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Association’s Name Change Focuses on Sight, Not Blindness

Associations Now

With an expanding mission and signs of public distrust around its longtime name, the New Hampshire Association for the Blind made the move this week to rename itself Future in Sight. The New Hampshire Association for the Blind doesn’t want to limit its mission because of its name.

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Keep Ahead of Higher Ed, the Professional Development Competition for Associations

WBT Systems

Associations have an advantage over higher education: because the leaders of your industry or profession are members of your association, you’re already positioned to lead collaborative efforts to develop new educational initiatives, such as stackable credentials.

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Making Waves: Surfing Groups Bank Sport’s Future on Man-Made Parks

Associations Now

New wave-building technologies, such as American Wave Machines’ SurfStream system , are helping to bring surfing to the masses in locales that are not exactly hotbeds of wave-riding, like New Hampshire and Quebec. “It’s the ultimate wave-sharing that you can imagine.”

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At home, at work: Regulating home businesses in community associations

Ungrated

and a fellow in CAI’s College of Community Association Lawyers , says there haven’t been many problems with home based businesses in the more than 4,000 Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire townhome and condominium communities his firm represents. He did have to write a letter to the owner of a Cape Cod, Mass.,

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111 Intriguing Chats for 2011

ChatterBachs

Other states with strong representation include California (16), New York (6), Pennsylvania (5), Florida (4), and Texas (4). Individuals from North Carolina, New Hampshire, West Virginia, Oregon, and Idaho stand alone as delegates from these states. Blogging since 1987. Blog @ HuffPo & techPresident.