Hey Association Execs in and Around Ottawa! What are you doing February 9?

CSAE Ottawa-Gatineau is inviting association executives to join them on February 9th at the Ottawa Convention Centre to enjoy a free breakfast session with Dan Gardner followed by a day of networking with your industry colleagues and opportunities to meet over 160 organizations offering products and services targeted specifically to the association sector.

...Did I mention it was free?!

Come on by and don't forget to say hello to our Managing Partner, Geoff Thacker on the tradeshow floor!

Here are the registration details!

See you there!

Seth Godin Says...

...That 'average' won't cut it in our post-industrial working world. This is true at many levels. The idea also makes sense if you look at it from a nonprofit point-of-view: If your organization is just average, it's going to get lost in the shuffle in an environment that is becoming increasingly crowded with other groups offering a lot of what looks like the same thing. That's no secret. On the other hand, I can't tell you how many trade and industry associations we work with that are in a mad scramble to help their members recruit and retain skilled workers.

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Nonprofit Treats (From Last Week): Good Stuff Happening On the Web

Well, It's a new year and most of us are back to the grind. Despite the long and dark winter days many of us are enduring (daylight lasts from 8am - 4:30 where I am right now), I am seeing a lot of inspiration on the web these days. Here are a few goodies from last week. I hope you enjoy!

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ARC Best OF: Don’t be the Boiled Frog: Complacency No Longer an Option for NFP’s

Did you know that if you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will try to jump out? But if you put that same frog into a pot of water at room-temperature and heat it up gradually, the frog will let itself be boiled to death? We all know the world is changing. Change is everywhere we look, from our physical environment, to the way we relate and communicate to one another. Many of these changes are paradigm-shifting.

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ARC Best Of: Listen Up! Series on Member Needs & Satisfaction - Representing Member Needs A Challenge for Associations?

If you were to guess which area association members tend to be least satisfied with, what would it be? Programs and services? Nope. Influence and engagement? Close but not quite...Based on 47 member needs studies conducted over the past several years, representation of member needs to different stakeholder groups has consistently been at the bottom of the list in terms of member satisfaction.

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