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MAY 22, 2020

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… New member onboarding. Does your association have a new member onboarding, orientation or welcoming program? Virtual conference complaints—and solutions. Virtual conference success stories. Virtual conference of the week.

Certificate 369

Certificate Revenue Conference North Carolina 369

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Board strategy. Jeff De Cagna has come up with ten purposeful provocations that every board member and association professional should commit to heart. Learning gamification. Conference content. Party pooper? Quick hits.

Revenue 322

Revenue Las Vegas Marketing Leadership 322

ISAE

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Growing Your Association’s Non-Dues Revenue: The Basics The idea that all or most of your association’s revenue should come from membership dues is an outdated, inaccurate assumption. According to ASAE, dues made up only 30% of total revenue for professional associations in 2016, a steep drop from 95.7%

Revenue 52

Revenue Learning Management System Course eBook 52

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APRIL 9, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Who doesn’t love sitting around and talking about a situation, coming up with ideas, and riffing off each other’s contributions—then marveling at how smart and creative we are? Host: New York Society of Association Executives. Quick hits.

San Diego 370

San Diego Revenue Strategy Content 370

ISAE

MAY 13, 2024

Here Are 3 Fixes for Associations Studies show that association membership is on the rise, a welcome change after rates fell dramatically during the pandemic. Specifically, associations are struggling to communicate the value of membership, and many display a lack of innovation. Lost Members This Year?

Los Angeles 93

Los Angeles Discount Library Committee 93

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JANUARY 15, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. The Gold Circle Awards recognize excellence in marketing, membership and communications efforts across 15 different categories, and highlight the important role these campaigns have in moving associations forward. Content/education strategy.

Innovation 359

Innovation Las Vegas Communications Education 359

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Membership benchmarks. iMIS invites you to participate in their 9th Annual Membership Benchmark Survey. Many associations are putting great emphasis on career websites , so they can help industry employers with workforce development.

LMS 256

LMS North Carolina Recruiting Recruitment 256

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APRIL 23, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Help yourself and others benchmark member communication efforts and strategies by participating in Association Adviser’s 10th annual Association Communications Benchmarking Survey. Spring cleaning association-style.

Revenue 370

Revenue Strategy Content Education 370

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MARCH 5, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Jason Cohen , senior manager, member services at ISPOR – The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research, invites your participation in a survey on membership campaign practices. Association role model. Quick hits.

North Carolina 370

North Carolina Certificate Strategy Case Study 370

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. If you know an association professional or board member who needs a wake-up call, this MemberSuite post should do the trick. They urge associations to stop living in limbo and start planning virtual events for 2021. Association evolution.

Revenue 370

Revenue North Carolina Industry Technology 370

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AUGUST 20, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. While reviewing their website traffic reports, they discovered a common theme in their five most popular blog posts: how to increase online learner and virtual attendee engagement. Association communication trends. Volunteer training.

Revenue 195

Revenue Content Resources Strategy 195

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Urgent request for participation in an association professional development survey. Tagoras is running a brief survey to determine how organizations offering professional development will focus their time and resources in 2021.

Blended Learning 300

Blended Learning Revenue Conference Technology 300

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JULY 10, 2020

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… You know what really gets under my skin and makes me crazy? Cimatri is inviting associations to participate in their State of IT Security in the Association Industry survey. Virtual conference success. Community karma, baby.

Montana 365

Montana Content Price Strategy 365

WBT Systems

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Conferences consume a great deal of your association’s time and financial resources. Should they take such a primary place in your association’s educational offerings? The truth is: conferences are not the most effective method of transferring knowledge. Why Continue the Conference Learning Experience.

Conference 210

Conference How To LMS Newsletter 210

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AUGUST 27, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Virtual conferences survey. If virtual or in-person conferences are part of your organization’s strategy—whether you’re a non- or for-profit, large or small organization—please participate in the Tagoras 2021 Virtual Conferences survey.

Tampa 200

Tampa Revenue Education Content 200

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MAY 1, 2020

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… For the last six weeks, virtual events have been the focus of my reading and writing time—which is why you’ve seen the topic popping up so frequently here and on my Twitter stream too. Virtual worlds for association events. Virtual presenters.

North Carolina 273

North Carolina Revenue Strategy Education 273

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… I’m back in the saddle again—and this photo captures my hiking buddies climbing up a tricky portion of the saddle between Big Spring and Squaw Canyons in the Needles district of Canyonlands National Park in Utah—one of my favorite places.

Utah 370

Utah LMS Conference Technology 370

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JANUARY 14, 2022

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. The researcher hopes to identify what most motivates association professionals to sit for the CAE exam and the relationship between those motivations and demographic variables. But can associations respond nimbly to them? CAE survey.

Team 195

Team Technology Certificate Revenue 195

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JANUARY 21, 2022

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Please participate in MGI’s 14 th annual Membership Marketing Benchmarking Survey , our industry’s most comprehensive and valuable study on membership marketing. Sticky learning. Membership survey. The survey closes next week so don’t delay.

Survey 195

Survey Newsletter Price Technology 195

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JULY 9, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. WBT Systems has found, however, several examples of associations that offer frontline training programs for individuals and companies, and they think your association should get in on the game. Host: AI Now for Associations.

Rhode Island 195

Rhode Island Technology Strategy Member Engagement 195

Protech

MAY 9, 2023

Say your association is planning its first annual conference, relying mostly on an outdated AMS with limited features to prepare for the event. Before the event, participants are confused about where and how to register, and staff members have to spend hours assisting them. How can your association utilize an AMS?

How To 52

How To Software Event Planning Membership Management 52

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. WBT Systems lays it on the line: “Associations with cohort-based online courses will dominate their market and provide the most effective, transformational educational experience to professionals in their industry.” Cohort-based online courses.

LMS 195

LMS District of Columbia Revenue Survey 195

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APRIL 10, 2020

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Virtual association survey. Virtual conference engagement. How to have a successful virtual happy hour—priorities, right? Join Healthy by Association for another installment of HBA Live. Event communications. Dan Crowd ).

North Carolina 74

North Carolina Content Montana Social Media 74

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AUGUST 5, 2022

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. EventMobi shares the stories of six professional society and trade association staff—CEO, membership, corporate partnerships, professional development, conference programming, and event planner— who leveraged event data to achieve their goals.

Revenue 39

Revenue Technology Innovation Marketing 39

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MARCH 3, 2023

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Self-assessment tools/programs. Self-assessments reveal where you need to improve your skills and what you need to learn. How can associations provide corporate partners with valuable access to their member communities ? Subscriptions.

Revenue 39

Revenue Tools Education Member Experience 39

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Because I’m away next week on a hiking vacation in South Dakota, I’m not publishing Association Brain Food on Friday, October 14. Adult learning principles need more attention in the association community. Jargon-busting.

Blended Learning 41

Blended Learning Education Video Conference 41

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APRIL 15, 2022

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. When I worked in membership for a trade association, it was always difficult to convince prospects of the membership value of lobbying since it went on whether or not their company was a member. Association-relevant fundraising trends.

Proposal 39

Proposal Technology Revenue Marketing 39

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MARCH 18, 2022

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Digital transformation strategy. WBT Systems digs into ASI’s 7th annual Membership Performance Benchmark Survey to find out how associations are working through their digital transformation. Soul music. Imposter syndrome.

Revenue 39

Revenue Technology Video LMS 39

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MAY 6, 2022

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Take WBT Systems’ advice: become your association’s unofficial in-house futurist and you’ll be the most interesting person in the room. WBT describes how to become an amateur futurist and what’s in it for you and your association.

Arlington 39

Arlington Newsletter Project Revenue 39

MemberClicks

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Likewise, member appreciation efforts are crucial to your overall membership retention strategy and are a key way for how to boost membership. However, if you’re not using association management software like MemberClicks, they can be easy to forget when you’re already managing so many other tasks.

Social Media 52

Social Media Newsletter Software Discount 52

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APRIL 22, 2022

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. How much more successful would member companies—especially industry partners—be if all their employees had a better understanding of what your members (their co-workers or clients) did every day and the challenges they face? Non-dues revenue.

Proposal 39

Proposal Price Technology Recruiting 39

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APRIL 3, 2020

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Sponsorships. Please participate in a short survey on the impact of COVID-19 on association conference sponsorships. I love the message Garth Jordan, SVP and Chief Strategy Officer for HFMA, delivers in Association Success.

North Carolina 44

North Carolina Committee Montana Guidelines 44

AssociationChat

JUNE 28, 2020

I started this listing on February 20th, when there was still a question of whether or not conferences could still be held with the impending threat of the novel coronavirus. Please bookmark this page and check back regularly for some valuable information curated for the Association Chat audience. A lot has changed since February 2020.

United States 59

United States New York Conference Seattle 59

AssociationChat

APRIL 15, 2020

With almost daily announcements of conference and event cancellations mounting due to fears surrounding the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (that can develop into the deadly COVID-19 ), many association executives are wondering if their own conferences, special events, and Board meetings are safe. Need some levity? On Twitter?

United States 52

United States New York Conference Seattle 52