Communicating Your Association’s Values: NTEN 2016 Takeaways
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Your association has a “brand” even if you hate the terminology.
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Becker Associates Develops Website and Conference System for STAO
The Science Teachers’ Association of Ontario, a subject area association, found itself confronting an increasingly unmanageable legacy website, being hand-coded by one or two volunteers. Any and all content updates passed through these two hands, site was built piece by piece and some content was removed as the organization moved into a new conference year, losing the SEO […]
Volunteer Leadership: A Primer
Last month, I met some remarkable volunteer leaders. It was a great experience. The occasion was a workshop that I gave at the national conference of the Canadian Society of Association Executives on Volunteer Leadership. I love talking to people about their challenges and hearing their stories. Wonderful conversations were had with each round table […]
Becker Associates Develops Another Teacher Website
Becker Associates helped the Ontario Elementary Social Science Teachers Association with their very first website moving from a Blogspot site to a full, open source, content management system. This year-long project involved going through their current content and all the new curriculum material they were producing and create the information architecture from scratch for all […]
The Difference between Governance and Management
Many non-profit Boards of Directors are working boards. They must attend to the functions of governance and management. Sometimes the distinction between the two gets lost. One way to think about the difference is to look at the roots of each word. The earliest reference to the notion of governance comes from the ancient Greek […]
New CASL Management System For Becker Clients
With the strict new Canadian Anti-Spam Law (CASL) coming into effect on July 1st, the staff at Becker thought we would take the stress of yet another administrative task off of your shoulders. Adam Becker has developed a new service for our clients that will automatically manage your contacts lists to ensure your compliance with […]
New Book Published
Becker Associates has just published a new title: Romain Gary: L’impossible dérobade (ISBN : 978-0-919387-61-4) by Benoit Desmarais. The book Lecture de l’oeuvre de Romain Gary autour des thèmes de la clandestinité, du “coming out” de Roman Kacew (alias Gary) via Gros-Câlin signé Ajar. From the back cover – Ce que je voudrais être ? – Romain […]
Strategic Planning vs Strategic Thinking
Non-profit organizations often let strategic planning fall by the wayside. As a result, far too many associations function without a plan. Criticisms often cited include “it is too expensive”, “it takes too much time”, “nothing really changes afterwards”, and finally “things change so fast that we can’t keep the plan current”. However, strategic planning can […]
AAO 2014 Website
Becker Associates revamped the website of the Archives Association of Ontario to be responsive and more dynamic. We did their last website update in 2010. Combined with a new template and new navigation, integration with their membership database was provided so there is now secure account lookup, with a link to order forms to pre-fill […]
Becker Mos 2013
Last year, the Becker Movember crew, Team Fun Hard, made a splash with our odd tribute collages in an effort to entertain for the cause of fighting prostate cancer. As many of you may known, it is an issue that is close to everyone at the company, particularly Adam and Christina Becker who’s father, John, […]
Five Serious Questions to Ask Yourself When Considering a Cloud Solution
For non-profits struggling to find ways of doing things and maintaining or sharing records, cloud computing offer great solutions. Making use of the internet as part of service delivery and managing the organisation is essential. With the growing number of services, some offerings can seem like no-brainers, but the reality is they often may not […]
Recent Graduates, Your Fees, and Your Association
Have you investigated the demographics of your association recently? I mean really investigated them. Have you noticed numbers slowly decreasing over the past 5 years and not been able to really put a finger on why? Chances are fairly good that if you take a close look, you’ll notice that older professionals are leaving your […]
