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Association Brain Food Weekly: 8.2.19

Reid All About it

How to Make Your Strategy Select Your Technology. Make your organization’s strategy and vision drive your technology investments. Discover how to turn a business goal into a technology investment. – Gaining Board Approval for Budget for New Technology. More info/register. Host: PCMA. Presenter: Todd Hartley.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 8.9.19

Reid All About it

Location: Room Delaware AB, Hyatt, Greater Columbus Convention Center. Exploring Event Technology Stacks (Association Chat). Events and meetings are central to associations, but often the technology supporting them is anything but centralized. Guests: Association Women Technology Champions (AWTC). Host: MemberClicks.

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Behind a Winning “Coolest Thing” Contest

Associations Now

Now in its second year, the California Manufacturers and Technology Association’s competition is a helpful advocacy and outreach tool. That’s particularly true in manufacturing, where state organizations in Illinois , Delaware , and elsewhere.

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Know Your Live Polling Options

Association Adviser

She said for those who felt comfortable with the technology, the polling system was well received. As an undergrad at the University of Delaware, I was able to act as a participant with both of these products. Technology' As with iClicker, answers are immediately recorded and can be displayed in a graph or chart.

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Supreme Court Ruling Halts “Forum Shopping” in Patent Suits

Associations Now

The ruling, which came about after Kraft Foods sued TC Heartland LLC in Delaware—despite Heartland’s headquarters being based in Indiana—was closely watched by the business world, particularly in the technology space. A Closely Watched Case.

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4 Unexpected Questions Every Event Planner Should Ask Conference Venues

Associations Now

. “On our first site visit, the Palais brought up the shipping issue right away,” said Ewa Jodlowska, director of operations at Python Software Foundation, a technology nonprofit organization based in Delaware. Customs brokers handle the logistics of shipping across borders and all the accompanying red tape.

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Out of Bloom: Lessons from a Nonprofit’s Demise

Associations Now

Part of the problem may be that the technology was ready before the public was. ” Building first is a bad idea: In his statement on the demise of inBloom , the company’s CEO, Iwan Streichenberger, noted that the database technology was in place before it had public support. What happened?