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7 steps to advance your volunteer program with your online member community

Nimble AMS

Have a staff member ready to moderate discussion and promote the start of new conversations. Consider using your online member community to conduct volunteer training sessions either by facilitating virtual discussions or by creating online videos where members can watch and react.

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Three Data-Informed Strategies for Better Member Engagement

Association Analytics

On the flip side of the Double Down strategy, IAEE was also able to identify activities and projects the team was spending time on that didn’t offer much return on investment. The team likes to take advantage of every opportunity to ask members questions, from polls, to website forms, and longer annual surveys conducted through Survey Monkey.

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

.orgSource

All of the association’s activities and initiatives are grounded in the ideals that are outlined below. Images of the association’s founders, history, and current activities are displayed throughout the facility, and spaces were created to accommodate a variety of work styles. Working on culture isn’t a finite activity.

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Top 21 Virtual Event Ideas for Your Next Online Event

AccelEvents

Polls and Q&As. Polls and Q&As are not new virtual event ideas but they are highly effective for getting the audience to think about the content presented. of virtual event organizers use polls to increase interactions. Polls and Q&A force attendees to pay attention to each session. . Mindfulness Activities.

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How I learned to stop yawning and love the Zoom Room

Candid

Launch a poll, ask for feedback, switch speakers, turn off the slides. Instead, ask them to choose a breakout room with a specific purpose; have staff in the breakout rooms to guide discussion; or simply skip the breakout rooms in favor of another activity like working on a group document in real time, or having a popcorn share. .

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Guest Post: Maintaining a connection with pandemic-inactive volunteers

Twenty Hats

I make a point of varying the format , sometimes using polls or breakout rooms for smaller group discussion and brainstorming. Interestingly, a follow up poll gave the event relatively low marks. Interestingly, I polled 65 volunteers at our January 2021 Zoom meeting, about how they prefer being appreciated by staff.

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7 Ways to Boost the Member Experience for Small Nonprofits

Get Fully Funded

Instead of passively consuming content, interactive content lets members actively engage with your resources. Some popular interactive content that you can make for members include: Quizzes and polls: From fun quizzes to feedback polls, you can learn your members’ preferences and use that info for further personalizing your interactions.