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Association Brain Food Weekly: 2.26.21

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They explain why you’re having a tough time recruiting volunteers and how you can enhance the value of the volunteering experience. The seven biggest mistakes in membership recruitment. Host: New York Society of Association Executives. – Member ROI Simplified: Safeguarding Your Organization’s Future.

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Add Chapters to Make an Old Association Feel New

Associations Now

Launching a chapter network has helped PEN America, a literary organization with almost 100 years of history, recruit new members and reinvent opportunities for member engagement at the local level. This process helped Werner and her team identify the first six chapters.

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Reach Members on the Air with Podcasts

Associations Now

Podcasts are growing in popularity right now, and it could be a medium ripe for associations to recruit, retain, and engage members. In November, The Washington Post launched a daily podcast called Post Reports to compete against The New York Times’ highly successful The Daily. Podcasting to engage.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.15.20

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Learn how to take events online in a way that is going to deliver high value, create an engaging experience, and preserve the outcomes you were seeking to achieve with your in-person conference. Hear about some major considerations for online engagement. Presenters: Taina Sanon,Membership Director,Nonprofit New York.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 1.22.21

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Amanda Kaiser, Member Engagement Specialist at Kaiser Insights LLC, and Arianna Rehak, CEO and Co-Founder at Matchbox Virtual Media, have cooked up a fantastic-looking experience during which you can learn how to radically strengthen your virtual events by offering meaningful, quality networking opportunities for members and attendees.

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Will Chapters Be Relevant in 2021?

Mariner Management

Pre-pandemic associations tapped their components for four key roles: member engagement, leadership development, member recruitment and professional development delivery. In 2019, member engagement rose to the top for the first time. The role of the chapter sharpened in focus around local member engagement.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 8.21.20

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Alisha Haridasani Gupta, New York Times ). Learn how to take events online in a way that will deliver high value, create an engaging experience, and preserve the outcomes you were seeking to achieve with your in-person conference. Hear about some major considerations for online engagement. This is hilarious. Host: ASAE.