I like to give props to association management software (AMS) vendors when they do something really smart. Here’s another great idea from an AMS vendor. I recently had the opportunity to see an extended demo of DAXKO Connect, DAXKO’s association management software product. During the demo, DAKXO highlighted their “DAXKO ideas” portal (which you can […]
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On Tuesday, January 26, 2010, I’ll be moderating a panel of three association software CEOs for ASAE’s Online Conference for Small Staff Associations. (You can see the entire agenda here.) If you had a chance to ask any question of the CEO of an association management system software company, what would you ask? Put your
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I had the opportunity to attend part of Aptify’s Users Conference this year, held last week in Washington, DC. I attended last year’s event (which was Aptify’s first second) in Chicago, and my primary criticism at that time was that the presentations were far too “vendor heavy” and didn’t provide enough of the customer’s perspective.
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I had the honor of speaking at the opening general session for NiUG International’s Discovery Conference last week in Baltimore, MD. I really enjoyed the presentation and thought it was well-received. I also had a chance to sit in on a “What’s New in iMIS 15.1” presented by Shaun Surette of ASI. Shaun outlined some
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I like to give props to AMS vendors when they do something really smart. I’ve written about Avectra’s publicly available wiki here. The wiki alone is pretty cool. But here is some content which I think is extremely useful and demonstrates nice transparency on Avectra’s part. The wiki entry explains how the transition from implementation
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I track nearly 40 different software companies that provide association management software of some form or another. And I chuckle every time I read one of their press releases, because they typically say the same thing: “Company X is the leading provider of…” or “Company Y is the leader in association management software…” One even
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I’ve always thought the CRM for Members product that Protech Associates has built on top of the MSCRM product was a good AMS product. But the software and implementation has traditionally been rather pricey, so up to now it hasn’t been appropriate for “smaller” associations (e.g., those under 15 staff). But now Protech is offering
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This is the seventh in a series of podcast interviews that I’ve been conducting with CEOs from providers of association management software. Today’s interview is with Thomas Howard, President and CEO of memberclicks. In this interview you’ll learn why it’s important for an association to record all of the contacts it has with its members
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This is the sixth in a series of podcast interviews that I’ve been conducting with CEOs from providers of association management software. Today’s interview is with Amith Nagarajan, CEO of Aptify. In this interview you’ll learn how associations can leverage Web 2.0 tools (e.g., Facebook or LinkedIn) to boost the accuracy of the association’s data
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This is the fifth in a series of podcast interviews that I’ve been conducting with CEOs from providers of association management software. Today’s interview is with Joanna Pineda, CEO and Chief Troublemaker of Matrix Group International. In this interview we discuss how associations are managing their budgets and talk about how associations can get more
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