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
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.
Whether your goal is to identify key sponsors, recruit the next generation of members, or just get home for dinner with the family, the right AMS will help you and your team find extra hours and succeed at the speed of business.
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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.
The Digital Mindset: Learn From the Past, Challenge Assumptions, Lean into the Future
Before 2019, many organizations were not considering a digital transformation. Post-pandemic, there is almost universal agreement that up-to-date digital platforms are a critical component of doing business. On the other hand, some leaders are still unconvinced that success depends on changes that reach far beyond systems.
Continuing to rely on prior patterns of member engagement, employer-based dues payments and annual meeting revenue will doom an association to failure. Instead, the current environment calls for reexamining characteristics of excellence and adopting new business models to embrace the realities of Association 4.0™—a force as powerful as the industrial revolution—but this time driven by technology.
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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