Diversify Your Retention Rate, and Other Membership Ideas*
Your intrepid membership blogger returns from two conferences at regional societies of association executives with a roundup of tips and ideas, including great questions for member research and the power of delegating metric measurement to staff.
Here’s a new membership metric for your association to track: retention rates. Yes, rates, plural. As in, how many retention rates does your association have? ...
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Secrecy in the Age of Social Media:
Six Ways to Keep Trade Secrets and Sensitive Association Info Offline
You can be sure that most of your staff are active on social media. For many employees, particularly younger ones, using Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter (among others) are as natural as breathing. But suppose an employee shared a secret internal file, such as the name of anonymous donor and how much that person contributed? Do scenarios like these keep you up at night? They should ...
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Complying with PCI DSS Version 3.1
What Is Required of Nonprofits?
When a nonprofit fails to abide by the PCI DSS requirements, payment card brands may fine that nonprofit's acquiring bank for noncompliance. Often an acquiring bank will pass those fines on to the noncompliant nonprofit, and these may total thousands of dollars or more...
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Have Your Websites Gone Native?
FTC Issues Enforcement Policy, Addressing Native Advertising and Deceptively Formatted Advertisements
The Federal Trade Commission issued an enforcement policy statement explaining how established consumer protection principles apply to different advertising formats, including native ads that look like surrounding non-advertising content...
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Survey Reports Change, Growth, And Challenges in Nonprofit Sector
The nonprofit sector continues to grow and remains an integral part of the national corridor. The picture that emerges from an extensive survey conducted by PNP Staffing Group is that many nonprofit organizations, certainly in the New York to Washington corridor, are expanding at a substantial rate and planning for growth over the next decade. Hiring in the sector is at an all-time high...
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I Ship It: Mentorships for the Next Generation
The NYSAE Next Generation Leadership Group is an NYSAE initiative to engage young professionals via mentoring programs with senior leaders, networking opportunities, and platforms to test new ideas...
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Member News
Linda Ferm, CAE is celebrating 20 years at Ferm Strategies, a consulting practice specializing in strengthening nonprofit and association boards and staffs...
Lee Hornstein, President and CEO of CSystems, LLC, founded his company 16 years ago...
Jeffrey S. Tenenbaum, Esq., Parnter and Chair of the Nonprofit Organizations Practice, Venable LLP, and recipient of NYSAE’s 2015 Outstanding Associate Member Award, moderated a session on Nonprofit Chapters and Affiliates...
NYSAE Board of Directors member Neil Mullanaphy, Convention Manger for the American Traffic Safety Services Association (ATSSA), reports that ATSSA presented three of its most prominent awards during its 46th Annual Convention & Traffic Expo...
Michael Weamer, President & CEO of The Marfan Foundation and NYSAE Chair of the Board, has been named a member of the Board of Directors at the Association of Black Cardiologists...
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Book Beat
The 50 easily applied techniques in The Discussion Book (©2016, Jossey-Bass), by Stephen D. Brookfield and Stephen Preskill, spur creativity, stimulate energy, keep groups focused, and increase participation whether you're teaching classes, facilitating employee training, leading organizational or community meetings, furthering staff and professional development, guiding town halls, or working with congregations. ..
More than ever, data drives decisions in organizations—and we have more data, and more ways to analyze it, than ever. Yet strategic initiatives continue to fail as often as they did when computers ran on punch cards. Economist, research scientist, and author of Strategic Analytics: Advancing Execution and Organizational Effectiveness...
Investors are increasingly focusing on leadership as a key differentiator in their investment decisions. But they’ve been forced to rely on instinctive, subjective, and unreliable ways to measure its impact—until now. In The Leadership Capital Index: Realizing the Market Value of Leadership...
The Idea-Driven Organization (©2014, Berrett-Koehler), by Alan G. Robinson and Dean M. Schroeder, addresses how too many organizations overlook their single greatest engine of growth and innovation—employee ideas...
Be the Best Bad Presenter Ever (©2014, Berrett-Koehler), by Karen Hough, was written to help the 90% feel truly confident in presentations—by being your authentic selves...
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