Vanguard Tech

MAY 23, 2013

web developers should “consider routine monitoring of content readability with SMOG to increase the accessibility and ease of comprehension of online consumer-orientated healthcare information.”. The researchers cited in the article used a tool called SMOG ( simple measure of gobbledygook) to measure their findings.

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Vanguard Tech

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Kathryn Hamilton is Vice President for Marketing and Communications at NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association. If you make it there, we look forward to connecting with you and hearing your stories and experiences. Email her at hamilton(at)naiop.org. Connect with him @rvanhilst or rvanhilst(at)vtcus.com.

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Vanguard Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

By developing a content strategy and embracing content marketing, you make sure that those eyeballs are staying on your site and keeping engaged. The main reason associations should care about content marketing is the fact that you have competition trying to get your members to their sites. Spread the Content Creation Around.

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Vanguard Tech

MARCH 22, 2013

Digg announced they are pushing up development of their reader ( add your input here ) and everyone is testing other platforms. Every content junkie was just collectively told we need to quit our habit cold turkey. While there are online petitions to save Google reader , the rest of us are scrambling to find an alternative.

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Vanguard Tech

OCTOBER 24, 2012

A good example of this in practice is the site Vanguard developed for the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT). Networking and connecting with other professionals. Get industry news. Find a resource. Get or renew certification. Learn about regulatory updates.

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Vanguard Tech

JULY 11, 2013

Agile software development and other technology trends have trained internet users to expect things to be in a perpetual state of improvement – also known as “beta.” While it is nice to have every archived newsletter on your site, you don’t need them there for a successful launch. Users live in “Beta”.

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Vanguard Tech

MARCH 28, 2012

These are products and services someone paid money to develop, that engaged me and I paid my own money for. (Sorry, too many embarrassing websites to recount here.). “So At first glance these are meaningless pursuits irrelevant to my professional life, right? And when they didn’t keep up or maintain my interest – I moved on.

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Vanguard Tech

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Building Online Forms – Wufoo – For many websites, creating a form to capture information or do a quick poll requires a call to a developer. If you need a basic word processor, spreadsheet, presentations and more, here’s the place to start. Enter Wufoo. Simply build your form, grab the embed code and drop it into your site.

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Vanguard Tech

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Whether a staff person or a member (ideally the latter, or several of them), that person needs ongoing development and must commit the time to foster the community. - Don't underestimate the resources required to facilitate the community. Bob Farrace, National Association of Secondary School Principals. Be prepared.

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Vanguard Tech

MARCH 7, 2013

Mike Wiley and I (that's us in the photo) just returned from the Avectra Users and Developers Conference (AUDC) in Orlando, Florida and we were blown away by the amount of engagement, learning and innovation in this one conference. And there is no better place to become an “AMS Ninja” than your AMS’s users conference.

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Vanguard Tech

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Larger organizations have network administrators, developers and web designers fluent in server configurations, API and HTML. Digital native – As your own web publisher, your web manager needs to know and live in the platforms where your members are so she can effectively promote content in the right channels or technologies. What about IT?

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Vanguard Tech

MARCH 15, 2017

As digital communications mature and competition on web and mobile increases, we see more personalized digital experiences—sites and apps that seem to know us and be able to deliver just what we want and need. So what does that mean for you?

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Vanguard Tech

MARCH 29, 2011

The challenge is that as organizations and managers focus on developing social media channels, the core website is often overlooked as everyone chases the new social media “shiny object”. As you develop your online strategy make sure to bake in the tools your audiences will need to share what they find with others.

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Vanguard Tech

MARCH 5, 2013

Vanguard has developed a proven process for integrating systems so that your association can have the best tools available for a plug-and-play website experience. We leverage the power of your association management software (AMS) to manage the login process and most of the member self-service by skinning the AMS web portal.

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Vanguard Tech

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Once you understand the online landscape in which you site exists and how it will be used (and judged), you can develop an online presence that communicates your association’s brand and builds member value. Is it ready for Responsive Web Design ? Is the content written for the modern web?

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Vanguard Tech

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

First, there are many phases to a redesign including discovery, design, development and more than just creating new color schemes. Most of these integrations are standardized but some require custom development (especially if the systems have not been updated in many years). So why does it take so long?

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