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We lived on farms, then we lived in cities, and now we're going to live on the internet! If the last 20 years of pop culture has taught us anything, it's that at some point in the not-too-distant future, we're all going to be "plugged-in" to machines, and live somewhere in the ether of The Internet; face-to-face interaction will be as dated as communicating via smoke signal. Ok, so maybe we're not quite there yet, but as an association, it's…

It's impossible to run a company these days without an investment in technology, which can take your operations to another level. But how do you do it economically and without wasting extra cash on needless tech services or products? -Raymund Flandez, Wall Street Journal Three words: Technology is expensive.  There's no escaping that implementing new technology into your company or organization is an expensive undertaking, and with the ever increasing rate at which it changes, its costs rise exponentially.  This…

At the beginning of this week I asked the question: is free content devaluing membership?  While there's no denying that free is a hard number to compete with, associations do provide value in the way they provide their content.  Just look at iTunes: Napster, and the myriad of clones that followed, threatened to upend the music industry.  Who would pay money for music when a free download was just a click away?  As it turns out, iTunes was the answer the…