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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. Integrated planning gives departments, like membership and marketing, a format for collaboration on agendas and goals. This collaboration improves customer service, events, and user-friendliness across platforms and has a significant impact on member satisfaction.

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. Integrate Strategy There are plenty of incentives for collaboration. Integrated planning gives departments, like membership and marketing, a format for collaboration on agendas and goals. Make successful collaboration part of performance standards.

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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

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When the Public Health Department was looking at how to reopen safely, they had a sounding board, and we were able to collaborate to develop successful solutions. On the other hand, in Madison, where we didn’t have a Kitchen Cabinet, collaboration on reopening was much more challenging. You already have plenty of acquaintances.

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Collaborative Grantmaking: Rethinking How to Assess Impact

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While these statements provide an organized promise of future success, each element is rife with uncertainty and assumptions while the whole process is embedded in complex systems, dynamics, and interactions. Move Past Promises to Deliver Collaborative Impact. All of which combine to make impact difficult to measure and explain.

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Get More Out of AI, Start Chatting

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Create a personalized chatbot to interact with members, answer questions, and offer customized recommendations. Develop an interactive onboarding chatbot to help new members navigate the offerings. A tech staff, with some time on their hands, could have an out-of-the-box AI interacting with your members fairly quickly.

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Lessons Learned Living the Virtual Experiment

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We learned the importance of technology for communication and collaboration. Groups that developed a structure and schedule for online meetings managed their time and effort more efficiently. Speakers are called on to deliberately choose words that accurately convey the meaning and the purpose of the interaction.

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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

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The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? What is Collaborative Overload? While there are many positive aspects to increased collaboration, there is also downside.