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The Modern Membership Org with Bursting Silver is the podcast for leaders of associations, unions, and regulatory bodies who are done working around outdated systems and ready to build something better. Each episode brings together practitioners, technology experts, and organizational leaders to talk honestly about what it actually takes to modernize. From replacing legacy workflows and unlocking cleaner data, to adopting AI responsibly and empowering staff to do their best work.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Modern Membership Org with Bursting Silver is the podcast for leaders of associations, unions, and regulatory bodies who are done working around outdated systems and ready to build something better. Each episode brings together practitioners, technology experts, and organizational leaders to talk honestly about what it actually takes to modernize.
The Modern Membership Org is hosted by Bursting Silver. The show has published 21 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Stop Paying to Solve the Same Problem: Lessons From 45+ Union System Implementations" (20 October 2026, 42 minutes), "Built for the Work: Membership Platform vs. General CRM | Jeremy Jalie" (6 October 2026, 45 minutes), and "Small But Mighty: The Two-Person Team Behind 600 Member Organizations" (15 September 2026, 30 minutes).
The Modern Membership Org publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 31 minutes across 21 episodes.
Booking probability for The Modern Membership Org is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Modern Membership Org requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Modern Membership Org's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for The Modern Membership Org are Associations, Unions & Political Groups. The Modern Membership Org has a business audience.
Bursting Silver hosts The Modern Membership Org, a business podcast with 21 episodes published.
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The Modern Membership Org
Chris Walton is back. More than 45 unions have replaced their systems through the ACTU's Union Innovation Hub, and he has watched every one of them. Riley Miller asks him what union leaders should learn from that before...
Jeremy Jalie spent seven years selling a general CRM platform into UK membership organizations before coming back to ASI. James Harrison asks him what he saw from the other side. His answer starts with the gap between...
Michele Morgan runs the iMIS Users Group on a staff she describes as "maybe two whole people." That team serves more than 600 member organizations and somewhere between five and seven thousand individuals. She closes on...
Members hand their organizations a lot of information about themselves. Career profile, specialization, event history, courses taken, years of service. Then they get an email back that reads as though the relationship...
Episode #16
Nobody sat down and decided to build a twenty year member history. It happened one interaction at a time. Event registrations, session attendance, course completions, committee service, volunteer hours, dues payments...
Moira is the President of Ellipsis Partners, which works exclusively with associations and nonprofits on digital and technology strategy. She has over 30 years in association technology, 15 of them as a senior...
A year ago, Bursting Silver gave everyone in the company access to ChatGPT and started running hackathons, lunch-and-learns, and working groups. It worked, until it became obvious the informal approach couldn't keep up...
Chris Walton spent forty years inside the union movement and built the ACTU's Union Innovation Hub — a movement-owned platform now shared by 30+ unions. His throughline: there's no new principle of organizing, but there...
Ellen Turner has been on both sides of a system change. Years before she became a senior consultant at Bursting Silver, she was staff at a trade association when leadership announced a new system out of nowhere. The...
Most companies treat "great place to work" as a line on the careers page. Will Cooper treats it as a practice. He's the Senior Manager of People & Culture at Bursting Silver, and his take is clear: his job isn't to own...
Most leaders picture a system migration as a simple hand-off: pick up the data, drop it in the shiny new tool, done. Des Hymers has spent almost twenty years watching what actually happens. He's a Solution Architect at...
Most union leaders brace for the worst going into a modernization project; bad data, broken systems, a painful slog. Kevin VanderKley keeps finding the opposite. The Chief Consulting Officer at Bursting Silver joins...
Most leaders don't get stuck on AI because they're short on ideas, they get stuck because they have too many and no obvious place to start. Keith Stoute, Chief Product Officer at Bursting Silver and the firm's in-house...
Most membership organizations don't lose members in one dramatic moment, they lose them quietly. Doug Morris, VP of Sales, Support & Engineering at ASI and a decades-long veteran of the iMIS community, joins Riley...
When Ellen Turner started her first iMIS database job, she didn't have a manual. She had a community. Two weeks into the role, she was sent to her first iUG conference, where seasoned members took her under their wing...
This episode features James Schwartz, CTO of Bursting Silver, discussing how AI can be practically adopted by non-profit organizations. In this episode: Why so much AI "demos well but doesn't deliver", and how to tell...
Ask most technology vendors what makes a union different from an association and you'll get a blank stare. The answer isn't just regulatory complexity or collective bargaining agreements, it's the nature of membership...
Everyone thinks they know what change management means. Usually they picture a training session or a few all-staff emails. James Harrison has spent 25 years in technology, 15 of those deep in iMIS implementations, and...
Most association leaders know the word. Relevance. They know they need to earn it, that the old default position is gone. The real question is whether they can execute on it. Bursting Silver CEO Al Povoledo joins Riley...
"We've been on the system for years, are we actually getting the most out of it?" Executive directors and operations leads ask Bursting Silver this question all the time. The honest answer is usually no, not fully, and...
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