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Trends in Education-to-Employment: Part I

Association Success

The more I learn, the more I am convinced that associations have an important role to play in defining skills and competencies and in providing education to make a dent in the wicked problem we are being presented with in the United States. Since writing the white paper, we have actually seen the trends we highlighted accelerate.

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Health Partnership Comes Up With Safer Opioid Prescription Strategies

Associations Now

Both organizations agreed that the goal was not to create or act as a safety event reporting system but rather to bring together relevant data from multiple sources to inform strategies to address a high-priority safety issue,” the organizations said in the white paper [PDF]. The United States is in the midst of a deadly opioid crisis.

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Going Global in Trust-Challenged Times

Associations Now

Global trust in institutions is at a low ebb, which presents a challenge for associations reaching beyond the United States. On one hand, it’s fact for many associations that the path to revenue growth via meetings, credentialing, and other products increasingly leads outside the United States.

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With Deadline in Rearview, EMV Expansion Still Putters Along

Associations Now

Despite an October 1 deadline that changed fraud liability requirements for companies that accept credit cards in the United States, the EMV format isn’t everywhere yet. The EMV Migration Forum recently released a white paper outlining ways that tips can be included in an EMV environment. Getting the U.S.

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Inside the Minds of Millennial Attendees

Associations Now

A new white paper by New York Times bestselling author Dan Schawbel offers some tips. There are 80 million millennials in the United States. The best conferences are layering technology on top of the event with a mobile site, with social network sharing, and with games,” he writes.

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Associations Live: Cognitive Surplus

Associations Live

I’m sure that there is an entire white paper that can be written on this, but given the beautiful summer weather outside and the fact that it is Friday, you’re only going to get some bullet points from me. Technology has created endless options for people to get involved online. Technology. (59). Membership.

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Association Subculture: Where No Association Has Gone Before.

Association Subculture

Management book after study after thesis after white paper on leadership has never even come close to detailing what an organization could or should be like the fiction of Star Trek does. She is determined to see associations continue to serve as a bulwark of adult education in the United States. And heres the point.