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These problems happened even though WordPress has a sizable team dedicated to accessibility and a heavy focus on the issue that many organizations do not. The post 5 Things Your Organization Should Do to Improve Website Accessibility appeared first on Associations Now MORE
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While I believe this statement has been true since the beginning of time, I predict that a rapidly growing number of individuals and organizations will embrace it and operationalize it. MORE
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The post And the Winner is … Your Organization appeared first on Professional Association Management Company | Virtual Inc. The Oscars. The Nobel Prize. The Palme d’Or. The Man Booker Prize. The Pulitzer Prize. The world is captivated by the bestowing of awards for achievement. MORE
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
I started my career twenty years ago in the conflict resolution field, and to this day it surprises me how bad our organizations are at dealing with conflict. My second White Paper in the “Making it Work” series is out! Click here to go to the download form and get it for free. MORE
Every successful organization plans for one, some, or all of the objectives listed below, and it’s important to make sure your community is growing alongside your organization’s goals and planning. Have you ever heard someone say “there’s an app for that!” 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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Whether or not your association currently utilizes a mobile app for its annual meeting or as part of a larger, annual engagement strategy, the question remains: Just how ready is your organization to deploy a mobile app? MORE
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
Pssst… A little bird might have told me that my book with Jamie Notter, Humanize: How People Centric Organizations Succeed in a Social World is available for pre-order on Amazon. Humanize The Social Organization 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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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
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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
Customers’ and members’ voices are louder, easier to find and responsible for making organizations a lot more human. Customers and members have always been talking, but organizations haven’t always made a point to listen. MORE
Lack of support from within their own organization’s walls is often mentioned as a communications strategy struggle. She is a key representative of that organization, and she needs true feedback to properly steer her content strategy. MORE
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“How can we bring new sponsors into our organization?” We use Data.com, but you can also use Hoovers to sort organizations by SIC code, and the results will help to develop a new list of potential sponsors. MORE
“Taxonomy – a scheme of classification” One of the most powerful features of the Sitefinity Content Management System is the ability to assign a taxonomy to content, allowing website managers to filter, sort and display content based on a set of defined categories. MORE
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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
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
167 Whether you are a member-centric organization or a corporation, listening is not enough. Membership Software Association Management Software. Solutions. Associations. Nonprofits + Foundations. Chambers + EDCs. Corporate + Social. Education + Alumni. Advantages. Branding. Control. 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.
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The March 24, 2015 edition of Association Chat will focus on The Digital Organization - inspired by this great book. Is your association a digital organization? Does your organization focus on always improving? Do employees have room to experiment in your organization?
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The post And the Winner is … Your Organization appeared first on Professional Association Management Company | Virtual Inc. The Oscars. The Nobel Prize. The Palme d’Or. The Man Booker Prize. The Pulitzer Prize. The world is captivated by the bestowing of awards for achievement.
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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?
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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.
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This guide contains everything you need to know about starting a new chapter of an organization: what a chapter organization is, why you might want to start a new chapter, rather than a new nonprofit, a few organizations you can work with, and more. chapter-software chapter-organization
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Whether or not your association currently utilizes a mobile app for its annual meeting or as part of a larger, annual engagement strategy, the question remains: Just how ready is your organization to deploy a mobile app?
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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?
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These problems happened even though WordPress has a sizable team dedicated to accessibility and a heavy focus on the issue that many organizations do not. The post 5 Things Your Organization Should Do to Improve Website Accessibility appeared first on Associations Now
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Lack of support from within their own organization’s walls is often mentioned as a communications strategy struggle. She is a key representative of that organization, and she needs true feedback to properly steer her content strategy.
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“Taxonomy – a scheme of classification” One of the most powerful features of the Sitefinity Content Management System is the ability to assign a taxonomy to content, allowing website managers to filter, sort and display content based on a set of defined categories.
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Workers who are seen as negative to company culture represent an interesting conundrum—they end up costing organizations money and poisoning other workers, but they’re often good at getting themselves promoted. Even in the happiest organizations, unhappy people can wreak havoc.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Co-Evolution and the Member-based Organization. The same is true of the member-based organization. Evolution doesn’t happen in isolation so you don’t want to plan for the future by thinking only of your organization.
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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.
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The future of organizations fit into an established framework or system, and, if managed well, success followed. The post #ASAE17 session: Build an experience-driven organization. Not long ago, strategy was king. Forecasting, planning and placing smart bets created the power sources within associations and nonprofits. Today, uncertainty is palpable. Planning for next quarter is a challenge; even more difficult is committing to decisions.
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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.
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They will see the whole you as an organization. You need to BE an organization that makes sense to them. Since publishing When Millennials Take Over , we've been consistently approached by people wanting us to answer a central question: how do we attract Millennials?
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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
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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.
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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.
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As search engine rankings increase, organic visitors come in. Small business owners that do not use professional SEO services do not actually make the most of their online presence. They basically miss out on huge possible profits.
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I was fortunate enough to come away from the 2014 digitalNow conference in Nashville both recharged and inspired thanks to being surrounded by smart people, good friends, savvy conference organizers and the very cool city of Nashville. She became a huge supporter and organizer.
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Here are the slides from our presentation: Lead Your Way to a Social Organization from SocialFish. Maddie and I had the great privilege of presenting today at ASAE’s Technology Conference with Tom Hood, the CEO of the Maryland Association of CPAs.
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Customers’ and members’ voices are louder, easier to find and responsible for making organizations a lot more human. Customers and members have always been talking, but organizations haven’t always made a point to listen.
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Pssst… A little bird might have told me that my book with Jamie Notter, Humanize: How People Centric Organizations Succeed in a Social World is available for pre-order on Amazon. Humanize The Social Organization
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While I believe this statement has been true since the beginning of time, I predict that a rapidly growing number of individuals and organizations will embrace it and operationalize it.
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Whether you are a member-centric organization or a corporation, listening is not enough. Membership Software Association Management Software. Solutions. Associations. Nonprofits + Foundations. Chambers + EDCs. Corporate + Social. Education + Alumni. Advantages. Branding. Control.
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Benchmarking and its Application to Your Member-based Organization. Benchmarking does several things for member-centric organizations: 1. 2 Comments to “Benchmarking and its Application to Your Member-based Organization” Linda Chreno says: January 12, 2012 at 11:27 am.
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These types of workplace perks are everywhere these days, but they may actually be harming your organization. These perks are meant to reflect a culture that helps employers recruit and retain top-rate talent to their organizations. How to define your organization's culture.
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I started my career twenty years ago in the conflict resolution field, and to this day it surprises me how bad our organizations are at dealing with conflict. My second White Paper in the “Making it Work” series is out! Click here to go to the download form and get it for free.
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The move comes after a controversy involving this year’s Grammy Awards ceremony, but the organization says it’s part of a long-term effort to make larger changes. The post Grammys Organizer Boosts Member Diversity Efforts appeared first on Associations Now
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Every successful organization plans for one, some, or all of the objectives listed below, and it’s important to make sure your community is growing alongside your organization’s goals and planning. Have you ever heard someone say “there’s an app for that!”
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The post Fear vs. innovation: what’s ultimately driving your organization? Last week, I participated in ASAE’s inaugural XDP (experience design project) conference. Over 1,200 people attended, and I had the honor of being a team leader, facilitating discussions among a small group throughout the day. The event itself was created to encourage innovation; to get associations to rethink their conferences, breaking out of the ho-hum.
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