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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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A Century-Old Association Committed to Online Community and Data Analysis

Higher Logic

AACSB launched their all-member forum in 2014, giving their entire membership the ability to communicate with one another for the first time in the association’s history. In the first few months of 2017, Corporate Official Representative engagement almost exceeded their 2016 engagement numbers.

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

Associations Now

The most successful piece published on Associations Now over the past decade, this 2014 guest post by Lori Porter, MBA, IOM, CAE, part of a series from ASAE’s Ethics Committee, discussed the fundamental issues around building an ethical culture. In his most popular post, from 2014, he shared some smart takeaways on engagement from the book ?The

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Associations: Solving the Skills Gap with Digital Credentials

WBT Systems

million open jobs in this country and only 98,000 were added in March 2017. Skills gap theorists say that formal education isn’t preparing enough candidates for specialized high-skill, high-growth jobs such as data analysis, user experience design and software programming. EDUCAUSE implemented a digital badge program in 2014.

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How an IT Executive Deftly Handled Public Criticism

Associations Now

The New York Post slammed a 2014 decision, spearheaded by Deputy Commissioner Jessica Tisch, to put the entire police department on Windows Phone 8.1. From the outside, it was akin to seeing someone put their employees on BlackBerry for the first time in 2017. The Windows Phone software used by the NYPD. ( via NYPD News ).

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AV Alliance Pushes for New Ethernet-Based Standards

Associations Now

The newly announced Software Defined Video over Ethernet (SDVoE) Alliance hopes to create new standards for ethernet-based distribution of video and audio signals over Internet Protocol (IP) networks. The group is aiming its efforts at the 2017 edition of Integrated Systems Europe , which takes place in Amsterdam early next month.

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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. Facebook acquired Oculus in 2014. The SaaS Explosion. I can’t remember the last time that happened.

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