Fri.Aug 24, 2018

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Membership 101: What About Trade Associations?

Spark Consulting

If you’ve been following the Membership 101 series, you may be wondering: “What about trade associations? A lot of your advice seems directed to individual membership/professional associations. My members are companies/institutions. Does your advice still hold?” The answer? Sort of. On the one hand, many things are different in your operating environment.

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Membership Hack: Speed Mentoring

Associations Now

There’s a quick way to make mentorship matches. “Speed mentoring” rotates participants around a room for rapid-fire conversations with potential mentors. How to hack it? You’ve heard of speed dating—but speed mentoring? The Mid-Atlantic chapter of the American Inns of Court says it’s a great way to do some professional matchmaking. “The mentors are on the outside of the circle, and the mentees are stationed on the inside,” says Christina Hartle, CAE, director of chapter relations for the AIC Mid

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 8.24.18

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Cherish your good chapter leaders. Charlotte Muylaert at Billhighway explains how to retain chapter leaders and prevent them from burning out and checking out. What’s in an association CIO’s IT bag? Mike Guerrieri at DelCor reveals the people, policies, talents and tools an association CIO must have on hand —and, strangely enough, finds many similarities between the CIO role and the restaurant executive

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CTIA Expands Certification Program for IoT Security

Associations Now

The wireless association’s long-running testing labs program will soon launch a certification process for internet of things devices, which are expected to become increasingly prevalent in the 5G era. As the definition of a connected device evolves, the wireless association CTIA is stepping up its standards for the internet of things. This week, the association announced a new cybersecurity program for connected devices, with a goal of ensuring that devices on cellular networks are built with se

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Navigating Awkward Moments: 3 Tips For Success

Holly Duckworth

Living today is, let’s be honest interesting. For many of us we are energetically up one day, and down the next. Life can be a bit of a roller coaster. Each day we have more and more things flying at us than we ever had before. Just this week in fact I had conversations with people on the following topics: Negotiation of a new career with how do I let go of the old.

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Navigating Awkward Moments: 3 Tips For Success

Holly Duckworth

Living today is, let’s be honest interesting. For many of us we are energetically up one day, and down the next. Life can be a bit of a roller coaster. Each day we have more and more things flying at us than we ever had before. Just this week in fact I had conversations with […].

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IRS Guidance Affects Treatment of Employee Parking Expenses

Associations Now

New guidance says that UBIT arising from parking and transportation benefits is not subject to the “silo” rule. While this won’t help many 501(c)(3) groups that are paying UBIT for the first time under the new tax law, it does provide some relief for associations with multiple unrelated business income activities. On August 21, the IRS issued interim guidance on the provision in the new tax law that requires separate computation of unrelated business income tax (UBIT) for tax-exempt organization