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I experienced an “aha!” moment when I attended one of my first association conferences. I had been a casual Twitter user – a lurker mainly who would scan streams for interesting insights. At this conference, my approach shifted, as instead of taking notes by hand, which I rarely went back to, I started tweeting about what […]

Associations Catalyzing Entrepreneurship (ACE) is a group made up of association executives and stakeholders who think outside the association box about the future. We have conversations about an entrepreneurial approach to association leadership and implement the resulting great ideas in our jobs. In our most recent conversation live in DC, with a virtual component hosted […]

Content strategy helps ensure that your association creates useful, usable, appropriate, effective content. There are several principles of content strategy: The content has to be relevant to the people who are accessing it. It has to be usable, allowing the audience to accomplish their goals. It has to be appropriate for their level of interest […]

Editor’s note: Every month, we interview a different author who has valuable insights that are relevant to professionals within the association industry. From widely varying perspectives and specializations, we hope to provide our dedicated audience with quality reading to continue fostering growth and inspiration! Association 4.0: Positioning for Success in an Era of Disruption bySherry Budziak […]

When we reached our centennial at the Endocrine Society, I saw the celebration as a springboard to focus on our future. I coined a phrase: “We’re in the first year of our second century.” A one year old behaves quite differently than a 101 year old, and our centennial has sparked a rebirth. We continue to […]

Part one of this report revealed how tools such as Google Analytics are not accurate. Technology such as ad blockers means up to 78% of your website visits are not being recorded. In this second and final part we look at the implications of these findings and the information associations can still trust when making data-driven decisions. […]

“Too many startups begin with an idea for a product that they think people want. They then spend months, sometimes years, perfecting that product without ever showing the product, even in a very rudimentary form, to the prospective customer,” says a description on Eric Ries’ Lean Startup website. “When they fail to reach broad uptake from […]

When I think of organizations looking to make improvements to their technology, I always picture this cartoon: a team of cavemen pushing materials on a cart made of square wheels while two friends stand next to them waiting to install round wheels. The team struggling to push the cart refuses the offer of help, claiming […]

How much do you trust your website stats, e.g. Google Analytics? The answer should be ‘not that much’. Data from three separate UK membership organizations reveals a steady decline in the proportion of visitors who are captured by Google Analytics. Initial data discrepancies Year Out Group were concerned their website visitor numbers in Google Analytics have […]

In “Business Associations for the 21st Century”, the Washington, D.C.-based Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) describes associations as voluntary business-, professional-and community-improvement groups that combine their synergistic power by working together to solve mutual problems. Often partnering with government, associations have developed programs and encouraged public policies that help expand economic bases. “Were it not for business […]