June, 2022

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5 Barriers to Overcome and Advance Your Board’s DEI Commitment

Board Source

It is quite common to see nonprofit organizations making visible commitments to diversity, inclusion, and equity. Many nonprofit organizations have DEI statements; some include the words in their missions. Many have DEI as part of their strategic plan. But when it comes to the composition and practices of nonprofit boards, it's clear that these commitments aren't necessarily translating into real board-level change.

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Stop Yelling 'Get off my lawn' to Partners

Partner Path

How to Update Your Program for the Next Generation of Partner Leaders. We speak so much about the next generation of partner programs, but what about the next generation of leaders inside the partner organisations? You know who I’m talking about. ( Whisper: millennials.) Who are they? What do they need from vendor partner programs? Are they a changing force to be considered alongside customer buying trends and the transformation of partner engagement?

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From helping to belonging

Stellar Partnerships

Motivation is a very personal thing. At my son’s high school the librarian had the challenge of inspiring teenage boys to read books. Rather than set them homework or threaten detention, she set up a book club where they could discuss a favourite book and provided free food. It was wildly popular among teenage boys who wanted party pies and sausage rolls at lunchtime and provided a safe space for the quieter kids to make friends.

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5 Financial Topics all Association Professionals Must Understand

Partners Preceptors

5 Financial Topics all Association Professionals Must Understand. By Rachel Luoma, MS, CAE. . If you have read any of my previous blogs, then you may see a theme amongst many of them – financials. Since I was a little kid, numbers just made sense to me. There was a correct answer and an incorrect answer and, more importantly, a reason why the correct answer was the correct answer.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Congratulations ISTO’s Jessica O’Hanlon

ISTO / IEEE

The American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) has announced that Jessica O’Hanlon, CAE, a Senior Program Manager at IEEE-ISTO, has earned the Certified Association Executive (CAE®) designation. The CAE is the highest professional credential in the association industry. Jessica is a non-profit professional with over fifteen years of experience in volunteer, operations, and association management.

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When Sunsetting Your Nonprofit is the Hardest (and Best) Option

Board Source

If there is a lesson from the last several years, it is that we have to look inward before we do anything else. Between the pandemic, the “Great Resignation,” political division, and heightened awareness of the ways racism and oppression has shaped everything we do in the nonprofit sector, we have been called to be more self-aware and reflective as leaders.

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Why I Have a Personal Yoga Instructor?

Peter Simoons

A couple of years ago, I realised that it is never too late to work on one’s body flexibility. My general flexibility was hard to find and Yoga seemed to be the best form of exercise to locate it! To begin with, I was a bit anxious about it. Was Yoga really my thing? I wasn’t sure, but I was prepared to give it a go. After an initial consultation with my now Yoga instructor I joined her local Yoga studio and started my journey with a class in Yin Yoga.

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A drop in the ocean

Stellar Partnerships

It’s 12C and raining in Melbourne and I’m feeling smug about having booked my first holiday to QLD in years. I know that mentioning my holiday will test the business partnership as Sharon holds the fort in her thermal onesie. But staring out from the beach has reminded me of Blue Ocean Strategy. Blue ocean strategy is a planning model that encourages corporates to create and capture uncontested market space rather than try to compete in the cutthroat and bloody price wars of the crowded market-

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Best New Management Books for 2022: Thinkers50 announces new booklist

Thinkers 50

PRESS RELEASE. Monday 27 June 2022 . LONDON – What are the new books every manager should read this year? Thinkers50, the global ranking of management thinkers, today announced its Best New Management Books: Top 10 New Titles for 2022. . The Thinkers50 Best New Books list offers an insight into what’s uppermost in managers’ minds. The Conversation , for example, by Harvard psychologist Robert Livingston is based on his extensive experience working with diversity and inclusion and offers guidance

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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IEEE-ISTO Announces Formation of BITA Standards Council (BSC)

ISTO / IEEE

New Industry Alliance Standardizes Blockchain Attributes/Formats to Improve Interoperability and Efficiency of Transportation Supply Chain. PISCATAWAY, N.J., 21 June 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization (ISTO), an international federation of leading industry groups and consortia dedicated to the advancement of standardized technologies for the benefit of industry, today announces the its newest member program, BITA Standards Council, Inc.

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Three Keys to Hyper-Scale Your Marketplace Ecosystem

PartnerTap

In this article, we give you three quick, actionable steps that will hyper-scale your marketplace ecosystem. Whether you are just starting to scale, or you’re a tech giant that wants to see continued growth within your marketplace, this article will help you reach your goal. Over the past ten years, enterprises have invested and built up ecosystems of technology partners that get promoted to their customers via an online marketplace.

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Making Humanitarian Operations More Sustainable

INSEAD Knowledge

Do good intentions always lead to good outcomes? Experience shows that the lack of coordinated response can lead to future humanitarian and sustainability challenges.

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The Middle Finger

Peter Simoons

It was that last slab in the garden terrace that broke the tip of my middle finger. Well, actually it was not the slab itself, it was the heavy, rubber hammer that hit the slab, with my finger in between! At first, I thought that my finger was just blueish-purple – badly bruised, and it felt very sensitive. Very inconvenient, I thought, but hey I’ll get over it!

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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Rethinking the costs of partnerships

Stellar Partnerships

The economist Adam Smith believed that free markets were the best way to create an efficient economy. Our individual self-interest, with everyone working to serve themselves will ensure that we all have the goods we need. But the ‘invisible hand’ of the marketplace is imperfect. There are always hidden costs. In Katrine Marcal’s book “Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?

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Introducing Messaging — a better way to communicate 

Impact

The most successful partnerships aren’t simply set-it-and-forget-it. Partnerships work best when brands and publishers are active participants in the relationship, communicating regularly to ensure mutual growth. But partner engagement with hundreds or even thousands of partners is hard, especially when you rely on disparate systems for partner communication and management. .

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IAN…the Path to IEEE Standardization for Today’s Industry Consortia

ISTO / IEEE

by Michelle Hunt, Director, Alliance Management Operations, ISTO. As a federation of member programs consisting of consortia, alliances, and trade groups, ISTO offers world class support for collectives who are standardizing technical solutions that improve technology or development for industry ecosystems. From drafting standards development processes that are open and consensus-based to ensuring strict compliance to process as a neutral third party to supporting platforms and mechanisms for ea

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How to Get More MDF Budget from Your Partners

PartnerTap

Market development funds help the partner world go round. Oftentimes, larger partners will provide market development funds for in-person events and targeted marketing campaigns. It can jump-start new and partner efforts and as well as add fuel to the fire of proven programs. Use data to get more MDF Budget from your partners. MDF augments your marketing budgets and lets your marketing teams do more with each partner.

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The Essential Guide to the Buying Experience of the Future

Your buyers’ lives, preferences, and expectations have changed. Over two-thirds of buyers prefer remote or digital interactions — and they expect those interactions to be substantive and valuable. They hold sellers to a high standard, and that means the buying experiences of the past — in-person meetings, transactional conversations, and linear sales funnels — no longer deliver.

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Partnership on AI Awarded Funding from Moore Foundation to Explore Ethical AI in Healthcare

Partnership on AI

Share. Our Blog. /. Blog. Partnership on AI Awarded Funding from Moore Foundation to Explore Ethical AI in Healthcare. PAI Staff. June 1, 2022. Content Wrapper. Click here to start editing. -->. Content Row. Click here to start editing. -->. To realize the enormous potential for artificial intelligence and machine learning systems in the healthcare field, we need to advance understanding on questions such as accountability, equity, access, and transparency.

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7 Major Mistakes that MSSPs Make

Channel Insider

Any IT vendor or managed services provider (MSP) looking to add security services has several different directions they can go to achieve success. But there are also certain mistakes they can make that usually bring about failure. Here then are seven of the biggest mistakes a managed security service provider (MSSP) – or would-be MSSP – can make so you can stay on the path to success.

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Flogging a dead horse

Stellar Partnerships

I’m an incurable optimist. That’s probably why I once did a basketball bootcamp despite being only 5ft nothing tall. In my younger days I had a boyfriend who was 6ft 4 inches and that really tested my optimism. He was wonderfully handsome and great fun, but his height was not the thing that rang alarm bells. He didn’t read books. In fact, he confessed that he only ever read Sports lllustrated magazine and was in the English as a Second Language class at school, despite being a native, because he

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Get certified as a partnerships pro with new Product and Agency certifications

Impact

You’re a pro with the impact.com platform, and now you’re ready to achieve career credentials to match. Get Product Expert-certified and Agency-certified through Partnerships Experience Academy (PXA) for a professional edge in the partnerships industry. Six free, self-paced course modules are on the path to Product Expert-level Training certification.

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5 Essential Virtual Selling Practices Every Company Must Have by 2023

Speaker: Erika Bzdel - Vice President of Sales and Craig Simons - Director of Marketing

Virtual sales success requires new ways of thinking. Sales managers, trainers, sales enablement managers, and sales reps across all industries must adjust to this digital transformation. That doesn’t mean, however, that you can transfer the old ways of doing business to the new blended selling environment. You need to implement essential virtual selling processes or you will get left behind.

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The Consumer Decision-Making and Buying Process – Part 2

Chameleon Sales

In our previous blog , we introduced the five stages consumers move through as they make their purchase decisions. The five stages were generally intended for individual consumers. However, it is important to consider the decision-making process in B2B settings. We’ve discussed the first two stages of the consumer decision-making and buying process, so today we will discuss stages three through five.

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How to Get More MDF Budget from Your Partners

PartnerTap

Market development funds help the partner world go round. Oftentimes, larger partners will provide market development funds for in-person events and targeted marketing campaigns. It can jump-start new and partner efforts and as well as add fuel to the fire of proven programs. Use data to get more MDF Budget from your partners MDF augments your marketing budgets and lets your marketing teams do more with each partner.

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Thinkers50 Radar 2022: Lorenzo Davids

Thinkers 50

Lorenzo Davids is a leader in social development who has worked to address poverty and improve lives in South Africa. He is the CEO of The Development Impact Fund, an organization that invests in projects and entrepreneurs with potential to transform themselves and their communities. Through this work, it is his mission to help South Africa reconnect to the ideals of its constitution, the preamble of which states that it seeks to improve the quality of life of all citizens and free the potential

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How to Build (and Retain!) a Great Alliance Team

Vantage Partners

The 2022 ASAP Global Alliance Summit was a memorable one. After three years away, it was so nice to be back together, see old friends, and once again learn how different alliance management organizations are keeping pace with company strategies that depend more than ever on external partnerships. With more and more alliances to support, the right team is as crucial as ever.

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Strategic ABM Gifting: A CMO’s Silver Bullet to Engage the Enterprise

Today’s customers are hungry for human connections, but how do you break through the digital noise? How do you connect on a more personal level? A strategic ABM gifting campaign can help. You can target accounts and prospects by sending gifts or direct mail. It will help you stand out from the crowd and increase your chances to connect. Download Sendoso’s complimentary eBook to learn: Effective ways to level up your gifting strategy for the enterprise customers.

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How Planview ERGs are Encouraging Employees to Honor Juneteenth

Planview Blog

June is an exciting and busy month of the year. It is the beginning of summer vacation, PRIDE month, and a monumental holiday. An important holiday that more than a quarter of Americans know nothing about: Juneteenth. The Planview BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) and the Force for Good ERGs came together to inspire our employees to commemorate the day and support local black communities.

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Continuous Emphasis on Food Safety for Health and Well Being

Frost & Sullivan

This year’s theme for World Food Safety Day – ‘Safer food, better health’ , underlines the need for continuous efforts toward keeping food safe that is accessible to people from all walks of life. The theme emphasizes the golden rule of “Safety First”, which has a direct connection to ensuring food safety and security that aids in ensuring health and wellness but also influences a nation’s economic prosperity and sustainable development.

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Risky Business: Why Successful Entrepreneurs Are Masters of Calculated Risk-Taking

Aepiphanni

Risk isn’t a bad thing when it is first calculated by the risk taker. When the rewards outweigh the risk, a business owner can be confident that taking that risk will pay off.

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