Resources & Tools
.orgCommunity’s resources are designed to help associations and their leaders innovate, grow and engage current and new constituents. We’ve gathered the latest thinking, data and analytics to inspire and inform. Download best practice research, benchmarking data, training materials, whitepapers, toolkits, examples, templates and more.
LATEST WHITEPAPER
As technology redesigns business, business continues to drive digital innovation at warp speed. Multiple modules, confusing tables, and redundant fields challenged users and created output that could be inaccurate, unhelpful, and complicated to produce.
If you are still investing more energy in running your system than serving your constituents, it’s time to look at how technology has evolved.
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Books
Research
Achieving Organizational Transformation
Association executives—and hopefully their boards—know that they are facing perilous times. Driven by the pace of cultural and technological change, they are experiencing major disruptions in the traditional business models that used to guide organizational growth strategies.
The pandemic gets credit for turning a spotlight on digital competence. But in the association world, that beam was narrowly focused. To survive the disruption, organizations upped their virtual game. Yet, most groups are still not taking advantage of another powerful digital resource: data.
Scenario Planning March 2020
.orgSource offers a straightforward approach to navigating unexpected changes and readying your organization for growth.
Guide to Virtual Conferences
This 12-page guide is designed to be a starting point and a resource for helping your team think strategically about building and executing a successful virtual conference.
Knowledge Center
.orgCommunity's newest industry resource
Here you will find an entirely FREE library of downloadable educational content ranging from association management white papers, topic-specific webinars, industry product guides, industry analysis and much more.
Consider this your one-stop shop when looking for current topics you need to learn about that are influencing our entire industry.
Be sure to check back often as .orgCommunity continues to add resources to this page going forward.
Think Tank Resources
Periodically, .orgCommunity brings together a group of VIP thought-leaders to brainstorm effective strategies to solve problems associations face. After the sessions we put together output for the .orgCommunity.
- Digital-Survey-Report-July-
2016 - Think Tank Strategic Planning Series
- Association-4.0-Think-Tank-
Meeting-Backgrounder-from-Nov- 2016 - Association-4.0-Think-Tank-
Meeting-November-17-2016 - Association-4.0-Think-Tank-
Output-from-Aug-2016 - Association-4.0-ThinkTank-
Meeting-August-30-2016 - Future Factors Survey Report Jan 2017
- Digital-Technology-Survey-
Report_July-2016
Tool Kits
Content Strategy Toolkit
Understand the guiding principles of a designing and implementing a successful content strategy.
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We’re working on more toolkits. If there is a kit you would like to see, email us to request a topic.
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