Membership is Everybody’s Business—10 Strategies for Growth

Member recruitment is not what it once was. Guilt is not much of a motivator in today’s world. In this new order of things, you, the association or society executive, must embrace the idea that member recruitment is no longer the exclusive responsibility of your membership department. Today, membership is everybody’s business...

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8 Writing Tips for Association Executives

Association executives often rely on writing to communicate their ideas and promote the institutional priorities of their organization. Successful writing, whether it be emails, op-eds, blog posts, or Tweets requires clarity, logic, and brevity...

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Your Technology Management Shopping List for 2018

No matter the size of an association or nonprofit organization, many of them are missing some key technology management tools. If you're in a smaller organization, this can be a real problem - you may have an IT department of one or two people, yet you're expected to do everything from end-user support, to systems administration, to project management to budget recommendation...

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News From The Non-Profit Sectort

• 3 Key Steps to Go from Innovation to Implementation
  By Association Adviser
  Innovation has been a common buzzword for the past few years – and not just in the association world. However, one of the biggest traps with innovation is that most big ideas never become more than just that – ideas...
• Shopping for an Association Management System
  By MemberClicks
  If your association is in the market for an AMS in 2018 but unsure how to make sure you're partnering with the right provider, here's a handy checklist...
• The #1 Membership Development Mistake – and How to Avoid It
  By Association Success
  Many associations (often incorrectly) assume that their member proposition is clear and easily understood. Remember to have a conversation with potential members about what their needs are...
• This 5-Minute Routine Will Save You Hours Of Wasted Work
  By Inc.
  Instead of wasting hours of a time each week on tasks that don't need to be done or scrambling to complete others that fell through the cracks, the "daily stand-up" meeting can save you hours...

Member News

Immediate Past Chair and NYSAE Member Michael Weamer, President & CEO of The Marfan Foundation, was recently featured in a RareDaily interview.

Linda Ferm, CAE, NYSAE member and chair of the Executive Women in Nonprofits Shared Interest Group, recently celebrated her 22nd year as the owner of Ferm Nonprofit Strategies...

Kellen account executive, Ashley Hodak Sullivan, MBA was recently honored as part of Association Forum/USAE's 2017 40Under40 Awards. ...

NYSAE Member Maria Ungaro, Vice President at Kellen, is celebrating her second anniversary at GWA: The Association for Garden Communicators....

NYSAE Member and chair of the Membership Committee, Doug Brown,CAIA, CBC, CDIA, CVIA, is celebrating his one-year anniversary as a member of the Board of Directors of the Mid-Atlantic District of the Barbershop Harmony Society....

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NYSAE would like to welcome these new members to our community...

Association Executive Book Shelf

The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace
by Alexander Klimburg
(Penguin Random House, 2017)

How much do leaders of anything need to know about the direction technology seems to be taking? There has always been a difference between understanding how something works and what it can do. We all understand where our cars can take us, but very few of us, by comparison, can speak with authority about how the internal combustion engine works...

Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (Published 2017, HarperCollins)

How often does the word "growth" appear in our strategic visions and business plans? How much of leadership is about predicting and preparing for the future?...

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