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Editor’s Note: Why Another Tech Issue?
Even though tech is everywhere these days, it’s still an important topic to focus on for associations.
Know Your Cyber Threat Vocabulary
Cybersecurity has its own intimidating jargon. You’ll be better equipped to address your cyber risks when you know the terminology.
3 Steps to Better Cybersecurity
Most association leaders take cybersecurity seriously, but few feel confident that they know how to analyze and address cyber risks. To heighten your cybersecurity awareness and bolster your protection against a breach, experts recommend three practical steps: train staff to identify attacks, assess your IT systems’ risk level, and develop a response plan for a probably inevitable intrusion.
Development Decisions for Association Apps
Apps can be a great way to reach members, but they come with complications and considerations that other technologies don’t.
App Happy: Why Associations Are Embracing Apps
People use their mobile devices for communicating, reading, learning, and just about everything else—and apps make much of that activity possible. Associations have increasingly embraced consumers’ affinity for apps, using them to put resources and benefits at members’ fingertips.
Training Camp: Get Employees Up To Speed on Your Tech Tools
Planning to shed your old technology for a hot new product or service? You’ll need to condition your staff to accept and adopt the upgrade. Here’s how to build an agile, multiphase training plan that targets their needs before and after implementation.
More Tech-Training Tips For Your Association
A few more ways you can get your staff firing on all cylinders when it comes to learning a new software tool.
In This Together: Lessons From a Kickstarter Icon
Kickstarter cofounder Yancey Strickler helped invent a formula for getting the masses behind a great idea. Step one: Get comfortable with taking a few chances.
Executive Summary: Diana Erani
Diana Erani, the vice president of health informatics for the Massachusetts League Of Community Health Centers, has an imperfect piece of advice to share.
Crowdsource: Leafy Legacy
Healthy urban forests have their day in Idaho.
Ask the CEO: Deanna Tharpe
Deanna Tharpe, executive director, Down Syndrome Affiliates in Action, answers questions from DSAIA member Kari Jones, president and CEO, Down Syndrome Association of Central Ohio.
Comings and Goings: May/June 2018
A roundup of new hires and other personnel moves in the association industry.
Global Spotlight: Creating Global Citizens
The World Federation of United Nations Associations is bringing together high school students, with United Nations goals.
Power of A: Women’s Health—in a Hurry
A convenient cancer screening offered by the College of American Pathologists brings the doctor to the patient.
Board Smarts: Welcome a New Voice
A young member gets a seat at the board table at the Emergency Nurses Association. Until recently, there was a voice missing in the boardroom at the Emergency Nurses Association. While almost a third of ENA members are young professionals, defined as having five years of experience or less, no one on the national board fell […]
CEO to CEO: Tech Tools
What was the last tech tool or gadget that you purchased for personal use, and why?
3 Lessons: Connector-in-Chief
Maunda Land, MBA, CMP, CAE, director of membership engagement, diversity, and student programs for the Institute of Internal Auditors, makes it her mission to connect with others.
New Money: A Cram Session on the Cloud
ABRET Neurodiagnostic Credentialing and Accreditation’s Cloud-based exam prep provides a resource and revenue.
Associations USA: Virginia
Associations are everywhere. Here’s a snapshot from the Old Dominion.
The Fix: Cyber Coverage for Your Association
Why your association may want to invest in cyber-liability insurance.
Good Counsel: Devil in the Details
Don’t ignore the boilerplate in your next contract review. Read on for some thoughts on how to better parse your contracts.
Tech Memo: Chatbot at Your Service
Artificial intelligence powers new digital assistants.
Talking Tech: Cultivating Collaboration
Association teams include people from a variety of disciplines, and they need to work well together. Mike Guerrieri, CAE, strategic consultant, technology management, at DelCor Technology Solutions, explains how tech tools can support collaboration.
I Can’t Live Without My… Zoom
This app brings remote teams together in virtual spaces.
Membership Memo: Sell a Sweeter Deal With A/B Testing
Use A/B testing to learn what brings members back.
Rules of Engagement: Advocacy Actions
3 ways to engage members in an awareness campaign.
Destination: Honolulu
Hawaii’s largest city offers more than just beautiful beaches.
Meetings Memo: Kids Welcome
A meeting’s new initiative puts family first.
Books: AI Strategy
In their book Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence, authors Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb bring up the business case for artificial intelligence.
Career Coach: Bounce Back
Five ways execs can build their resiliency muscles.
Association Agenda: Still Talking Through Tax Law
ASAE takes up fringe benefits, fuzzy rules with Treasury.
Brought to You by… Sunglasses
In sometimes surprising ways, associations play direct and indirect roles in bringing the products, services, and activities of daily life to people around the world. Including sunglasses.
