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Evaluating safety: Recognizing a need to protect communities

Ungrated

Forty percent say they’ve been verbally threated several times compared to 28% in 2013. They can be as simple as educating residents, board members, and staff members about safety and resolving conflict to more involved efforts such as installing security technology and working with law enforcement.

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Event, Venue Groups Eye Security Focus After Manchester Attack

Associations Now

While the attack drew comparisons to the Paris incident, Event Safety Alliance (ESA) Vice President Steven Adelman, who spoke to The New York Times , saw parallels with another high-profile event: the 2013 bombing at the Boston Marathon.

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Lean Methodology: Before and After

Association Success

I first read The Lean Startup by Eric Ries in 2013. Since then, I’ve been implementing the methodology with my team at the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) where I work as Chief Information and Innovation Officer, leading the modernization of the organization through the implementation of technology.

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Monday Buzz: The State of Association Publishing

Associations Now

Plus: Why keep so much information stored away in unintuitive documents? The shares of revenue from paid subscriptions, events, data and info sales, and “other” sources all increased in 2013, though print-advertising revenue still accounts for 54.7 percent in 2013 to 9.3 Why do we keep information in document files

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Tech Groups Urge Congress to Get to Work on USA Freedom Act

Associations Now

When Congress returned to the Hill from its summer recess earlier this month, a letter from several technology trade associations was waiting. The internet giant refused to comply with the requests, but was ultimately compelled to do so under threat of a $250,000-per-day fine, according to unsealed legal documents. technology sector.

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How Tablet Friendly Is Your Conference?

Velvet Chainsaw

Pew Research released an interesting report: Tablet Ownership 2013. Findings are based on phone interviews conducted with 2,252 adults ages 18 and older in April and May 2013. They’ll consider how this emerging technology can be leveraged to improve the attendee experience and value proposition.

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Social Media Roundup: The New Face of Bitcoin

Associations Now

million in 2013 [link]. million on lobbying in 2013, largely to go after controversial legislation that would mandate research into the real-world effects of violent video games. Also, the foundation plans to allow for international expansion by giving affiliates in other countries their own subdomains. ht @ BTCFoundation ).