctant, yet long-tenured, treasurer turned defacto president for a struggling local chapter of a larger national association, this question is personally relevant, but also professionally engaging.

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We’re back!

Mariner

January 21, 2013. Wondering where we’ve been lately? Well, as you have guessed by now, we’ve been working on a new website! With this new design – and yes, that’s Peggy and Peter on the sidebar! – we’re able to provide you an even greater resource portal jammed packed with information to help you make the most out of your association and volunteer program.

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Friday Top 5

Thanks For Playing

Quiet week here in Spark-land (guessing everyone is still recovering from Inaugural Ball hangovers and/or hunkering down because of the cold weather and threat of snow), so I had some downtime. My Top 5 Favorite Uses of Unexpected Space: Get organized! (This really is my favorite.) I've organized my paper and electronic files and updated my professional development tracking information (gotta keep track of those credits for CAE renewals).

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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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Association Evolution: What Association Leaders are Thinking About for 2013 and Beyond

Portage Group

'Well, it''s 2013 and we''re still here. The Mayans mixed things up, got tired of writing their calendar or maybe they just wanted to freak us out a bit. Whatever the reason, I know that all you association leaders out there are constantly thinking about how to do things better and how to better serve your members in what in all likelyhood is a profession or industry that is going through a lot of change.

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White Paper: Making Performance Management Work

Jamie Notter

This year I’m launching a new White Paper series that takes some of the key ideas in Humanize and gets practical and concrete with them. Today, I’m launching the first one: Making Performance Management Work. I’m calling the series “Making It Work,” because as much as I love to blog and write about cool ideas, I think we desperately need to start actually DOING SOMETHING about these ideas in our organizations.

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Ask Questions to Improve Nonprofit Performance

AMR Management Services

Who? What? When? Where? Why? and How? Key questions journalists ask to get the full story. Association leaders need to key questions of their organization to help priorities programs and focus their goals. Open ended questions such as "How can we improve?" and "What do we need to do differently?" can apply to particular activities or to the entire organization.

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China Market Insight – Pushing to Become an Advanced Economy

GlowGlobally

In 2013, MCI will be bringing you a new feature to GrowGlobally.org called “Market Insight” that will offer information on select emerging market countries. The focus will be on data that could be useful to help improve market intelligence and help make business decisions. Be sure to subscribe to either via RSS feed or to receive future installments to your email address.

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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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Are retailers trying to become associations? What does it mean for your Association?

SCD Group

And, if so, what does that mean to association executives? An InternetRetailer post ( Retailers Move Social Media Out of Its Silo ) focused on retailers working to engage their customers. I realized that the huge shift toward engaged consumers is just an informal association in disguise. I’m thinking most retailers are jealous of associations and the connection most associations have with their members.

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More on Leadership and Social Media

Jamie Notter

Late last fall, Maddie and I released the results of a survey we did with 500 professionals about the link between social media and leadership. We think there are some interesting data points in there that can help organizations better understand what “social business” really means. Obviously others are feeling the same way, because it’s getting some coverage in print and online.

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Are Local Chapters Still Relevant?

AMR Management Services

'Where have all the local chapters gone and what will fill the void? As reluctant, yet long-tenured, treasurer turned defacto president for a struggling local chapter of a larger national.

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Is 2013 the Year of Video for Nonprofits?

Beth Kanter

If you follow social media guru Mari Smith, you have no doubt noticed the headline ” The Year of Video ” and promotion for a free webinar on the ins and outs of video creation, video production, video marketing for small businesses on Jan. 24th. Will nonprofits follow that trend? I always look at Michael Hoffman, CEO, See3 Communications for an answer.

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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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Quality of Board Governance: What’s an Association Exec to Do?

SCD Group

An association CEO’s call the other day asking for “governance models” got me to thinking: The lack of influence on the quality of my board of directors represented one of my frustrations as an association CEO. Since the boards of most of the associations my AMC managed were representational in nature (e.g., the chapters or state associations selected “their” members to serve on “our” board), the national association “accepted” whomever the local (chapter or state association) “sent” to be on th

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Book Review: Winning the Story Wars

Jamie Notter

Winning the Story Wars: Why Those who Tell–and Live–the Best Stories Will Rule the Future. by Jonah Sachs. Harvard Business Review Press, 2012. Maddie interviewed Jonah Sachs for an NTEN “Meet the Author” webinar, and once she read the book gave it to me with one of those “you HAVE to read this” recommendations. She was right.

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Ask Questions to Improve Nonprofit Performance

AMR Management Services

'Who? What? When? Where? Why? and How? Key questions journalists ask to get the full story. Association leaders need to key questions of their organization to help priorities programs and focus their.

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Content Strategy, Creation, Organization, and Measurement

Beth Kanter

Some of you may remember that I shared a depressing screen capture of my Facebook Insights visual right after taking a two-week break during the holidays. The comments in the thread were terrific and generated a blog post: [link]. But more importantly, I wanted to close the loop and show you that after getting back to a consistent editorial calendar, the engagement and reach came back from vacation.

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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.