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2018 resolution: Keep an eye on emerging technology trends.

YourMembership Blog

In our recent Digital Member Study, we found a majority of members say technology plays a big role in their everyday lives. The study shows that members, in general, are ahead of the technology adoption curve (see chart below). Sixty-three percent of members identify themselves as ahead of the curve or early adopters of technology. The post 2018 resolution: Keep an eye on emerging technology trends. Industry News & Trends Tech Trends Community Brands

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2023 Association Industry Survey Results Released

GrowthZone

January 17, 2023 – GrowthZone , provider of association management software, released its 2023 Association Industry Survey results. In its 9 th year, the Association Industry Survey Results Report has proven to be a popular association resource year after year.

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Celebrating Our Association Women Technology Champions

Protech

Inspired by these women, and to continue to shine a light on women in association technology, we interviewed three Fonteva & Protech women executives about their careers. Belonging in Tech It’s a common misconception that coding is the only career available in technology.

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Yes, Virginia, there are gaps between member expectations and association technology.

YourMembership Blog

The post Yes, Virginia, there are gaps between member expectations and association technology. Industry News & Trends Tech Trends Community BrandsThe way we connect, communicate, learn and shop is ever-changing. Consequently, your association members have a heightened level of expectation for flexibility, convenience and personalization in everything they do. But, association experiences are struggling to keep up with these growing member expectations.

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Industry Hiring Managers: Reach & Recruit Only the Best Candidates

YourMembership Blog

Niche job boards, recruitment advertising and sponsorship solutions make it easier than ever for associations to bring value to their industry and members. It’s now their mission to provide better services and innovative technologies to help match highly-qualified candidates with the best employers. YM enables them to collaborate and become the recognized industry leader to match talent with jobs. Career Centers Industry News + Trends job board software recruiting

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2023 Chamber of Commerce Industry Survey Results Released

GrowthZone

NISSWA, MN – January 17, 2023 – GrowthZone , provider of membership management software, has released its 2023 Chamber Industry Survey results. The survey results show promise for consistent growth in this industry moving forward,” said John Cook, GrowthZone Senior Vice President of Marketing.

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How Technology is Transforming Strategy

Principled Innovation

As social, mobile and related technologies continue to drive deep and accelerating societal transformation, associations will continue to confront increasingly complex strategic challenges that will require fresh mindsets and more dynamic approaches to address. Consider just three ways that technology is irrevocably shifting the nature of strategy, and thus how association leaders need to think about the work of strategy-making in the years ahead.

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Culture, Community, and Technology—A Successful 2022 Convergence

.orgSource

We invited industry providers and association thought leaders to describe their partnerships. Our headliners, Tiffany Kerns and Al Dea, provided unique perspectives on the intersection of culture and technology. Our Year in Review.

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Congrats to the Association Women in Technology Champions!

PROPEL

Industry Data PROPEL News TechnologyWe are honored to be part of the AWTC community. Please join us in celebrating these awesome AWTC awardees, including our very own Maddie Grant.??. Source.

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How innovative technology adds brand value to your association

Nimble AMS

Why innovative technology is vital to creating brand value. To build brand value in your organization, you’ll want to invest in modern technology. Members will judge your association based on the technology you use. AMS Selection Member Experience Member Management Technology

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Members Hire Industry Advocacy and Promotion

Potomac Core

What they are looking for are opportunities to address their company’s challenges and help position their Industry for growth. As Associations ponder their future strategies, the message is clear: Members hire industry advocacy and promotion. Organizations who embrace the mantra that Members hire Industry advocacy and promotion are doing well. This is helping the Industry position itself with its global customer base. Members Hire Industry Advocacy and Promotion. .

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Expert Roundup: Top Tips on Associations, eLearning, and Technology

Blue Sky eLearn

Over the past year, we had the pleasure of interviewing a variety of experts in the association, eLearning, and technology industries. Find time to experiment with unproven ideas or technologies. The post Expert Roundup: Top Tips on Associations, eLearning, and Technology appeared first on Blue Sky eLearn. Today we’ve put together a compilation of some of the top tips they shared. For all of their expert advice, you can find their full posts here.

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Expert Roundup: Top Tips on Associations, eLearning, and Technology

Blue Sky eLearn

Over the past year, we had the pleasure of interviewing a variety of experts in the association, eLearning, and technology industries. Find time to experiment with unproven ideas or technologies. The post Expert Roundup: Top Tips on Associations, eLearning, and Technology appeared first on Blue Sky eLearn. Today we’ve put together a compilation of some of the top tips they shared. For all of their expert advice, you can find their full posts here.

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Web Courseworks Wins Silver for Excellence in Technology

Web Courseworks Associations

The 2020 Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards in Technology Web Courseworks Wins Silver. Technology is the great enabler of human capital management initiatives. That is the ultimate differentiator: the positive business impact of technology.”.

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2020 Event Technology Trends

Eplys

How to leverage event technology to elevate your next event. What is Event Technology? Event technology is any kind of software that improves the event process for both event planners, and/or attendees.

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Statement On Internet Industry Letter Calling For Additional Funds For The Technology Modernization Fund

InternetAssociation

Making sure the bulk of the proposed funding is available for immediate use rather than just those subject to a repayment plan will provide the federal workforce with the same advances in technology, cybersecurity, and user experience that every other American received.

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Interview with an Expert: Bill Mott – Event Technology, Freeman Company

Blue Sky eLearn

Live streaming, mobile devices, virtual events all hit the scene in the following years, and the content capture department became the “OnlineEvent” department and innovated business practices to meet these emerging technologies. Virtual event content in some industries will be more dynamic, unscripted, and entertaining. The post Interview with an Expert: Bill Mott – Event Technology, Freeman Company appeared first on Blue Sky eLearn.

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2 types of cyberattacks your nonprofit or association can avoid.

YourMembership Blog

Industry News + Trends Thought Leaders association industry association technology cloud-based technology cyberattacks data and security data integrity data privacy data protection nonprofit sector nonprofit services and solutions nonprofitsData protection and data privacy for nonprofits and associations are important issues being tackled in today’s digital world.

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Michelle Mason on the Future for the Association Industry

AssociationChat

For this episode, Association Chat host KiKi L’Italien talked with Michelle Mason, FASAE, CAE about her role as CEO for ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership and her thoughts about the future for the association industry. Associations are poised to lead the way, but will they?

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Technology Takeaways From the Hospitality Industry

Associations Now

A new survey sheds light on how hotels and restaurants are engaging their guests through technology tools. As meeting attendees rely more heavily on their devices and become more familiar with the technology tools those outside your industry are offering, they’ll expect your association to deliver that same level of service and experience. But does your association’s meetings technology make it easy for attendees to engage and interact at your meeting?

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Five reasons you need text-to-give technology at your association

Nimble AMS

Whether discussing the latest industry trend on your online community platform or registering for your annual event, members want to connect with their organization from the convenience of their mobile devices. What is text-to-give technology? .

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What Technology Makes the Must-Have List?

YourMembership Blog

Technology. What Technology Makes the Must-Have List? Working in a technology company means we have a lot of early adopters. I recently asked this group of experts what technology they couldn’t live without. Okay, so we also have some comedians at YourMembership.com but velcro is technology in the sense that technology is only a tool for helping you become more efficient. What technology (app, software, website, gadget, etc.)

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Technology truths for meetings and events

Aaron Wolowiec

I’ve admitted it before, and I’ll do it again: I’m a social media and technology addict. So when I’m choosing conferences to attend, I look for technology use. In the first half of this year, American Express Global Business and Travel surveyed 336 meeting planners and 161 meeting and event attendees to learn more about the evolving landscape of technology in meetings. How do you use technology for your meetings and events?

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Technology Standards and Flight Delays

Virtual

hour flight from DC-Boston to give you time to think), I started thinking about a few ways technology has made my travel experience so much different over the past few years. It’s only ten years ago that Wi-Fi was a “technology to watch” in PC magazine. It’s hard to believe that I saw my first camera phone at a standards meeting ten years ago and at the time, industry analysts called them a fad. Technology meetings Standards technology standards

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Aligning Vision with Technology

Association Success

When it comes to becoming a more innovative organization and leveraging today’s technological advancements for the overall betterment of the association and its operations, it all starts with the vision. It might be very well worth borrowing philosophies from outside the industry. Similarly, most associations don’t give much thought to culture in relation to incorporating new technology in processes and operations. Creating an innovative organization all starts with a vision.

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Technology Will Displace Your Members’ Jobs

Smooth The Path

Technology is never going to stop. Technology is going to continue to make human jobs obsolete. Now we can say of course technology would displace human jobs on an assembly line. Today companies, in every industry, are experimenting with how to eliminate the expensive cost of a workforce. Technology is changing the way we buy and sell and this profoundly impacts jobs like travel agents, auto sales people and realtors.

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Using Voice-Activated Technology to Deliver Industry News

Associations Now

To tap into voice technology and engage its readers on their smart speakers, the American Chemical Society has designed a daily news briefing specifically for Amazon Echo devices. With the news briefing, ACS is hoping to show readers that it’s interested in new technologies and new ways to tell stories. The post Using Voice-Activated Technology to Deliver Industry News appeared first on Associations Now

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How to use innovative technology to attract members to your association

Nimble AMS

Technology is irrevocably integrated into our daily lives. Like it or not, in our digital-driven world, non-members will evaluate how your association leverages innovative technologies to determine whether your organization is worth joining.

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Becoming a Champion of Technological Innovation

Association Success

I’ve always embraced technology, and I’ve pushed that forward in every position I’ve been in. Today’s technological advancements present many possibilities and solutions for organizations. Although most people can agree that there is always room for improvement, there are limitations and doubts surrounding the idea of bringing in new technology into operations and changing the way things work. How can you encourage your organization to embrace a tech culture?

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2020 Association Technology Trends And Predictions

Nimble AMS

Want to know what’s on the horizon for association technology in 2020? But when it comes to association technology trends, you don’t necessarily have to look far into the future to see the road ahead. Now, more than ever, associations can serve as a trusted industry resource.

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Recession-proof your association with a member management system

YourMembership Blog

Industry News & Trends Membership & Marketing Online Community Non-Dues Revenue Technology Member Renewal Integrated Software Solution Non-dues RevenueWhile the economy may be strong, being ready to weather an economic downturn is still smart business for small associations. Are you prepared? With the economy going strong, you might not think about preparing for an unexpected event like a recession. But now is the ideal time to take steps to protect your small association’s.

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Diffusion of Innovation: Practical Tips for Technology Councils & Standards Orgs

Virtual

In the 1960s, researcher Everett Rogers published a work called Diffusion of Innovations that aimed to explain how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultures. Nearly half a century later, his research is still the guiding rule across various industries—including the technology space—for predicting and driving technology adoption strategy. Membership Technology Association Association Management Company Technical Process

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Make your association the kind of place a techie wants to work

YourMembership Blog

Today is National Techies Day – a day when students are encouraged to consider a career in technology. Industry News & Trends Online Community Mobile Technology SocialLink Mobile DesignNational Techies Day is a perfect occasion to consider the future of your association. To deliver a great member experience, it’s time to make sure your organization is the kind of place techies want to work.

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3 ways to align association goals and technology with your ideal member

Nimble AMS

Here’s how you can use membership aims and innovative technology to successfully surpass your association goals. . Do your members seek chances to volunteer or advocate in your industry? Some individuals join organizations to give back to their community or advance their industry.

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Recording Industry Group Adapts to Changing Technologies

Associations Now

Good As Gold (or Platinum) For music junkies interested in how the new “Combined” Digital Single Award will be calculated, here are the general requirements as defined by the Recording Industry Association of America : • Each permanent digital download (such as purchasing a song on iTunes) counts as one unit for certification purposes. • The music industry’s historic Gold and Platinum Program is getting a refresh. How has your organization adapted to changes in your industry?

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Is New Technology Worth The Investment?

Association Adviser

We asked Marcus Underwood, vice president for online media at Naylor, to weigh in about technology becoming more personal and, at times, more expensive. Communication channels such as blogs or social media accounts must have a “champion” monitoring and moderating them to remain a sustainable go-to source of industry and association information. The reward from using new technology—and the risk of not implementing it—usually outweighs the upfront costs.

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What Associations Need to Know About Technology

Association Adviser

You don’t have to be the first to market or the earliest adopter of new technology. Technology cuts both ways. In this 24/7 always-connected world, we have to figure out a way to stay up current with all the new technology available without becoming a slave to it and allowing it to drain valuable time and resources from our organizations. Regular Association Adviser readers may have noticed a plethora of instapolls about technology recently. By Hank Berkowitz.

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Technology, your association, and your members. Where do you stand?

YourMembership Blog

How do you go about making decisions involving the technology needs for your association that enable you to serve your members more effectively? We asked that question last week in our webinar, Make the Right Choice: Eva luating Technology for Your Association. Technology has provided the underlying current that has helped shaped the world they know and grew up in. What may seem like the bleeding edge of technology for many is quite often the “norm” for them.

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Turn Member Influencers Into Industry Ambassadors

Associations Now

If you have members who are influential in your industry or profession, consider putting them to work as ambassadors. Regardless of where your association’s influencers reside, consider if they could serve as an ambassador for your industry or profession.

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5 security tips for your nonprofit accepting online payments.

YourMembership Blog

Technology Member Retention Tech Trends Industry TrendsOver the years, the Internet has provided great opportunities for nonprofits to increase brand awareness, recruit new members and raise funds for the causes they support. While this brings many advantages, there are also many challenges when it comes to making online payments for such things as dues or donations. Members want to be sure. The post 5 security tips for your nonprofit accepting online payments.

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