Businesses and organizations are using this tactic to create brand awareness and drive user engagement. by 2015, 40% of Global 1000 organizations will use gamification as the primary mechanism to transform business operations. MORE
Organized retail crime is a $30 billion issue affecting the retail industry that continues to grow, according to a new study from the National Retail Federation. Organized retail crime is growing because it’s lucrative,” he said. MORE
With more than 500 million users, LinkedIn is a social media platform companies and organizations of all sizes can benefit from. You may have a personal page in place, but do you have a company page as well - for your association or chamber? If not, we highly recommend creating one! Here’s why (and how to actually do so): social media for associations member engagement Association Views MORE
But will community help your entire organization? When your organization fully embraces an online community, bringing every single customer into the fray, the beneficial effects of community trickle down into ever aspect of the organization. MORE
Organizations can benefit, too, since they won’t have to spend staff resources on tracking accrued PTO—or paying it out when an employee leaves the organization. In addition, unlimited PTO can also help organizations to keep their employees. MORE
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110 Karla Gutierrez, marketing manager and digital strategist, Aura Interactiva. The following guest blog post is adapted from a recent blog post by Karla Gutierrez on SHIFT’s e-Learning blog. Learning transfer is challenging because it’s difficult to predict how each person will respond to a course. MORE
Online communities aren’t just for enormous, multinational companies -- small organizations need them, too, just as much as the behemoths do. How do communities make sense for small organizations, where every decision -- big or small -- can make a huge difference in your bottom line? MORE
To support this "retailing" model, marketing departments have grown in both complexity and size, bombarding members with more messages than they can consume since silo-based service and product makers within the organization are all chasing sales. MORE
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Everyone has their idea of organization. all are designed to keep you organized. I’ve found it helpful to talk with others about how they stay organized during the day and I’ve pieced together my personal strategy: I start the week off with a big sheet of blank paper. MORE
We talked about the timeline for the PR crisis, issues with handling contracts and vendors, and Rich's suggestions for how association executives might best prepare themselves and their organizations for similar problems. MORE
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Your organization might have members lining up for volunteering opportunities, with event positions always overbooked for help and community discussions and blogs bursting at the seams. These also become examples for organizations to model. MORE
So, how do you organize your volunteers in a way that maximizes their impact with your organization, and, you know… makes them want to stick it out in the long run? association nonprofit organize VolunteersWith over 62.5 million people volunteering in the US and 12.7 million in Canada, there’s certainly not a shortage volunteers. MORE
The post 10 email marketing best practices for your organization. In 2015, the Direct Marketing Association (now the Data & Marketing Association) reported email had the highest ROI of any marketing channel. Surely, they must have been on to something. By 2019, the number of registered email accounts is predicted to reach nearly six billion. So much for email becoming a dying breed of marketing. appeared first on YourMembership. Membership & Marketing Email Marketing MORE
The post The Marketing of Value for your Organization appeared first on YourMembership.com. A few weeks ago I wrote about perceived member value – the idea that it’s not valuable unless your members perceive it as valuable. But how exactly do you get there? Listen. MORE
Be sure to read today’s New York Times Business Section article on organic food. I’m fascinated with organic. It’s important to remember that humans have been farming organically for thousands of years. The expansion of the organic movement is thrilling; unfortunately Ms. MORE
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You figured out the recipe for member engagement. Can you work the same magic on your employees? Intranets have a reputation for being underused and clunky, but that doesn’t have to be the case. MORE
How does your organization live up to that test? If not, it’s way past time to research your market, talk to people and find out how you can meet their needs in a way that no other organization can. MORE
Association Management Software (AMS) offers associations, as well as other member-based organizations, the tools to run their day-to-day operations and provide services to their members. The post Best Cloud-Based AMS and MMS Features for Organizations appeared first on GrowthZone. MORE
If you are satisfied with your organization’s success there’s no reason to innovate. You’ve even talked to other membership organizations and your numbers trump theirs a million times over. Membership Software Association Management Software. Solutions. Associations. MORE
On the front-end sales line here at Higher Logic, we often hear organizations are happy with using social media platforms as their main line of communication with and between their members. They say to "never build on rented land," but is that always true? MORE
Not-for-profit organizations, social sector groups and associations are not inherently designed to be nimble. The principles of democracy that underlie the structure of most non-profit organizations are by design slow and deliberative. MORE
Creating More Human Organizations. Creating More Human Organizations from Jamie Notter. Also, if you’re interested to see how your organization rates in terms of the four human elements in Humanize, we’ve created a simple quiz you can take online. Consulting. MORE
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Organizers are urging Gaza residents to head to the perimeter fence with Israel for the latest in a series of protests. Continue reading GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip | The Latest: Organizers urge Gaza residents to protest at STL.News. MORE
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Do you design your organization around the needs of the employees, or is it around the needs of management? In our research into the future of work, we see organizations actually putting the needs of employees first. MORE
174 United Airlines farce could’ve been alleviated or stopped with some proper employee training. United Airlines recently landed itself into an escalating PR nightmare, and it hasn’t yet left people’s minds or tweets. How could it? MORE
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In May, the United States Department of Labor released new overtime rules that will take effect on Dec. Since December will be here before we know it, nonprofits are already making adjustments, as the new rules will have significant implications for the nonprofit sector. MORE
In May, the United States Department of Labor released new overtime rules that will take effect on Dec. Since December will be here before we know it, nonprofits are already making adjustments, as the new rules will have significant implications for the nonprofit sector. MORE
Karla Gutierrez, marketing manager and digital strategist, Aura Interactiva. The following guest blog post is adapted from a recent blog post by Karla Gutierrez on SHIFT’s e-Learning blog. Learning transfer is challenging because it’s difficult to predict how each person will respond to a course. MORE
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