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How Facebook (and Social Media in General) Shifted Fundraising Strategies

Associations Now

Recent research finds that giving days on sites like Facebook are shifting nonprofit fundraising strategies. We believe that because large organizations have larger budgets, they can afford to do a better job with their online fundraising campaigns and do more social media outreach,” the authors wrote in The Conversation.

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4 Ways to Optimize Your Association's Sponsorship Program

ISAE

GolfStatus recommends building custom sponsorship tiers based on the target sponsor’s size, existing relationship with your association, and desired engagement with your event and organization. Event management software can facilitate and streamline planning, provide visibility for sponsors, and save event organizers time throughout.

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Culture and Strategy are Two Sides of the Same Coin

Jamie Notter

There’s a lot being written about organizational culture “eating strategy for lunch,” and I certainly understand the sentiment. Most of us have heard about companies who might have chosen a sound strategy, but watched it fall apart because a dysfunctional or even contradictory culture got in the way. but valued, with a “d.”

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Newsjacking Offers Opportunities for Associations

SCD Group

Only, in this case, organizations such as the AARP have created awards before or after the Oscars in order to grab attention. This year, for example, Nebraska (the movie) star and Oscar nominee Bruce Dern received the best actor award and spoke at the “geezers dinner.” Perhaps it should be called event-jacking?

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SCD Group: Do "Best Practices" prevent association innovation?

SCD Group

You CAN clone a cow (apparently), and the cow operates pretty much the same in Iowa as it does in Nebraska. But that's not true with copying management practices because our organizations (and their contexts) are so dynamically complex. Strategy | Content | Discovery. As we say in Humanize, "best practices are evil."

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Future of Work Manifesto

Jamie Notter

Maddie is the one who wrote it up, but it was the result of a weekend retreat last fall of twelve people (including me, Maddie and Charlie; Maddie lists them all in her post) in, of all places, Omaha, Nebraska. We’re talking about the kind of organizations where work doesn’t suck. Flow has value for the organization.

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