How Should Staffers Engage in Your Online Community?
Launching and sustaining a successful online community for your association or organization is incredibly beneficial to your members or clients, but is no easy task to get off the ground. It takes countless hours, effort, creativity, strategy, and internal buy-in from your entire organization.
While internal buy-in from your organization is absolutely necessary to create a …
Top 10 Reasons to Attend AUDC 2017
Our 2017 Abila User and Developer Conference (AUDC) is right around the corner, April 11 to April 13 in Nashville, Tennessee. Have you booked your ticket to Music City? If not, below is The Top 10 List for AUDC and why this is definitely an event you don’t want to miss!
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How to Leverage Social Media for a Great Conference
During last week’s 2017 ASAE Great Ideas Conference, disruption was King of the Topics. For many employers, nothing is more disruptive to staff productivity than the ever-alluring distraction of social media. If your boss is one of those blacklisting access to Facebook from 9 to 5, this may be the case you’ve been waiting for …
Drive Engagement Among Small, but Mighty, Generation X
My name is Amanda and I’m a member of Generation X.
We’re the Regan-era latchkey kids who turned into flannel-clad slackers. We came of age in an analog world, then had to scramble to catch up at the dawn of the Digital Age. We started our careers at a time when pensions were disappearing, jobs were …
Innovation Process Will Keep You Strategic, Focused, and Accountable
There’s unrelenting pressure on associations to keep pace with trailblazing for-profit businesses and innovate, innovate, INNOVATE! But, what exactly is innovation? If you’re like many, the words mysterious, magical, indescribable might come to mind.
However, according to William Mallon from the Association of American Medical Colleges, who presented yesterday at ASAE Great Ideas conference, it’s a …
Use The “Membership of Things” To Make More Informed Decisions About Members
You’ve probably heard the term “Internet of Things” thrown around in conversations and articles recently, referring to the interconnected nature of all the devices you use. The concept relates to the idea of all your electronic gadgets talking to each other and gathering data about you, your activities, and personal trends to develop a cognitive …
When Numbers Don’t Lie: How to Deliver Bad News Without Breaking Hearts
It’s February 15 – or as it’s known to many, National Day of Disappointment. According to a survey from the National Retail Federation (NRF), U.S. consumers were expected to spend a total of $18.2 billion on Valentine’s Day this year, with a whopping $4 billion spent on jewelry alone.
Nevertheless, despite the high stakes, or …
Take a Bite out of 2017: 3 Lessons Learned From Girl Scout Cookie Time
True confession: I recently had a Diet Coke and a box of Caramel deLite®/Samoa® Girl Scout Cookies for lunch. Okay, maybe more than once.
This year, some of the more than 1.9 million young women who are members of the Girl Scouts will come together to sell a projected 175 million boxes of delicious treats to …
Going the Extra Mile With Client Success Services
“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.”
-Roger Staubach
It’s a great quote, wouldn’t you agree? Now, as a pretty strict rule, we don’t use our blog as a medium to tout our own products and services; however, we’re making an exception today. Because going the extra mile is taking on new meaning …
How the Membership of Things Will Gain Traction
The Membership of Things is rooted in the Internet of Things. Simply put, it’s the concept of connecting essentially any device with an on-and-off switch to the internet and/or to each other. This includes everything from cellphones, coffee makers, washing machines, headphones, lamps, wearable devices, and almost anything else you can think of. And this collective …
