The AI Model Your Vendor No Longer Needs Permission to Ship
Your AMS has an AI feature on the roadmap and your CMS has one in the release notes. Nobody has asked which model any of them run. Here is why...
Read Article →Who Owns Your AMS This Week?
The renewal notice arrives looking exactly as it always has, except the legal entity name near the bottom belongs to a company nobody at your association recognizes. Here is how...
Read Article →Four of the AMS Platforms We Review Separately Now Have the Same Owner
You are three months into an AMS selection with four names on the shortlist, and it reads like a competitive process. Four of those platforms now answer to the same...
Read Article →What the AMS Vendors Actually Announced at ASAE
Your executive director came back from ASAE having heard agentic forty times in four days. The accurate version is narrower than the headline. One vendor launched agents, one launched an...
Read Article →Most Association Digital Strategy Is a Website Redesign With a Better Name.
The board asks for a digital strategy and gets back a sitemap and a launch date. Here is the definition we work from, the six areas it covers, and five...
Read Article →How Many Integrations Is Too Many?
Eight integrations. Twelve. Twenty. At some point someone asks: how many is too many? The answer depends on your capacity to maintain them. Here are the warning signs and what...
Read Article →Single Sign-On for Association Websites: What Your Members Expect
Members expect one login that works across your website, LMS, community forum, and event platform. Single sign-on delivers that experience using SAML, OAuth, or OpenID Connect -- here is how...
Read Article →Connecting Your AMS to Your Website: A Practical Guide
Your Association Management System holds the keys to member engagement: contact information, membership status, event registrations, certification records, and engagement history. But is that data actually powering your website experience?
Read Article →iMIS RiSE vs Drupal for Associations: Convenience or Capability?
iMIS RiSE offers seamless AMS integration out of the box, but its limitations as a CMS make Drupal the better choice for associations that need design flexibility, advanced SEO, and...
Read Article →MemberClicks vs Drupal for Associations: All-in-One Convenience vs Purpose-Built Flexibility
MemberClicks bundles your AMS and website together, which sounds convenient until you outgrow the website builder. Here is what associations need to know before choosing between bundled simplicity and purpose-built...
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