WBT Systems
AUGUST 2, 2016
With less than two weeks to the ASAE Annual Meeting and Expo 2016 , the largest event for Associations each year, we are putting in place our final preparations to exhibit at Booth #515. As we pack and ship our materials, arrange meetings with partners, clients and interested associations, and put the finishing touches on our demos, we started thinking about all the opportunities that the ASAE Annual Expo 2016 provides.
Higher Logic
AUGUST 3, 2016
Launching your new community is a big deal. A lot of work went into it and everyone has high expectations for the community. Since community spaces are new, you can’t necessarily expect mass adoption from everyone the second you open the doors. But you can expect people to be interested and excited to see what the community is all about when you launch.
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Spark Consulting
AUGUST 1, 2016
Information overload – we all experience it personally, every day, with our emails and social media feeds and online media and print media and broadcast media, and that’s hard enough to manage. But in 2016, our associations ALSO struggle with information overload. We have many rich sources of data about our members, our other audiences, and our operations that we can mine in a dizzying variety of ways, so many, in fact, that it can be almost impossible to separate the signal from the
Potomac Core
AUGUST 3, 2016
Market uncertainty and the pace of change will continue to impact membership decisions at professional societies and trade associations. Looming external factors will play a significant role in how membership decisions will be made. The outcome of the U.S. Presidential and Congressional Elections, economic performance inside and outside the United States, mergers and acquisitions, baby boomer retirements , terror threats, and technology disruptions will influence whether or not professionals
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Wild Apricot
AUGUST 5, 2016
If you're organization is struggling to recruit volunteers, have you considered using social media to do the work for you? In one of this month's free nonprofit webinars, you'll learn how to recruit volunteers right from Facebook, Twitter, and even YouTube.
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Higher Logic
AUGUST 4, 2016
Psychology helps you motivate members to take action -- but can it help you design a great website? Community design is important, not an afterthought. Depending on its layout and ease of use, the UX can make or break a member’s experience. And you want to make their experience great and full of value, not frustrating. Knowing a few psychological hacks can help you create a website that’s not only easy to use, but helps members take action.
Aaron Wolowiec
AUGUST 3, 2016
Have you ever wondered what attracts nearly 17 million guests a year to “The Happiest Place on Earth”? Surprisingly, it’s not magic. As our members, exhibitors, sponsors and attendees struggle to allocate limited resources, including time and money, they’re making tough decisions about whether or not to participate in our events.
KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup
AUGUST 4, 2016
When controversial legislation passed in Tennessee, Rich Yep, CEO of the American Counseling Association, had to lead his association in a huge move to relocate their annual conference. I had the chance to talk with Rich and discuss this issue on Association Chat. We talked about the timeline for the PR crisis, issues with handling contracts and vendors, and Rich's suggestions for how association executives might best prepare themselves and their organizations for similar problems.
Virtual
AUGUST 2, 2016
One of our core values at Virtual is “Have fun.” Well, I’m a big believer that fun (and creativity) can be found in even the most mundane of places. Like an out-of-office message. For the past few years, I’ve done “something different” for my message. You can see this year’s edition at www.andyfreed.video or see the full collection at www.andyisooo.com.
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Higher Logic
AUGUST 1, 2016
Starting an online community can seem like a daunting task at first. It’s easy to think that you need experience with other online communities to build a successful one for your own organization. However, while communities on a screen seem like a new phenomenon, their goal is to mimic a real-life community. So, rather than seeing yourself as the community manager of an online group, try imagining you are the town planner in charge of helping a new town get off its feet.
Aaron Wolowiec
AUGUST 3, 2016
Have you ever wondered what attracts nearly 17 million guests a year to “The Happiest Place on Earth”? Surprisingly, it’s not magic. As our members, exhibitors, sponsors and attendees struggle to allocate limited resources, including time and money, they’re making tough decisions about whether or not to participate in our events.
Eric Lanke
AUGUST 1, 2016
I've written a few times here about my experiment with The Four Disciplines of Execution, or 4DX, as it is often abbreviated. The last time I wrote about it, I was dissecting the experiment I've run to date, and offered up the three factors that caused us the most difficulty. If you're interested, go here for the full blog post. When talking about the second factor, an admission that it was unclear that all of the "Wildly Important Goals," or "WIGs," that we had chosen truly mattered for our org
Smooth The Path
AUGUST 2, 2016
Often. And this is totally normal. We live and breath the association every day. We know all fourteen benefits, we probably invented at least one of them. We are uber users of the website. We have edited and proofed the conference schedule so many times we have it nearly memorized. Likely members think the value of their membership is more than or less than we think they think it is.
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Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’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.
Higher Logic
AUGUST 2, 2016
Ever wonder who the people behind the curtain are here at Higher Logic? We're introducing you to our community managers. They’ll talk about why they love community management, helpful resources to use and weigh in on the dog versus cat debate (as you can see, this is serious stuff…). In this fifth installment, we’re introducing our newest community manager, Melanie DiGeorge.
Associations Now
AUGUST 3, 2016
A new membership program from comic-book giant Marvel shows earning loyalty may be as simple as rewarding existing behavior. If you’ve paid even the tiniest amount of attention to popular culture in the past decade, you’ve surely noticed that a lot of people really, really love comic books and superheroes. What was once perhaps looked upon as nerdery is now embraced as mainstream.
Idea Architects
AUGUST 1, 2016
In author Daniel Pink's most recent "infrequent and irreverent" enewsletter (you should subscribe), he highlighted six book recommendations in a simple, but powerful way: sharing a core idea from the book's content and his take (or one from the book) on how to put it in action. By making these takeaways explicit, Pink helped me determine if I might wish to read the book itself.
Smooth The Path
AUGUST 1, 2016
Associations are no longer a place to hide, if they ever were. Now everyone in every role needs to prepare for change, accept change and maybe even bring about change. External forces are ensuring that organizations can’t thrive by maintaining the status quo, or even survive. Each and every association is feeling the pressure. In the face of such swift and powerful pressure no one knows what to do.
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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
.orgCommunity
AUGUST 1, 2016
From : Blog Entry >> Heather's Blog Entry Association management software/systems are arguably organizations’ largest technology investment. They provide membership organizations with vital functionality for delivering member services, and serve multiple business purposes—from operating as the core system of record to event and learning management, email marketing campaigns, and much more.
Associations Now
AUGUST 4, 2016
A recent study finds that more than 90 percent of educational institutions are offering credentials and digital badges, in part, to serve their millennial students, who favor badging and certificates to traditional degrees. What lessons can associations learn from the study? Usually, I don’t have to do a lot of guesswork when my two-year-old daughter wants something.
Membersuite
AUGUST 4, 2016
If you’re anything like me, you’re hesitant to jump aboard the Twitter train. I had no idea how 140 characters would benefit me, or even what a hashtag was. After much debate and persuasion, I succumbed to peer pressure. Today, I can’t imagine not checking Twitter for my daily news and entertainment. If your association wants to make the most out of social media - Twitter is a great place to start.
Smooth The Path
AUGUST 4, 2016
In member interviews professionals break roughly into three world-views. The first worldview is, we are facing some big problems and I would like to be part of a creative, new solution that might actually work. I call these the innovators. The second worldview is, we are facing some big problems and I am going to help mitigate these problems using as few resources as I can to preserve what we have now.
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.
Velvet Chainsaw
AUGUST 2, 2016
This is the second in a series of posts on the findings of reports published by the Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR) based on research recently conducted on attendee retention strategies. The way we buy has evolved for both the B2B and B2C sectors. Trade show organizers who have re-imagined their expo floors into a solutions-based destination rather than one of a hard-sell shopping place are winning at delivering attendee value.
Associations Now
AUGUST 3, 2016
NYC has become an unexpected hot spot for beekeeping, with associations helping to buoy the trend in the hub of all things buzzworthy. Bee populations have been on the decline in recent years, with beekeepers around the U.S. scrambling to save the flying insects. Perhaps surprisingly, however, bees are doing OK in the country’s largest urban center, thanks to renewed interest in beekeeping.
Membersuite
AUGUST 2, 2016
One of the most inevitable aspects of life is growth. It’s something you do every day without even realizing it. Nothing wants to stay stagnant, and that includes your association. It’s important to continually evolve, grow and improve. For an association to enhance its recruitment and retention efforts, it must understand the rate at which it wants to grow.
Achieve
AUGUST 3, 2016
The dust is starting to settle from another remarkable MCON. This year’s event gathered leaders, social entrepreneurs, activists and students from all over the country to National Geographic’s campus in Washington, D.C. for an unforgettable week. Whether you made it to D.C. this year, took advantage of the free live stream or you’re just now hearing about the event, check out these 11 can’t-miss moments from MCON 2016. #11 Jay Newton-Small Talks “Broad Influence,” How Women Continue to Shape Pol
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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