Spark Consulting
JANUARY 10, 2014
'I had lunch with a dear friend I don’t see often enough earlier this week. She is also a sole practitioner running her own business, although she’s been part time while raising preschool aged kids. “Thing Two” starts kindergarten this fall, she’ll be going full time, and she was asking me what advice I had after my whopping 18 months in business.
Wild Apricot
JANUARY 8, 2014
'In this guest post, Meagan Rockett offers tips for member segmentation methods to help streamline your communications.
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Association Leaders
JANUARY 6, 2014
'One of the things all leaders must do is make great presentations. Sometimes that means giving a speech to a large audience; other times it means delivering a presentation to a smaller group; still other times its effectively communicating one on one with an employee. Whatever the case, great leaders are great communicators. I read a blog post today providing eight steps that must be followed to make an effective presentation.
Aaron Wolowiec
JANUARY 7, 2014
'First, I’d like to take this opportunity to wish you a very happy, healthy and prosperous 2014. Both Kristen and I, together with the Event Garde team, appreciate you following our blog, sharing your comments and post ideas and paying forward those posts that resonate with you most. This week the combination of snowfall and bitterly cold temperatures delayed back-to-school and back-to-work activities for many in the Northeast.
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Spark Consulting
JANUARY 7, 2014
'Same great format (10 tips in 20 minutes), but lots of new content and speakers! This Friday, we’ll be kicking off the 2014 Associations 101 #10in20 webinar series with a presentation by Rob Barnes on organizational culture. Fitness Australia worked for seven years on their internal culture, using some of the principles contained in Humanize , and it yielded amazing personal and organizational results, as detailed in their recent Associations Now profile.
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Jamie Notter
JANUARY 6, 2014
'In fact, they haven’t in a long, long time. This may come as a shock to many, and some of you may forward me links to cool infographics or other blog posts that dispute my claim, so let me explain. I’m talking about sheer numbers of the total U.S. workforce. My workforce data comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and my generational definitions come from Strauss and Howe’s book, Generations (and Howe’s book, Millennials in the Workplace ).
Eric Lanke
JANUARY 6, 2014
'image source Four weeks ago, in Making the Rubber Hit the Road , I continued writing about the process I used to create my association''s values statement, despite some misgivings about the value of values statements I''ve previously shared and still hold. Our values statement was now finished, with four core values, and each with a list of observable behaviors that we intended to use as benchmarks to determine if individuals were demonstrating the values in their day-to-day activities.
Spark Consulting
JANUARY 8, 2014
'It’s trends time. Associations Now looks at what’s in and out for associations in 2014. An association-centric take on the most common – and commonly broken – New Year’s resolutions. Jamie Notter encourages us to forget about “values” and think about what is “ valued.” Should you focus on systems rather than goals ?
Wild Apricot
JANUARY 6, 2014
'Three research reports offer associations and membership organizations food for thought for 2014 planning.
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Jamie Notter
JANUARY 7, 2014
'Roger Martin has a great article in the current Harvard Business Review about how strategic planning is a lie. I think it’s great, of course, because I’ve hated strategic planning for years now, but I think Martin does one of the best jobs so far in concisely pinpointing both the problem inherent in strategic planning AND our never-ending devotion to it.
Mariner
JANUARY 7, 2014
'During these first few days of the New Year, my son, a college senior, is taking a well-deserved rest. I can sympathize. It was a hard semester, especially since he’s so close and so anxious to just be done.
Spark Consulting
JANUARY 9, 2014
'Great Slideshare from Jeff Hurt proposing radical change for conferences and events: We Need A Conference Revolution from Jeff Hurt. I particularly like everything he has to say about the changing role of speakers (as facilitators of learning experiences) and attendees (as co-creators rather than passive consumers). Of course, the question then becomes: how do we get from here to there?
Velvet Chainsaw
JANUARY 6, 2014
'It’s time to hold speakers accountable for attendee learning, not just completed evaluation smile sheets! It’s time to encourage conference speakers to consciously improve. And if we want our conference speakers to improve, we need to provide them with information that shows where they need to improve and how to improve. What Product Does A Conference Sell?
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Associations Now
JANUARY 9, 2014
'Digital Inclusion The American Library Association recently launched a Digital Inclusion Survey to better understand the role libraries play in providing the public with access to technology. Data from the survey, which closed in December, will begin to be released in February. Over 5,000 libraries responded to the survey , for an 88 percent response rate.
Association Advocacy Chick
JANUARY 6, 2014
'As we begin a new year, we often reflect back and determine what we’d like to see in the new year. I’m no different. It’s kinda hard to describe 2013 in simple terms. It wasn’t a bad year for me. I turned 40. I traveled to Hawaii for the first time. I had my first learning lab at ASAE annual. I dove head first into the wonderful word of Android (surprise!).
Spark Consulting
JANUARY 6, 2014
'‘Tis the season for conference acceptance notices to start rolling in, which means lots of us are going to be starting to think about the presentations we’ll be giving in 2014. Which also means it’s a great time to start thinking about *how* you’re going to present your information. Everybody knows about PowerPoint. Everyone knows about Prezi.
Velvet Chainsaw
JANUARY 9, 2014
'Have you ever hit a shatterpoint with your conference? You’ll know if you have because it made your entire conference unravel, freeze or die. Conference Shatterpoints. What’s a shatterpoint, you ask? A shatterpoint is like a fault line, crack or an area of weakness in a path of action. In Star Wars, shatterpoints are a juncture in the Force where things are especially vulnerable.
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Associations Now
JANUARY 9, 2014
'New research found that perking yourself up before a big presentation or speech may be more helpful in calming anxiety than trying to relax. When people feel anxious and try to calm down, they are thinking about all the things that could go badly. When they are excited, they are thinking about how things could go well. Nervous about the big meeting?
SCD Group
JANUARY 5, 2014
'Based on a review of reader numbers, here are my top 13 association blogs of 2013. Interestingly, 77% of the top read posts contained the word “board” in the headline. Sounds as though association professionals have a great deal of interest in dealing with association boards? As I reviewed the SCDdaily for 2012 and 2013, I noted some of your comments about how much you like and value my writing.
Association Adviser
JANUARY 6, 2014
'Martin Roth, INCON Research, Inc. Even savvy PC users can get fooled into thinking a reputable support person from your software or hardware providers needs to gain access to your computer. Cybercriminals may call you on the telephone and claim to be from Microsoft and offer to help you solve your computer problems or sell you a software license. This is an ongoing and well known scam, but worth repeating for the New Year.
Velvet Chainsaw
JANUARY 8, 2014
'As a conference organizer, you want everyone to become a registrant, right? Male, female, young, old and everyone in between. So you try to attract as many people as possible with your programming. And you try to reach as many people as possible with your marketing. You are willing to take money from anyone willing to give it to you. Casting A Wide Net.
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Associations Now
JANUARY 6, 2014
'Teams that are convened to generate new ideas often wind up recycling old ones. But it’s not impossible to innovate your innovation process. A new year marks an opportunity for renewal, so a lot of executives at this very moment are doing more thinking than usual about how to spark innovation and bring in new ideas. (Signs to look for: furrowed brows, longer hours, more references to Good to Great in meetings than usual.).
SCD Group
JANUARY 7, 2014
'A few weeks ago, USA Today’s Michael Wolff wrote a compelling column about NYC mayor Bill de Blasio’s use of a video to “control the narrative” regarding his daughter’s drug problems. The column offers some really good tips for associations and association story telling to communicate with members and/or the public. Key points: 1) Control the narrative “Among the most prevalent and up-to-date phrases in business, politics and savvy American life is ‘controlling the narrative.
Mizz Information
JANUARY 9, 2014
'(I published this on SocialFish today; posting it here too) because I''m kind of obsessed with this issue lately) Every day (or at least I strive for every day….) I read the Washington Post. And it seems that every day since October 1, the first page has been dedicated to chronicling the failures of HealthCare.gov. Deirdre Reid wrote a great post several months back detailing what associations can learn from the botched launch of the website, and many of her points resonated with me–controlling
Velvet Chainsaw
JANUARY 7, 2014
'Quick: What is the most important asset of your conference today? Sponsors? Exhibitors? Your brand? Your events team? Your history? The venue? Your vendors? The content? Your speakers? Your technology? Yeah, all of these are likely responses. However, there’s one asset that most conference organizers and hosts constantly miss when responding to this question: audiences. [ Note: Author Jeffrey Rohrs drives home the importance of audiences to any business in his book Audience: Marketing In The Ag
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