My friend and collegaue Jeff Cobb of Tagoras Consulting has just released a new white paper entitled “Association Learning and Technology, which you can download here. The whitepaper provides an assessment of technology use in the association market for enhancing learning and provides insight into how the use of technology for learning may evolve in […]
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In late October there was an article in The Washington Post about poor financial controls at DC non-profits. Last week there was yet another article, this one about a woman stealing millions of dollars from AAMC. As you read the article it’s clear there were very poor financial controls in place. Don’t let this happen
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I’m often asked by my clients about using credit card auto-renewal for membership dues (or donations or other recurring charges). Auto-renewal has been around for a long time, but it’s taken a while for associations to start adopting it, in part due to the technology catching up with the need (i.e., AMS vendors have only
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In a meeting with a client recently, we were discussing some of the challenges the association was having with managing their data. Although they have decent technology for managing the data, they were still struggling. As we discussed some of their issues, we determined that one problem they had was that staff didn’t really know
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I recently had a client ask me to help them find a new association management software system. They were very interested in premise-based solutions (i.e., a database they could install and run on their own servers). As I reviewed their functional needs and budget, and started comparing that to the list of off-the-shelf AMS vendors
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If you’re a manager at a non-profit, this story in The Washington Post is a must-read. As I wrote here, two decades ago I had a part-time person on my staff stealing from my association. As the article explains, the thief was caught very quickly after the accounting department discovered some anomalies during the monthly
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You can still listen to the non-dues revenue webinar I participated in with ACGI Software earlier this week. Here’s a recap of the webinar from ACGI Software with a link to the recording.
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I first heard this advice from Alan Weiss, consulting guru. The idea is that extrapolating a rule from a single instance is a bad practice. What you may be experiencing is the exception, not the rule. I see this far too often with my clients. For example, someone on staff (usually a senior staffer who
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I recently did an interview with Linda Popky, president of L2M Associates, on Big Data. You can find that podcast here. Learn what Big Data is, why it’s hot, and what you can do with Big Data.
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Nice blog post from ASAE today on the future of the AMS space for associations. Click here to read.
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