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Association Leadership: Stepping Into Chairs Role

SCD Group

Category 1, while a challenge, can be overcome by strong executive staff leadership. The Solution: Kellen Company’s account executives working for this organization engage in regular telephone communication with the organization’s President to provide organizational updates and, indirectly, provide guidance and leadership development.

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Teach Your Members and Staff Leadership by Showing Them the World

Associations Now

How supporting international volunteer work within your organization can teach leadership skills that your members and staff will rely on for a lifetime. I traveled with a small nongovernmental organization, 108 Lives , a project of the Three Jewels Outreach Center in New York City. It’s not impossible.

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How One Foundation Got Kids Interested in Skiing—With Its Own Ski Park

Associations Now

In the three winters that the National Winter Activity Center has been active, the National Winter Sports Education Foundation’s “living lab” has helped drive a massive interest in the slopes among New York City-area kids. Here’s how. But NWSEF may have found the perfect strategy to draw kids’ attention—and keep it.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.12.17

Reid All About it

– Association Leadership Study: What Makes up a High-performing Board. Hear about the results from a comprehensive two-part qualitative and quantitative benchmarking study on association leadership. Recently, they decided to test how far they could ‘unbundle’ their most critical business processes from their AMS.

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Synergy in the Boardroom: From Chaos to High Functioning

SCD Group

Policies were presented and adopted to ensure that new initiatives were not to be brought to the Board without having been vetted at the committee and staff level and that all proposals required a clear mapping to strategic plan as well as a sound business proposition. A year-long Board development and recruitment process was established.

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Page One: 9 Ways CMA’s SEO Strategy Builds Brands

CMA Solutions

SEO is a process in which a website engages digital elements on and off page to increase search engine results pages (SERPs) for targeted keywords that are associated with a specific brand. At CMA, we offer a “Thought Leadership” service that combines blog writing with media relations to support on-page SEO and off-page SEO.

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Email-Driven Curation: Get Your Voice Out Front

Associations Now

Today in Tabs , perhaps the best-known newsletter of the type, has become a staple of New York City media circles—despite the fact that its founder, Rusty Foster, lives in Maine. In recent years, curated newsletters—often written by a single person—have become more common as part of our media diets. That’s the key.”