Make Time to Modernize Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit leaders, I know you’re exhausted. It took everything you had to get your organization through the pandemic. You’re still facing a slew of competing priorities and high employee turnover. It may be tempting to revert to the old ways, but we’re in a new world: Hybrid work has given us flexibility, but also the…

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Association Management Systems

Checklist: Evaluate Your Association Management System

The fact is 93% of associations use membership management software, but is it meeting their needs? Or does it have so many manual processes, band-aids and add-ons that it looks like Frankenstein’s monster? Your Association Management System (AMS) is the lifeblood of your organization. How do you evaluate its ability to nourish and sustain all the different body parts?…

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#ASAE19: Chatbot FAQ for Associations

“Learn & Play with Purpose”—that was the motto for last week’s ASAE 2019 Annual Meeting in Columbus, OH. And that’s exactly what Stefan, Steve and I did! It was great to talk with association leadership from all over the country, getting a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities they currently face, including chatbots. Judging…

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Chatbot Development Moves Associations Beyond Transaction to Conversation

Getting your members’ attention is hard. Like you, they are busy people, constantly inundated with information, offers and requests. According to Naylor’s 2018 Association Communications Benchmarking Study, 2 out of 3 association communicators say their members are just too busy to interact with their content. So it’s no surprise that “Combating information overload and cutting…

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