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The Human Touch: Maintaining User Databases in the Automation Age
If you’ve ever run multiple environments across DEV, UAT, and PROD, you know firsthand how complex maintaining your user databases can be. Perhaps you need to make updates behind the […]
Cloud Tech Brings Us Closer to The Singularity
Not long ago, I ran across a Big Think article about a newly proposed ontology called “idealism.” Bernardo Kastrup essentially suggests that panpsychism (the notion that everything in the universe […]
Save Your Association With These 4 Software Solutions
If you’ve ever directed the IT department for an association or nonprofit, you know that budgets can be tight. Fundraising is a continuous initiative in the nonprofit sector. Nonetheless, information […]
Collect and Organize Abstract Submissions for Your Next Annual Meeting
There’s a lot of smoke and mirrors in the abstract management pipeline of an annual meeting. I like this metaphor because, to the casual onlooker, everything appears to happen automatically—as […]
10 Ways to Protect Your Membership Data
Your members are trusting you with sensitive information. Any database with user profiles, contact information, or membership data can be vulnerable to database security issues. From serious financial breaches to […]
Tips for Managing Your Annual Meeting Session Chairs
Session chairs tend to come into the game late. If your annual meeting were a tabletop game, you’d have already laid out the board, sorted and shuffled the cards, and […]
The APIs Your Member Database Needs to Succeed
Membership associations need to push and pull data between a wide variety of software systems. The core of the operation is probably your Association Management System (AMS)—but it can’t stand […]
The Technology Balancing Act: Integrations For Association Software
It takes a lot of “stuff” to run an association. The core of your association software suite is probably your Association Management System (AMS), but there are plenty of other […]
How OpenWater Makes Planning Your Annual Meeting Easier
The annual meeting is coming around again. Whether you’ve recently been handed the reigns or you’ve been running it for years, there’s a good chance you’ve got a wishlist of […]
Big Trouble in Little IT: Troubleshoot Implementation Like Jack Burton
John Carpenter’s cult classic Big Trouble in Little China (1986) introduced one of the finest anti-heroes of 20th-century cinema: Jack Burton. Kurt Russell’s fast-talking truck driver alter-ego gets entangled with […]