by Shepherd Smith | Nov 22, 2021 | Data Analytics
A critical and accelerating – but easily-addressable – problem Former Gartner Research VP (and Director of World Wide Technologies for American Express) Jim Sinur recently wrote an op-ed piece with direct application to the member industry. Titled “Reduce...
by Shepherd Smith | Oct 14, 2021 | Data Analytics
Making the case for Data Analytics being budget-neutral in Year One At most associations, it is difficult to argue that better information is not a good thing – that better understanding your current members, potential members, and the broader constituency would not...
by Shepherd Smith | Mar 2, 2021 | Data Analytics
Excerpted from “Why Is It So Hard to Become a Data-Driven Company?” by Randy Bean – published February 5th, 2021 According to Harvard Business Review, thriving as a mainstream organization today means being data driven. Those that have lagged on this...
by Shepherd Smith | Dec 11, 2020 | Nucleus
Terry Dowdy is a 23-year association IT veteran – he has managed the IT departments at four associations and is currently IT Director at the Tax Executives Institute (TEI). In 2019, Terry and TEI decided to use advanced data analytics to help reach organizational...
by Shepherd Smith | Dec 3, 2020 | News
ALEXANDRIA, VA – December 1, 2020 – Gravitate Solutions is pleased to announce that Nucleus has been named the official data analytics solution of the Association Laboratory Research Alliance. The Association Laboratory Research Alliance is comprised of...
by Shepherd Smith | Nov 12, 2020 | Conferences/Events
Back in July, we responded to the waves of client interactions we were having regarding the entirely new types of member data that were being generated by virtual events – things that can be known about attendees of virtual events but not live ones. An example...
by Shepherd Smith | Oct 28, 2020 | Data Analytics, Nucleus
Julie Sweet is the CEO of a 500,000-person consulting firm with thousands of clients, all of whom rely on her to be focused on changes, trends, and opportunities for the future. In an interview on Oct. 8th, she made the following remarks, all of which we at Gravitate...
by Shepherd Smith | Sep 24, 2020 | Membership
2020 is providing member-based organizations with opportunities as well as challenges, and the technologists at DelCor and Gravitate teamed up on September 15th to offer something that many associations will find most welcome – insights into how to make meaningful...
by Shepherd Smith | Jun 4, 2020 | Data Analytics
Published by SAS, May 2020 – Data Scientist Kirk Borne on the value of universal understanding of data and its effect on society. We recently had a chance to pick Kirk Borne’s brain on this important topic of data literacy – what it is, why it’s important in our...
by Shepherd Smith | Apr 23, 2020 | Data Analytics
On April 14th, Associations Now published an article titled “How the COVID-19 Crisis Is Accelerating the Shift to Online Member Engagement.” In putting forth these ideas, ASAE is emphasizing to the member industry the fact that trends towards online member engagement...
by Shepherd Smith | Jan 8, 2020 | News
Gravitate attended four association-focused conferences in the last quarter of 2019 – AMSFest, Community Brands Xperience, Higher Logic HUG, and ASAE Tech. At each conference, we asked participants “What is your greatest data challenge?” and thought the results were...
by Shepherd Smith | Dec 11, 2019 | Membership
Marketing General, a leader in marketing research for associations, recently released their 2019 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report, a compendium of information regarding marketing and associations trends. Marketing General specializes in providing associations...
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