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FEBRUARY 27, 2013

One of the savviest trends event planners are experimenting more with this year is crowdsourcing. Mashable defines crowdsourcing as distributed problem solving. By distributing tasks to a large group of people, you are able to mine collective intelligence, assess quality and process work in parallel. Daily Crowdsource event, Crowdopolis , describes crowdsourcing as getting a crowd of people to help you with a task that used to take one person.

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Spark Consulting

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Lots of chatter about strategy and strategic planning on the ASAE Collaborate groups recently, with lots of people throwing around lots of VERY IMPORTANT sounding terms. Me, I like simplicity. To quote the Eaglet from Alice in Wonderland : “I don’t know the meaning of half those long words, and, what’s more, I don’t believe you do either!

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Thanks For Playing

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Lots of chatter about strategy and strategic planning on the ASAE Collaborate groups recently, with lots of people throwing around lots of VERY IMPORTANT sounding terms. Me, I like simplicity. To quote the Eaglet from Alice in Wonderland : "I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!" What do we mean when we talk about strategy?

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 1, 2013

Here's a look at the February Nonprofit Blog Carnival - hosted by Marc Pitman the Fundraising Coach - about keeping donors wanting to come back.

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Association Subculture

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

So hey all you Association Subculture blog readers.in the immortal words of Jeff Spicoli - hey bud, let's party ! On Saturday, June 15th some friends and I are starting the Association Summer Jam and here is how it works (it's TOTALLY simple) -. We'd like to find ten party hosts to throw a bash at their house on June 15, 2013. Could be a pizza party, dinner party, Beer and BBQ, potluck, pool party, low key yoga party - whatever floats your boats.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 1, 2013

On Monday, it looked like all the smarty pants in DC were tweeting from the xPotomac conference. Search for the #xpotomac13 hashtag to get a taste of the brain candy, or check out Jay Daughtry’s notes and links to other xPotomac posts. Hopefully, if your job requires you to develop relationships with the media, you use Twitter to do that. If not, start by creating Twitter media lists.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Here is our round-up of free non-profit webinars for March 2013.

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Spark Consulting

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

What you can – and can’t – learn from A/B testing. Another fantastic, challenging post from Joe Gerstandt on actor-observer bias and the myth of reverse discrimination. Fear = lunch. No really, stick with Jeff Haden here. The insights that define innovators. Hearing “we already tried that and it didn’t work” DRIVES ME CRAZY.

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Thanks For Playing

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

What you can - and can't - learn from A/B testing. Another fantastic, challenging post from Joe Gerstandt on actor-observer bias and the myth of reverse discrimination. Fear = lunch. No really, stick with Jeff Haden here. The insights that define innovators. Hearing "we already tried that and it didn't work" DRIVES ME CRAZY. Eric Lanke asks: why are we so afraid to talk to our members ?

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Eric Lanke

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Lego Value Meal Another subject we tackled at the dinner I mentioned in a previous post was the much-reported sickness of the association value proposition. We had both association executives and consultants to the association community present at this dinner, and I couldn't help but notice that the battle line seemed to be drawn between those two camps and the perspectives they each brought to the table.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Here are five of the tastiest posts we've bookmarked on Apricot Jam this week.

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Spark Consulting

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Another roundup-style post on cool technology, this time of apps to help you be more creative (courtesy of Innovation Excellence , which you really should check out). The only one I’ve used personally is E vernote , and I live and die by it, so if the others are of that same quality, you really can’t miss.

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Thanks For Playing

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Another roundup-style post on cool technology, this time of apps to help you be more creative (courtesy of Innovation Excellence , which you really should check out). The only one I've used personally is E vernote , and I live and die by it, so if the others are of that same quality, you really can't miss.

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Principled Innovation

MARCH 1, 2013

My brand new Associations Now article on boards and business models is now available online. The magazine has given the article the title, “Trapped in The Past,” although I refer to it as “Five Reasons Why Boards Are Killing Association Business Models.” In addition to the article, I hope you will check out the companion piece I wrote as web extra on “Five ‘Next Practices’ for Board Business Model Stewardship.” While the article shares deeper reaso

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Virtual

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

I’m currently sitting in an airport lounge in Boston waiting to board a plane to Chicago, then Palm Springs (note: if I ever become President, I will federally mandate that all airport lounges must have Walker’s Shortbread Cookies). I’m used to being in airport lounges—I flew something like 150,000 miles last year—but not used to [.

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Portage Group

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

I thought it might be worthwhile to round up some of our most popular posts based on traffic for the last month or so. From member engagement, to association sector trends, social media and innovation, I hope you'll agree these are some pretty good reads! Enjoy!

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KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

One of my big goals for this year is to get out in the DC social media scene a bit more. More than what? I am ashamed to admit I have been a relative shut-in to my geographic community of virtual virtuosos. To be fair, I run my own company , am a mom and wife, and speak a fair bit so I always seem to be on the go, but I really can't make excuses anymore; not with so many talented people located so close to where I live.

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Principled Innovation

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

In support of my new article, “Trapped in the Past,” a.k.a. “Five Reasons Why Boards Are Killing Association Business Models,” that will appear in Associations Now next month, I have a few activities on the calendar to which members of the association community are invited. Here is a list of what is planned so far: March 6– P.I.

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AMR Management Services

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

by Brian Reuwee. Recently, a question from a client arose regarding whether email voting or online balloting is permitted by the association's board of directors. Although this area of association law continues to evolve, the answer remains somewhat complicated. Most state non-profit corporation statutes, including Kentucky where AMR Management Services is headquartered, only permit boards of directors to act through a meeting (in-person or via teleconference) or through “unanimous written conse

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Golden's Rules for Association

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

Seven years after the ASAE Foundation first published Seven Measures of Success it has become a whole lot easier to be a “data-driven” association. In 2006, the cost, systems and infrastructure needed to do what the remarkable 9 associations did with data was a major challenge. Less than a decade later, even the smallest association [.].

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Jamie Notter

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

I spent yesterday at a fabulous conference– xPotomac (formerly Blog Potomac), which focuses on social media and new technologies for mostly marketing and PR folks. It was a great event: limited in number of attendees, with speakers who spent as much time doing Q&A with the audience as they did speaking. We talked about the power of images, augmented reality (and how it’s not science fiction any more), and the importance of context and influence versus social “rankings.̶

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Association Adviser

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

Blogger and futurist Seth Godin had a great post the other day about the importance of listening. And maybe that’s what associations should be doing more of when they talk about the next generation of their annual meetings, conferences and conventions—listening. As association professionals, we have lots of clever ways to talk to members through our communications and live events, but are we really listening to what they have to say?

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 1, 2013

Has your annual conference become predictable? Do attendees show up to the general session late because they know it starts with business for 20-30 minutes before the keynote? Predictable Meetings, Routine Conferences. Predictable: behaving in a way that is expected and can be predicted; can be prophesied; can be foretold; to declare or indicate in advance; especially: foretell on the basis of observation, experience, or scientific reason.

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Association Advocacy Chick

MARCH 1, 2013

I’m a huge fan of the hit ABC drama Scandal starring Kerry Washington. Washington plays Olivia Pope, a person who makes a living “fixing” things whether it’s covering up a liaison in a congressman’s office or throwing a presidential election. With its legions of fans taking to social media daily to discuss all things Scandal, the show decided to embrace the chatter.

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Vanguard Tech

MARCH 1, 2013

Welcome to this week’s issue of the 5 For Friday series. Starting with one of last week’s links about evolving your skills, I’ve been thinking about how associations and those of us who work with them need to continually adapt and evolve in order to stay relevant. This applies to web design, engagement, programs and everything we do. Digital Darwinism.

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