Lessons from a Lifelong Volunteer: Building a Successful Program

To be successful you need to believe in your cause, ask others to help, let your volunteers voice their opinions and share ideas, listen to them, give them meaningful opportunities...

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Member Spotlight: An E-Interview with Robert Spangler

It’s not too often that one meets his or her clone within a common community. However, it does happen from time to time, and when it does, it’s pretty cool!

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Disruptive Thinking - ANYTHING can be Disruptive

For those of us in a membership organization or service business, it is not enough to think that it is just products or new packaging that can be disruptive. We have to think in terms of service as well.

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News From The Non-Profit Sectort

• How Do We Give Our Suppliers the Respect They Deserve?
  By Association Success
  How an association treats its associate members often varies widely. When you're seeking their sponsorship dollars, it's important to keep their needs in mind as well...
• Post-Conference Surveys: Are You Getting What You Need from Attendees?
  By Associations Now
  Does your post-conference survey look the same every year? If so, it may be time to look outside the box for some new questions that will tell you what attendees really think of your event...
• How to Deal with Difficult People in Your Meetings
  By Wild Apricot
  Conflict between team members can make meetings uncomfortable and unproductive, and usually it just comes down to one or two members who cause all the problems...
• Micro-Innovation: A Must-Try Strategy at Your Small-Staff Association
  By MemberClicks
  All associations strive to be innovative, but it can be especially overwhelming for small associations. Micro-innovation, which is innovation on a smaller scale, may be just the answer...

Member News

NYSAE Member Gina Ryan recently celebrated 15 years at CEO Pathways, an association management consultant network serving association and business entities.

NYSAE Member Tim Baer recently celebrated his 5th year at American Technology Services which is located in the Washington D.C. area. Tim is the Vice President of Business Development.

Have member news, work anniversaries, promotions, new programs you are working on? Let us know by sending in your news via our online form.

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Association Executive Book Shelf

Paper - Paging Through History
by Mark Kurlansky (Published by W.W. Norton & Company, 2016)

This book is about the value of looking away -- or looking at nothing -- since most of our waking day – both work and what we call pleasure – has become so consumed by looking into a screen. This is not an anti-technology book, but it does support the thesis that downtime has an important role in increasing creativity and productivity, certainly something worth understanding by leaders of non-profit organizations...

Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive Self
by Manoush Zomorodi (Published by St. Martin’s Press, 2017)

This book is about the value of looking away -- or looking at nothing -- since most of our waking day – both work and what we call pleasure – has become so consumed by looking into a screen. This is not an anti-technology book, but it does support the thesis that downtime has an important role in increasing creativity and productivity, certainly something worth understanding by leaders of non-profit organizations...

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