My colleague Jen Johnson at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is seeking to fill a senior manager position, overseeing customer service and order processing. The position requires someone who knows Aptify and has the ability to create views, queries, and reports (and is also someone who is the go-between from IT to all the end users). […]
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This is the fourth in my 2012 series of podcast interviews that I’ve been conducting with CEOs from providers of association management software. Today’s interview is with Charlie Vinal, President and CEO of Euclid Technology. In this interview we discuss Euclid’s AMS offering and how associations are spending on technology. [podcast_episode episode=”5442″ content=”player”]
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This is the third in my 2012 series of podcast interviews that I’ve been conducting with CEOs from providers of association management software. Today’s interview is with Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot of Wild Apricot. In this interview we discuss Wild Apricot’s free and low-cost AMS offerings. [podcast_episode episode=”5446″ content=”player”]
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This is the second in my 2012 series of podcast interviews that I’ve been conducting with CEOs from providers of association management software. Today’s interview is with Brian Choate, President and CEO of Timberlake Membership Software. In this interview we discuss Timberlake’s latest focus on technology and how smaller associations can better use their AMS software.
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Every so often, a client of mine will ask me about parallel processing. Generally they’ll ask something like “How long should we be running both our current AMS and our new AMS in parallel?” My answer is always “Don’t bother with parallel processing.” Here are three reasons: Staff never actually does it. Think about it;
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This is the first in my 2012 series of podcast interviews that I’ve been conducting with CEOs from providers of association management software. Today’s interview is with Richard Davis, Chairman and CEO of Avectra. In this interview we discuss Avectra’s new technology, A-Score, and how associations are currently investing in technology.
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I recently received an online survey from a free newsletter that I subscribe to. The very first question asked me how long I’d been a subscriber. What? You’re asking me how long I’ve been a subscriber? Don’t you have that data? I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen my clients ask similar questions
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One of the most common gripes I hear when I talk with business development staff within associations is that they don’t have enough time to enter data, and therefore don’t use the database. I think there are several things going on here: The system they are using MIGHT BE cumbersome. They’ve never developed a good
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I’m conducting a search for a new AMS on behalf of one of my clients. We requested responses, including pricing, from five vendors. Of the five vendors responses, THREE of them had mathematical errors in their proposals. Ironically, the only area of the entire proposal that I can judge for absolute accuracy is the math!
Attention vendors! Check your work! – A lesson we can all learn Read More »
I’ve posted a new article on my website. Although every system selection process has its nuances (over the past dozen years I’ve completed nearly a hundred with my clients), there are generally seven steps that I follow for helping associations select a new association management system (AMS). Click here to read the rest of the article. Of
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