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MembershipArticleOver 5 years old
Data: The Money in Membership
There's room for growth in an association membership career. According to ASAE research in 2014, an entry-level membership…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Medical Scribes: Industry Group Says Field Rising Quickly
In the past few years, electronic medical records have created the need for a new type of employee:…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
New Venue Standard Certification Considers Both Facilities and Service
The new Venue Standard global certification takes a different approach to assessing convention centers, evaluating quality of service…
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MembershipArticleOver 5 years old
Study: Homeowners Associations Hit New Population Peaks
A new study by the Community Associations Institute found that homeowners associations, co-ops, and condominium communities represent a…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Furniture Today Bedding Conference’s Record Setting Effort
How one Orlando tradeshow became host to a world-record attempt that involved a lot of mattresses—as well as…
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LearningArticleOver 5 years old
News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of Air Transport, Science & More
Welcome to the weekly news quiz featuring questions from some of our most recent articles. In this edition:…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Data-Driven Meetings: Is Your Association Ready?
One conference hired scientists to develop algorithms to better engineer in-person meetings. If that sounds too advanced for…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
National Association of Credit Management: Pull Out the Plastic
The National Association of Credit Management opens its 2015 Credit Conference & Expo this weekend.
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
FieldRise: Farmers Grow Information Sharing
The new FieldRise program, gaining the backing of a number of food industry trade groups in the Midwest…
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Business DevelopmentArticleOver 5 years old
Irish Whiskey Association Shares New Industry Vision
Counting prominent brands like Jameson and Bushmills in its cabinet, the Irish Whiskey Association hopes to expand its…
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Marketing / CommunicationsArticleOver 5 years old
Thursday Buzz: Starbucks’ Big Mobile-Fraud Problem
The company, which has seen much success with its mobile platform, is dealing with reports that hackers are…
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Career DevelopmentArticleOver 5 years old
The Work-Life Balancing Act
A new study shows that managing work-life balance is getting harder for workers around the world. Not a…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Amtrak Derailment Puts Transit Groups’ Issues Front and Center
Tuesday's deadly crash along Amtrak's Northeast Corridor spoke to an issue that associations have been emphasizing for years:…
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Hotel Group: Fake Hotel-Booking Sites on the Rise
The American Hotel & Lodging Association says that federal regulators should do more to protect consumers from fraudulent…
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FundraisingArticleOver 5 years old
Give Local America Raises $68 Million for Nonprofits in One Day
In just two years, Give Local America has become the premier springtime nonprofit fundraising campaign. More than 9,000…
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LearningArticleOver 5 years old
Wednesday Buzz: Let’s Be Kind
Valuable lessons from the near-firing of a Facebook luminary. Plus: Bicycle activists bring online discussions to the real…
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Career DevelopmentArticleOver 5 years old
The Missing Link Between Membership and Professional Development
Another study offers evidence that education is one of associations' biggest draws for nonmembers, so how do we…
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Business DevelopmentArticleOver 5 years old
Best Benefit Ever: A Surge of Local Data for Two Realtor Associations
Thanks to a partnership with RealEstate Business Intelligence, members of two realtor associations have new access to local…
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Marketing / CommunicationsArticleOver 5 years old
The Associations Giving Wastewater a Second Life
It may be one of the most difficult messaging challenges in the world of associations, but groups focused…
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LearningArticleOver 5 years old
Survey: Technology Use Among Young Kids Is Skyrocketing
Children these days are learning to navigate an iPad almost before they know how to stand on their…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Retail Association Pushes for Greater Credit Card Security
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe won praise from the Retail Industry Leaders Association after he signed a directive mandating…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Tuesday Buzz: The “New” Association Is Global and Accessible
Associations may need to think bigger and open themselves up to a new worldwide mindset, says a meetings…
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Meetings / EventsArticleOver 5 years old
Science Groups: Federal Travel Restrictions Raise Major Concerns
More than 100 associations in the engineering, technology, and scientific spaces—led by the American Association for the Advancement…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Digital Preservation: Are You Doing Enough to Prevent Link Rot?
Organizations and universities alike have been banding together to protect important-yet-dated documents from disappearing entirely online. Digital preservation…
