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The Fight to Fill Out the Periodic Table

Associations Now

IUPAC, the nongovernmental entity that focuses on organizing and determining standards in chemistry, announced that four new elements—113, 115, 117, and 118—had been discovered by scientific teams working in Japan, Russia, and the United States. The complex work created an element that had a half-life of just 1/1000 of a second.

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Why Could Online Marketing Get More Onerous? Blame Canada.

Associations Now

It may be an obscure holiday to much of the world, but you probably should have a good idea of when Canada Day hits—especially if you’re responsible for your organization’s online marketing. Here’s what you need to know. Why’s that? A few things worth knowing about the law: Is it like CAN-SPAM? Blame Canada.

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Serve Versus Sell: How to Negotiate Associations’ Dual Roles

Associations Now

A study on how organizations with hybrid missions—both social and commercial—manage the inherent tensions between the two offers some guidance for associations and the membership business model. The organizations that are successful are the ones that keep the tension alive. A Duel of Dual roles.

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Association Law Blog: The IRS, Private Inurement and Non-Profit.

Association Law

This blog does not focus on homeowners associations or religious organizations. An outline of inurement principles is available in the IRS publication “ Exempt Organizations – Technical Instructions Program for FY 2003.” Search This Blog. Monday, March 14, 2011. 38599 (11/1980). Payments to Insiders.

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Association Subculture: Why Being Anti-Indispensability is Pro.

Association Subculture

I have to organize outside of ASAE to actively pursue campaign finance reform in opposition to Citizens United and net neutrality because I dont think ASAE is being aggressive enough on either issue. Ive had my membership since 2003 or maybe 2004. Am I going to drop my ASAE membership? Not necessarily.

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Interview with an Expert Series: Associate Executive Director, Myke Kudlas

Blue Sky eLearn

I first took an interest in eLearning in 2001, but became more involved in 2003, when I was the Program Director for the Mayo Clinic Jacksonville Radiography Program. We have 154,000 members, but there are 330,000 radiologic technologists in the United States who could potentially access our content.

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