Sat.Jun 14, 2014 - Fri.Jun 20, 2014

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Meet You in Nashville: What You Need to Know for #ASAE14

Reid All About it

'If you’re on the fence about attending the ASAE Annual Meeting in Nashville , let me tell you: Nashville will pleasantly surprise you. No, that’s not quite right. You are going to have a blast in Nashville! What a cool city! That’s more like it. In May when I attended the digitalNow conference in Nashville, I wasn’t expecting to fall for the city like I did.

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What’s Your Path to Non-profit Inspiration or Innovation?

Wild Apricot

'We''re looking for blog posts about non-profit inspiration and innovation for the June Nonprofit Blog Carnival. Here''s a look at a personal inspirational moment.

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2014 Internet Report

Spark Consulting

'It’s the annual awesomeness from Mary Meeker. This is a DENSE and long slide deck, but it’s worth checking out the whole thing: Mary Meeker’s 2014 Internet report from dmccarthy104. My top takeaways include: Although growth is slowing in other areas, mobile and tablets continue to grow at an exponential pace. What is your association doing to respond?

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How do you Nurture Future Leaders?

Association Leaders

'Interesting post recently from the Leadership Freak titled, “ 32 Things to say to Young Leaders “ Read the list. I’m sure you’ll agree with several and disagree with a few; you’ll also probably have more you could add to the list. One thing should be clear from reading the list, though – Future Leaders are important to your organization and its your job as a current leader to develop them.

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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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We All Can Win Championships

YourMembership

I am writing this post from beautiful St. Paul, Minnesota, where I spoke at the Midwest Society of Association Executives 58 th Annual Meeting and Expo. I was invited to be one of eight presenters at MSAE’s IGNITE session appropriately titled “Grant Me Insight, and Make it Fast”. I love these IGNITE sessions, or as I like to call them “presenting with your hair on fire.

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What I’m Reading

Spark Consulting

'Committees can still provide valuable volunteer opportunities for your members, as long as the work they’re doing is meaningful. Annoyed about Facebook’s ever-increasing page rank changes? Eight tips to fight back (one of which is “quit relying on Facebook for your social media interaction” to which I say TRUTH). Life logging : the tech isn’t there yet, and that may actually be a good thing, as there’s value in forgetting.

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Millennial Research Opportunity

Jamie Notter

'In case you hadn’t heard yet, Maddie and I are doing some research for our next book, and we are looking specifically for the perspectives of Millennial employees in the workforce (even more specifically, ages 25 to 30, but we’re somewhat flexible). Millennials: we want YOU. There are two ways to participate in the research. First, if your organization is interested in getting an advance view of the research results, then we will create a specific Survey Link to send to people in yo

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MOOCs: A myth for the masses? Not so much

Aaron Wolowiec

'An infographic by Online-PhD-Programs.org summarizing MOOCs. Massive Open Online Courses – or MOOCs – seem to be all the rage. And why not, when learning is just a click way? MOOCs are online classes that are available to anyone with a computer and/or Internet access. Some MOOCs are free, but others aren’t. It’s a bit confusing as MOOCs are still trying to find their place among social media, 24-7 access to news and a society that thrives on convenience.

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Wild Apricot Ranked #1 Membership Management Software Again

Wild Apricot

'Wild Apricot is proud to be ranked #1 Membership Management Software by Capterra.

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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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It’s Not Magic!

Spark Consulting

'I’m in St. Paul today presenting for the Midwest Society of Association Executives’ annual meeting today. Two of my sessions are on familiar topics: The Mission Driven Volunteer and my Carpe Annum IGNITE session. But one’s new: Your Membership Dilemmas SOLVED! In it, I plan to share the great secret of consulting. Of course, not everyone can be in St.

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Verto Solutions Goes Sailing

Association Navigator

'Verto Solutions , with friends and families, went sailing today on the Chesapeake Bay. The conditions were perfect with clear skies, a brisk wind, and great company. Verto Solutions Summer Outing on the Chesapeake. Captain Lila has the wheel.

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Staying Above the Line

Eric Lanke

'image source This week I''m getting ready for an upcoming strategic retreat with my association''s Board of Directors. There''s a lot of prep work involved. In addition to setting a strategic agenda for the upcoming year (our fiscal year begins July 1), we''ll take a look back at our progress over the past year. That means a lot of reports on projects and programs, many of them distilled down to a single set of green, yellow and red lights--a one-page overview that is meant to convey a general

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You Don’t Copy a Culture

Jamie Notter

'Strategic moves can be copied, or at least emulated. We can study what other companies do strategically, and then copy, to some extent, their approach within our context. Strategies and the organizations they are attached to are complex things, so it’s not as an easy task and there’s always a lot of adapting you need to do. But the learning process does contain that copying element.

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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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Always the Last to Know: 10 Breakthrough Technologies

Spark Consulting

'I’m a little late on this, as MIT’s Technology Review published this earlier this spring, but you definitely owe it to yourself to check out their 2014 list of 10 breakthrough technologies. The list includes: Agricultural use of drones. Smartphones with high levels of security and privacy protection built in. Brain mapping. Computer chips that can morph like your brain does.

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The Portable Association Bookstore

Association Subculture

'Well, now this is a gem of an idea that I just ran across. What do you get when you cross mobile phones, sustainability concerns and publishing? You get things like this new digital wallpaper. Better yet, all of the associations out there struggling with the time, talent and treasure spent on setting up bookstores at your conferences, may have a new option on the way.

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Who Me? How to Build Accountability in the Workplace

Associations Now

'Best-selling author David Maxfield explains why it’s important to hold one another accountable at work and how we can do so. Holding someone responsible for their actions, or lack of action, is easier said than done, especially if that person is someone you work with. Accountability in the workplace is not the norm, according to David Maxfield, vice president of research at VitalSmarts and coauthor of Crucial Accountability Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad

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Keys to Association Career Success

Association Adviser

'Hank Berkowitz, Naylor, LLC. Probably the best piece of career advice I’ve heard in a long time came the other day from Michael Bloomberg , former mayor of New York City and billionaire founder of Bloomberg, LP: “If you like what you do, you’re going to do more of it and the more you do of it, the more successful you’re going to be—and that gives you more reason to like it.” Pretty simple.

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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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What Do Successful Associations Do Differently to Grow Globally?

GlowGlobally

'On June 3 rd , MCI and the ASAE Foundation released the results of the first year of a multi-year series looking at how successful US associations are growing their business globally. Over 300 associations took part in the first year research effort that uncovered several major trends and common practices among associations who reported growth in membership and product sales in the last three years.

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The One Skill Everyone Needs

Idea Architects

'At its most basic, facilitation makes it easier to get things done. Effective use of facilitation skills helps build better relationships and discussions which then yield better decisions, greater commitment, and hopefully, improved results. But we still think of facilitation as a specialist role, usually an individual brought in from the outside to help a group.

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Align Your Association’s Culture With The 21st Century, Social Strategist Says

Associations Now

'Anthony Shop, co-founder and chief strategy officer at Social Driver, outlined three techniques associations can use to help ensure successful social strategies and greater connections with members at ASAE’s 2014 Marketing, Membership, and Communications Conference. Despite popular rhetoric and opinion, it is people, not technology, who are the driving force behind the fast-paced changes and advances of the 21st century, said Anthony Shop, co-founder and chief strategy officer of digital innova

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How Birthday Cake and Reserved Parking Spots Can Increase Productivity

Association Adviser

'Tara Ericson, Naylor. Our world consists of a never ending barrage of deadlines. It’s hard enough to complete the core high priority tasks for your members on any given day. So why should we make the time to call an employee to congratulate him or her on their recent promotion or write a short note of gratitude to commemorate a team member’s four-year company anniversary?

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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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3 Reasons Why Content Marketing Doesn't Work for Associations

Mizz Information

'On Tuesday, Ray van Hilst and I presented at ASAE’s Marketing, Membership and Communications Conference--it was fun (as far as public speaking gigs go) and great to see so many association friends. If you want to see our five quick tips for improving your website in five minutes, you’re in luck-- here’s the link to our presentation. I didn’t see Joe Pulizzi speak about content marketing, but Associations No w wrote about his presentation, and that he pointed out that associations are, for the m

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What Are You Becoming?

Velvet Chainsaw

'Dear Meeting And Association Professional: Here are some of my personal reflections, shaped by many of the people I read and those that have touched my life that I recently shared with NACE 2014 participants. I ask you the same thing I asked them…. What Are You Becoming? What Are You Becoming? from Jeff Hurt. What are you becoming? We might be shaped by our pasts but our futures are always open.

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Facebook to Get Friendly with Sociologists at Association’s Annual Meeting

Associations Now

'The leading social network will host a private event—part education, part recruiting—ahead of this year’s American Sociological Association conference. Its appeal? Really big data in the form of a massive social graph. It makes sense that the world’s largest social network would want some help from sociologists. And it’s going straight to the source to get it.

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Careers, Professional Development Top of Mind for Readers

Association Adviser

'Whether they’re mid-career, just out of school or long-ensconced in the C-suite, career advancement continues to capture the attention of association leaders across North America. According to our third annual Association Communication Benchmarking Study , career or professional development topics garnered four of the Top 10 topics deemed most important for association leaders.

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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.