improving member & staff engagement with community
DESCRIPTION
Learn how fellow Personify users are engaging members, committees, volunteers, mentors and staff by leveraging the partnership between Higher Logic and Personify. Your colleagues from three associations will highlight how member communities, staff intranets, volunteerism, mentoring programs and the use of community engagement data is enhancing the experiences of everyone who comes in contact with their organizations. Presenters: Adam Rosenbaum – Director of Information Systems, Council for Advancement and Support of Education Jeanne Martinez – Online Services Administrator, International Legal Technology Association Liz Messner, CAE – Senior Manager - Membership, Society of Petroleum EngineersTRANSCRIPT
Improving Member & Staff Engagement with Community
Welcome! • Higher Logic + Personify = 47 mutual clients
• Gold Star Integration
• Established Single Sign On (SSO)
• Pre-populated member profiles
• Communities, committees, special interest groups controlled by data in Personify
• Activity sync back into Personify
The Higher Logic Difference• Experience – 100,000 communities
• >20 million users worldwide
• Increase member retention
• Overall membership growth
• Content generation
• Business intelligence at your fingertips
“All of our other vendors are tired of hearing how
they don’t measure up to Higher Logic! “
New York State Bar
Connected Community™Core Features• Discussion Groups
• Resource Libraries
• Directories
• Blogs
• Wiki Glossary
• Event Calendar
• Mobile Web
• Analytics
Optional Modules• Content Manager
(Microsites, Event Sites, Intranet)
• Mentor Match
• Volunteer Central
• Speaker Bureau
• Event Manager
• Event App
• Community App
“Our integrated approach has
increased prospects by 100 % .”
IPWEA
Personify CustomersAdam RosenbaumDirector of Information SystemsThe Council for the Advancement & Support of [email protected]
Jeanne MartinezOnline Services AdministratorInternational Legal Technology [email protected]
Liz MessnerSenior Manager of MembershipSociety of Petroleum [email protected]
Quick PollWhat is your greatest membership challenge?
Adam Rosenbaum - CASE• Director of Information Systems
• CASE Communities, community.case.org
• 150,000 customers
• 16,000 organizations
• 62 committees
• 100 staff
• 4 offices plus my house
Staff Intranet – What it was• Homegrown over many years
• Static
• Rigid
• Access and updates required IT support
• One way communication
Staff Intranet – What it was not• Interactive
• Up to date
• Managed by subject matter experts
• Relevant to our international offices
• The same tool we are asking our members to use/master
• Engaging
Implementation Experience• Adoption is coming along• Updating profiles• Posting discussions and library resources
• Board/Committee roll out
• Volunteer groups roll out
Jeanne Martinez - ILTA • Online Services Administrator for over 13 years
• Manager of ILTA’s Connected Community
• Online public social media presence
• ILTA’s Connected Community, connect.iltanet.org
• ILTA’s Career Center, careers.iltanet.org
ILTA Background• The International Legal Technology
Association (ILTA)
• Professional Association with 18 staff and 250+ volunteers
• Membership is at the entity level and benefits/access flow down to employees
• 1400 member organizations in 35 countries
• 17,000 Active User Accounts
ILTA Background• Currently on Personify 7.4.1,
upgrading to 7.5.x in fall 2014
• Higher Logic (Community)
• HighRoad Solution (Marketing Emails)
• Boxwood (Career Center)
Building Community• Close to 50 communities
• Majority are topical based communities that members can join
• Additionally the community will have:• Community automation• Communities created,
members added & auto-subscribed based on 1) committees in Personify and 2) event registration in Personify
Creating a Master Calendar• Direct export of
events in Personify into the HL community.
• Structure includes registration link on HL event will direct them back to Personify ebiz shopping cart with event in cart after clicking register
Reward and RecognizeDigital ribbons created and assigned to member profiles based on:
• IMS roles coming from SSO (community memberships)• Can be applicable to both individuals and companies
Our End Goal: Engagement • ILTA’s Connected Community writes activities back into
Personify
• Write back builds awareness and increases data
• Write back provides a better picture of member interactions
• Examples on the next slide
Tracked Activities Boxwood
Highroad
Higher Logic
View ActivitiesData Analyzer Reports
View ActivitiesCRM360 screen
The Future is Bright• 7.5.1 upgrade• Customize
engagement points for activities happening outside of Personify to get an even better idea of who’s engaging with the association.
Liz Messner, CAE, IOM - SPE• Senior Manager of Membership
• 124,500 members/135 countries
• Individual Membership Organization
• 425 staff members
• 7 offices
• SPE CONNECT, connect.spe.org
SPE CONNECT• Powered by Higher Logic’s Connected Community
• 600+ Communities; 100+ Microsites
• Personify 7.33/7.5 in August 2014
• Results Direct
• Informz
• CommPartners
• Use eMeta
Higher Logic & Personify = Best of Breed Partners!
Member Knowledge Sharing
7 primary technical communities
• Member technical interest area held in Personify
• Auto-subscribed each member to at least one technical community
• Communities range in size from 3,000 to 20,000+
• Join/Unjoin managed in Personify
Engagement Stats• 25% of members accepted Terms of Use in 2013 – 31,585
• Unique contributors to discussions – 2,218 (7% of active members)
• Different groups, different purposes
• Average number of views of a library file in a Technical Community is more than 43.
• This indicates that we have a lot of “lurkers”
• Full Time Community Manager in March 2014!
Volunteer Collaboration• Communities for:
• Standing Committees• Meeting Committees• Section & Chapter Officers• Award Selection Committees
• Committees in Personify drives community creation • Create committee in Personify
• Add members to committee in Personify• Members get access to communities in Higher Logic
from unique committee codes
Personify Committee
Module
Microsites & Private Communities• Microsites for local sections (chapters)
• Local section also has a community for officers-only • Host 106 of 190 sections websites and growing
• Discussions not allowed on Microsites
• 5 site color schemes provided
• Customization possible
• Features: Ads, event registration, document libraries, local directory, calendar, etc
Microsites & Private Communities Members
Assigned to Section
Community by Personify
Microsites
Officers Directory is Auto-Populated
Thanks to Unique Codes in Personify
Mentor Match• Members hand select their mentors
• 8 year history of eMentoring Program
• Wants:• More modern feel…social• Administration ease• Scalable platform• Easy access resources
• Currently documenting requirements
Speakers Bureau • Soft launch to
speakers June 2014
• 80 speaker profiles so far
• Speakers NOT vetted by SPE
• Unique Terms of Service
www.spe.org/volunteer/speaker-source
Suggestions for Success• Follow best practices from Higher Logic & Personify
• Learn from
• Beta test• Enlist your early adopters• Give them assignments• Solicit feedback• Communities need care and feeding
Discussion
Keep in Touch! Adam RosenbaumDirector of Information SystemsThe Council for the Advancement & Support of [email protected]
Jeanne MartinezOnline Services AdministratorInternational Legal Technology [email protected]
Liz MessnerSenior Manager of MembershipSociety of Petroleum [email protected]