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Associations
Your goal is to get information to your members in a way that excites and engages. Our goal is to help you get there.
Providing a digital home to your association's most important resources: community and information.
Associations and organizations vary in size and form, but they all share one common attribute: providing purpose-driven content for members. Whether the goal is to communicate and connect with members or create an inviting atmosphere for potential members, Blend has been working with associations to help reach their goals for over a decade.
This means you have full access to a team that knows how to implement best practices and web trends specific to organizations — aligning your goals, while attracting members to your site.
- Eye-catching design and thoughtful design systems to help your association look professional
- Personalization to provide the right content to the right people at the right time
- Integration with member management and CRM systems to ensure your data goes where it's supposed to
- Events articles, podcasts, resources — if there's a content type your association needs, we've done it
But don't take it from us. View some of our work in the association space.
Related associations work.
Learn more about some of the projects we've handled in the association industry.
A Startup Mentality for an Association Project
Bringing a startup mentality to a multi-tiered project, our work with Entrepreneurs' Organization was one of iteration, extensibility, and a great site built with Umbraco.
A Hybrid Approach to Conference Content Management
NAFCU needed a website that could integrate information across its numerous microsites without losing the feel of its brand. That's when Blend stepped in to integrate a hybrid approach designed to seamlessly navigate any content.
Iterative Technical Planning: A Smoother Development Cycle
Gradual technical scoping leads to a more informed — and smoother running — project. Here’s how we did it.
Translating Design into Optimizely Gold
For the United Nations Federal Credit Union, Blend worked with an existing design team to help translate web discovery and design into a working Optimizely site.
Integrating Memberships and Printing into Digital
Blend helped work with American Bonanza Society’s publishing partner to integrate membership management right into the site.
Tips for Associations.
We've written at length, both here and beyond, on Association websites.
Main Site or Microsite — Make the Most of Your Digital Event Strategy
Hosting an event for your association is one thing, but promoting it online to the right audience is a different conversation.
Improving Your Professional Association Site: Tips for Driving Engagement
Blend's CTO Joe Kepley has tips for how to increase website traffic and engagement for professional associations.
Getting Started with Web Experimentation
Much like the early days of social media, digital experimentation is a rapidly expanding practice that promises to make big waves in the marketing world.
Making the Choice Between Umbraco and Wordpress
At Blend, we try to be selective about the technologies we work with: we strive to pick the right tool for the right job; given a client's budget, needs, and long-term goals, we want to use the content management system (CMS) that best fits their needs.
Understanding Site Search — Your Guide to Site Search Functionality
Site search requires big decisions — and solid expectations. We introduce a four-part series on planning for and making decisions around your site's internal search.
Who we work with.
We’re very specific in the systems we partner with. And we’re very specific in who we recommend YOU work with. Which means you can be sure that you’re getting exactly the right solution — enterprise, open-source, .NET, integrations — for your project.
Optimizely
As a Platinum Partner and past Partner of the Year, we have a long track record of successful projects with Optimizely (formerly Episerver).
Umbraco
As one of Umbraco's Platinum Partners, we have both consulted on and developed for Umbraco, the "Friendly" CMS.
SiteImprove
Blend is an official implementation and sales partner of SiteImprove.