From Constraint to Opportunity: Leveraging Video for Business Growth With Minimal Resources
2024-09-26 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | https://usteducation.org/event/from-constraint-to-opportunity-leveraging-video-for-business-growth-with-minimal-resources-2/
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course delves into the transformative landscape of video marketing for businesses, focusing on the evolution of video production and its impact on engaging modern consumers. Participants will explore the changing dynamics of buyer behavior towards video content and how businesses can adapt to these shifts by creating more accessible and efficient video strategies.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Analyze the changing trends in consumer behavior towards video content and evaluate their implications for business strategies.
Differentiate key video types crucial for B2B growth, including product demos, customer testimonials, and explainer videos, and assess their significance in driving engagement and conversions.
Develop strategies to produce compelling video content efficiently, optimizing impact while effectively managing resources such as time and budget constraints.

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VisionCorps’ Journey: Migrating to an Accessible ERP System
2024-09-25 13:00 - 14:00 | https://usteducation.org/event/visioncorps-journey-migrating-to-an-accessible-erp-system/
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This session dives into the overlooked challenges faced by individuals with low vision when using ERP systems. We will provide an overview of the challenges faced by low vision computer users and the journey that VisionCorps took when making the decision to migrate from Dynamics GP to Dynamics 365 Business Central. Alongside demonstrations of assistive technologies such as screen readers and magnifiers, we will see how the move to a modern ERP system has provided positive outcomes for users. Join us to learn how accessibility can empower organizations to thrive and what work still needs to be done.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
– Analyze the Challenges Faced by Individuals with Low Vision in ERP Systems: Participants will be able to analyze the challenges and barriers individuals with low vision encounter when accessing and using modern ERP systems.
– Develop Strategies for Enhancing ERP Accessibility: Attendees will be able to develop and evaluate strategies and solutions for improving accessibility within ERP platforms, including practical applications of assistive technologies and customization options.
– Assess the Outcomes of Accessibility Solutions in ERP Systems: Participants will be able to assess the effectiveness of implemented accessibility solutions in ERP systems and identify areas where further improvements are needed.

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How Open Access Will Affect Your Journal Strategy and Revenue
2024-09-24 13:00 - 14:00 | https://usteducation.org/event/how-open-access-will-affect-your-journal-strategy-and-revenue/
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
In August 2022, the White House issued a directive that all US taxpayer-funded research must be publicly available by December 31, 2025. For many associations, members consider access to the association journals to be one of the top benefits of membership. In addition, many organizations derive a significant portion of their revenue from journal licensing royalties and subscription fees.
Who is affected by this directive? What does this mean for organizations that have a journal featuring research that is taxpayer-funded? What does this mean for organizations that generate non-dues revenue from their journals?
Learn from experienced association executives who have journals where the research that is featured is publicly funded. Hear how their journal strategy is changing as a result of the White House directive and what models they are exploring to support researchers and to continue generating non-dues revenue from their journals.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Analyze the White House directive on open access, including what it is, who is affected, how it impacts associations, and the timeline for implementation.
Investigate the new business models associations are exploring for life post-open access.
Examine the processes organizations use to develop new member benefits and generate non-dues revenue.

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Associations - Educating Your Membership on How to Increase the Value of Your Business
2024-09-12 11:00 - 12:00 | https://zoom.us/j/95155704438
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
After successfully helping 2 founders position their businesses for successful exits, including a sale to Berkshire Hathaway, Eric Krucke now leads the Business Transitions Practice at Aprio (national business advisory firm). Eric helps founders & family-owned companies build businesses they can sell. The truth is that “a great business to sell, is also a great business to keep”.
Associations will walk away with market insights & a proven approach to educating your membership on how to increase the value of their business.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Identify and Analyze the Top 3 Business and Founder Risks: Participants will be able to identify and analyze the top three business and founder risks that commonly lead to business failures.

Apply a Proven Playbook to Increase Business Value: Attendees will be able to apply a proven playbook designed to enhance the value of any business.

Evaluate Market Perceptions of Business Valuation: Participants will be able to evaluate how the market perceives business valuation and develop strategies to close the gap between seller and buyer perceptions.

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Maximize Your Investment and Post-event Potential - Turning Your Content Into Revenue Streams and Member Value
2024-09-10 13:00 - 14:00 | https://zoom.us/j/94052549302
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Associations spend significant resources on annual events to engage members and generate non-dues revenue. Your events are a goldmine for content and sponsorship opportunities, and by incorporating a digital strategy, associations can maximize their investment.
Creating content can be costly and time-consuming for associations. However, neglecting to provide educational and inspirational content can be risky and lead to declining membership and dwindling revenue.
With proper planning, including identifying early on what to capture, your annual conference can fill your content calendar while generating non-dues revenue to fund your content throughout the year.
This approach enhances member benefits by providing valuable, continuous content and extends access to non-attendees.
This also expands sponsorship opportunities, offering industry partners richer options beyond simple brand awareness, and provides them with metrics to accurately measure their success.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Recognize content that provides exceptional member value.
Compare and assess proven non-dues revenue models for their effectiveness before, during, and after your event. Design a content calendar filled with engaging content.
Develop strategies using content to create FOMO and increase annual attendance.

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Optimizing the Budget Building Process
2024-09-10 11:00 - 12:00 | zoom.us/j/99475547957
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
What is so special about nonprofit organization budgets? Like all other types of corporate and business entities, nonprofits must manage acquisition of funds and use of limited resources, but with the added heavy responsibility that they exist to support the “public good” while being governed by volunteers. Consequently, budgets serve an even greater role for nonprofit organizations.
Budgets help nonprofits use (expend) limited financial resources in a manner that not only advances mission but also recognizes capacity constraints, supports sustainability, and promotes continuity. Culture, management styles, and assigning budget responsibilities are important elements of proactive working budgeting systems and budget building processes.
In this presentation we will discuss actions and tactics you can use to enhance budget building processes including adding an annual budget process assessment, finding the right time to start the budget building process, budgeting for revenue and support, special tactics for budgeting for salaries, and how decentralizing the budget building process and documenting budget assumptions is key to success.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
– Assess the Impact of an Annual Budget Process Assessment: Participants will be able to assess how conducting an annual budget process assessment can facilitate change and improve organizational performance.
– Evaluate Timing Strategies for Budget Building: Attendees will be able to evaluate different timing strategies for initiating the budget building process and predict the potential benefits of even minor adjustments.
– Apply a Funding-First Approach to Budget Building: Participants will be able to apply a funding-first approach to budget development, prioritizing revenue and support considerations to enhance funding assessments and align programs, activities, and operations with available resources.
– Analyze Budgeting Tactics and Decentralization Techniques: Attendees will be able to analyze the effectiveness of special budgeting tactics, including salary budgeting, decentralization of the budget process, and documenting budget assumptions, as key factors for success.

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15 Ways to Take Your Email Newsletter to the Next Level
2024-09-04 13:00 - 14:00 | https://usteducation.org/event/15-ways-to-take-your-email-newsletter-to-the-next-level/
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Are your email newsletters struggling to engage your audience? Many organizations find themselves stuck between sending outdated, irrelevant content and trying to keep their emails fresh and engaging. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Email newsletters are a powerful tool to share industry news and updates with your members—if done right. So, how can you ensure your content is not just informative but also relevant to each individual?
Join us as we dive into proven strategies and best practices for taking your email newsletter to the next level. Learn how to move beyond the one-size-fits-all approach and create newsletters that truly resonate with your members.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Explore cutting-edge tools and technologies that will enhance the sophistication of your newsletters while minimizing the strain on internal resources, thereby saving valuable time.
Generate actionable ideas to optimize your newsletter content and layout, ensuring maximum impact with every email you send.
Review the core principles of email engagement and apply them effectively to maintain member interest and keep them informed.

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So What Is CRM Anyway? How These Modern Tools Can Help You Increase Sales, Members, Sponsors or Just About Anything Else
2024-08-29 11:00 - 12:00 | https://usteducation.org/event/so-what-is-crm-anyway-how-these-modern-tools-can-help-you-increase-sales-members-sponsors-or-just-about-anything-else/
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Way back when, companies purchased CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems to manage their sales pipeline. Today, through fierce competition, vendors of these products have introduced tools for service desks, marketing departments, customer support, quoting, and much more. Additionally, the ability to customize these systems with no coding whatsoever makes them incredibly flexible to solve any kind of business process challenge. Whether your company is selling products, services, memberships or is just supporting a group of interested people (like an NGO), CRM tools will pull you out of the world in which your company is managed by Excel spreadsheets. In this course, we will go over industry use cases and some of the built-in capabilities available in CRM tools.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Overview of where CRM systems came from and what they have become. Modern CRM systems today. What can you use it for in your business?
How can you harness the power of these no-code systems to improve productivity, sales, customer/client retention, track/report customer behavior, manage customer issues, and create just about any tracking tool you can dream up.

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AI and Human Collaboration: Creating High-Quality Content Together
2024-08-22 11:00 - 12:00 | https://usteducation.org/event/ai-and-human-collaboration-creating-high-quality-content-together/
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
AI has become an indispensable tool for content creation and marketing, enabling us to create, repurpose, and optimize content more efficiently. This talk will explore how AI and human collaboration can enhance content quality and effectiveness. Attendees will learn how to use AI tools to generate data-driven personas, tailor content strategies, and engage audiences while ensuring that the human touch remains integral to the process.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
– Techniques for using AI tools to build detailed audience personas from existing data.
– Practical strategies for creating and repurposing content with AI.
– Methods for testing content with AI to gauge audience preferences.
– The critical role of human oversight in maintaining content authenticity and creativity.
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Understanding Chart of Account and Dimension Structures in Business Central
2024-08-20 13:00 - 14:00 | https://zoom.us/j/92964896134
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
At the heart of all business software is the accounting structure. An efficient and useful chart of accounts is essential for posting transactions, analyzing financial results and preparing financial statements. Every business has specific needs, but the base structure of a chart of accounts is similar. During this session, we will review how charts of accounts are set up and used to meet the needs of the company management. In addition, we will review how “Dimensions” are used in Business Central to capture additional data to make business reporting even more useful.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Review the purpose behind charts of accounts.

Look at various options for developing charts of accounts.

Review how dimensions in Business Central expand the functionality of charts of accounts.

Review how charts of accounts and dimensions can help facilitate meaningful financial reporting.

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Importance of Keeping Data Clean in Business Central
2024-08-20 11:00 - 12:00 | https://usteducation.org/event/importance-of-keeping-data-clean-in-business-central/
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Business Central often is the central transaction system for an organization. As such it needs to be a trusted source of information for the daily operations and reporting. Keeping the data in BC clean is essential to it being a trusted resource. We will explore the various sources of data and techniques for ensuring it starts and remains clean.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
• Review types of data collected by BC
• Learn techniques for identifying what business processes are key for data cleanliness
• Share challenges and successes from other attendees

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The Simplest of Terms: Translating Tech Talk for the Non-it Audience
2024-08-06 13:00 - 14:00 | https://usteducation.org/event/the-simplest-of-terms-translating-tech-talk-for-the-non-it-audience/
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Have you noticed during technology projects that sometimes things get lost in translation? Does your business unit say the deliverable is not quite right while your tech team is confident they fulfilled the requirement?
Not every organization has an internal PMO to act as a go-between, so you need to know how to get everyone on the same page.
Join us for a few tips and tricks on how to convey complex and abstract concepts to non-technology audiences to keep the lines of communication open and clear between the business and technology teams!

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. Learn how to simplify complex subject matter to make it more accessible to a wider audience
2. Understand and incorporate appropriate artifacts that make the intangible tangible
3. Evaluate the target audience to determine communication needs

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Set Your Educational Ground Floor With Abstract and Speaker Management
2024-08-06 10:00 - 11:00 | https://usteducation.org/event/set-your-educational-ground-floor-with-abstract-and-speaker-management/
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Your association’s education, especially at live meetings, helps drive, invigorate, and engage your members. Before you get to the meeting though, you need to solicit ideas from your membership. Collecting abstracts and speaker information is not glamorous but it is the key to setting your association up for success. Learn how to lay out your process to make it easier on you, your volunteers, and your members. We will cover nuanced ways to refine your method, and potentially create new revenue streams, ensuring you have the right partners to drive your success.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

After attending this session you will:
Learn about best practices for managing abstract and speaker management by setting up your ground floor utilizing your educational goals along with technology.
Create potential revenue streams for your association that will strengthen your attendance and quality of submissions.
Gain insights as to what to look for in software to fit your needs and find a vendor who wants to be your partner.

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Fundraising and Sponsorships: Understanding Who You Are and How to Properly Expand to New Revenue Verticals
2024-08-01 13:00 - 14:00 | https://usteducation.org/event/fundraising-and-sponsorships-understanding-who-you-are-and-how-to-properly-expand-to-new-revenue-verticals/
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Unlock the secrets to successful fundraising and sponsorship acquisition in this comprehensive webinar, “Fundraising and Sponsorships: Understanding Who You Are and How to Properly Expand to New Revenue Verticals.” This session will delve into the essential strategies for identifying and articulating your organization’s unique value proposition, targeting the right sponsors, and diversifying your revenue streams. Through expert insights and practical advice, you’ll gain the tools needed to build sustainable financial growth and establish robust partnerships that align with your mission and goals.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Develop a clear understanding of your organization’s core identity and value proposition to effectively attract sponsors and donors.
Learn techniques to identify and approach potential sponsors that align with your mission and values.
Explore strategies for diversifying revenue streams by expanding into new and innovative funding verticals.

Bringing Your Data to Life
2024-08-01 11:00 - 12:00 | https://usteducation.org/event/bringing-your-data-to-life/
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
In the age of Artificial Intelligence, data is the fuel that we use to feed our efforts to provide a truly personalized experience to our members. The more we know about our members, who they are, where they work, what they need, the better we can serve them. However, your members are not sitting still, they are evolving in their interests and progressing in their careers. Your data needs to evolve with them. In this session, we will explore strategies for bringing your data to life, making sure it stays up to date and relevant, and is continually being fed across your systems to meet your members where they are.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
– Understand how data enables personalized experiences for members.
– Learn strategies to keep member data updated and relevant.
– Implement methods for continuous data integration across systems.
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The End of Expertise and How Associations Must Adapt
2024-07-31 13:00 - 14:00 | https://zoom.us/j/93390509800
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Americans have grown increasingly hostile toward experts. We would rather take medical advice from a friend on Facebook than our doctor or the head of the CDC. Newspaper editorials and election endorsements no longer carry the same weight with the public. Science has become politicized and facts are debated.
Associations have long been trusted organizations for knowledge, research, and yes, political advocacy. How are associations faring in this increasingly hostile environment?
Join us for a lively discussion about the end of expertise. Our guests will discuss:

– How industries are being disrupted by the public’s lack of trust in our institutions
– How associations are being affected by this same trends
– How associations are modifying their services to maintain their credibility and retain members’ trust
– What organizations are doing to keep their organizations safe spaces for facts, open discussion, and expertise.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Understand how cultural attitudes towards experts affect associations
Learn ways to maintain credibility among members and the public
Learn how associations are adapting in this environment

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The Art of Persuasive Writing: Secrets from the Masters
2024-07-31 11:00 - 12:00 | https://zoom.us/j/96157005147
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Unlock the secrets of the greatest communicators and learn how to write with clarity, impact, and persuasion. In this session, you’ll discover proven techniques to craft compelling messages that resonate with your audience. From mastering the active voice to using simple yet powerful metaphors, you’ll gain practical insights to elevate your writing and influence others effectively.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Harness the Power of Active Voice: Learn how to energize your writing and engage your readers by consistently using the active voice, making your messages clear and direct.
Clarity and Simplicity: Understand the importance of putting the bottom line on top, using simple terms, and employing constraints and word limits to make your writing more accessible and impactful.
Contextualize Data with Simple Metaphors: Discover how to simplify complex ideas using relatable metaphors and provide context for your data, ensuring your audience can easily grasp and remember your key points.

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Top 5 Tips to Preparing for a Data Clean-Up Project
2024-07-30 13:00 - 14:00 | https://usteducation.org/event/top-5-tips-to-preparing-for-a-data-clean-up-project/
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Data clean-up has the dubious honor of being both a vital strategic initiative and the project most likely to be postponed, reprioritized, or tabled. Competing priorities and limited resources do not have to stop you from tackling the challenge of data hygiene. Join us as we share 5 best practices on how to prepare for a data clean-up project so that you can better position yourself and your organization for success.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
-Achieve a better understanding of the WHAT, WHY, WHEN, WHERE, and HOW of data clean-up.
-Learn how to calculate the financial costs of dirty data
-Walk away with best practices, tips, and resources to better take a course of action amongst your organization to start your data hygiene journey.

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AI Use Cases for Now and Later: Insights and Forecasts from Association CIOs
2024-07-30 11:00 - 12:00 | https://usteducation.org/event/ai-use-cases-for-now-and-later-insights-and-forecasts-from-association-cios/
Course Description:
Let’s pull back the curtain on artificial intelligence in action to discover how AI is reshaping member services, streamlining operations, and driving innovation in associations today. Our panel of association CIOs will share real-world examples of AI implementation, discuss challenges they’ve overcome, and offer their visions for AI’s future role in association management. Whether you’re AI-curious or already on the cutting edge, this session will equip you with practical insights and inspire new possibilities for leveraging AI in your organization.

Learning Objectives:

Current AI Applications: Learn about successful AI use cases already transforming association operations and member experiences.
Implementation Strategies: Gain insights into effective approaches for introducing and scaling AI within association environments.
Challenges and Solutions: Understand common hurdles in AI adoption and how leading CIOs have overcome them.
Future Trends: Explore emerging AI technologies and applications poised to impact associations in the coming years.

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Leveraging AI with Salesforce and Beyond
2024-07-25 13:00 - 14:00 | https://usteducation.org/event/leveraging-ai-with-salesforce-and-beyond/
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Artificial intelligence is on the mind of every company, but implementation can seem daunting and risky. Whether your goal is to use AI to save time for your staff, craft better marketing campaigns for your members, or speed up custom development, it’s important to understand effective strategies to make your AI rollout a success. We’ll review AI ethical considerations, new Salesforce Einstein features, and tips for using large language models like ChatGPT.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
– Identify Ethical Concerns with Artificial Intelligence Tools
– Implement Salesforce Einstein Features
– Use Large Language Models Effectively

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Public Support: Preserving Your 501(c)(3) Status
2024-07-18 13:00 - 14:00 | https://zoom.us/j/98498147299
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Understanding and maintaining your public support status is crucial to be able to continue to enjoy the tax benefits of a public charity. This course will cover what it means to be a publicly supported charity and how that differentiates your organization from a private foundation. We will discuss the various ways an organization may “pass” the public support test, and importantly, how to protect and preserve your public support status for the future.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Define public support and how being a publicly supported charity differentiates an organization from a private foundation
Outline the various ways a charity may qualify as publicly supported
Learn about the five-year “rolling” public support calculation
Discuss the differences between a 509(a)(1) and 509(a)(2) public support calculation
Preserving and protecting your public charity status

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Don't Be a Data Hoarder!
2024-07-17 11:00 - 12:00 | https://zoom.us/j/91770236805
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Data hoarding wastes staff time, creates a bad member experience, and costs your association revenue. Fortunately for your organization, there are steps you can take to better manage information and fight the tendency to accumulate harmful information. In today’s data-driven world, effective data management is crucial for business success. This comprehensive course is designed to help professionals streamline their data management processes, improve data quality, and leverage data for enhanced business outcomes. Through practical lessons and hands-on activities, you will learn how to efficiently organize and analyze data, improve member experiences, reduce costs, and uncover new revenue opportunities.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
• Learn how to streamline your data management process and increase efficiency
• Learn how to improve the quality of your data and make it easier to analyze
• Learn how to enhance the member experience by using better, more useful data
• Learn how to reduce costs associated with organizing and managing large amounts of data
• Learn how to create new opportunities for revenue growth driven by better insights

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Planning Like It's Your Opening Day: Resources to Develop Your Next Annual Budget
2024-07-11 11:00 - 12:00 | https://usteducation.org/event/planning-like-its-your-opening-day-resources-to-develop-your-next-annual-budget/
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Imagine your association is opening its doors for the first time this year. What will it cost to operate it? Where will its revenue come from? What will its impact be? This webinar is designed to help association CEOs and their leadership teams consider a new approach to annual budgeting – one focused on how to grow revenue, relevance, and relationships, not on how to simply cut expenses.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. Discuss an approach to annual association budgeting aligned to the mission and requirements within by-laws.
2. Share in examples of the budgeting process at all stages of development.
3. Develop a plan for next year’s association budget built on an “opening day” mindset.

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Mastering the Art of Partner and Sponsor Engagement: Strategies for Avoiding Being Ghosted
2024-07-10 11:00 - 12:00 | https://zoom.us/j/98336688392
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Finding and connecting with the right partners and sponsors can be challenging, and in today’s uncertain economic landscape, the task becomes even more demanding. This webinar will provide insights on how associations can adopt a multi-channel approach to ensure they are not ghosted by potential partners and sponsors. From creative engagement strategies to building lasting relationships, attendees will learn practical techniques to generate revenue and foster meaningful partnerships.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
– Understand the challenges and uncertainties that associations face when it comes to engaging with potential partners and sponsors
– Learn strategies for implementing a multi-channel approach to connect with the right people, including leveraging social media, personalized outreach, and networking events
– Discover effective techniques for building and maintaining long-term partnerships, promoting mutual benefits, and avoiding being ghosted by potential partners.
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Advocacy for Associations: Keeping Members Engaged All Year Long
2024-07-09 13:00 - 14:00 | https://zoom.us/j/98488566910
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Are your advocacy tactics keeping up with today’s digital tools? Are you leveraging your members’ grassroots power? If your association struggles to effectively engage your members in your grassroots advocacy efforts, this workshop is for you! The world has changed. Profoundly. Yet at many associations, government affairs and advocacy departments are based on an old and outdated model. Organizations that don’t change with the times will be increasingly marginalized. What we know for sure is, as the Congressional Management Foundation put it, “direct constituent interactions have more influence on lawmakers’ decisions than other advocacy strategies.” Easier said than done! So how do you activate your members for advocacy in 2024, when your members can access all the world’s information and entertainment on a device in their pocket? During this interactive and fun session, you will learn the best practices in association advocacy, how to effectively engage your key stakeholders, and how to use advocacy to strengthen your organization.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

How grassroots advocacy can strengthen your organization
How to communicate with members to active them for advocacy
How to teach your members to effectively engage lawmakers
How to use the social media and new technology to super-charge your advocacy efforts

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Modernizing Nonprofit Software for the Digital Age
2024-06-27 13:00 - 14:00 | https://zoom.us/j/94466274967
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Modernizing nonprofit software is crucial for nonprofits to stay relevant and effective in the digital age. By addressing common business problems and providing better tools for finance and engagement, nonprofits can increase their impact and achieve their mission more effectively. By attending this session, you will learn more about the latest Microsoft cloud applications and platforms, and the rapid transformational impact of AI.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Understand the Importance of Modernizing Nonprofit Software:
Gain insights into why updating software is crucial for nonprofits to remain relevant and effective in today’s digital landscape.
Identify Solutions to Common Nonprofit Business Problems:
Learn how to address common business challenges within nonprofits by leveraging advanced tools for finance and engagement to enhance overall impact.
Explore the Latest Microsoft Cloud Applications and AI Innovations:
Discover the latest Microsoft cloud applications and platforms, and understand how rapid advancements in AI can drive transformational change for nonprofits.

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VisionCorps' Journey: Migrating to an Accessible ERP System
2024-06-27 11:00 - 12:00 | https://zoom.us/j/92144873810
Course Description:
This session dives into the overlooked challenges faced by individuals with low vision when using ERP systems. We will provide an overview of the challenges faced by low vision computer users and the journey that VisionCorps took when making the decision to migrate from Dynamics GP to Dynamics 365 Business Central. Alongside demonstrations of assistive technologies such as screen readers and magnifiers, we will see how the move to a modern ERP system has provided positive outcomes for users. Join us to learn how accessibility can empower organizations to thrive and what work still needs to be done.
Learning Objectives:

Understand the challenges faced by individuals with low vision when accessing and using modern ERP systems, including common issues and barriers encountered.
Explore strategies and solutions for enhancing accessibility within ERP platforms to accommodate users with varying levels of vision impairment, including practical demonstrations of assistive technologies and customization options.
See the outcomes of implementing these solutions and what improvements are still needed.

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How Service Management in Business Central Can Enhance Your Business Processes
2024-06-25 11:00 - 12:00 | https://zoom.us/j/93695601060
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The Service Management module is a complete set of functionalities to streamline service-related operations within your company. This can include sales, finance, and human resources. In this session we will delve into the makeup of what the Service Module offers and the options of how simple or complex the module may be used.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
• Learn how to automate and streamline service-related operations for maximum efficiency
• Learn how to integration with sales, finance, and human resources for a cohesive system
• Learn customizable options to fit the needs of your company, whether simple or complex
• Learn how to improve overall productivity and effectiveness of service management tasks

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How to Build an Effective Business Continuity Plan
2024-06-20 13:00 - 14:00 | https://zoom.us/j/97586729527
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
There’s a growing sentiment that business continuity planning is no longer relevant in the age of remote work. As convenient as this would be, it’s a misconception that has the potential to harm your ability to serve your members.
An effective BCP seeks to minimize downtime and lost goodwill in the event your operations are disrupted. This spans everything from identifying potential losses to drawing up recovery plans to designing system and personnel redundancies to simulating various incidents.
We’ll walk you through all in this session.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Why business continuity plans still matter in the age of remote work
The anatomy of a comprehensive BCP according to current best practice
How to go about building your association’s unique plan

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Keep Your Inventory in Shape With Microsoft Dynamics & Netstock
2024-06-19 13:00 - 14:00 | https://zoom.us/j/94168904124
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Is poor inventory health affecting your customers and impacting your bottom line?
We have the solution! Keep your business in tip-top shape with inventory specialists – Netstock!
Don’t let poor inventory management hold your business back. Join inventory specialist Vaughan Proctor where he’ll demonstrate how, together with Microsoft Dynamics, Nestock allows you to:

Place accurate orders
Prevent stock-outs
Minimize excess stock
Optimize capacity planning

With Netstock, your business remains agile. Quickly adapt to supply and demand trends and stay one step ahead of your competitors!

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Reduce inventory levels between 10-25%: reducing working capital and improving cash flow.
Improve fill rate by 10%: minimize stock-outs and increase sales.
Reduce time: quicker planning, forecasting, and ordering.
Increase visibility: early warning of KPIS needing attention.

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