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2016: An Association Blogging and Podcasting Odyssey

Spark Consulting

I remember participating in my first bloggercon at ASAE in a sunny plaza in San Diego in 2008, shortly after I’d launched Thanks For Playing, the precursor to the Spark blog, with about 30 other association professionals, sharing our thoughts about how to use this new platform to strengthen our industry and our community.

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Conference Circuit: Go With the Flow

Associations Now

More than 1,000 water-treatment professionals will make their way to sunny San Diego after the Labor Day weekend to increase their business connections and resources, gain knowledge, and find cost-effective solutions to their challenges. Venue: San Diego Convention Center and Omni San Diego Hotel.

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Community NOW Day 2: Conference education sessions inspire, inform attendees

Ungrated

Education session: Building Maintenance: How to Reduce Repair Costs and Ensure Safety  A regularly applied maintenance plan and program combined with a properly prepared and funded reserve study can lead to safe, desirable, financially secure community associations, say Mitchell Frumkin, PE, RS, of Kipcon in North Brunswick, N.J.,

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Community NOW Day 2: Conference education sessions inspire, inform attendees

Ungrated

Education session: Building Maintenance: How to Reduce Repair Costs and Ensure Safety  A regularly applied maintenance plan and program combined with a properly prepared and funded reserve study can lead to safe, desirable, financially secure community associations, say Mitchell Frumkin, PE, RS, of Kipcon in North Brunswick, N.J.,

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Community NOW Day 3: Education sessions motivate and prepare attendees

Ungrated

Education Session: Covering Your Assets Communities need to have a process driven approach that links investments and reserves,” says Nico March with the March Group in San Diego. Planning is the first step and then wrap your process around it,” March says. Jon Bach, CMCA, AMS, with Community Management Corp., in Chantilly, Va.,

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Best Benefit Ever: Bank on It

Associations Now

MBA announced the union at its 102nd Annual Convention and Expo in San Diego. Why it works: Through this new alliance, MBA members will have access to coveted resources, including a customer service line and special deals on industry products like Loan Prospector and Loan Quality Advisor, according to a press release.

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Dealing With a Data Breach? Follow This Advice.

Associations Now

At the association’s 2014 conference in San Diego this week, DMA released The Essential Guide to Data Breach Notification , produced by the the association and the law firm Venable LLP, offering advice on how to deal with potential worst-case scenarios. Often, these breaches have hidden costs that ripple through related sectors.