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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.); The Court of Appeals shot down each of these defenses by holding that: The law throughout the United States “suggests that private board members can become limited purpose public figures. See Agar v. Judy , 151 A.3d

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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. the new television broadcasting standard approved in 2017 by the Federal Communications Commission, is said to allow for a reimagining of what can be done with emergency alerts.

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Friday Buzz: A Tech Company’s Charity Campaign

Associations Now

— Forbes (@Forbes) August 3, 2017. To attract millennials, some companies in New Jersey are redesigning their office space to add cool perks like coffee bars and fitness centers. But those perks alone may not be enough to attract young talent.

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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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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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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.”.