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The Xperience your membership-based organization won’t want to miss

Aptify

This year’s Innovation Award winners are: Parenteral Drug Association – This organization wanted to improve the process of on-site event purchases, which required multiple steps and often caused delays when members did not have ID/password ready for website login. Save the date for Xperience 2024! Photo courtesy of Tim Ward.

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Panel: Time for Associations to Get Proactive on Feds’ Meeting Attendance

Associations Now

Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has shown little interest in advancing the bill. The landscape shifted in 2012, after reports of wasteful spending at several government agency conferences prompted the Office of Management and Budget to implement new conference attendance rules for federal employees. Though Sen.

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Online Sales Tax: Senate Nears Vote On Bipartisan Bill

Associations Now

Currently, consumers are supposed to report such spending when filing their income taxes, but few do.) Some legislators opposed to the measure have asked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to put the legislation through a Finance Committee review process before the chamber votes on it.

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Patent Reform Is Off the Table in the Senate for Now. What Happened?

Associations Now

The Hill reported that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) intervened behind the scenes, deciding not to bring the bill to the floor because of the opposition from pharmaceutical firms and trial lawyers. Many of these organizations—represented by the Main Street Patent Coalition (MSPC)—vowed to try again. “We

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