Reid All About it

AUGUST 18, 2023

Vista Cova’s white paper, Strategic Frameworks: The Future of Strategic Planning , explores how association executives are working with strategic plans in the post-COVID environment. The paper describes ten themes that emerged in their research and includes an appendix with the participants’ strategic frameworks. .

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Associations Now

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In a white paper titled “ Innovate the Lean Way ,” Spark Consulting’s Elizabeth Weaver Engel, CAE, and National Council of Architectural Registration Boards information systems director Guillermo Ortiz de Zarate point out that boards will pay lip service to high-risk initiatives without actually making them happen.

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Reid All About it

DECEMBER 13, 2019

WBT Systems shared some depressing statistics about the percentage of leadership positions held by women. Maddie Grant and Jamie Notter at Human Workplaces released a new white paper on a maturity model for workplace culture. Aaron Costello, Consultant, MG Strategy + Design. We still have a long way to go. 1 CAE credit.

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Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

If you don’t have a user adoption plan for new software, your new system is going to fail. You’ll get tips and best practices that nonprofits across the country have used to turn their staff into proficient and enthusiastic users of their software systems. I’ll be happy to feature it as long as it’s not too product-centric.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Training and education tools: Provide members with an easy-to-use training platform that integrates with relevant systems, like a learning management system. Remember that data collection can also be valuable in integrating your AMS with other systems. Some of these systems don’t fit seamlessly together.

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Mariner Management

JUNE 30, 2021

From the technology perspective, that means you don’t want a mobile strategy, or a data analytics strategy, or a social strategy – you need well-thought-out organizational strategy that includes these things, at both the national and chapter level. Review your legacy systems and processes. Recruit your team.

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MemberClicks

JANUARY 8, 2024

Establish systems to receive feedback from your audience. If you have a relevant blog post, white paper, eLearning course, etc. A great way to facilitate effective event communication is to utilize an event management system. These can include medical issues, criminal incidents, and natural disasters.

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Communications Press Release Social Media Tools 52

MultiBriefs

OCTOBER 10, 2023

It's important to put time into your vendor engagement strategy as they create value beyond their services. The truth is that an interconnected system, such as a trade industry, can use these insights to create better tools and procedures that elevate the industry as a whole.

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Blue Sky eLearn

JUNE 29, 2017

Make sure the presenters have tested their system, send them any and all pertinent information, and in general, don’t leave anything to chance. Whether it’s a summary paper, white paper, links to research that support your content – people love to have content so give it to them! Audio/Sound Quality.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 5, 2017

In a new report, the tech firm Abila says software integration, consumerization of membership, and education evolution will be focal points for association strategy in the new year. Additionally, the Membership of Things really will force many organizations to re-evaluate their member engagement strategies.”. v=KIM9MDWn8F4.

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Jamie Notter

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Well, it’s sort of complicated, and I’m working on a white paper that will spell it all out (too long for a blog post), but here’s the short version. Our performance review systems don’t work because they are based on a flawed theory, and that’s why we’re so frustrated with them.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 26, 2018

Whenever association consultant Elizabeth Engel releases a white paper, I pay attention. No matter the topic, her papers are always interesting and informative. WBT Systems explains what to do if one of your online courses fails , how to identify the problem and what to do about it. Location: Washington DC. 1 CAE credit.

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Association Success

JANUARY 25, 2018

To overcome some systemic challenges, we might need to find a new way of approaching them. Sometimes, systemic challenges are being tackled by a variety of professions (and, therefore, associations) within the same industry. Associations are no strangers to challenges.

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

According to Building Trust in a Cloudy Sky [registration], a recent McAfee report, more than 80 percent of respondents said they are following a cloud-first strategy, meaning that 80 percent of their IT budgets would be spent on some form of cloud services in the next 12 months. Large organizations tend to be the drivers of cloud strategies.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 4, 2015

An updated International Association of Exhibitions and Events white paper includes new tradeshow trends affecting the industry. Friedman, chair of IAEE’s Future Trends Task Force and president of Time & Place Strategies, Inc., The updated white paper looked at data in a number of ways. The first was big data.

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WBT Systems

MAY 23, 2017

Learning is part of their character and they seek it out wherever they can find it by: Reading blogs, articles, reports, tip sheets, white papers, ebooks, and books. Your association can also apply these behavioral science principles to strategies and tactics that help your members develop learning habits. Listening to podcasts.

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Leading Learning

JULY 12, 2021

It also requires re-thinking significantly how the stakeholders in your learning business interact, the assumptions they bring to the table, and how new perspectives translate into new strategies. Review your legacy systems and processes. For more on how to do all that, download the full white paper for free at [link].

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Association Subculture

JUNE 12, 2014

CAE, CEO and Chief Strategist at Spark Consulting LLC and Peter Houstle, CEO, Mariner Management and Marketing, LLC released a white paper on decision making processes that you can download for free here: Getting to the Good Stuff: Evidence-Based Decision Making for Associations. Recently +Elizabeth Engel , M.A., If not, what can?

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.orgCommunity

JULY 18, 2019

Associations have traditionally used membership “as an excuse to sell more stuff at discounted prices to members,” said Garth Jordan , senior vice president of corporate strategy at the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA). This blog post was originally published on the Association Learning Blog by WBT Systems.

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Associations have the infrastructure to help remake the education industry, according to a new white paper. The white paper suggests that many associations already have a grasp of the employment environment and career paths in their industries—what’s left is to build a strategy and delivery system around it.

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Virtual

APRIL 2, 2015

Over the years, through the shared experiences of literally hundreds of such efforts, a set of best practices has emerged, including strategies on: How best to set up a new association. The Alliance funded a pool of loaner systems that developers could access. What an effective organizational structure looks like.

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Beth Kanter

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The technology helps donors make investments that yield the highest impact or strategic system change. Before the pandemic, Rhodri Davies, head of policy at Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), authored the 2019 white paper, “ Machine Made Goods: Charities, Philanthropy, and Artificial Intelligence ,” describing the opportunities. “If

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Reid All About it

JUNE 2, 2017

LMS provider WBT Systems describes the different psychological, environmental, and technical obstacles that stand between your members and your online learning programs. If you can’t make it to AMS Fest in Chicago next week , stay tuned for my reports. Presenter: Vivian Swertinski, strategic services manager, Informz. Tue 6/6 at 2 p.m. –

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Associations Now

JUNE 26, 2017

Expansion is still worth it, but be careful about your strategy. McNulty wrote about this challenge , proposing that leaders make a shift from being leaders of a system to leaders in a system. Global trust in institutions is at a low ebb, which presents a challenge for associations reaching beyond the United States.

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Membership Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2011

How to Recognize a Good Strategy? We are told that the organization is going to launch a bold new strategy. In sports, we see the impact of strategy played out in game situatons right before our eyes. ” All of these items have their place, but they should not be mistaken for a strategy. .” “1.

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Associations Now

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Strategy-setting is useless without an implementation plan. Nancy Barrett, CAE, executive director of the Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists, has been working to address the issue, in part by making sure a tactical plan is closely attached to the strategy discussion. And how will we implement it?”. How are we going to do this?

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Membership Marketing

MAY 4, 2010

What Strategy Leads to Membership Growth? In our Membership Marketing Benchmarking Study this year, we asked participants to tell us their membership growth strategy. Labels: 2010 Benchmarking Survey , Growing Membership , Growth Strategy. What Strategy Leads to Membership Growth? Cost of Wrong Strategy. (8).

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Freestone

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Are you looking for strategies to increase non-dues revenue? Leveraging your learning management system (LMS) to generate non-dues revenue is the perfect way to prioritize your goals throughout the year. How can your learning management system increase non-dues revenue? You’re not alone!

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Eric Lanke

MARCH 19, 2012

If you followed me when I blogged at The Hourglass Blog , you know that I previously chaired their Innovation Task Force, and was the lead author on the White Paper on Innovation for Associations that the Task Force published. Amy Landis has initiated a fourth Innovation Circle for people interested in member recruitment strategies.

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Membership Marketing

JULY 17, 2012

Way back in 2007, I developed a white paper around a concept that I called the Membership Lifecycle. The concept was built around a systems thinking approach to membership. Politicians know that just sending one letter or one phone call is not a strategy that will maximize voter turnout. Cost of Wrong Strategy. (8).

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Membership Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Labels: Marketing Planning , White Paper. How to Recognize a Good Strategy? Cost of Wrong Strategy. (8). growth strategies. (4). Growth Strategy. (43). Membership marketing strategy. (17). Renewal Systems. (14). Tony Rossell. at Friday, December 30, 2011. Email This BlogThis! ► April. (5).

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Reid All About it

DECEMBER 2, 2022

WBT Systems explains how USF pulled off this word-of-mouth marketing miracle —and developing the course in less than two months was a miracle too. WBT Systems explores why the brain drain is occurring and how associations can help companies (and themselves) prevent and manage it. Virtual event planning template. Brain drain pains.

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Associations Now

JUNE 1, 2014

Data presents a tremendous opportunity to make better decisions,” says Elizabeth Engel, CAE, CEO and chief strategist of Spark Consulting and coauthor of a forthcoming white paper on using data to inform decision-making. A lot of times we would guess about our strategy every year. Big Data, Small Steps.

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Associations Now

JUNE 8, 2016

Others experts and providers have also identified various potential benefits or returns for associations from their online member communities: Ben Martin, CAE, CEO of Online Community Results, urges associations to connect their online community software with their association management or customer-relationship management systems.

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Membership Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

This information typically comes in the form of a free email newsletter or a white paper on an important topic of interest to visitors. Hey Tony, I think this strategy is a no-brainer. Personally I would love to write more white papers and you know I have plenty to say. Cost of Wrong Strategy. (8).

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 7, 2013

Blog posts, white papers, research, tweets, and online and face to face presentations are a few ways to follow those leaders. Create a good electronic filing system to keep track of those interesting articles, blog posts and web pages that you discover. ” Many thought leaders use social media to share their ideas.

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Membership Marketing

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Building Your Online Membership Lead Generation and Conversion System. The next question is what to do with these leads and how to maximize the effectiveness of the conversion system. One way to look at this lead to paid member conversion system is as a funnel. A good system might look something like this. Publications.

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