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I just finished listening to episode 2 with Marjorie Anderson , manager of digital communities at Project Management Institute and founder of Community by Association (who is also hosting the free Community Thrive! Wondering what new podcasts to add to your rotation? MORE
This is a guest post from our senior project manager, Denise Pace. process project management CMS association websitesIt's great advice for any association about to embark on a website redesign. MORE
It main project will be to build tiny village communities for the homeless and connect them with rehabilitation resources. The foundation will introduce a “ Tiny Act of Kindness ” project, which will work to transition homeless individuals into tiny village communities and provide rehabilitation programs, along with training and apprenticeship opportunities. The post New Association Foundation Announces Tiny Act of Kindness Project appeared first on Associations Now MORE
While there is no recipe for a secret sauce, a successful technology project team has some mandatory ingredients. Here are seven steps to take the next time you’re building a technology project team. Step 1: Get the technology project team’s buy-in. Whether you’re implementing new software or improving an existing system, project team members must understand why the organization is investing in the initiative. A lack of buy-in is a common technology project pitfall. MORE
The projection, per The Wall Street Journal , takes into account all major U.S. Roads will be packed this weekend: The American Automobile Association projects that 48.7 AAA projects that more than 89 percent of U.S. The post Associations Project Uptick in Thanksgiving Travel appeared first on Associations Now Whether on the highways or in the sky, travelers will see a surge in traffic during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year. MORE
Service projects will help your attendees feel a closer connection to the city—and also to each other and your association. If the answer’s yes, and you want to give back to the greater Nashville community, consider signing up for this year’s community service project. While I couldn’t make out what group they were a part of, seeing them there drew my mind back to associations and how they hold community service projects during their meetings to give back to local communities. (OK, MORE
This team I worked with helped social entrepreneur Alejandra Arias Stella , the co-founder of the Llama Pack Project to build a reservation system for the Llama treks. The next day, the whole group had an opportunity experience The Llama Pack Project first hand, by going on a half-day trek in the Sacred Valley. The Llama Pack Project has literally transformed their lives because they able to earn a decent annual wage with their llamas. MORE
A demonstration project from SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association will test how well recyclers recover plastic car parts to promote better recycling processes, greater plastic resale and reuse, and more sustainable auto design. As auto manufacturers use more plastics to create lighter weight cars, SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association has begun a new project to test ways to better recycle and reuse those plastic parts. MORE
You’re the one chosen as the project’s manager, yet you’ve never implemented a new AMS. Your AMS vendor assigned a project manager to your implementation. Project management is a profession with its own set of credentials (you can see a few PMPs in our team bios ). Project Team. MORE
The post I am Not a Fan of Most Membership Structure Change Projects appeared first on Smooth The Path. The association landscape has been slowly changing for at least the last decade. It seems harder to find volunteers. Members are not as involved as they once were. MORE
To ensure people find the correct answers there, the Acoustical Society of America is helping launch a wiki-editing project. The new yearlong project, Wiki4YearOfSound2020 , is a collaboration between ASA, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and other groups. MORE
The other day, a colleague told me that his board wanted to have an updated video produced that could be used in trade shows and other venues. He said he received a proposal to do it for $10,000! My response was swift: "You’ve got to be kidding me!" Expensive, professionally produced videos don’t have the ROI they once did (assuming they ever had an ROI in the first place). Impromptu YouTube videos are cheaper and more believable. MORE
” Acknowledging that things change during a project is critically important to the success of the project. What’s most important is how the team responds and adapts to the changes in the project. When I work with my clients on implementing a new software system, one of the first things I tell them is this: “We will make some decisions that ultimately are wrong. Because things change. MORE
The mobile page project, largely associated with Google, will move to a governance model that will bring in outside companies to work on the open-source endeavor. Since its 2016 launch, Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages project has been one of the most controversial initiatives the company has worked on, in part because of concerns that it was giving Google too much control over the open web. MORE
The California Restaurant Association put its support behind a member-launched project that helps to connect transgender people with jobs in the restaurant industry. The California Restaurant Association is backing a project started by one of its members that will help reduce the high rate of unemployment among the transgender community. CRA hopes to bring Mendelsohn the restaurant audience she needs to get the project moving. “If MORE
There is a big project you would like to do, but it is so big you have back-burnered it until the day when you have a significant chunk of time. But you can still make headway on your big project. For nearly every big goal or every big project there is something you can do now to start testing your ideas. Related: The fragile middle of a big association project. Keeping up association staff engagement throughout a tough project. MORE
And yet, not many organizations use a disciplined process to optimally select the projects they are investing in with people, dollars, and time. An organization has many large, risky projects in process at the same time, exceeding its resource capacity. Evaluating New Projects. MORE
You have evaluated and prioritized projects , scheduled resources , and now the scheduled projects are underway. When major schedule changes occur, you will need to revisit the overall project schedule since they will likely impact resource availability. Monitoring. MORE
Now that you have your list of prioritized projects , the project sponsors and stakeholders will be eager to get going. Who (or what roles, if more than one individual can fill the need) needs to be involved in each project? Do you have sufficient knowledge and experience to complete the project in-house or will you need outside resources to help? What is the overall effort of the project? New projects will compete with the projects currently running. MORE
You can’t choose your family members and you can’t choose your project team members. Certain people have to be on the project team because of their expertise or responsibilities. Find out what kind of project management personality types you have on your team. When project teams come together to select and implement new technology, such as an AMS or collaboration platform, you want everyone to row nicely together in the same direction. Circle project personality. MORE
5: Project management. 5: Project management. Podcast Uncategorized leadership organizational culture professional development project managementWhat gets you out of bed in the morning and makes you great at what you do? You have the ability to make an organization great. MORE
The session resulted in 26 different nondues revenue projects that associations could invite members to participate in as a key partners. Have members helped lead you to new projects that generate nondues revenue? The post Get Member Thinking on Nondues Revenue Projects appeared first on Associations Now When your association designs new products and services, do you tap your members for input? Maybe you should. MORE
If you live in an over 100 year old house like mine you know there’s a rule of thumb about time and cost for home projects. I call it the Inelasticity of Elderly Houses Rule because no matter how well the original estimate is done any home project will require at least be double and most likely triple the cost and time of your first estimate. Association projects are much the same. Often times starting a project like this is fun. MORE
A large-scale project is underway in Atlanta to preserve a football-field-sized painting, and the International Panorama Council applauds the efforts to save it. The project involves transferring the cyclorama, “The Battle of Atlanta,” from its previous home at the Atlanta Cyclorama and Civil War Museum to the Atlanta History Center. The post Panorama Council Celebrates Cyclorama Preservation Project appeared first on Associations Now MORE
CAE, PMP of Bostrom leads attendees through a crash course on what project management is and how to manage projects for associations. The post Flipping Traditional Project Management to Fit the Association Model appeared first on Association Adviser. Crystal Stone, M.Ed., MORE
For the third year in a row, we teamed up with ELI Project , a nonprofit organization dedicated to hosting events in safe environments for families and children with special needs. Every year, ELI Project hosts a sensory-friendly movie event with a special visit from Santa Claus. Check out this heartwarming recap video from ELI Project’s Santa and a Movie Event! December means a lot of things: Festive parties, holiday lights, tacky sweaters, an ABUNDANCE of food, etc. MORE
We see successfully completed association projects cited in publications. We do not know about the team’s morale as everything is going wrong and the project gets pushed back 3 months. The post Do Not Compare a Peer’s Project Launch to Your Association’s Project Start appeared first on Smooth The Path. Take a twirl through your Facebook feed, and you will probably see success, success, and more success. Weddings, babies, and parties. MORE
And yet, not many organizations use a disciplined process to optimally select the projects they are investing in with people, dollars, and time. An organization has many large, risky projects in process at the same time, exceeding its resource capacity. Evaluating New Projects. MORE
I know from working with my clients on membership change projects that there are two essential elements to any change process that affect members: Ensuring you use a long-term communications campaign that is consistent. The MRS used all their communication channels to promote each stage of the project. Have you carried out a major change project at your organisation? MORE
When you’re moving to a new association management software (AMS) system, having the right project team in place makes all the difference. Here are three tips to help you build an all-star project team for your new AMS. Identify the number one goal for the project. MORE
In a workshop on Monday, Torres and her co-presenter, Michael Feinson, president and founder of Engaged Strategies, offered up a new framework that hands idea generation and project control to members, giving them greater opportunity to engage. The post Crowdsource Members to Propel Ideas and Projects Forward appeared first on Associations Now The wisdom of the crowd can go to work for your association. MORE
The difficult time in any project, especially those long projects, which associations seem to have lots of, is the middle. The middle of the project is when things start to go wrong. It is so easy to start a project but it is so hard to keep it going. The middle of the project is fragile. The middle of a project is when we need the most help. And the middle of a project is when we need to give the most help. MORE
Part of being a product manager at MemberSuite is finding ways to continuously improve our product so that it meets the evolving needs of our customers. There are many ways we do this - we look at trends in the industry, analyze innovation in technology, and interview our customers. At the end of last year, our product team spent hours talking to several of our customers about events. We wanted to hear the ends and outs of how associations plan, manage, and execute their events - big and small MORE
A good culture greases the wheels for everything from conversations to project management. The post Association Culture Projects Outward Upon Potential Members appeared first on Smooth The Path. Why all the recent hubbub about culture? Well, partly because we all want to enjoy a healthy working environment and partly because we want to get things done. We also care about culture because our culture manifests outwardly. Others can see our culture. Board members can see staff culture. MORE
Project managers head into a new project with that same sense of excitement and caution. And, like backpackers, they only achieve success if everything they need is in their metaphorical association project management backpack. Let’s see what association project managers carry in their backpacks. A backcountry camping trip is a project. But sometimes, a colleague without any project management experience is put in charge of the project. MORE
“Easier than MS Project & faster than Excel,” Tom’s Planner is a web-based project management tool with a drag-and-drop interface that makes it easy for even non-techies to collaborate on, create, manage, and share project schedules. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech collaboration project management application MORE
Today’s question came up during one of our recent sales meeting: “How do you launch a new sales project?” The post How do you launch a new sales project? ” The answer applies whether it’s a new membership category or a new sponsorship program. MORE
The Basics of LMS Project Management from Kickoff to Close. Read more about The Basics of LMS Project Management from Kickoff to Close MORE
This week JP shares insights gained from listening to his favorite podcasts and six steps to launching a new sales project. The first will cover insights learned from listening to podcasts and the second will cover the steps to selling a new project – maybe a new prospectus, maybe a new membership category – I’ve got some thoughts on how to do that. I see it in sales and in consulting projects. Selling New Projects. I see it in sales and in consulting projects. MORE
Community associations may need to reevaluate which construction projects are necessary to their continued operation—and which ones to put on hold during the outbreak. Many local and state governments across the U.S. MORE
Association Executives: Provocative Proposals Research Project. So Im launching a project. I would like to announce the Association Executives: Provocative Proposals for Change project (that link will take you to my website for a complete description). Adding that to my belief in appreciative inquiry led me to create and launch this project. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Thursday, January 20, 2011. Second stage is cut. Were now in orbit. MORE
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OCTOBER 5, 2020
Today’s question came up during one of our recent sales meeting: “How do you launch a new sales project?” The post How do you launch a new sales project? ” The answer applies whether it’s a new membership category or a new sponsorship program.
Achurch
DECEMBER 3, 2020
You’re the one chosen as the project’s manager, yet you’ve never implemented a new AMS. Your AMS vendor assigned a project manager to your implementation. Project management is a profession with its own set of credentials (you can see a few PMPs in our team bios ). Project Team.
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Moery Company
OCTOBER 6, 2020
This week JP shares insights gained from listening to his favorite podcasts and six steps to launching a new sales project. The first will cover insights learned from listening to podcasts and the second will cover the steps to selling a new project – maybe a new prospectus, maybe a new membership category – I’ve got some thoughts on how to do that. I see it in sales and in consulting projects. Selling New Projects. I see it in sales and in consulting projects.
Association Adviser
AUGUST 27, 2020
CAE, PMP of Bostrom leads attendees through a crash course on what project management is and how to manage projects for associations. The post Flipping Traditional Project Management to Fit the Association Model appeared first on Association Adviser. Crystal Stone, M.Ed.,
Ungrated
MARCH 25, 2020
Community associations may need to reevaluate which construction projects are necessary to their continued operation—and which ones to put on hold during the outbreak. Many local and state governments across the U.S.
AssociationChat
JULY 3, 2020
I just finished listening to episode 2 with Marjorie Anderson , manager of digital communities at Project Management Institute and founder of Community by Association (who is also hosting the free Community Thrive! Wondering what new podcasts to add to your rotation?
Delcor
JANUARY 15, 2020
And yet, not many organizations use a disciplined process to optimally select the projects they are investing in with people, dollars, and time. An organization has many large, risky projects in process at the same time, exceeding its resource capacity. Evaluating New Projects.
Delcor
MARCH 8, 2019
While there is no recipe for a secret sauce, a successful technology project team has some mandatory ingredients. Here are seven steps to take the next time you’re building a technology project team. Step 1: Get the technology project team’s buy-in. Whether you’re implementing new software or improving an existing system, project team members must understand why the organization is investing in the initiative. A lack of buy-in is a common technology project pitfall.
Delcor
JANUARY 27, 2020
You have evaluated and prioritized projects , scheduled resources , and now the scheduled projects are underway. When major schedule changes occur, you will need to revisit the overall project schedule since they will likely impact resource availability. Monitoring.
Delcor
JANUARY 23, 2020
Now that you have your list of prioritized projects , the project sponsors and stakeholders will be eager to get going. Who (or what roles, if more than one individual can fill the need) needs to be involved in each project? Do you have sufficient knowledge and experience to complete the project in-house or will you need outside resources to help? What is the overall effort of the project? New projects will compete with the projects currently running.
Nimble AMS
OCTOBER 22, 2020
When you’re moving to a new association management software (AMS) system, having the right project team in place makes all the difference. Here are three tips to help you build an all-star project team for your new AMS. Identify the number one goal for the project.
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Delcor
JANUARY 15, 2020
And yet, not many organizations use a disciplined process to optimally select the projects they are investing in with people, dollars, and time. An organization has many large, risky projects in process at the same time, exceeding its resource capacity. Evaluating New Projects.
Delcor
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
You can’t choose your family members and you can’t choose your project team members. Certain people have to be on the project team because of their expertise or responsibilities. Find out what kind of project management personality types you have on your team. When project teams come together to select and implement new technology, such as an AMS or collaboration platform, you want everyone to row nicely together in the same direction. Circle project personality.
MembersClicks
JANUARY 2, 2018
For the third year in a row, we teamed up with ELI Project , a nonprofit organization dedicated to hosting events in safe environments for families and children with special needs. Every year, ELI Project hosts a sensory-friendly movie event with a special visit from Santa Claus. Check out this heartwarming recap video from ELI Project’s Santa and a Movie Event! December means a lot of things: Festive parties, holiday lights, tacky sweaters, an ABUNDANCE of food, etc.
Associations Now
DECEMBER 5, 2019
To ensure people find the correct answers there, the Acoustical Society of America is helping launch a wiki-editing project. The new yearlong project, Wiki4YearOfSound2020 , is a collaboration between ASA, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and other groups.
Smooth The Path
JULY 25, 2019
We see successfully completed association projects cited in publications. We do not know about the team’s morale as everything is going wrong and the project gets pushed back 3 months. The post Do Not Compare a Peer’s Project Launch to Your Association’s Project Start appeared first on Smooth The Path. Take a twirl through your Facebook feed, and you will probably see success, success, and more success. Weddings, babies, and parties.
Associations Now
MAY 21, 2019
The session resulted in 26 different nondues revenue projects that associations could invite members to participate in as a key partners. Have members helped lead you to new projects that generate nondues revenue? The post Get Member Thinking on Nondues Revenue Projects appeared first on Associations Now When your association designs new products and services, do you tap your members for input? Maybe you should.
Wild Apricot
JUNE 9, 2010
“Easier than MS Project & faster than Excel,” Tom’s Planner is a web-based project management tool with a drag-and-drop interface that makes it easy for even non-techies to collaborate on, create, manage, and share project schedules. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech collaboration project management application
Smooth The Path
DECEMBER 11, 2016
If you live in an over 100 year old house like mine you know there’s a rule of thumb about time and cost for home projects. I call it the Inelasticity of Elderly Houses Rule because no matter how well the original estimate is done any home project will require at least be double and most likely triple the cost and time of your first estimate. Association projects are much the same. Often times starting a project like this is fun.
Beth Kanter
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
This team I worked with helped social entrepreneur Alejandra Arias Stella , the co-founder of the Llama Pack Project to build a reservation system for the Llama treks. The next day, the whole group had an opportunity experience The Llama Pack Project first hand, by going on a half-day trek in the Sacred Valley. The Llama Pack Project has literally transformed their lives because they able to earn a decent annual wage with their llamas.
Smooth The Path
OCTOBER 9, 2018
There is a big project you would like to do, but it is so big you have back-burnered it until the day when you have a significant chunk of time. But you can still make headway on your big project. For nearly every big goal or every big project there is something you can do now to start testing your ideas. Related: The fragile middle of a big association project. Keeping up association staff engagement throughout a tough project.
Vanguard Tech
AUGUST 11, 2016
This is a guest post from our senior project manager, Denise Pace. process project management CMS association websitesIt's great advice for any association about to embark on a website redesign.
Moery Company
MARCH 2, 2021
5: Project management. 5: Project management. Podcast Uncategorized leadership organizational culture professional development project managementWhat gets you out of bed in the morning and makes you great at what you do? You have the ability to make an organization great.
Associations Now
AUGUST 13, 2019
In a workshop on Monday, Torres and her co-presenter, Michael Feinson, president and founder of Engaged Strategies, offered up a new framework that hands idea generation and project control to members, giving them greater opportunity to engage. The post Crowdsource Members to Propel Ideas and Projects Forward appeared first on Associations Now The wisdom of the crowd can go to work for your association.
Smooth The Path
MARCH 27, 2016
The difficult time in any project, especially those long projects, which associations seem to have lots of, is the middle. The middle of the project is when things start to go wrong. It is so easy to start a project but it is so hard to keep it going. The middle of the project is fragile. The middle of a project is when we need the most help. And the middle of a project is when we need to give the most help.
Associations Now
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
The mobile page project, largely associated with Google, will move to a governance model that will bring in outside companies to work on the open-source endeavor. Since its 2016 launch, Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages project has been one of the most controversial initiatives the company has worked on, in part because of concerns that it was giving Google too much control over the open web.
Effective Database
MAY 2, 2016
” Acknowledging that things change during a project is critically important to the success of the project. What’s most important is how the team responds and adapts to the changes in the project. When I work with my clients on implementing a new software system, one of the first things I tell them is this: “We will make some decisions that ultimately are wrong. Because things change.
WBT Systems
OCTOBER 21, 2019
The Basics of LMS Project Management from Kickoff to Close. Read more about The Basics of LMS Project Management from Kickoff to Close
Membersuite
MARCH 17, 2017
Part of being a product manager at MemberSuite is finding ways to continuously improve our product so that it meets the evolving needs of our customers. There are many ways we do this - we look at trends in the industry, analyze innovation in technology, and interview our customers. At the end of last year, our product team spent hours talking to several of our customers about events. We wanted to hear the ends and outs of how associations plan, manage, and execute their events - big and small
Smooth The Path
MAY 7, 2020
The post I am Not a Fan of Most Membership Structure Change Projects appeared first on Smooth The Path. The association landscape has been slowly changing for at least the last decade. It seems harder to find volunteers. Members are not as involved as they once were.
Association Subculture
JANUARY 20, 2011
Association Executives: Provocative Proposals Research Project. So Im launching a project. I would like to announce the Association Executives: Provocative Proposals for Change project (that link will take you to my website for a complete description). Adding that to my belief in appreciative inquiry led me to create and launch this project. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Thursday, January 20, 2011. Second stage is cut. Were now in orbit.
Associations Now
OCTOBER 13, 2016
A demonstration project from SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association will test how well recyclers recover plastic car parts to promote better recycling processes, greater plastic resale and reuse, and more sustainable auto design. As auto manufacturers use more plastics to create lighter weight cars, SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association has begun a new project to test ways to better recycle and reuse those plastic parts.
Associations Now
AUGUST 20, 2018
It main project will be to build tiny village communities for the homeless and connect them with rehabilitation resources. The foundation will introduce a “ Tiny Act of Kindness ” project, which will work to transition homeless individuals into tiny village communities and provide rehabilitation programs, along with training and apprenticeship opportunities. The post New Association Foundation Announces Tiny Act of Kindness Project appeared first on Associations Now
Associations Now
FEBRUARY 13, 2017
A large-scale project is underway in Atlanta to preserve a football-field-sized painting, and the International Panorama Council applauds the efforts to save it. The project involves transferring the cyclorama, “The Battle of Atlanta,” from its previous home at the Atlanta Cyclorama and Civil War Museum to the Atlanta History Center. The post Panorama Council Celebrates Cyclorama Preservation Project appeared first on Associations Now
Associations Now
OCTOBER 24, 2016
The California Restaurant Association put its support behind a member-launched project that helps to connect transgender people with jobs in the restaurant industry. The California Restaurant Association is backing a project started by one of its members that will help reduce the high rate of unemployment among the transgender community. CRA hopes to bring Mendelsohn the restaurant audience she needs to get the project moving. “If
Associations Now
JULY 25, 2014
Service projects will help your attendees feel a closer connection to the city—and also to each other and your association. If the answer’s yes, and you want to give back to the greater Nashville community, consider signing up for this year’s community service project. While I couldn’t make out what group they were a part of, seeing them there drew my mind back to associations and how they hold community service projects during their meetings to give back to local communities. (OK,
SCD Group
MARCH 27, 2014
The other day, a colleague told me that his board wanted to have an updated video produced that could be used in trade shows and other venues. He said he received a proposal to do it for $10,000! My response was swift: "You’ve got to be kidding me!" Expensive, professionally produced videos don’t have the ROI they once did (assuming they ever had an ROI in the first place). Impromptu YouTube videos are cheaper and more believable.
Associations Now
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
The projection, per The Wall Street Journal , takes into account all major U.S. Roads will be packed this weekend: The American Automobile Association projects that 48.7 AAA projects that more than 89 percent of U.S. The post Associations Project Uptick in Thanksgiving Travel appeared first on Associations Now Whether on the highways or in the sky, travelers will see a surge in traffic during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year.
Optimist Consulting
MAY 22, 2014
I know from working with my clients on membership change projects that there are two essential elements to any change process that affect members: Ensuring you use a long-term communications campaign that is consistent. The MRS used all their communication channels to promote each stage of the project. Have you carried out a major change project at your organisation?
Smooth The Path
JANUARY 22, 2017
A good culture greases the wheels for everything from conversations to project management. The post Association Culture Projects Outward Upon Potential Members appeared first on Smooth The Path. Why all the recent hubbub about culture? Well, partly because we all want to enjoy a healthy working environment and partly because we want to get things done. We also care about culture because our culture manifests outwardly. Others can see our culture. Board members can see staff culture.
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