By Guest Blogger: Ben Sturt, Managing Director Chrysalis Digital Increasing member engagement and challenges with CRM systems have been stated amongst the top challenges for the last three years for membership organisations (stated in the Memberwise digital excellence survey 2019). >40% think they have inadequate integration between web and CRM, that’s 4% higher than last year [...]
By Guest Blogger: Alan Hiddleston - Manager, Corporate Sales EMEA D2L Not so long ago, membership organisations offering training would have arranged face-to-face events. This guaranteed member engagement – once on-site, learners would commit to the session – but availability and cost was always a challenge and training reach could be limited by geography. [...]
Members of the MemberWise Network automatically receive our popular monthly newsletter direct. Join Free Today! In this issue: - We announce our next free best practice seminar (with Trillium) on 30th January (London) - Review network growth and development in 2019 - New VIDEO - Delivering on 21st Century Member Expectations (by MemberWise) [...]
By Guest Blogger: Carsten Pleiser, Business Development UK Blue Sky eLearn Events can be delivered in a zillion different ways - in-person, hybrid or virtual. For membership organisations, in-person conferences have always played an important role in bringing members together, enabling networking, adding value & offering learning opportunities. But as events & learning teams are [...]
By Guest Blogger: Ben Sturt, Managing Director Chrysalis Digital Becoming more digitally focused as your members’ demands evolve can be fairly straight forward, as long as you keep a few key things in mind. Asking the right questions within your organisation and not being blinded with the latest technology can ensure that you constantly move [...]
By Guest Blogger: Tabby Duff, Digital Marketing Executive Cantarus Digital Transformation is Nonsense and Your Members Don’t Care Last week myself, Tom, Mark, and Mike joined Rich Gott, Founder & Chair of MemberWise to deliver a seminar titled, ‘Digital Transformation is Nonsense and Your Members Don’t Care.’ Each year we deliver two seminars with [...]
By Guest Blogger: Rachel Mitchell, Director Your Favourite Story Have you been tasked with your organisation's Diversity and Inclusion initiative? Is it well underway, or are you just starting out? Either way, data will be key to planning and success. First things first: what does your current membership look like? Do you know where it’s [...]
By Guest Blogger: Russ Magnuson RD Mobile Having worked in technology for over 35 years (and online for 25 years), I’ve come to appreciate the pace of change and how quickly technology strategy needs to be revisited. When the Web emerged as a content delivery platform in the mid-90s, I thought it provided the [...]
The MemberWise Network is pleased to launch the Influence 100 List (Largest UK Membership Bodies) fourth quarter update (2019). In celebration we presented 20 membership bodies with Official Recognition Plaques at Digital Excellence 2019. Congratulations to the following membership bodies that have risen up the rankings via exceptional new member acquisition work over the past [...]
By Kerrie Fuller Associate Director of Engagement MemberWise Network As part of our series of articles on key segments of the Membership Sector, in this article we focus on Students’ Unions (SU). There are over 600 students’ unions in the UK, the first being created in 1884 at Edinburgh University. Their role is to lobby, [...]
