How many of us struggle with getting chapter volunteers to submit reports? How many of us have a file folder full of individual spreadsheets or reports? Maybe you even have some great chapter data, but are you able to make this data meaningful for your chapters, your board or even your staff? When attempting to track chapter effectiveness, knowing what to measure is just one part of the equation. The other is knowing how to collect, store and share that data, in addition to recognizing and tracking the data trends.
Check out this webinar where we share tools and tips for creating benchmarking dashboards that give input to your chapters and staff. In this webinar, you’ll hear stories from other associations on what methods they have used to leverage their data, and how they have helped chapters and staff make better decisions about what’s needed to serve member needs.
Leverage Chapters to Engage & Grow MembershipBillhighway
Whether you believe it or not – chapters can play a key role in membership and revenue growth for your association. But how do you get there? How do you set your chapters up for success? How can you support them?
We’ll cover how…
- You can leverage chapters as a channel to reach new audiences.
- You can tap into (and boost) chapters unique ability to provide community and optimize the member experience.
- You can leverage chapter experiences to drive community influencers.
We’ll dive into how you can lead, support and measure these initiatives. The results will be a stronger channel and your chapter network will be aligned to association membership goals.
#LeverageChapters
#GotChapters
Chapter Performance Reimagined: Taking Your Association's Growth to the Next ...Billhighway
Throughout COVID-19, we’ve seen a lot of associations wrestling with the impact of lower revenue and declining membership. But what if your components could help turn that around for you? In times like these, where many associations are not able to have large in-person conferences, chapters and affiliates can be used to deliver member-value locally in ways that National cannot. By empowering your components, associations can increase member engagement and retention, growing both revenue and membership. In this webinar, we touch on ways you can significantly mobilize your components to better serve members and create a win/win for your members, your chapters, and your association.
We traditionally focus on resources, tools, and insights that help you and your chapters without being a commercial for Billhighway. This webinar is different, so we want to be upfront about it. In times like these, associations need Billhighway more than ever. So we’re breaking with tradition and focusing this webinar on demonstrating how the Billhighway solution can help component-based associations solve the unique challenges of our current times. We wanted to share this detail with you ahead of time and encourage you to invite your executive director, CEO, CFO, and other senior-level leaders to hear a message they won’t want to miss.
Virtual Chapters: Should we or shouldn't we?Billhighway
There are lots of questions when it comes to virtual chapters. Do they provide value? Are they successful? How can we make existing ones stronger? If these are questions you are facing with your chapters, you should watch this webinar! We cover volunteer roles, technology, membership models, financial banking and ultimately, answer the question: how do your chapters go virtual?
You have a solid base for recruiting and training chapter volunteers that has worked well in the past. Then came the evidence-based research on volunteers challenging our percepts. Followed by the pandemic and increased volunteer burnout. Turns out our training programs need a new approach. What can you do? Let’s do a reboot on chapter volunteer training. Join us for a conversation on how to use volunteer motivations and personas to drive learning and rethink our approach so we can retain volunteers and develop future leaders. Ready to shift your volunteer training to get a better learning experience?
3 Ways to Tap Chapter Relevance in 2021Billhighway
We’re at the beginning of a new year, and opportunity abounds us. We know chapters are more relevant than ever. In many ways, the success in 2020 for components was tied to the fact that they were in a position to pivot more readily. We can harness that agility with the right support and permissions, so how do we tap chapters? Learn three lenses to view chapter relevance through and how to make a case to optimize chapters as part of your overall association success strategy in 2021.
Chapter Tech Edition: A Few of Our Favorite Chapter Tools for 2021Billhighway
The shift to virtual has placed an even greater emphasis on the importance of leveraging technology at the local level. In this session, we’ll share specific tools to help maximize chapter performance in this new reality. Peter Houstle & Peggy Hoffman from Mariner Management will be your Tech Emcees and share how CRPs are leveraging these chapter tech tools on the job and why they’re recommending them to their chapter leaders. These tools come straight from other CRPs, so we’re sure they can work for your association too!
Adding Snap, Crackle & Pop to Chapter EventsBillhighway
One of the big mysteries these days is why chapter members aren't attending events. While it's easy to blame it on members being busy, this is usually not the reason members don’t attend events. If your chapters are having difficulty with event attendance, it might be time to put some extra effort into the event planning and programming. Join us on this webinar, where we explore what your chapters can do to boost their event attendance.
In this webinar, we cover how to…
• Tap into the desire members have (across generations) to attend live events.
• Curate the right programming for your chapters' audience that meets their need for continual learning.
• Create an event experience that leaves attendees amazed and ready to attend your next event.
Leverage Chapters to Engage & Grow MembershipBillhighway
Whether you believe it or not – chapters can play a key role in membership and revenue growth for your association. But how do you get there? How do you set your chapters up for success? How can you support them?
We’ll cover how…
- You can leverage chapters as a channel to reach new audiences.
- You can tap into (and boost) chapters unique ability to provide community and optimize the member experience.
- You can leverage chapter experiences to drive community influencers.
We’ll dive into how you can lead, support and measure these initiatives. The results will be a stronger channel and your chapter network will be aligned to association membership goals.
#LeverageChapters
#GotChapters
Chapter Performance Reimagined: Taking Your Association's Growth to the Next ...Billhighway
Throughout COVID-19, we’ve seen a lot of associations wrestling with the impact of lower revenue and declining membership. But what if your components could help turn that around for you? In times like these, where many associations are not able to have large in-person conferences, chapters and affiliates can be used to deliver member-value locally in ways that National cannot. By empowering your components, associations can increase member engagement and retention, growing both revenue and membership. In this webinar, we touch on ways you can significantly mobilize your components to better serve members and create a win/win for your members, your chapters, and your association.
We traditionally focus on resources, tools, and insights that help you and your chapters without being a commercial for Billhighway. This webinar is different, so we want to be upfront about it. In times like these, associations need Billhighway more than ever. So we’re breaking with tradition and focusing this webinar on demonstrating how the Billhighway solution can help component-based associations solve the unique challenges of our current times. We wanted to share this detail with you ahead of time and encourage you to invite your executive director, CEO, CFO, and other senior-level leaders to hear a message they won’t want to miss.
Virtual Chapters: Should we or shouldn't we?Billhighway
There are lots of questions when it comes to virtual chapters. Do they provide value? Are they successful? How can we make existing ones stronger? If these are questions you are facing with your chapters, you should watch this webinar! We cover volunteer roles, technology, membership models, financial banking and ultimately, answer the question: how do your chapters go virtual?
You have a solid base for recruiting and training chapter volunteers that has worked well in the past. Then came the evidence-based research on volunteers challenging our percepts. Followed by the pandemic and increased volunteer burnout. Turns out our training programs need a new approach. What can you do? Let’s do a reboot on chapter volunteer training. Join us for a conversation on how to use volunteer motivations and personas to drive learning and rethink our approach so we can retain volunteers and develop future leaders. Ready to shift your volunteer training to get a better learning experience?
3 Ways to Tap Chapter Relevance in 2021Billhighway
We’re at the beginning of a new year, and opportunity abounds us. We know chapters are more relevant than ever. In many ways, the success in 2020 for components was tied to the fact that they were in a position to pivot more readily. We can harness that agility with the right support and permissions, so how do we tap chapters? Learn three lenses to view chapter relevance through and how to make a case to optimize chapters as part of your overall association success strategy in 2021.
Chapter Tech Edition: A Few of Our Favorite Chapter Tools for 2021Billhighway
The shift to virtual has placed an even greater emphasis on the importance of leveraging technology at the local level. In this session, we’ll share specific tools to help maximize chapter performance in this new reality. Peter Houstle & Peggy Hoffman from Mariner Management will be your Tech Emcees and share how CRPs are leveraging these chapter tech tools on the job and why they’re recommending them to their chapter leaders. These tools come straight from other CRPs, so we’re sure they can work for your association too!
Adding Snap, Crackle & Pop to Chapter EventsBillhighway
One of the big mysteries these days is why chapter members aren't attending events. While it's easy to blame it on members being busy, this is usually not the reason members don’t attend events. If your chapters are having difficulty with event attendance, it might be time to put some extra effort into the event planning and programming. Join us on this webinar, where we explore what your chapters can do to boost their event attendance.
In this webinar, we cover how to…
• Tap into the desire members have (across generations) to attend live events.
• Curate the right programming for your chapters' audience that meets their need for continual learning.
• Create an event experience that leaves attendees amazed and ready to attend your next event.
Driving Member Engagement by Showing #VolunteerLoveBillhighway
Mark your calendars: National Volunteer Week is April 19-25th! It’s the perfect opportunity to start thinking about ways to show your chapter volunteers the appreciation they deserve all year-round. Volunteering is one of the stickiest forms of member engagement, and happy volunteers can keep your association chapters on track for years to come. Given that 20-25% of staff labor in associations come from volunteer members, it’s a worthwhile effort to utilize recognition in creating a supportive environment. Let’s draw from research and our own community for a dynamic discussion on ways to spotlight association volunteers and celebrate volunteering in all aspects!
Chapter Events: Deciding on In-Person, Hybrid, or VirtualBillhighway
What’s the outlook for in-person chapter events in 2021 and how do we help chapter leaders decide whether to host an in-person, hybrid, or virtual event?
For nearly a year, CRPs and chapter leaders have focused on virtual. As the vaccine rolls out across the country, the focus is shifting to when chapters can resume in-person meetings (and indeed some already have). But should chapters plan on in-person meetings this year? Can they provide a safe experience? Will members be ready? What about hybrid—the word on everyone’s mind? Is that a viable possibility?
Like you, we had more questions than answers so we tapped one of the brightest minds we know on association and chapter events. Join us as we provide expert advice on how to help chapters make the right event decisions.
Hosted by Billhighway and Mariner Management.
Sharing Members: Optimizing the National and Chapters IntersectionBillhighway
From the member’s perspective, the line between “chapter” and National is blurred. Let’s look at how we can tap the opportunity this presents through a process designed to examine the member experience from their viewpoint. We’ll be working to walk through how to start mapping out your members’ experiences to find the overlap – the opportunity – between National and local, we’ll get you thinking about your members and answering key questions. Where does your National and chapter experiences begin and end? Where do they meet in the middle? And who is best positioned to own and optimize a specific experience?
#ChapterLove: Collaborating at All LevelsBillhighway
Showing your chapters some love is a winning strategy for driving engagement at all levels of your organization. Why? Because chapters create the stickiest type of member interactions—local engagement. Join us to learn simple ways you can show your chapters some love and help address the often contentious National-chapter relationship woes.
How to Create a Collaborative Chapter Marketing MovementBillhighway
With the generational shift and rise of digital engagement, more chapter-based associations are starting to incorporate influencer models into their digital media marketing strategies. Unsurprisingly, many association leaders are looking to their chapters to help keep their marketing momentum going. In our upcoming webinar–How to Create a Collaborative Chapter Marketing Movement–we’ll provide examples of what other associations have done to drive membership engagement, particularly with younger generations.
The Chapter Playbook: Part 2 — Marketing, Membership and EventsBillhighway
Some call it a chapter toolkit, we call it a Chapter Playbook. In part 2 of this mini-series, we cover:
- Marketing, membership and event information you should consider when creating your Chapter Playbook.
- Key questions for you to ask yourself as you build out a toolkit for your chapters to follow to set them up for success.
- Best practices to arm your chapters with to help them optimize their membership and event efforts.
Tips on Building a Speakers Bureau for ChaptersBillhighway
Offering effective speakers who can discuss timely, industry-relevant topics helps increase chapter engagement while driving wider awareness of your association. In this webinar, we’ll provide examples of how other associations have built their speakers bureaus, including how they’ve driven adoption. In addition, we’ll discuss the various resources available to chapters that want to build their own speakers bureau.
AIGA Slack: A New Tool for Chapter LeadersBillhighway
Do your chapter leaders have an effective way to communicate and connect with National and each other? AIGA’s chapter leaders didn’t think so. After chapter leaders suggested a new tool at their Chapter Leader Retreat, AIGA had no idea it was going to have the impact and engagement that it has today. Enter the picture: Slack. Join us as we run through this mini-case study on Slack and how AIGA converted over 600 chapter leaders to using this new communication tool. We’ll cover implementation, adoption, benefits and challenges.
How to Train, Support & Inspire Chapter Leaders in One PlaceBillhighway
Chapter leaders are incredibly dedicated volunteers, but they’re not association management experts. They can be easily overwhelmed by your association’s expectations and the responsibilities of leadership. Ensure your chapter leaders have the knowledge and resources they need to succeed by inviting them to a chapter leadership conference. Join us as we walk through how to train, support and inspire your volunteers all in one place.
Tap Chapters as a Member Engagement ChannelBillhighway
Are you meeting your members where they’re at in their career? Are your chapters? We know depending on the stage of their career, your members have different needs and wants. This virtual workshop is a deep dive into what the data tells us on membership needs, loyalty and behavior. Tapping the data, we'll create a strategy you can share with your chapters to generate engagement and value based on their career stage. In this virtual workshop, we cover ways your chapters can better prepare volunteers to be the face of your association and engage the next big wave of individuals starting their careers or reinventing themselves.
Rowing the Same Direction: How ACG Has Aligned Global & ChaptersBillhighway
On-demand available here: bit.ly/2iklNR2
Join us for our Q&A with Gary LaBranche, CEO at the Association for Corporate Growth. We discuss the challenges faced by ACG and how those challenges impacted relationships with chapters. As well as, the key resources, technologies and services essential to ACG’s successful transformation.
Chapter Performance & Benchmarking Unwrapped: Using Dashboards to Tell the Ch...Billhighway
Day 2 Agenda:
- Explore how to use benchmarking to create a dashboard about your chapter programs
- Share how your association can use a dashboard to monitor chapter health
View the workshop recording: https://youtu.be/sXj0oGXwhn4
Members seek face-to-face opportunities to connect, learn, volunteer, and socialize with their peers more than ever. CRPs are looking for ways to activate that member engagement at chapters. Around the country, they’re asking:
- Are associations changing how they manage and relate to their chapters?
- What support and services should we give our chapters?
- How should we evaluate our chapters?
- Are chapters still relevant?
Mariner Management and Billhighway conducted the third Chapter Benchmarking Study to explore these questions and more. We went out to CRPs, CEOs, and Chapter Leaders. The data analysis offers a resource for benchmarking, sharing innovations in chapter management, and starting conversations about the future of chapters. Join us as we unveil the 2022 Association Chapter Performance & Benchmarking Report, and more importantly, look at how you can use it to answer your questions and optimize your chapters! #leveragechapters #gotchapters
Chapter Chat: How A CRP Helped Turn Around A 15-Year Membership DeclineBillhighway
With more than 1,500 clubs and 185,000 members, a membership drop of 2% year over year for 15 consecutive years can really impact your bottom line, leaving you with a crisis on your hands. Rick Rangel, Director of Growth at the Northern California Golf Association (NCGA) had chapters that were drowning. NCGA was at a crossroads. They’d been doing the same thing over and over again with their clubs and expecting different results. Rick realized they weren’t giving their chapter leaders the tools they needed to be successful.
- Club officers found one-off tools on their own, and their data did not automatically flow up to HQ.
- Onboarding processes and value propositions differed from club to club.
- Chapter websites were a huge pain and branding issues were rampant.
- On average, club officers easily put in 40 hours every quarter, volunteering their time and energy, so burnout happened often.
Sound familiar? From off-brand chapter websites to AWOL officers, Rick shares his chapters-in-crisis experience. Tune in to find out what tools, tips, and tricks he used to prevent major mayhem. Under Rick’s helm, NCGA has been able to correct course, now seeing 6% membership growth year over year since 2016. Regardless of your components' structure, you’ll benefit from the CRP advice we share in this webinar.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j73G4s5L4FM
Brought to you by 2019 CEX Sponsor: memberplanet (https://www.memberplanet.com/)
Chapter Benchmarking Report: What the Data, Success Stories & Opinions Tell UsBillhighway
Chapter membership takes on a significant value in an increasingly online world. Members seek face-to-face opportunities to connect, learn, volunteer, and socialize with their peers, mentors, and clients. Once upon a time, chapters were taken for granted, but many association leaders now have questions like.
- How does our chapter program compare to those of other associations?
- What are the standard practices regarding chapter membership, programming, requirements, and metrics?
- What support and services should we be giving chapters? Are other associations making changes to chapters?
- How do we assess the performance and value of our chapters?
- Are chapters still relevant?
In our latest Chapter Benchmarking Report, we explore these questions through industry data that helps associations benchmark their chapter programs against others. Join us for a webinar that fuels the dialogue on what makes an effective chapter—and an effective chapter/association relationship. We’ll share stories on what methods other associations have used to leverage their data, and how they have helped chapters and staff make better decisions.
Pivoting Your Chapter Leadership Conference to VirtualBillhighway
As the world begins to open back up in the coming months, one question will continue to remain on the minds of many chapter leaders–what now? Can they still count on your association to provide the leadership resources they need to continue to bring community and education to members? The future is still uncertain, but what’s clear is that chapters will need to change how they deliver value to members.
While we figure it all out, there is no doubt that this is an excellent opportunity to introduce your chapter leaders to different forms of virtual education. The best way to learn is through experience. Join in as we explore how to turn your chapter leader training to virtual meetings that create engaging connections in unexpected ways.
Brought to you by 2019 CEX Sponsor, Community Brands!
https://www.communitybrands.com/
Drive Chapter Behavior with Targeted BenchmarkingBillhighway
Benchmarking (count and compare) can serve many purposes, but the most important purpose is to define what’s most important! Everyone’s likely heard some variation on the business maxim, “you can’t manage what you don’t measure,” but the corollary consequence, “you tend to manage what’s being measured” is often overlooked. Bottom line, if we want our chapters to help us serve the members and move the mission, we need to benchmark those behaviors that help us achieve that end. In other words, let’s count the things that count…and, oh by the way, all the things that count can’t necessarily be counted!
Benchmarking also implies comparison, and here’s the other important purpose. When we measure and make comparisons on those metrics which are truly important, we can then identify our “bright spots” – the high achievers – and replicate those behaviors across the system. Win-win!!
We talk about what we’re benchmarking (or not) and why. While there’s no guarantee, experience suggests that “if you measure it, they will do it,” so let’s be sure we measure the right stuff.
Chapter Performance & Benchmarking Unwrapped: Creating a Compelling Chapter S...Billhighway
Day 3 Agenda:
- How to build and create a compelling story about the value of your chapters
- How to find bright spots, tell stories, and what tech to use
View the workshop recording: https://youtu.be/XBzt76UwD7w
Members seek face-to-face opportunities to connect, learn, volunteer, and socialize with their peers more than ever. CRPs are looking for ways to activate that member engagement at chapters. Around the country, they’re asking:
- Are associations changing how they manage and relate to their chapters?
- What support and services should we give our chapters?
- How should we evaluate our chapters?
- Are chapters still relevant?
Mariner Management and Billhighway conducted the third Chapter Benchmarking Study to explore these questions and more. We went out to CRPs, CEOs, and Chapter Leaders. The data analysis offers a resource for benchmarking, sharing innovations in chapter management, and starting conversations about the future of chapters. Join us as we unveil the 2022 Association Chapter Performance & Benchmarking Report, and more importantly, look at how you can use it to answer your questions and optimize your chapters! #leveragechapters #gotchapters
Components as Drivers of Recruitment, Retention and EngagementBillhighway
CoSN Director of Membership & Chapters, Dresden Farrand, walks us through how her and her team leveraged their components to see great increases in revenue, member retention, chapter acquisition and more.
On-demand available here: http://bit.ly/2l4rNhs
In this webinar, we'll dive deep into leading and lagging KPIs and their importance in developing effective dashboards to monitor chapter performance.
Powering Up Your Chapter Leaders Succession PlanningBillhighway
On-Demand available here: http://bit.ly/2h3oPNQ
Join Peggy Hoffman from Mariner Management & Marketing LLC for a different take on chapter succession planning. We’re shifting from talking about providing succession plan templates to coaching for success.
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Driving Member Engagement by Showing #VolunteerLoveBillhighway
Mark your calendars: National Volunteer Week is April 19-25th! It’s the perfect opportunity to start thinking about ways to show your chapter volunteers the appreciation they deserve all year-round. Volunteering is one of the stickiest forms of member engagement, and happy volunteers can keep your association chapters on track for years to come. Given that 20-25% of staff labor in associations come from volunteer members, it’s a worthwhile effort to utilize recognition in creating a supportive environment. Let’s draw from research and our own community for a dynamic discussion on ways to spotlight association volunteers and celebrate volunteering in all aspects!
Chapter Events: Deciding on In-Person, Hybrid, or VirtualBillhighway
What’s the outlook for in-person chapter events in 2021 and how do we help chapter leaders decide whether to host an in-person, hybrid, or virtual event?
For nearly a year, CRPs and chapter leaders have focused on virtual. As the vaccine rolls out across the country, the focus is shifting to when chapters can resume in-person meetings (and indeed some already have). But should chapters plan on in-person meetings this year? Can they provide a safe experience? Will members be ready? What about hybrid—the word on everyone’s mind? Is that a viable possibility?
Like you, we had more questions than answers so we tapped one of the brightest minds we know on association and chapter events. Join us as we provide expert advice on how to help chapters make the right event decisions.
Hosted by Billhighway and Mariner Management.
Sharing Members: Optimizing the National and Chapters IntersectionBillhighway
From the member’s perspective, the line between “chapter” and National is blurred. Let’s look at how we can tap the opportunity this presents through a process designed to examine the member experience from their viewpoint. We’ll be working to walk through how to start mapping out your members’ experiences to find the overlap – the opportunity – between National and local, we’ll get you thinking about your members and answering key questions. Where does your National and chapter experiences begin and end? Where do they meet in the middle? And who is best positioned to own and optimize a specific experience?
#ChapterLove: Collaborating at All LevelsBillhighway
Showing your chapters some love is a winning strategy for driving engagement at all levels of your organization. Why? Because chapters create the stickiest type of member interactions—local engagement. Join us to learn simple ways you can show your chapters some love and help address the often contentious National-chapter relationship woes.
How to Create a Collaborative Chapter Marketing MovementBillhighway
With the generational shift and rise of digital engagement, more chapter-based associations are starting to incorporate influencer models into their digital media marketing strategies. Unsurprisingly, many association leaders are looking to their chapters to help keep their marketing momentum going. In our upcoming webinar–How to Create a Collaborative Chapter Marketing Movement–we’ll provide examples of what other associations have done to drive membership engagement, particularly with younger generations.
The Chapter Playbook: Part 2 — Marketing, Membership and EventsBillhighway
Some call it a chapter toolkit, we call it a Chapter Playbook. In part 2 of this mini-series, we cover:
- Marketing, membership and event information you should consider when creating your Chapter Playbook.
- Key questions for you to ask yourself as you build out a toolkit for your chapters to follow to set them up for success.
- Best practices to arm your chapters with to help them optimize their membership and event efforts.
Tips on Building a Speakers Bureau for ChaptersBillhighway
Offering effective speakers who can discuss timely, industry-relevant topics helps increase chapter engagement while driving wider awareness of your association. In this webinar, we’ll provide examples of how other associations have built their speakers bureaus, including how they’ve driven adoption. In addition, we’ll discuss the various resources available to chapters that want to build their own speakers bureau.
AIGA Slack: A New Tool for Chapter LeadersBillhighway
Do your chapter leaders have an effective way to communicate and connect with National and each other? AIGA’s chapter leaders didn’t think so. After chapter leaders suggested a new tool at their Chapter Leader Retreat, AIGA had no idea it was going to have the impact and engagement that it has today. Enter the picture: Slack. Join us as we run through this mini-case study on Slack and how AIGA converted over 600 chapter leaders to using this new communication tool. We’ll cover implementation, adoption, benefits and challenges.
How to Train, Support & Inspire Chapter Leaders in One PlaceBillhighway
Chapter leaders are incredibly dedicated volunteers, but they’re not association management experts. They can be easily overwhelmed by your association’s expectations and the responsibilities of leadership. Ensure your chapter leaders have the knowledge and resources they need to succeed by inviting them to a chapter leadership conference. Join us as we walk through how to train, support and inspire your volunteers all in one place.
Tap Chapters as a Member Engagement ChannelBillhighway
Are you meeting your members where they’re at in their career? Are your chapters? We know depending on the stage of their career, your members have different needs and wants. This virtual workshop is a deep dive into what the data tells us on membership needs, loyalty and behavior. Tapping the data, we'll create a strategy you can share with your chapters to generate engagement and value based on their career stage. In this virtual workshop, we cover ways your chapters can better prepare volunteers to be the face of your association and engage the next big wave of individuals starting their careers or reinventing themselves.
Rowing the Same Direction: How ACG Has Aligned Global & ChaptersBillhighway
On-demand available here: bit.ly/2iklNR2
Join us for our Q&A with Gary LaBranche, CEO at the Association for Corporate Growth. We discuss the challenges faced by ACG and how those challenges impacted relationships with chapters. As well as, the key resources, technologies and services essential to ACG’s successful transformation.
Chapter Performance & Benchmarking Unwrapped: Using Dashboards to Tell the Ch...Billhighway
Day 2 Agenda:
- Explore how to use benchmarking to create a dashboard about your chapter programs
- Share how your association can use a dashboard to monitor chapter health
View the workshop recording: https://youtu.be/sXj0oGXwhn4
Members seek face-to-face opportunities to connect, learn, volunteer, and socialize with their peers more than ever. CRPs are looking for ways to activate that member engagement at chapters. Around the country, they’re asking:
- Are associations changing how they manage and relate to their chapters?
- What support and services should we give our chapters?
- How should we evaluate our chapters?
- Are chapters still relevant?
Mariner Management and Billhighway conducted the third Chapter Benchmarking Study to explore these questions and more. We went out to CRPs, CEOs, and Chapter Leaders. The data analysis offers a resource for benchmarking, sharing innovations in chapter management, and starting conversations about the future of chapters. Join us as we unveil the 2022 Association Chapter Performance & Benchmarking Report, and more importantly, look at how you can use it to answer your questions and optimize your chapters! #leveragechapters #gotchapters
Chapter Chat: How A CRP Helped Turn Around A 15-Year Membership DeclineBillhighway
With more than 1,500 clubs and 185,000 members, a membership drop of 2% year over year for 15 consecutive years can really impact your bottom line, leaving you with a crisis on your hands. Rick Rangel, Director of Growth at the Northern California Golf Association (NCGA) had chapters that were drowning. NCGA was at a crossroads. They’d been doing the same thing over and over again with their clubs and expecting different results. Rick realized they weren’t giving their chapter leaders the tools they needed to be successful.
- Club officers found one-off tools on their own, and their data did not automatically flow up to HQ.
- Onboarding processes and value propositions differed from club to club.
- Chapter websites were a huge pain and branding issues were rampant.
- On average, club officers easily put in 40 hours every quarter, volunteering their time and energy, so burnout happened often.
Sound familiar? From off-brand chapter websites to AWOL officers, Rick shares his chapters-in-crisis experience. Tune in to find out what tools, tips, and tricks he used to prevent major mayhem. Under Rick’s helm, NCGA has been able to correct course, now seeing 6% membership growth year over year since 2016. Regardless of your components' structure, you’ll benefit from the CRP advice we share in this webinar.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j73G4s5L4FM
Brought to you by 2019 CEX Sponsor: memberplanet (https://www.memberplanet.com/)
Chapter Benchmarking Report: What the Data, Success Stories & Opinions Tell UsBillhighway
Chapter membership takes on a significant value in an increasingly online world. Members seek face-to-face opportunities to connect, learn, volunteer, and socialize with their peers, mentors, and clients. Once upon a time, chapters were taken for granted, but many association leaders now have questions like.
- How does our chapter program compare to those of other associations?
- What are the standard practices regarding chapter membership, programming, requirements, and metrics?
- What support and services should we be giving chapters? Are other associations making changes to chapters?
- How do we assess the performance and value of our chapters?
- Are chapters still relevant?
In our latest Chapter Benchmarking Report, we explore these questions through industry data that helps associations benchmark their chapter programs against others. Join us for a webinar that fuels the dialogue on what makes an effective chapter—and an effective chapter/association relationship. We’ll share stories on what methods other associations have used to leverage their data, and how they have helped chapters and staff make better decisions.
Pivoting Your Chapter Leadership Conference to VirtualBillhighway
As the world begins to open back up in the coming months, one question will continue to remain on the minds of many chapter leaders–what now? Can they still count on your association to provide the leadership resources they need to continue to bring community and education to members? The future is still uncertain, but what’s clear is that chapters will need to change how they deliver value to members.
While we figure it all out, there is no doubt that this is an excellent opportunity to introduce your chapter leaders to different forms of virtual education. The best way to learn is through experience. Join in as we explore how to turn your chapter leader training to virtual meetings that create engaging connections in unexpected ways.
Brought to you by 2019 CEX Sponsor, Community Brands!
https://www.communitybrands.com/
Drive Chapter Behavior with Targeted BenchmarkingBillhighway
Benchmarking (count and compare) can serve many purposes, but the most important purpose is to define what’s most important! Everyone’s likely heard some variation on the business maxim, “you can’t manage what you don’t measure,” but the corollary consequence, “you tend to manage what’s being measured” is often overlooked. Bottom line, if we want our chapters to help us serve the members and move the mission, we need to benchmark those behaviors that help us achieve that end. In other words, let’s count the things that count…and, oh by the way, all the things that count can’t necessarily be counted!
Benchmarking also implies comparison, and here’s the other important purpose. When we measure and make comparisons on those metrics which are truly important, we can then identify our “bright spots” – the high achievers – and replicate those behaviors across the system. Win-win!!
We talk about what we’re benchmarking (or not) and why. While there’s no guarantee, experience suggests that “if you measure it, they will do it,” so let’s be sure we measure the right stuff.
Chapter Performance & Benchmarking Unwrapped: Creating a Compelling Chapter S...Billhighway
Day 3 Agenda:
- How to build and create a compelling story about the value of your chapters
- How to find bright spots, tell stories, and what tech to use
View the workshop recording: https://youtu.be/XBzt76UwD7w
Members seek face-to-face opportunities to connect, learn, volunteer, and socialize with their peers more than ever. CRPs are looking for ways to activate that member engagement at chapters. Around the country, they’re asking:
- Are associations changing how they manage and relate to their chapters?
- What support and services should we give our chapters?
- How should we evaluate our chapters?
- Are chapters still relevant?
Mariner Management and Billhighway conducted the third Chapter Benchmarking Study to explore these questions and more. We went out to CRPs, CEOs, and Chapter Leaders. The data analysis offers a resource for benchmarking, sharing innovations in chapter management, and starting conversations about the future of chapters. Join us as we unveil the 2022 Association Chapter Performance & Benchmarking Report, and more importantly, look at how you can use it to answer your questions and optimize your chapters! #leveragechapters #gotchapters
Components as Drivers of Recruitment, Retention and EngagementBillhighway
CoSN Director of Membership & Chapters, Dresden Farrand, walks us through how her and her team leveraged their components to see great increases in revenue, member retention, chapter acquisition and more.
On-demand available here: http://bit.ly/2l4rNhs
In this webinar, we'll dive deep into leading and lagging KPIs and their importance in developing effective dashboards to monitor chapter performance.
Powering Up Your Chapter Leaders Succession PlanningBillhighway
On-Demand available here: http://bit.ly/2h3oPNQ
Join Peggy Hoffman from Mariner Management & Marketing LLC for a different take on chapter succession planning. We’re shifting from talking about providing succession plan templates to coaching for success.
The promise of digital analytics is better decision making that drives measurable business impact. Unfortunately, too many organizations are not realizing that promise despite significant effort and investment. Search Discovery's Analytics Benchmark assessment aids you in understanding where your measurement ecosystem is not working and provides you with a roadmap to finally recognize the return on your analytics investment.
Increasing Alumni Engagement for Major and Planned GivingSalesforce.org
Presentation from Salesforce.org Higher Ed Summit 2017 by: Keith Heller of Heller Consulting
The most valuable assets in Advancement are the deep relationships you?ve developed with your most generous supporters. These relationships go well beyond simply writing a check, but they do result in the gifts that allow colleges and universities to expand the reach and impact of their educational missions.
How can you best steward your existing relationships, and identify opportunities to cultivate additional similar relationships? While technology and data can?t do the crucial work of cultivating personal relationships, they can help you work smarter to leverage your time and resources to find and focus on the right people, in an efficient way that ensures you?re making the best use of your time and nothing falls through the cracks.
Using Salesforce.com to support your Major Giving, Planned Giving and Campaign initiatives can help you simultaneously expand and deeply personalize your relationships with your key supporters and influencers.
This is not your everyday data talk.
Through working deep inside the fastest growing SaaS startups in our space, we’ve studied the patterns, methods, and models for driving outsized results. The one common thread? How they use their data.
(How else would you grow from one marketer through to a $60M+ Series B just 12 months later?)
How do they make their data accessible, draw the right insights, set effective goals, prioritise and optimise processes, and automate ALL the (right) things.
So brace yourselves: we’re going to be navigating through AI, automation, “moving the needle”, and a minefield of other buzzwords to try to make sense of using your data for growth. But you’ll leave this talk with a simple framework and set of questions you can take and use right away.
This is not your everyday data talk.
Through working deep inside the fastest growing SaaS startups in our space, we’ve studied the patterns, methods, and models for driving outsized results. The one common thread? How they use their data.
(How else would you grow from one marketer through to a $60M+ Series B just 12 months later?)
How do they make their data accessible, draw the right insights, set effective goals, prioritise and optimise processes, and automate ALL the (right) things.
So brace yourselves: we’re going to be navigating through AI, automation, “moving the needle”, and a minefield of other buzzwords to try to make sense of using your data for growth. But you’ll leave this talk with a simple framework and set of questions you can take and use right away.
The Association Component Exchange (CEX) is the only conference designed exclusively for component relations professionals (CRPs).
It's no secret that there's currently a gap in education for associations that operate in a component model. So Billhighway and Mariner Management came together to build a community and connect component-based organizations and component relations professionals (CRPs). This manifested itself in CEX. CEX is a learning community where you get together with peers to share your successes, struggles, strategies, tactics, ideas, and insights.
Developing Metrics for Financial Shared Services: Best Practices, Tips and T...Jeff Zwier
One of the most difficult tasks shared services managers face is measuring and demonstrating value returned to their
organizations. How can you capture your value in terms that are quantifiable, meaningful to your senior management and
useful as performance and analytical tools by your service leadership team? In this presentation, Jeff Zwier shares some of the tips, best practices and pitfalls he has
learned while developing performance and analytical metrics for shared services operating within a global financial services team, including
• Designing metrics that encourage the right responses from senior management
• Types of metrics and when to use each
• Principles of basic performance dashboard design
• Determining the right level of analysis to support performance management and demonstrate cost savings
The Connected Nonprofit: Fundraising with NGO ConnectHeller Consulting
Alliance to Save Energy (ASE) is one of the earliest organizations to be up and running on NGO Connect on the Salesforce1 for Nonprofits platform. Join Joseph Jagassar from ASE, Keith Heller and roundCorner founder Nick Ward to discuss why they chose NGO Connect and how they are using it to develop and execute strategic fundraising campaigns.
Your organization deals with many challenges presented by internal and external accountability demands. You are always looking for ways to improve operations, to anticipate and be more responsive to competitive pressures, and to define meaningful performance goals that render your work concrete in stakeholders’ eyes. Creating a dashboard or scorecard can help. A dashboard can be an excellent tool for focusing board and CEO attention on what matters most. It can help overcome asymmetry between the precision of financial and mission measures. This lesson, developed by National Arts Strategies in partnership with Peter Frumkin, Ph.D., can be used to help you build a scorecard or dashboard for your organization.
Is it time to change your chapter structure? According to our Chapter Performance & Benchmarking Report, 1/3 of associations have made substantial chapter structure changes, while 1/3 are considering implementing changes.
We understand that change can be daunting. That’s why we’ll share various approaches, from small incremental adjustments to bold, transformative measures. Join us for an insightful webinar as we explore ways to adapt your chapters to meet the evolving needs of your members!
This webinar is hosted by Billhighway & Mariner Management.
Finding Meaning in the Numbers: Making Data-Informed Decisions Across Your Or...TechSoup Canada
Does your nonprofit track vital data -- but lack the time and resources to make sense of it? Don't worry! TechSoup Canada is here to help make your data work for you.
Join us to learn how to create a reasonable and manageable data strategy, and how to foster a culture of data-informed decision making across your entire organization.
In this webinar, you will learn how to:
-harness the potential of business intelligence and Big Data
-create and implement an integrated data strategy
-overcome institutional resistance and foster a culture of data-informed decision making
-use dashboards to gain insight into a variety of data sources
We need to create a shared understanding of what problems we are trying to solve, what strategic choices we are trying to make, and what questions we are trying to answer before we can choose what tools, frameworks, and methods are more practical to facilitate the discussions required to answer these questions.
CRM Options for Enterprise Nonprofits - Blackbaud CRM SolutionsHeller Consulting
Watch the webinar here:
http://teamheller.com/webinar-blackbaud-crm-options/
For over 30 years, Blackbaud’s CRM solutions have helped nonprofit organizations raise more money and build lifelong support with their constituents. If fact, with over 28,000 active clients, Blackbaud is a household name, with few in the nonprofit industry who haven’t worked with one or more of their products. In this presentation, nonprofit experts from Blackbaud will join Heller Consulting in a free webinar to share their solutions designed to power social good.
This is our third webinar in the “CRM Options for Enterprise Nonprofits” series. In this session, the Blackbaud team will outline the unique features and outcomes capabilities of their suite of CRM, engagement, fundraising tools.
Keith Heller, founder and Chief Strategist of Heller Consulting, will also share insights on CRM best practices for enterprise nonprofits based on his 20 years of advising and leading organizations on their CRM journey.
Office 365 provides an incredible amount of value to individual employees, teams, departments, and organizations. Much of this value is not realized immediately upon purchase or deployment of Office 365. The value is realized as more and more users understand, adopt and embrace the technology.
So how do we drive faster, sustainable and effective adoption? And perhaps more importantly, how do we ensure our adoption approach scales and can keep up with the innovation the Office 365 service provides?
Join Richard Harbridge as he shares real world experience, advice and activities that other customers are leveraging to get more from Office 365 and drive more meaningful adoption.
Measure Your Organization’s Impact with Performance Management with Josie All...Blackbaud Pacific
In this webinar Josie Alleman, Strategic Initiatives Consultant at Social Solutions discusses how to discover the impact of your programs with performance management techniques and tools.
To view the recording please visit: https://www.blackbaud.com.au/notforprofit-events/webinars/past
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Revenue Revamp: 5 Game-Changing Fixes Help Chapters Increase Non-Dues Revenue...Billhighway
As an association exec, you’d love for 2024 to be a year of strong non-dues revenue growth – for you and your chapters. If sponsors, exhibitors, and advertisers believe your chapters can positively impact their bottom lines, chapters will convert more customers with less effort.
But most chapters (and some associations) inadvertently turn off those buyers because of website navigation, collateral, and messaging that leaves prospects confused and unconvinced. How can we help our chapters?
This fun session will outline simple changes that will help chapters to attract and convert sponsors, exhibitors, and advertisers efficiently and effectively including:
- How to quickly create a compelling case to invest money with your association
- Which stats and stories provide the most effective social proof of your value
- What information buyers need at various stages of their buying journey
We're diving into simple, game-changing fixes to help your chapters skyrocket their non-dues revenue. Think attracting sponsors, exhibitors, and advertisers like a pro!
Communication lies at the heart of every successful association, driving growth, engagement, and impact in today’s fast-paced world. For chapters, communicating effectively is paramount to their strength and success. Are you ready to take your chapter communications to new heights?
Drive Member Engagement through Revitalized Chapter EventsBillhighway
Are your chapter events struggling to capture member interest? Do you face challenges in creating impactful experiences that resonate and keep members coming back? Join us for an engaging webinar as we delve into the art of planning chapter events that drive participation and cultivate a thriving community.
This webinar is hosted by Billhighway & Mariner Management.
6 Habits to Build in Your Components (& for CRPs!)Billhighway
As James Clear states, “You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.” When systems become outdated and ineffective, chapters fall into bad habits that inhibit their growth and endanger their future.
Join us to learn how to coach and support your chapters as they develop better habits. We share strategies to make small, sustainable changes.
Watch the webinar recording here >> https://youtu.be/A2dmqdT2r4U
This webinar is hosted by Billhighway & Mariner Management.
The 5 Most Important Metrics for Your ComponentsBillhighway
Are you ready to make your components more successful this year? Then, join us for this exclusive webinar to help your chapters build better habits and measure five essential metrics. We cover what you should monitor to stay ahead of the game.
11 Ways to Help Chapters Avoid (Or handle) a CrisisBillhighway
Sit back and enjoy this webinar where we decode crises we see (and feel) in chapters. We cover all kinds of troublesome scenarios, from chapter financial mismanagement, fraud, and cybersecurity attacks to AWOL or unprepared chapter officers and everything in between.
Your association’s approach to chapter crisis management and prevention depends entirely on your relationship with your components – in terms of both structure (subsidiary or independent) and your connection. While this webinar assumes chapters are subsidiaries, a situation that brings more risk to National and supposedly provides more control. Even if your components are independent, you (and your chapters) will benefit from this advice. Join us for some tips and best practices to help handle (or hopefully avoid) your next chapter crisis!
20 Things You Can Do For Your Chapters in 2023Billhighway
2022 was a big year for moving forward with “the new normal,” but are you ready to take your chapters to the next level in 2023? How will you make your volunteers’ lives easier? What tools can you use to better support chapter leaders?
In case you didn’t hear, Mariner Management turned 20 in January! As a celebration of this accomplishment and in honor of Billhighway’s 23rd year of service to component-based organizations, we’ve gathered our favorite “Top 20” tips we’d love to share.
Join us to learn:
→ Our top 20 resources, tools, and tips for CRPs
→ How to support your chapters now so they can plan for the future
→ Bring your questions for an “Ask Me Anything” chat with Peggy Hoffman
This free webinar will provide ideas you can start implementing immediately.
Can You Hear Me? Effective Practices in Communicating with Chapter LeadersBillhighway
Good old-fashioned communication is one of the best ways to build successful relationships with your chapters. Communication is a two-way street, but not everyone communicates in the same way.
Have you ever been frustrated by the lack of transparency between you and your chapters? Or felt like your communication revolved around administrative asks instead of resources and advice? Maybe it’s time to Mari Kondo your chapter communications.
Peggy Hoffman from Mariner Management — with help from some super communicator CRPs —shares advice and examples on creating effective chapter communication practices.
Speakers:
- Peggy Hoffman, Mariner Management
- Michele Champion, California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)
- Jennifer Steffan, National Institute of Governmental Purchasing (NIGP)
- Wesley Carr, American Inns of Court
Hosted by Billhighway & Mariner Management.
Idea Swap: Helping Chapters Embrace ChangeBillhighway
We need chapter leaders to make changes. It could be huge like shifting structures, medium like embracing new volunteer models, support services, affiliate agreements, or easy like changing your schedule. Resistance to change is natural. Anytime you introduce a new process or technology, you have to think about change management from the very start. Unfortunately, we underestimate how our leader training can support us in leading that change. This idea swap will explore how we can use our current and future training opportunities to help chapters embrace change.
Hosted by Billhighway & Mariner Management.
The Webinar You Need to Get Your Leaders On Board with New TechBillhighway
When you discover a new tech tool, do you sign right up? Sit back and wait? Shake your head?
More than 130,000 new apps hit mobile platforms every month, and thousands of new startups target us with ads…all promising to be the best tech you’ve ever used. And the subconscious way you approach new tech can greatly impact the way you can leverage today’s biggest advancements.
Join Beth Z, Your Nerdy Best Friend, to discover your Technology Psychology. You’ll take a self-assessment to find out your Technology Psychology Persona to help you understand the benefits and limitations of your approach to new technology. You’ll also see the new tech world from other perspectives so you can understand why it’s so tough to get everyone on the same digital page when it comes to tech solutions.
JOIN BETH Z’S BRAND-NEW PROGRAM TO…
- Identify how you subconsciously approach new technology
- Gain insight into other views of technology to find common ground to be more productive
- Discover techniques that make new technology work better for you, no matter your Technology Psychology
- Leave with new tech tool ideas that you can use right away!
MEET YOUR NEW NERDY BEST FRIEND…
Beth Ziesenis: Author. Speaker. Nerd.
Since her first Motorola RAZR flip phone, Beth has made a verb out of the word “nerd.” She’s here to help you filter through thousands of apps, gadgets, widgets and doodads to find the perfect free and bargain technology tools for work and home. Although the only real trophy she ever won was for making perfect French fries at McDonald’s in high school, Beth Z has been featured on Best Speaker lists by several organizations that write best speaker lists. She has written a whole shelf of books on apps and has spoken to more than 100 thousand audience members just like you. And if you’re puzzling over why she goes by “Beth Z”… it’s because she only finds about three people a year who can pronounce her last name.
Hosted by Billhighway, Mariner Management & Your Nerdy Best Friend
Idea Swap: Ways to Celebrate & Appreciate Our VolunteersBillhighway
Don’t let National Volunteer Week (#NVW) sneak up on you! National Volunteer Week is April 17th through April 23rd. So go ahead and mark your calendars now! It’s an opportunity to shine a light on the people who tirelessly serve our associations. Volunteers represent a large portion of our organizations and keep our chapters thriving, making them critical to our ability to meet member needs and move our missions. We’d be lost without them.
The question is, how do we authentically reward, recognize and support our chapter volunteers? To celebrate, we’ve compiled our favorite ways to show appreciation now or at any time of the year. In reality, we don’t need a month or week designated to thank our volunteers; instead, we should be showing our appreciation all year long. So join us for an idea swap with your CRP peers chocked full of ideas and inspiration to show your volunteers some love.
Hosted by Billhighway & Mariner Management.
Sending CRPs Some Love: Our Best Chapter ResourcesBillhighway
February is the month of love! And you know who we love most? CRPs! CRPs make a difference every day by helping their association and chapters solve the challenges in front of them. But where do CRPs turn for help? Your community of course…and Billhighway & Mariner!
We’re floored by the range of issues that component relations professionals (CRPs) address daily, so we want to help you manage stressful chapter situations and give you strategies to circumvent them.
In this webinar, we:
1. Address challenges that are unique to CRPs, from chapter succession issues to monitoring component performance, and everything in-between
2. Provide different approaches to solving these tough chapter issues
3. Highlight our favorite resources, best practices, and tips & tricks
We have many resources for your moment of need, so let’s use them to look ahead and move the needle in 2022.
This webinar was brought to you by Billhighway & Mariner Management.
Chapter Performance & Benchmarking Unwrapped: How Associations View ChaptersBillhighway
Day 1 Agenda:
- Overview of how associations view chapters from 3-levels: CRP (operations); CEO (strategy); Chapter Leader (volunteer experience on the ground)
- The findings of the 2022 Chapter Performance and Benchmarking Study
- Share how your association can use the data and findings
View the workshop recording: https://youtu.be/Mh3uxdlf3vs
Members seek face-to-face opportunities to connect, learn, volunteer, and socialize with their peers more than ever. CRPs are looking for ways to activate that member engagement at chapters. Around the country, they’re asking:
- Are associations changing how they manage and relate to their chapters?
- What support and services should we give our chapters?
- How should we evaluate our chapters?
- Are chapters still relevant?
Mariner Management and Billhighway conducted the third Chapter Benchmarking Study to explore these questions and more. We went out to CRPs, CEOs, and Chapter Leaders. The data analysis offers a resource for benchmarking, sharing innovations in chapter management, and starting conversations about the future of chapters. Join us as we unveil the 2022 Association Chapter Performance & Benchmarking Report, and more importantly, look at how you can use it to answer your questions and optimize your chapters! #leveragechapters #gotchapters
Virtual Idea Swap: Coaching Chapter Leaders for SuccessBillhighway
What would we do without chapter volunteers? They’re our everything! Year after year, volunteers step up, take on chapter leadership roles, then step aside for the next set of leaders. So how do we ensure our volunteers have what they need to contribute? How can we inspire them?
In this chapter virtual idea swap—Coaching Chapter Leaders for Success—you'll be able to collaborate with your CRP peers on essential coaching skills aimed at attracting and motivating volunteer leaders.
Billhighway: A Solution for Better Chapter Performance Billhighway
Do you ever wonder if there are ways you can help your chapters be more effective? Chapter leaders are typically not association management experts. They’re not financial whizzes, compliance professionals, database managers, technologists, or website administrators. The responsibilities of managing a chapter take many of them far outside their comfort zone and can limit their effectiveness in serving members.
The good news is you and your chapter leaders don’t have to put up with this frustrating situation. The solution is out there, but you might not know about it yet. Everyone’s familiar with AMS, LMS, event registration platforms, and other tools used for chapter management. But do you know that Billhighway unifies all that functionality into one solution that helps to significantly improve chapter performance, increase member retention, and grow revenue? Join us to learn more about how you can dramatically increase the performance of your chapters and why your chapter leaders and Executive Director will love you for it.
We traditionally focus on resources, tools, and insights that help you and your chapters without being a commercial for Billhighway. This webinar is different, so we want to be upfront about it. In times like these, associations need Billhighway more than ever. So we’re breaking with tradition and focusing this webinar on demonstrating how the Billhighway solution can help component-based associations solve the unique challenges of our current times.
Prepping for 2022: Chapter Virtual Idea SwapBillhighway
With 2021 winding down, what’s ahead for chapters? COVID will still be “a thing” and, for some, budgets will still be in flux. We can expect there will be challenges and new opportunities galore. So we put our collective heads together to think positively and proactively about 2022. We offered some tips based on 2021 and collaborated on how to prepare for next year. Participants shared lessons learned, ideas tried and solutions found.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
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UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
2. Got chapters? We’ve got solutions. Billhighway gives your
chapters the tools to automate and simplify operations while
creating data visibility across your entire organization. This
empowers you and your chapters to focus more on member
value and grow your association.
About Hosts
Billhighway & Mariner
Mariner Management & Marketing is your partner in helping
association volunteers and staff create the greatest possible
value for your members and in ensuring the long term
health and growth of your association.
3. Our Shared Purpose
To build community and connect
component-based organizations and
component relations professionals (CRPs).
4. In the chat, tell us what you need
to get out of this conversation…
what brings you here?
5. What &
Why of
Dashboards
How to Use
Dashboards
Making
Dashboards
Useable
Checklist
01 02 03 04
Today’s Conversation…
12. Informational: look for trends to
help hone support they provide
Correctional: Use it to help
chapters improve; give each chapter
a report
Motivational: tied to this year tied to
popular subsidy program
CFMA Example
16. “ Perfection is
achieved, not when
there is nothing more
to add, but when
there is nothing left
to take away.”
Antoine de Saint-Exuper
17. Share aggregate data by chapter size;
median and standard deviation
Honed in on 5 areas
1. Engaged membership
2. Local participation
3. Engaged leadership
4. Brand recognition
5. Recruitment
SIOR Example
18. Task Force
SIOR started with a
task force to aggregate
data
Lessons to Share
01
Feedback
SIOR received
feedback from
members on what they
value (priorities)
02
Ask
SIOR benchmarked
against all chapters vs
against a constant
03
19. Keeps your eyes on the
road: focuses attention on
where we’re going
Show goals & progress:
consider Celebrate, Monitor,
Act Now
Tells a story: provides
context, color and meaning
Making It Useable: Design
20. • Easy to aggregate data, draw trends, share results
• Easy for volunteers to submit: CFMA online form
Making It Useable: Management
21. • What are the strategic goals for
your components?
• What are the strategic goal(s)
for your dashboard
Who are your audiences?
What are the performance goals?
Visual priorities?
Remedies/solutions?
Refresh frequency
Views (by component, by
function, be area, by…)
Design
Building Your
Dashboard: A
Checklist
24. October 18th
Friday, October 18th, 2019
7:30 AM - 4:30 PM EDT
Happy Hour to Follow
Grand Hyatt
Washington
1000 H St. NW
Washington, DC 20001
$199 Pricing
$199 Early Bird Pricing
$249 Sleep Bird Pricing
www.leveragechapters.com
Key Points: Not about choosing the KPIs or metric (see ROI), but about collecting & sharing
Poll Question #1
What best describes where you are in the process?
I have a visual dashboard & willing to share
I have the data & report it, but not in a visual dashboard
I wish I had the data because I would report it
A dashboard is a visual display of the most important information needed to achieve one or more objectives, consolidated and arranged on a single screen so the information can be monitored at a glance. Stephen Few is the Principal of Perceptual Edge.
Power of having data you can use: id oppty, inform decisions, detect threats, drive behavior
Audience
To whom are we talking? Attention Span is SHORT! Needs are DIFFERENT!
National Staff
Chapter Staff
Volunteers
How Will They Use?
Informational – support decision-making
Motivational – drive behavior
Correctional – keep on track (alerts)
Poll #2
Regardless of the audience, what is your primary motivation for doing this?
Informational – support decision-making
Motivational – drive behavior
Correctional – keep on track (alerts)
Audience
To whom are we talking? Attention Span is SHORT! Needs are DIFFERENT!
National Staff
Chapter Staff
Volunteers
How Will They Use?
Informational – support decision-making
Motivational – drive behavior
Correctional – keep on track (alerts)
Example CFMA
Informational – look for trends so help hone support they provide, e.g. noticed many don’t have coordinated membership campaign, so will create tool kit in that
Correctional – Use it to help chapters improve; give each chapter a report
Put internally in categories: critical, medium, compliant (aka healthy)
Motivational – tied to this year tied to popular subsidy program: The STAR Program provides a subsidy $3,000/chapter; has to be used for specific purpose
We’re not going into detail on this – just mentioning.
Data Sources - What are we measuring?
Key Performance Indicators: Begin with connecting to the organization’s strategic goals
Membership – Recruitment/Renewal/Engagement
Financial – Income/Expense
Activity – Posts/Registrations/Volunteering/Donations/…
Perceptions – Satisfaction/Net Promoter Score/Ratings/Comments
Alignment – working in alignment with national
Poll #3
Which of these would you most like to benchmark in a dashboard?
Membership – Recruitment/Renewal/Engagement
Financial – Income/Expense
Activity – Posts/Registrations/Volunteering/Donations/…
Perceptions – Satisfaction/Net Promoter Score/Ratings/Comments
Alignment – working in alignment with national
Are These The Right Key Performance Indicators (Valid, Reliable, Appropriate)?
Actionable – Do I have any control over this outcome?
Common Interpretation – Does my “10” = your “10”?
Accessible/Credible – Is the data available with modest from trustworthy source?
Transparent/Simple Calculation – Does everyone understand how it was generated?
SIOR
Honed into 5 areas:
ENGAGED MEMBERSHIP
Chapter Participation (Unique members)
Volunteers
World Conferences (Unique members)
SIOR Foundation donors
MySIOR posts
Transactions reports
LOCAL PARTICIPATION
Event attendance (Unique members)
Event attendance (Cumulative)
Regional conference attendance
ENGAGED LEADERSHIP
Meetings/events frequency (Monthly)
Communications frequency (Monthly)
CLC Meetings attendance
BRAND RECOGNITION
Sponsorship revenue ratio
Prospects ratio
RECRUITMENT
Member growth (Gross)
Young professionals growth
Pull from a variety of data sources – HL info, registration nationally, membership data, registration lists from chapters, reports from chapters re volunteer lists, budget info
Still in Excel – but storing all data collected in DB with future intent of creating solutions in tableau
Report for national (detail) and chapters; We’ve shared back in aggregate by chapter size. Median and standard deviation.
Insight to CRP’s:
Started with a TF – came up with 20 potential things; narrowed down to critical ones
Important to get feedback from members on what they value – to discover what are the priority points
the organization/person working on this should determine what the metric they want the chapter benchmarked against is, whether that is all other chapters (within a certain category or not) or some constant (the communications question or an organization compliance requirement).
SIOR
Insight to CRP’s:
Started with a TF – came up with 20 potential things; narrowed down to critical ones
Important to get feedback from members on what they value – to discover what are the priority points
the organization/person working on this should determine what the metric they want the chapter benchmarked against is, whether that is all other chapters (within a certain category or not) or some constant (the communications question or an organization compliance requirement).
Design Attributes – What does it look like?
Keeps Your Eyes on the Road – Focuses attention on where we’re going.
Tells a Story – Provides context, color and meaning.
Show goal and progress – consider Celebrate, Monitor, Act Now
Making it Usable
Easy to aggregate data, draw trends, share results
Easy for volunteers to submit: e,g, CFMA online form - http://www.cfma.org/chapter/content.cfm?ItemNumber=1956
Building Your Dashboard
What are the strategic goals for your components? Clearly articulate how your components advance the mission of the association.
What are the strategic goal(s) for your dashboard? Determine the specific behaviors and outcomes you want the dashboard to drive.
Design
Who are your audiences? Identify who will use the dashboard and how they will use it.
What are the performance goals?
What do you measure?
What are the data sources?
Are they actionable?
What are/how did you establish visual priorities?
Are remedies/solutions to under-performance included?
What is the refresh frequency (real time, hourly, daily, weekly, …)
What are the views (by component, by function, by area, by time, …)