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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.
Integrating Memberships and Printing into Digital
Blend helped work with American Bonanza Society’s publishing partner to integrate membership management right into the site.
Accessible Design to Stretch an Existing Installation
Well-built sites should live longer than a few years, so Blend helped CNO provide design and accessibility updates within the existing install.
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.
Creating and Facilitating a Community
American Bonanza Society’s user forums are a central hub for information on Bonanza-style aircraft. We built them right into Episerver.
An Intranet Solution Built on Episerver
Connecting hundreds of people within an organization requires a unique content solution.
Tips for Associations.
We've written at length, both here and beyond, on Association websites.
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.
Chapter 16: Select a Content Management System Off-site link
Selecting a content management system (CMS) is a combination of research and vendor engagement. You need to identify prospective systems, investigate their capabilities, engage with the vendors for demonstrations or questions, and finally distill and synthesize all that information and come to a decision.
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 Gold 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.