Higher Logic

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

2017 is shaping up to be our best year yet! Last month we announced our acquisition of Socious, bringing the best minds in member engagement together to lead in product innovation and the community industry. Now we can’t wait to introduce the newest member of the Higher Logic community family: we have acquired Kavi, an online collaboration software company.

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YourMembership

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The following is a guest blog article originally published by Jeff Cobb of Tagoras, a leading expert in strategy, learning, marketing and technology to organizations in the business of lifelong learning. The is the final installment of a three-part series. For a refresher, here’s Part 1 and Part 2. At Tagoras, a lot of technology […].

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Virtual

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The. RSA Conference is this week in San Francisco. This event is like the annual prom for the security industry—part conference, part trade show, part “place to be.” In the midst of all the Diet Cokes that I shared with various conference participants, a few musings about the world of security have become clear. First, the level of threat exposure has never been higher.

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Along with protecting the association from financial downturns and funding new initiatives, creating—and adhering to—a detailed reserves policy will help you manage board and staff expectations. Finances are one of the top sources of stress in a marriage, according to the American Psychological Association’s Stress in America Survey. It’s easy to see why.

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Smooth The Path

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

We all want to feel like we’ve made a contribution. Leaving a legacy would be great. We hope we will make the world a better place. So how do we know we’ve made a positive contribution? This is a gray area, especially when our aspirations are sometimes super-human. So to deal with the expectation versus reality gap we have mistakenly substituted proxies as evidence that we are leading a meaningful life.

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Beth Kanter

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

New Research and a Welcome Surprise from Foundation CEOs. By Lindsay Austin Louie. “How much promise do the following practices hold for increasing foundations’ impact in the coming decades?” The twenty-four potential answers provided covered a broad spectrum of philanthropic practice, from taking more risks, to providing more general operating support, to engaging in impact investing.

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

A new report from ISACA finds that the demand for cybersecurity positions outstrips the supply. Even if your association is focused on cybersecurity, finding qualified help could prove difficult. Cybersecurity is all over the news lately, from Yahoo sending out warnings to users regarding potential malicious activity on their accounts, to Apple routinely sending out updates to iOS to patch vulnerabilities.

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

An association tech insider says technical skills aren’t the only thing needed to run an IT department in 2017. Also: What first-time event planners should know. It’s not just about having someone in charge of the IT department. That someone needs to have a strategic mind to keep your innovation flowing. A recent post by Delcor’s David DeLorenzo makes the case that a CIO mindset—that is, someone who can strategize and manage an increasingly outsourced network of vendors—is essential for associat

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

To strengthen its global presence and its place in the community, the International Compliance Association has expanded into the United States. The International Compliance Association is expanding its global reach with its first U.S.-based office in New York City. ICA, which serves compliance professionals and their financial institutions, made the venture at the request of its worldwide members and the idea that a global financial group should have a foothold in the U.S.

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The association’s new experimental platform will allow political candidates to raise money for future campaigns while taking part in an online Q&A session. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers raised more than $13,000 through the platform Wednesday. For half an hour Wednesday, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) was part of what might be the most interesting political fundraising experiment on the internet.

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