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Beyond the loudest voices: Are you really hearing your whole membership?

2026-08-02T20:40:06+01:00Sunday, 2 August, 2026|Categories: Member Engagement & Retention, MemberWise Recognised Supplier|

Membership organisations are rarely short of member feedback. Many of the organisations we work with tell us they can predict who will respond first when a survey or consultation opens. These are often highly engaged members who readily share their views at every opportunity. Their feedback can be valuable, but it can also create [...]

The KPIs and reporting rhythm that prove community ROI

2026-07-28T11:43:57+01:00Tuesday, 28 July, 2026|Categories: Member Engagement & Retention, MemberWise Recognised Supplier|

This is the second article in a two-part series on reporting community ROI to your board. Part one covered how to reframe your metrics in board language and structure your case with a logic model. This part covers which KPIs to track and how often to report them. Choose a small, repeatable set of [...]

Stop reporting logins … Here’s what your board wants to see

2026-07-23T09:06:41+01:00Thursday, 23 July, 2026|Categories: Membership Leadership & Governance, MemberWise Recognised Supplier|

You know your community is working. Engagement is up, programming is popular, and members are connecting. But when you bring those wins to leadership, you hear a version of the same question: “Is this actually driving results for the association?” It’s a frustrating moment. You see the value every day, but translating that value [...]

Where should you start your CRM search?

2026-07-21T09:53:35+01:00Tuesday, 21 July, 2026|Categories: Membership Digital Transformation, MemberWise Recognised Supplier|

When a membership organisation starts looking for a new CRM, the search might start off like this: a spreadsheet of features, scored against what the current system can and cannot do. On paper this looks thorough, but for some membership organisations this is the wrong place to start. The 2026 MemberWise Digital Excellence Report, [...]

How Website Design Impacts the Member Experience

2026-07-17T20:44:55+01:00Friday, 17 July, 2026|Categories: Member Engagement & Retention, MemberWise Recognised Supplier|

For membership organisations, your website is often the most important touchpoint in the member journey. Whether someone is considering joining, renewing their membership or booking an event, their experience online can significantly influence how they perceive your organisation. In the most recent Digital Excellence report, by MemberWise, it found that “lack of/limited personalisation on [...]

The EU AI Act: What It Means for Membership Organisations

2026-07-05T14:26:35+01:00Sunday, 5 July, 2026|Categories: Member Data, MemberWise Recognised Supplier|

Ask most association leaders about the EU AI Act and you tend to get one of two responses. Either “that’s a problem for big tech, not us,” or “hasn’t it been delayed anyway?” Both are understandable. Both are wrong, and both can be costly. The Act is the world’s first comprehensive law for artificial [...]

Are you ready to change your membership CRM?

2026-06-29T12:05:12+01:00Monday, 29 June, 2026|Categories: Membership Digital Transformation, MemberWise Recognised Supplier|

Some organisations start thinking about replacing their membership CRM when day-to-day processes begin to feel harder than they should. This might look like renewals taking three exports and a long Friday afternoon, board reports taking longer to build than to read or new starters spending their first month learning where things are kept rather [...]

How long before the keyboard is redundant?

2026-06-21T10:51:47+01:00Sunday, 21 June, 2026|Categories: Membership Digital Transformation, MemberWise Recognised Supplier|

‘In the IOT (Internet of things) space, no-one can hear you scream.’ As mentioned at the recent Member’s Data solution day, for decades, membership bodies have written for people. Guidance notes, technical standards, policy papers, research all crafted for a professional to stay informed. That reader is changing. Just look how you surface information [...]

The Real Cost of Association Software Isn’t on the Quote

2026-06-18T12:16:30+01:00Thursday, 18 June, 2026|Categories: Membership Digital Transformation, MemberWise Recognised Supplier|

A perspective on deployment productivity in the membership sector Every few years the membership sector talks itself into believing the next platform will be the one that fixes everything. Having spent a career alongside associations large and small, through the desktop era, client-server, the move to cloud, and now the arrival of capable AI, [...]

Why membership organisations have an unfair advantage in AI search

2026-06-14T15:52:47+01:00Sunday, 14 June, 2026|Categories: Membership Digital Transformation, MemberWise Recognised Supplier|

Most discussion of generative engine optimisation (GEO) frames it as a new burden for marketing teams. For membership organisations, the framing should be the opposite. You are already sitting on exactly the kind of content AI search rewards. Why GEO is good news for membership organisations When a prospective member asks an AI tool [...]

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