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Articles
- Write down your process to analyze it
- Sometimes you DO have to develop your own software
- Three Key Steps for Training
- Be Careful with Automation
- Things Change
- If you ask for data, you better have a good reason
- Breadth of Data
- Communicate to avoid “filling in the gaps”
- Seek Forgiveness, not Permission
- Learn How to “Lose”
- Database Management and Paychecks
- Managing IT Requests
- What Database PR Can Look Like
- Tracking Internal Inventory
- Periodically Purge Reports and Queries
- Managing Volunteers is SO Critical
- Some Things Never Change…
- Budgeting for Post Go-Live
- Why Moving from a Custom Environment is So Challenging
- There are Three Types of Data
- Expressed Interests vs. Implied Interests
- What Causes Project Overruns?
- What’s Good in Data Management
- Improvement by Subtraction
- Another Missive from the Trenches
- Tips for “Cleaning up” your Database
- Stalactites, Stalagmites, and Data Management
- This is What a Data Management Schedule Looks Like
- The Path of Least Resistance, Newton’s First Law, and Data Management
- What’s on Your Mind 2018 – Two Question Survey Results
- The Inherent Risks of an External Project Manager
- A Missive From the Trenches
- You Can’t Just Plan, You Must Also “Do”
- The technology does not matter without good process and the right people
- Flexibility is the Key to Implementation Success
- Don’t overlook the progress made when moving to a new system
- Technology is perfect; it’s the people and processes that aren’t.
- Three Things You MUST Ask During Reference Calls
- Sales is NOT a Dirty Word
- What’s On Your Mind 2016
- Fewer Demos Are Better Than More
- How Do I Get My Users to Trust the Database?
- 80% is Good Enough
- It’s time to get rid of the membership grace period
- Should You Use an Implementation Partner?
- What I Learned From EDM’s 2015 Association Data Management Benchmarking Survey
- Why Process Matters in Data Management
- Broken Windows Theory and Data Management
- Hanlon’s Law and Data Management
- How Cognitive Biases Can Affect Data Management
- Why Understanding Queries is So Critical to Data Management Success
- When Collecting Data, Don’t Overwhelm with Choices
- Seven Things You Should Do in Your AMS
- The Data-Friendly Association
- What Associations Think About Their AMS
- Three Principles for Life (and Data Management!)
- It’s time for your association to create a data records manager position
- The Cycle of Doom vs. The Cycle of Virtue
- Managing Data at an Association is NOT the Same as For-profit Businesses
- Using Interactional Data to Increase Engagement and Revenue
- Using an AMS to Provide Member Value – A Case Study
- You’re not marketing too much, you’re marketing wrong!
- What could possibly go wrong during implementation?
- What could possibly go wrong during the selection process?
- Association Data Management Trends 2015
- You Have to Actively Manage Your Database
- Use SMART Objectives to Manage Your Database
- “I’m engaged as I want to be.”
- The Five Myths of System Selection
- Five Things You Can Do to Improve Data Management in 2015
- Seven Steps for Selecting a New Association Management System
- Four Reasons to Establish an Internal Users Group
- Five Significant Trends in Association Management Software
- Three Keys to a Successful Implementation (and a BONUS!)
- What’s Plaguing Associations – 2011
- Are we really insane? Learning from experience
- No AMS Ever Failed on Selection
- Get Lazy! Understanding Workflow Automation and Scheduled Tasks
- “Why can’t we just buy Access?”
- Is Your Database Helping You Accomplish Your Mission?
- Skills Required of a Database Manager
- Oh, The Changes I’ve Seen!
- The Timelessness of Business Process Review
- The Difference Between Enterprise Software and Software-as-a-Service
- What AMS Vendors Think – 2010
- Sometimes You HAVE to Customize
- What’s Plaguing Associations – 2010
- Case Study: Custom Software vs. Off-the-Shelf
- Three Steps to Ensure Switching Systems Doesn’t Slow You Down
- Simplifying Your Processes Means Limiting Your Inputs
- Three Reasons Why You Need a Formal Issue Tracking System
- Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!
- Why Benchmarks Matter
- Untapped Sources of Business Intelligence
- Data Strategy: New rules for the Age of Twitter
- Eliminating Business Inefficiencies
- Tracking Volunteer Engagement
- What Associations Like About Their Databases – 2009
- What’s Plaguing Associations – 2009
- Getting Users to USE the Database
- The Data Management Cycle
- Interviews with CEOs from Six AMS Vendors
- Your Database as a Member Relations Tool
- Healthcare and your Database
- What’s Plaguing Associations 2008
- Establishing a Contact Tracking Policy
- Business Intelligence: What it Means for Membership and Marketing
- More Data is Better, Right?
- Business Intelligence: Where to start?
- Too Many Choices Are as Bad as Not Enough
- Success Depends on Good Technology and Clear Business Rules
- Write the Perfect RFP