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Posted in Association Inc on Feb 8th, 2010
Quick clicks: Snowy day edition…
This is a bit of a catch-up edition of Quick Clicks, so it’s a little longer than usual. But if you’re in the DC area (or elsewhere) and snowed in, what better time to catch up on your reading? First,……
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Posted in Association Inc on Feb 4th, 2010
Free for a day…
Some of you may have seen that access to the Wall Street Journal online—which normally requires a paid subscription—was free yesterday. At right, see a screenshot I grabbed yesterday. The free day was subsidized by a sponsorship from Acura, which……
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Posted in Association Inc on Feb 2nd, 2010
Great post and comments! I’ve been watching various discussions of what’s happening in the newspaper business for quite awhile.
I cut my professional writing teeth on the local weekly back (waaayyyyy back!) in high school. The local paper was just that: local. It left national reporting to the big-city papers and regional reporting to the mid-size [...]
Posted in Association Inc on Jan 29th, 2010
I heard a quote years ago (sorry can’t remember who said it!) that an association is not a single business; it is a collection of small businesses operating under one roof.
The unique spin associations put on it is having a consensus-based governance model slapped on top of a small conglomerate with a highly focused [...]
Posted in Association Inc on Jan 28th, 2010
I’m on much firmer footing talking about the newspaper world than the association world, but I feel like I can comfortably say a few things from my perspective.
It’s true that the changes effecting newspapers and associations are similiar—in both cases the explosion of free information on the internet has made it easier for people [...]
Posted in Association Inc on Jan 28th, 2010
Eeep! I meant to say that “the association model has enough revenue streams in it that (most) don’t have to wring their hands about *advertising* revenue.”
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Posted in Association Inc on Jan 28th, 2010
Ha – Kevin I knew you wouldn’t disappoint. I was waiting for someone to say “hold on a minute” and push back against the comparison. I personally have not weighed in on this debate yet, though in my post I did find some great other blog posts that seemed to reflect some of [...]
Posted in Association Inc on Jan 28th, 2010
@Mark – Excellent comment, thanks for leaving it. Great point that one of the primary differences between newspapers and assns is that newspapers don’t really have an audience — what I mean is, the audience is so broad and non-specific that it may as well as not be an audience. It’s “whoever lives in this [...]
Posted in Association Inc on Jan 28th, 2010
I suppose it’s my turn to respond here, as I think I’m partly responsible (at fault?) for getting this micropricing conversation going.
I appreciate Mark’s response here, too, as makes some great points about the newspaper equation vs. that of associations. To be completely honest, I’m pretty skeptical about micropricing or pay walls working for [...]
Posted in Association Inc on Jan 28th, 2010
[...] I’m loving the conversation about non-profit vs. for-profit, especially Kevin Holland’s post from earlier this week. It’s true that there are many for-profit associations out there, and [...]
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