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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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Technology Takeaways From the Hospitality Industry

Associations Now

A new survey sheds light on how hotels and restaurants are engaging their guests through technology tools. As meeting attendees rely more heavily on their devices and become more familiar with the technology tools those outside your industry are offering, they’ll expect your association to deliver that same level of service and experience.

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Better Emergency Alerts: How Associations Are Helping Bolster Warning Standards

Associations Now

Since 2012, the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) system has become an increasingly prevalent way of reaching the public with relevant emergency information at a moment’s notice. The technology, widely backed by industry groups such as the National Association of Broadcasters, supports a new type of alert called Advanced Emergency Alerting.

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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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Textile Trade Group Gets Down With Ethical Practices

Associations Now

The North Face clothing brand was criticized after a 2012 animal rights report surfaced saying that its down-filled coats contained feathers from geese in Hungary that were being force-fed and live-plucked. The technology was hailed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. ” Taking Responsibility.

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Not Just “Geeks”: Get a Better Understanding of Your Tech Folks

Associations Now

It was an unassuming late-conference session with zero slides and a half-full room, but the people who stuck around to talk technology and marketing got their money’s worth last week. It cuts to something Delcor Senior Technology Consultant Tobin Conley highlighted in a series of recent blog posts.

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The ‘Duck, Duck, Goose’ Aspect of Association Communications

Association Adviser

“Information overload/communication clutter” resurfaced as the top communication challenge faced by associations in 2018, after temporarily being eclipsed by “inability to communicate member benefits effectively” in 2017. The wonders of technology can be hard to keep up with, even for those of us who spend every day in front of a computer.