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Thoughts on ASAE12 from DELP

Association Advocacy Chick

– Sikha Singh, class of 2012-2014. Pierre Desy, class of 2012-2014. I have to admit, I was bracing myself for the discussion on “relevance” What was intriguing to me this year was that I heard more stories about organizations that have already begun to transform. - Teshia Briscoe Birts, class of 2012-2014.

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Study: The Gender Pay Gap Is Real—and It’s Not Changing

Associations Now

The 2014 edition of “The Simple Truth About the Gender Pay Gap” found that in 2012 women working full time were paid 77 percent of what men were paid. This guide is designed to empower our members and other advocates with the facts and resources they need to tell the simple truth about the pay gap,” Hallman wrote of the 2014 report.

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Motorcycle Industry: Efforts to Reach Female Bikers Paying Off

Associations Now

The number of female owners better than doubled from 2003 to 2014,” Sarah Schilke, marketing manager of BMW Motorrad USA and chairwoman of the female motorcycle-industry professionals group PowerLily, said in a MIC press release. Confident Growth.

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The Unspoken Contract You Have With Your Data

Associations Now

CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 or Canada’s Anti-Spam Law set rules of the road for how we use data in certain contexts. That’s why, as I pointed out in a 2014 blog post , users are often more willing to say that they want privacy than they are to take steps to keep it. Granted, laws such as the U.S. But they only go so far.

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Advocacy Group: Information and Influence Boost Google’s Power

Associations Now

Chamber of Commerce, 2014′s largest lobbying spender. This growth in lobbying muscle was sudden: Google was the 68th-largest spender on lobbying in 2010, and back in 2003, it spent only $100,000 on lobbying. Google also helps fund 140 outside groups, such as the U.S.

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Venture Capital Association Reports Industry Slowdown

Associations Now

VC firms in the United States experienced their slowest quarter for funding since 2003, posting a 14 percent decline in the total amount of dollar commitments compared to the first quarter of 2012, according to a report by Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association. “The The first quarter of 2013 was not kind to U.S.

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

With all the recent talk about the metaverse, it’s easy to forget that the virtual reality program Second Life was introduced in 2003, and the term “metaverse” was applied to it at the time. Facebook acquired Oculus in 2014. Most learning businesses, of course, are a long way from rising to that standard. The eXtension of Reality.

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