Make Your Learners Love You This Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is upon us, and with all of this love in the air, we figured what better time to stop and assess your relationship with your learners. After all, as predicted this year, continuing education will play a critical role in the value your members seek from your association. So forget about the box …
Jump On the Amazon and Netflix Bandwagon
Like it or not, we’re living in a world in which huge companies like Amazon and Netflix are changing the way consumers shop. These big-name brands overwhelmingly demonstrate that they understand their customer on a much deeper level than ever before, and promise to make it as easy as possible for those customers to get …
Walking the Line of Success at ACLEA’s Mid-Year Meeting
ACLEA’s 53rd Mid-Year Meeting is this weekend, and the Abila team is pulling on our cowboy boots and heading to Nashville. The theme for this year’s meeting is Walk the Line of Success, and there’s a packed schedule of informative sessions to help CLE professionals learn and grow. Here are some sessions that caught our …
2017 Prediction: Education as a Focal Point
It’s that time of year when our association experts here at Abila gaze into their crystal ball and make predictions about trends and changes they foresee for 2017. One prediction for this year is that education will be a focal point.
As an association professional, education may be somewhere on your radar, but as our 2017 …
Use Nano Learning for Approachable, Scalable, Meaningful Online Learning
Nano learning, or as it’s sometimes called, “micro learning,” is all the rage. Fun fact from Wiki: Nano is a unit prefix meaning “one billionth,” used in science and electronics for prefixing units of time and length. And, while certainly not new, nano learning is increasingly making its presence known in the online learning community …
Personalize Your Members’ Online Learning Experience
2016 had its highs and lows, and while some may want to never look back, association professionals shouldn’t move on just yet. With the close of the year comes a complete 12 months of data on how your members interacted with your association. It’s crucial to reflect on the year and review all the information …
What Trends Will Have the Biggest Impact on Associations in 2017?
We dusted off the old crystal ball and peered deeply into its depths to see what 2017 holds in store for associations. Education, technology, and advocacy take center stage.
To help demystify these trends and more, our Abila association experts have compiled our 2017 Association Predictions. Below is a sneak peek:
For a deeper look, download our 2017 Association …
Give Your Association Members What They Want
Not sure what to get your members this holiday season?
How about what they’ve asked for?
Last week, as I was finalizing my holiday gift list, I came across an article in The New York Times with the headline, “The Perfect Gift? It’s the One They Asked For.” The article got me thinking about gift …
4 Steps to Unraveling the Secrets of Integration Success
Buzzword bingo is a joke for a reason.
When I first started working for a technology company, the acronyms and buzzwords were flying. There were terms unique to the nonprofit sector, others that spoke to specific features, functions or types of code but, over and over, the one I heard the most was “integration.”
Seems straightforward enough, …
