Wild Apricot

APRIL 21, 2017

Journalist and association member, Luigi Benetton shares his best tips on how to land great speakers for any type of event.

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Reid All About it

APRIL 21, 2017

Your weekly list of free webinars and events for the association community… My world is still buzzing with the news about the Community Brands/YourMembership takeover/consolidation/call-it-what-you-will of Aptify and Abila. I expect we’ll hear more announcements in the near future about the acquisition of other association technology firms. I was talking to a friend this week about the deal and the unsettling feelings it’s causing people on the association side to have about the future of

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Aptify

APRIL 21, 2017

You can’t put it off any longer; It’s time to upgrade your membership software. You knew this day would come. You planned for it to ensure everything would go smoothly. During the software selection process you asked great questions about upgradability, assessed the technical capabilities of the platform, and during the implementation made sure to only configure the software to remain on the upgrade path.

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Associations Now

APRIL 21, 2017

Your association’s meetings and conferences may not have a lot in common with festival juggernaut Coachella, but there are still some lessons to be gleaned from it. Today marks the start of the second—and final—weekend of Coachella , the music and arts festival held every year at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. Last year, nearly 200,000 people attended, and it is considered a bit of a cultural phenomenon.

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Associations Now

APRIL 21, 2017

Asking regional members to take action on micro-advocacy efforts could result in big payoffs—both for your issue and in member engagement. How to hack it? The Vacation Rental Management Association (VRMA) is relatively small but has a large footprint: Its roughly 800 members are spread across the United States, in cities and states where the short-term rental market is heating up.

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Associations Now

APRIL 21, 2017

Moving past a big work blunder isn’t easy, but there are a few key ways you can avoid making the same mistake. Also: Why you no longer have to feel awkward when you use the word “millennial.” After a major mistake at work, finding a way forward can be painful. And many bosses become frantic in their search for the root of the problem. Fortune writer Nat Greene contends that leaders move too quickly in their haste to find out what went wrong , which may prevent them from repeating thi

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Associations Now

APRIL 21, 2017

With safety and uncertainty big factors, travel departments haven’t cozied up to home-sharing services like Airbnb, but individual employees have fewer issues with the services. Services like Airbnb may be all the rage these days, but they’re getting the cold shoulder from the corporate travel world. That’s according to recent research from the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) Foundation, which reports that travel policies have failed to catch up with home-sharing offerings.

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Associations Now

APRIL 21, 2017

While Google says it won’t comment on a Wall Street Journal report about adding an ad blocker to Chrome, the report is drawing attention to an initiative by the Coalition for Better Ads—a group that includes the search giant. This week, the tech media (as they have a tendency to do) got caught up in an interesting rumor: that Google, a major ad network operator, would offer an ad blocker to be used on its market-leading Chrome web browser.

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