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26 Free Nonprofit Webinars for April 2017

Wild Apricot

Every month we compile the largest list of free nonprofit webinars. Here are 26 for April 2017.

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5 qualities of a successful online learning team.

YourMembership

A gut check to help your association implement a major learning management system or elearning strategic plan. Are you getting ready to implement a major learning management system (LMS) or elearning strategic plan? You can measure your readiness using our scorecard. It’s a time-tested gauge we created thanks to a long history of small to […].

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Why are Associations missing from the Digital Credentials conversation?

WBT Systems

“ The world’s education systems are failing our children by not preparing them for the workplace of the future. “ This stark statement is the key finding of a new report by the World Economic Forum, Realizing Human Potential in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The report outlines practical measures for aligning education and training with future job requirements.

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Why Online Communities Still Aren’t a Top Business Strategy (And How to Change That)

Higher Logic

Dear online community professionals, We have work to do. Today, we are failing to showcase the inherent value we believe online communities can provide, because too many of our arguments are unproven. Beliefs are not facts. Beliefs don’t drive revenue. We need to reach further, grow t he ranks of our advocates and allies inside the office, and push ourselves to learn the information we so desperately need to grow and succeed.

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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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March Update: An Update on our Update

Wild Apricot

Find out how our latest release went and want changes we've reverted. We've also got a free webinar coming up and some helpful resources from industry experts.

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WBT Systems Sponsors PersoniFest 2017

WBT Systems

WBT Systems is proud to sponsor PersoniFest 2017, hosted by Personify, April 2-5, in San Diego, California. We are very excited to sponsor PersoniFest! Mike will be flying over to San Diego to meet the Personify community and talk to you about all your Association eLearning questions. WBT Systems has been has been helping Associations to build and improve their education and certification programs since 1995.

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LEGO Tries a New Type of Community - Will it Work?

Higher Logic

LEGO recently announced it was ending its LEGO Message Boards (LMB). This upset many longtime LMB members as well as people in the larger community industry - especially because it didn’t say if there was going to be a replacement community, or why it made such a drastic decision in the first place. Instead of offering reasons or an alternative, LEGO simply said it was shutting the community down and deleting everything - cold turkey.

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Showing #VolunteerLove, Driving Member Engagement

Mariner

Showing #VolunteerLove is a winning strategy for driving member engagement. Why? Because volunteering is the stickiest type of member engagement. We need to get beyond rewards and recognition to show. #VolunteerLove. That was the message of the ASAE Membership Section Council webinar , Driving Member Engagement by Showing #VolunteerLove.

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My top 10 insights from MemberWise’s Digital Excellence 2017 report

Optimist Consulting

I really enjoyed reading the latest insights and predictions on digital trends for the membership sector in Digital Excellence 2017 , the free annual research summary report from MemberWise. 275 association and membership professionals took part so it helpfully covers a broad range of organisation types and sizes. The findings are particularly helpful if you are looking to benchmark or write proposals/business cases for digital change/transformation and need to back them up with statistics from

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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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Always Rushed? Try the Buffered Time Method for Association Scheduling

Smooth The Path

Professionals tend to run on one of two mindsets for time management. Magical thinking time. Magical thinking time is constructing a timeline for a plan assuming that nothing will go wrong. This schedule assumes there’s no learning curve, no curve balls, and no mistakes. This kind of scheduling is bound to force the project team to work during their discretionary hours and overrun the budget.

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Add Productivity to the Last Hour of the Day

Associations Now

The last hour of the day can feel like a productivity killer. But a workplace efficiency trend, called the “soft project” hour, might help you to refocus and tackle those small membership to-do items. You know the feeling. It’s been a long day filled with conference calls, staff meetings, and project planning. The clock strikes 4 p.m., and you start to feel a productivity buzzkill.

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How to Hire The Ideal Freelancer

Association Success

Finding a freelancer is easy. Finding the RIGHT freelancer is a whole other ball game. If you’ve read my article on the pros and cons of hiring a freelancer , then you might be convinced at this point that it is the right move. The thought can even seem too good to be true: low cost, talented individuals that need little management or guidance to do stellar work for your association.

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How marketing & communications can support professional bodies with their diversity

Optimist Consulting

I recently came across the Diversity and Inclusion Progression Framework for professional bodies from the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Science Council. This practical framework is designed to help professional bodies improve diversity and inclusion (D&I) within their organisation. Professional membership organisations can play an important role in championing diversity in the profession they represent, and they should also look to model diversity within their own organisation.

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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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New Method to Try When You Are Under Extreme Pressure

Smooth The Path

Chicago O’Hare airport has three terminals built together, and each terminal has up to three concourses (which are like terminals at any other airport but at O’Hare they have a different name), and I walked up and down each terminal and concourse during a very long layover last week. O’Hare is massive, and it is busy. People, everywhere, walking, waiting, shopping, eating, boarding, and rushing.

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Nurses Groups Partner to Better Address Students’ Mental Health Issues

Associations Now

A new partnership between the American Psychiatric Nurses Association and the National Association of Schools Nurses hopes to enhance school nurses’ ability to address children’s mental health issues. One-in-five children has had a seriously debilitating mental illness, according to a statement from the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. And school nurses frequently are on the front lines.

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Super Control Freak Tendencies Stunt Your Conference Growth

Velvet Chainsaw

Ok, admit it! You’re good at the details. You have an eye for minutia. You live and breathe by the motto, “A place for everything and everything in its place.”. You wear as a badge of honor that the devil is in the details. You take great pride in creating a sense of order out of chaos. However, your love affair with control can also stunt your conference growth!

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5 Things to Consider When Building an Event App with Limited Resources

Membersuite

Today, we welcome a guest post from Claire Sung at Eventpedia. If you want a mobile app for your next event, you can learn more at www.eventpedia.com.

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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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The Question Our Newest Members are Asking

Smooth The Path

Related: Our members are not crazy. Why new members actually join. The most frustrating thing members do. The post The Question Our Newest Members are Asking appeared first on Smooth The Path.

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Report: Gender Wage Gap Closing … Very, Very Slowly

Associations Now

For every dollar a white male makes, the average woman makes 82 cents—and that rate hasn’t been growing fast enough in recent years, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. It’s a problem that lingers in the nonprofit space, too. The problems with the pay gap are clear, no matter the industry—but they feel a little more troubling for nonprofits.

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Emerging Leaders Need More than Leadership Development

Beth Kanter

Flickr Image – ImageGroup. Note from Beth: Last year I was honored to partner with Kari Dunn Saratovksy from Third Plateau to facilitate an emerging leadership program to a cohort of leaders who were part of the Packard Foundation’s Science and Conservation portfolio of grantees. The project, which combined peer learning and mentoring together with an online “ Emerging Leaders Playbook ,” offered a new and entirely virtual approach to leadership development.

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5 Things to Consider When Building an Event App with Limited Resources

Membersuite

Building an app for your event can be a great addition for your members. Claire Sung at Eventpedia writes about what to consider when building one.

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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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Just Released: Community Benchmarking Study

Membership Marketing

For the past three years, Marketing General Incorporated and Higher Logic have produced the Community Benchmarking Study. The latest edition is now available as a download. Here is your link to get a copy of the study. Clearly, for many people, connecting is moving from face to face to online interactions whether it be with Facebook or some other platform.

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HB2 Costing North Carolina Billions in Lost Business, Says AP Report

Associations Now

The Associated Press this week reported that the controversial law, which prevents local governments from passing LGBT protections, will cost North Carolina at least $3.76 billion in revenue over a dozen years—including nearly $200 million in lost concert, sports, and conference revenue. North Carolina’s controversial HB2 law, which blocks local governments from adopting antidiscrimination laws to protect LGBT people, has long faced claims that it would hurt the state’s economy.

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It won’t be just the technology that changes…

Effective Database

When you make a significant technology change, like the implementation of a new AMS or LMS, not only will you be making a technology change; you’ll also most likely be making some cultural changes, too. What do I mean by cultural changes? Things like who is responsible for what data. How we process data. How we use that data. How you do things now are part of your culture.

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How to Build a Case for and Implement Joint Membership for Your Association and Chapters

Chapter Chat

Without an effective sales pitch and a comprehensive implementation plan, good ideas die. Joint membership is one of those good ideas for associations with a chapter network. Also known as unified membership, the joint membership model packages national and chapter memberships together. Members pay either the national association or the chapter for both memberships in one dues payment.

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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.