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Defamation Claims by Directors and Officers Against Members – What you Need to Know

Association Alert

2017) (‘When individuals seek to serve as directors of an organization, they meet the second rationale for public figure status.); Second, private business boards differ from HOA boards because our legislature has extended some First Amendment-type protections to HOA members that corporate shareholders, for example, may not enjoy.

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Better Emergency Alerts: How Associations Are Helping Bolster Warning Standards

Associations Now

And it’s been coming to a head in recent weeks, amid an outbreak of tornadoes throughout the country—some of which struck as far east as New Jersey. A recent CNN piece cites an example of a truck driver who was notified of a tornado warning in his specific area from his mobile device—and got off the road just in time.

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Serving Your Professional Community for Impact

Association Adviser

I soon got to know IEEE’s executive director at the time, and he invited me to sculpt my own job that would allow me to join their executive team in New Jersey as staff executive (what’s in a title?) Loeb, right, presents an ISACA member with an association award in 2017. AA: What have you accomplished at ISACA so far?

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 1.6.17

Reid All About it

However, “association IT decision makers believed that few members would fall into this category and instead thought the largest portion of members would fall into the ‘hesitator’ category” – “optimistic about technology in the abstract but somewhat scared to actually use new technology and therefore unlikely to be early adopters.”.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 1.6.17

Reid All About it

However, “association IT decision makers believed that few members would fall into this category and instead thought the largest portion of members would fall into the ‘hesitator’ category” – “optimistic about technology in the abstract but somewhat scared to actually use new technology and therefore unlikely to be early adopters.”.

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Report: The Story Machine Learning Tells About Nonprofits

Associations Now

The firm used topic modeling, a type of machine learning, to analyze 2017 tax filings from 353,000 nonprofits secured from the IRS and managed using Amazon Web Services. Recently, the data analytics firm Civis teamed with the magazine Fast Company to dive into data about nonprofits in 15 different topic areas.

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