Want to see how your association compares to others when it comes to conducting elections? The folks at Votenet are conducting an industry survey to capture a snapshot of average voter turnouts, voting costs and processes, trends in online voting and more. You can take the survey here: http://www.votenet.com/emails/survey1.html
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I frequently hear associations asking how they can get their members and customers to provide more demographic information to the association. For example, I’ll hear “How can we get our members to provide us their organization’s staff size?” or “We’d like to know the ethnic make up of our members. How can we ask for
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I first heard this at a workshop presented by Alan Weiss. The turtle syndrome: Companies aren’t moving forward or backward, they’re simply pulling in their arms and legs to protect themselves. Does this sound like your association? It is at times like these when associations (and all organizations) need to be very aggressive about their
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Here is Forrester Research on user how to get more value from your CRM implementation: “The biggest culprit in keeping organizations from fully taking advantage of their CRM implementations is user adoption — a longtime scourge of successful CRM projects.” Here I am on user adoption: “While there are many factors that affect long-term success
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I recently spoke at a meeting for the Canadian Society of Association Executives on how to use my seven step process for selecting a new association management system. While discussing the seven steps, a member of the audience asked me where the step was for choosing a consultant. I demurred, thinking he was joking, but
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This is the last in a series of tips from my book, Put Your Data to Work: 52 Tips and Techniques for Effectively Managing Your Database. I’ve been asked by several people which of the tips are my favorites. So this series of blog posts focuses on five of them. Each of these tips is
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This is the fourth in a series of tips from my book, Put Your Data to Work: 52 Tips and Techniques for Effectively Managing Your Database, I’ve been asked by several people which of the tips are my favorites. So this series of blog posts focuses on five of them. Each of these tips is
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This is the third in a series of tips from my book, Put Your Data to Work: 52 Tips and Techniques for Effectively Managing Your Database, I’ve been asked by several people which of the tips are my favorites. So this series of blog posts focuses on five of them. Each of these tips is
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This is the second in a series of tips from my book, Put Your Data to Work: 52 Tips and Techniques for Effectively Managing Your Database, I’ve been asked by several people which of the tips are my favorites. So this series of blog posts focuses on five of them. Each of these tips is
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With the recent release of my book, Put Your Data to Work: 52 Tips and Techniques for Effectively Managing Your Database, I’ve been asked by several people which of the tips are my favorites. So this next series of blog posts will focus on that. Each of these tips is reproduced verbatim from the book.
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