Author
Ernie Smith
Ernie Smith is a former senior editor for Associations Now.
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Career DevelopmentArticleOver 5 years old
Time to Give Your Resume a Refresh
It's always a good time to update your resume, but a reminder certainly helps. That's why Career Directors…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Directing With Drones: MPAA Wins FAA Exemptions for Filmmakers
Thanks, in part, to a push by the Motion Picture Association of America, a handful of film-production crews…
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FundraisingArticleOver 5 years old
When The Kickstart Doesn’t Work: Fixing Crowdfunding’s Pitfalls
Not every crowdfunding project is successful, and that can lead to a lot of frustrated backers. But there’s…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
American Beverage Association Aims High With Anti-Obesity Partnership
With three of the group’s most prominent member companies on board—along with a political figure no less esteemed…
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MembershipArticleOver 5 years old
Hootsuite: Tweet for Help
Social management giant Hootsuite has a new trick up its sleeve that involves an old-school form of social…
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OperationsArticleOver 5 years old
Ebola Crisis Raises Tough Sanitation Questions for Medical Groups
The recent situation involving two U.S. medical relief workers admitted to an Atlanta hospital to be treated for…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Plastic Microbeads In Toothpaste Raise Controversy
Consumer outcry over the potential health effects of microbeads in toothpaste has led a major brand to remove…
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Conscious InclusionArticleOver 5 years old
Thursday Buzz: How Not To Discuss Workplace Gender Issues
An Australian startup CEO gets pilloried for his comments on why he hires women. Also: A major technology…
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Marketing / CommunicationsArticleOver 5 years old
Wednesday Buzz: Softball, Biotech-Style
How one industry group leveraged softball to boost membership camaraderie—and it worked so well that the league spun…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Realtors Score Spot at Table to Talk Drones
At a time when some of its members are using commercial drones to photograph their properties, despite a…
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MembershipArticleOver 5 years old
Fellowship in the Sky: Catholic Aviation Association Takes Flight
Combining interests in both aviation and faith, the Catholic Aviation Association hopes to build strong communities through inexpensive…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
U.K. Trade Group No. 1 With a Bullet on Fighting Piracy
Increasing its pace over the past year, the British Phonographic Industry has topped the charts on an issue…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Online Publishers Rebrand as Digital Content Next
Citing changes in the association’s membership as well as the overall content landscape, the Online Publishers Association this…
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Organizational StrategyArticleOver 5 years old
Mission Statements: Mission, Impossible
The painful lesson about mission statements one nonprofit-focused professor learned from a recent assignment. Also: Sorry, micromanagers, but…
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Organizational StrategyArticleOver 5 years old
Your Cloud App Strategy Is Full of Holes, but Don’t Worry
According to recent research, the rise of “shadow IT”—in other words, applications that are brought into the office…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Social Media Roundup: Careful Building That Custom AMS
An association management system maker who designed a custom AMS before getting into the biz explains the pitfalls…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
A Tradeshow Icon: Remembering CEA’s Jack Wayman
Wayman, who died earlier this month at the age of 92, was the person who did the most…
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OperationsArticleOver 5 years old
TSA Roundup: House Passes Security-Fees Cap, Lines Get Shorter
Frequent travelers just got some positive news from Congress about the controversial increase in airport screening fees implemented…
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Marketing / CommunicationsArticleOver 5 years old
Airport Group Highlights Members With Fresh Deck of Trading Cards
Taking advantage of the lasting popularity of memorabilia related to IATA codes, Airports Council International—North America is working…
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Dallas Police Association: Here’s Our Plan to Boost Officer Morale
With more than 80 percent of the association's members saying that the Dallas Police Department's morale is at…
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It’s Not Me, It’s You: Why Avon Left an Association It Helped Found
With questions arising around other members of the Direct Selling Association, a longtime member of the 104-year-old group…
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What Larry Ellison Teaches About the Nature of Philanthropy
The longtime Oracle CEO, who stepped down from the leadership role this week, has often been quiet about…
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Business DevelopmentArticleOver 5 years old
Friday Buzz: Meet a 3D-Printed Car In the Flesh
An association's bleeding-edge tradeshow trick—a 3D-printed car on the tradeshow floor—comes to fruition. One blogger got a chance…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Broadcast Industry Bill Loses A Big Talker: “Local Choice”
A bill affecting the transmission of broadcast stations over cable and satellite feeds once included a provision that…
