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Hospital Coalition: Let’s Make Our Tech More Interoperable

Associations Now

The rise of technology has objectively changed the medical field in recent years—and it’s created a need for increased levels of information sharing between facilities, software, and medical professionals. Despite this, there’s plenty of room for medical facilities to improve things—and they’ve had success with similar issues in the past.

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Why We Love Associations: 10 Top Stories From the Associations Now Archives

Associations Now

Associations Now didn’t have a digital news presence until 2012, but we’ve covered enough of the 2010s that we have a lot of association stories to look back at in our archives. A scene from Freed’s 2012 out-of-office message, titled “Andy Freed is Out of the Office: The Trailer.” How much is a lot? iStock/Thinkstock).

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Gartner Study: Users Moving to Tablets at Quicker Rate

Associations Now

At the same time, the tablet market, which was not a major player until 2010, is expected to hit 197 million in 2013 and 468 million by 2017. And that’s nothing compared to mobile phones: Shipments of devices like smartphones are expected to top the 2 billion mark by 2017.) ” The most popular OS?

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Higher Logic Joins Team Rubicon to Tackle Community Disaster Response in Houston

Higher Logic

All together, nine eligible Orange Army volunteers (myself included) geared up to join the TRibe’s mission for a week in Houston, working alongside a series of military personnel, veterans, and fellow “kick-ass civilian” volunteers to rebuild a home that suffered damage from Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Marco Falconi, Software Architect. “I

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) was established well before 2007—Salesforce, the company that put SaaS on the map, was founded in 1999—but it took a while for its impact to really be felt broadly, particularly in learning businesses. The SaaS Explosion. I can’t remember the last time that happened. It also, of course, fuels more competition.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

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For one thing, you need a whole new piece of software (an LRS ) that is separate from your LMS and is going to cost you more money. People who learned all this for the first time in 2017 were wading in the mucky waters of the Trough of Disillusionment, trying not to get pulled under. Here are the last three years: 2017 predictions.

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Salesforce or Microsoft: What’s the Right CRM Platform for Your Association Management Software?

Nimble AMS

In the past few years, there has been a noticeable push by associations to leverage enterprise constituent relationship management (CRM) platforms from Salesforce or Microsoft as the platform for their association management software (AMS). If your association is going to be innovative, it needs to be running the latest and greatest software.