On November 5, 2013, I did a 30-minute webinar with Matrix Group International on “Mining Your Association Management Software for Business Intelligence.” Matrix Group has been kind enough to make the recording of that webinar available for free on their website. Click here to view the recording.
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On Tuesday, September 24, I’ll be having a conversation with Dan Kasprow, CTO of ACGI Software, on growing non-dues revenue. This is a free webinar hosted by ACGI Software. Click here to learn more and to register. Hope to “see” you there.
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Nice blog post from ASAE today on the future of the AMS space for associations. Click here to read.
Abila, formerly Sage Nonprofit Solutions, which focuses on nonprofit organizations and government agencies, has acquired Avectra, one of the major AMS providers to the association market. Click here to read the press release from Abila. As I wrote last year about the YourMembership acquisition of Affiniscape, I’m generally skeptical of these kinds of deals. I find
I recount below a conversation I had recently with Mark Sedegly, CEO of MemberClicks: Wes: “Mark, do you offer any kind of ‘optimization services’ for your clients, to help them get better use from your AMS?” Mark: “Yes, we do, and it’s free.” Wes: “Free? Why would you offer it for free?” Mark: “Because it’s
I reported recently on the merger of YourMembership and Affiniscape. The new company name is YourMembership, and not surprisingly, YourMembership has announced that all Affiniscape customers will be moved to the YourMembership platform. You can learn all the details here. There’s also an interesting open letter from Rick Rutherford, co-founder of Affiniscape, that you can read
I just received an email from Bill Stover, CEO & President of YourMembership, announcing the merger of YourMembership and Affiniscape. According to the press release, the combined companies now serve over 2,300 organizations in 32 countries around the world. This would make them one of the very largest AMS providers, in terms of number of
I recently received the monthly newsletter from Matrix Group, one of the many vendors on my list of AMS vendors. In the newsletter, Matrix’s CEO, Joanna Pineda, outlined how Matrix had hosted a “town hall meeting” with their customers, in order to outline new enhancements to the product, as well as to solicit feedback from
I had the opportunity to get a sneak-peak at iMIS 20, which ASI is releasing on December 6, 2012, at the ASAE Technology Conference, and will be available to customers for deployment in January 2013. While this release, by ASI’s suggestion, is more evolution then revolution, it is a repositioning of iMIS as not just
You’d have to be under a rock not be familiar with the phrase “member engagement.” A google search on the phrase returns over 300,000 hits. Count me as one who believes member engagement, is, in fact, critically important. But what is it? I especially like David Gammel’s definition: Member engagement is the result of a