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Social engagement for a great member experience
Think for a minute about all of the ways your members interact with others – social media channels, messaging apps, and your online community, just to name a few. Here are a couple of social technology capabilities to consider: Built-in online community Many...
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Where Are They Now? Vivify Your Alumni Site
The massive popularity of social networking has ignited intense interest in reconnecting with past friends and acquaintances. This is certainly good news for alumni associations, especially given the ease in which administrators can now contact alumni and keep...
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Social Networking: Energize Your Membership Site
Social networking has taken the Internet by storm (it now outranks email usage as the most popular activity among users). Online member communities are redefining the way we connect with others, from our closest friends to distant relatives. It’s one of the trademarks...
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Show Me the Money! Please? Kicking Up Fundraising in Difficult Times
In an article in the February 2009 edition of Fundraising Success, Katya Andresen brings up some great ideas on how to increase donations and satisfy donors in this difficult economy. "Donors want to feel good" -- Ms. Andresen points out that donors want "an emotional...
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It’s so Easy (and Cost Effective) Being Green
There’s a lot of pressure out there to go greenand face it – it’s the responsible thing to do. But there’s a tremendous, and often overwhelming, amount of planning and implementation that goes into converting your previously paper-laden organization to the new lean,...
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Forget the Joneses, It’s Your Members You Have to Keep Up With
Recently, eight judges from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania named the greatest inventions over the past 30 years (in a survey sponsored by Knowledge@Wharton, the school’s business publication, and PBS’s "Nightly Business Report")....
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No Matter Where They Go, There You Are – Mobile Social Networking
Your members are on the go and you need to go with them. Mobile Social Networking is not just something for jet-setters anymore, everyone from the fifteen year-old, who just skated by you thumbs a-blur; to your accountant, who keeps looking down at his lap from behind...
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Membership Software
Not too long ago, maintaining membership files meant a lot of legwork, and usually several different systems. You likely had a newsletter file, where you kept and maintained address records; a program for tracking payments of dues and donations; a separate system for...
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Helping Your Members Manage Their Social Networks
It's Sunday night. Do you know what your members are doing? No, this isn't a question that will end in a restraining order. It's a comment about our growing dependency on social networking sites. According to the nonprofit Pew Internet project, 35% of adult...
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New Membership Software Features, Free to All Customers
YourMembership.com, the global leader in online member communities and web-based membership management software, ended a successful 2008 by launching several new membership management features. New membership management features include the ability to make specific...
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