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Tech Groups Warn of Ripple Effects From App Store Ruling

Associations Now

Pepper holds that lawsuits claiming that Apple unfairly keeps the price of apps high by running the App Store as a monopoly may go forward to trial. The Computer & Communications Industry Association had argued in an amicus brief [PDF] that the lawsuit could make software developers less willing to build platforms. “If

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. In eLearning, we are at the very start of the hype curve with distributed ledgers: we can imagine the technology solving one of our recurring problems.

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Membership Wakeup Call for Associations

Association Adviser

As we go live with this issue, the stock market is near its all-time high, housing prices are rebounding in most parts of the country and the jobless rate has significantly improved since we launched Association Adviser in March 2010. As technology becomes more pervasive, don’t forget the personal side of the member experience.

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Four Trends Tradeshow Organizers Need to Know Now

Associations Now

The ongoing question for the industry remains how to implement the technology so it is cost effective, yields quality information, and is acceptable to the attendee who will be tracked and receive onsite smartphone downloads,” the report noted. Data security and privacy also pose challenges. “The Physical Security.

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Membership Marketing Blog: Fundraising with Social Media

Membership Marketing

” The program he highlights is run by Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) using Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn posts to request donations to fund scholarships for their annual conference. Pricing Your Product, Service, or Membership. Does Wal-Mart Announce a Price Increase? ► 2008. (82). ► 2008. (82).

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Associations Unplugged: Four Questions for Association Executives

SCD Group

Two recent articles in the USA Today Money section hit me as a great illustration of the technology challenges facing today’s associations. This Mark Veverka column focused more on the mental state of technology changes. Is “the PC is deader than the phone booth?”. Unplugged: Got social? To succeed, companies better.

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CMI's Association Management Blog: Association Meetings.

Observations on Association Management

Tuesday, April 8, 2008. So, when someone suggests that technological advances that take advantage of the Internet are going to put a crimp on association meetings, we tend to dismiss it as another bad prediction. Fuel prices are climbing sky-high, making it exceptionally expensive to travel, whether by plane, car, boat, or train.