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Look back to move forward: the benefits of a technology project close

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Not So Fast: Don’t Let Confirmation Bias Ruin Your Technology Project

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How to Handle Staff Who Fall for Phishing Emails—Putting Your Association at Risk

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Association Cybersecurity: It’s Everyone’s Job

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DelCor Partners with Bee City USA to Protect Pollinators

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Association TechTalk Q&A: Meltdown & Spectre [updated]

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Get Smart at SmartTech 2018—and Get Your Association Geared Up for Technology-Driven Success

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Technology and Collaboration: A Virtuous Cycle

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BYOD Security Options for Associations & Nonprofits

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DelCor's Top 7 Blogs of 2017

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What You Need to Know Before Your Association Jumps on the Office 365 Bandwagon

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Shopping for an AMS? Make a List and Check It Twice.

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Close Every Technology Project with a Retrospective

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TechTalk with MemberClicks President & CEO Mark Sedgley

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The Perils of Customizing Association Software

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Is Your Association or Nonprofit Interested in Agile Development? Here’s What You Need to Know.

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How to Make Google Love Your Association’s Website

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TechTalk with Higher Logic CEO Rob Wenger

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What the Krack? New wireless vulnerability discovered

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New Approaches to Security Awareness Training for Association & Nonprofit Staff

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Must-Have Tools for Association and Nonprofit IT Departments

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Predict and prepare for technological disruption in your industry

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TechTalk with Personify CEO Eric Thurston

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DelCor VP Brian Sheehan Named Top IT Executive

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Avoid the 7 Deadly Sins of Digital Transformation

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The Association CEO’s Role in Cybersecurity

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Cybersecurity 101: Know What You’re Up Against & How Not to Become a Victim

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An HR and IT Checklist for Termination of Employment

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Know the Lingo: Association Management System Glossary

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Switch Your Association’s Approach to Change Management

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What you need to know about Azure, Microsoft’s public cloud

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DelCor Food Drive Nets 451,000 Meals in 15 Years

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Revered Association Technology Consulting Firm Expands to 50, Plants Roots in Chicago

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From WannaCry to Petya/NotPetya, Prepare Your Association for Inevitable Ransomware Attacks

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How Association CIOs Can Say "No" While Encouraging Innovation

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Digital-first Food Drive Supports Wellness of DC-area Kids, Seniors, Poor

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Keeping Up with the Joneses: The Risks of Association IT Budget Comparisons

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What Effect Is WannaCry Having on Associations?

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7 Steps to a Brilliant Association Website Redesign

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Give a Neighbor a Nourishing Meal—Join the DelCor .org Community Food Drive Today!

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Association & Nonprofit Leaders: Are You Ready for Digital Transformation?

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Association CEOs: Cybersecurity Is Job Security

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What’s the particular significance of Community Brands’ acquisition of Nimble?

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What Associations Need to Know about the AMS Deal Involving Abila, Aptify, and Your Membership (aka Community Brands)

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How I Came to Love Two-Factor Authentication—and You Should Too

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The 4 Association CIO Archetypes: Which One Are You?

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How Associations Are Embracing Digital Transformation

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Leading Change from the Middle

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The Cybersecurity Skills Your Association Needs Now

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Can you spot the spoofed email?

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How to Outfox Hackers and Their Phishing Malware

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Email Spoofing: It’s Not Just for Corporations—Why and How to Protect Your Association from Hackers

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Your Association Must Have CIO-Level Skills to Achieve Digital Transformation

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Due Diligence: What to Ask Your Technology Vendor’s Client References

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Project Management Translated

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7 Habits of Highly Effective IT Outsourcing

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4 Reasons to Rethink How Your Association Handles IT

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DelCor’s Most- and Least-Read Blog Posts of 2016

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How to Keep Your Association’s Technology Project On Schedule

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How to Minimize the Perils of DIY Project Management

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Successful IT Projects Begin with a Project Charter

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Should I Buy a Touchscreen Laptop, a Convertible Laptop, or a Microsoft Surface?

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Success Factors: Experts Reveal Who & What You Need for Your IT Project to Succeed

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It’s About Time: Experts Reveal What Associations Need to Know When Scheduling IT Projects

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5 Reasons Associations Should Embrace Two-Factor Authentication

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Watch Out for Web Server Hacking

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Friends or Frenemies: Third-Party Network Access

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How to Prevent and Recover from a Ransomware Attack

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7 Reasons Why IT Projects Fail – Part 2

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7 Reasons Why IT Projects Fail – Part 1

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DelCor's CEO Named Partner of the Year

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Start Every Technology Project with 2 Conversations

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Strategically Evaluating Your Association’s IT Readiness

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the Missouri Approach: How to Minimize Cognitive Biases During the Technology Selection Process

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Active listening will turn your project team on its ear

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Power up at ASAE16 in Salt Lake: On & Off the Beaten Path

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What it takes to be a CIO in 2016

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Does Your Association Have the CIO Mindset?

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How to Develop a Culture of Data Security

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Secure Your AMS and Other Systems from Data Breaches

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Are Your Employees a Threat to Your Security?

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7 Ways to Protect Staff from Phishing Attacks

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7 Ways Smart People Get Hacked by Social Engineering

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6 AMS Fest Lessons for Selecting & Working with an Association Management System (AMS)

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Three Simple Steps to System Success: Design, Align, Refine

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Associations & Vendors Raise $25k for Local Food Bank

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How to Prevent (Too Many) Surprises During Data Conversion

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The IT Guide to Working Remotely During Metro’s SafeTrack Shutdowns

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Cheers and ¡salud!

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A spa day for our website

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Design thinking for project management

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Food for good

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To be or not to be (on Snapchat): choosing social media channels for your association

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What type of IT leader does your association need?

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The DNA of the Association CIO

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On the Road with DelCor: 2016 Abila User and Developer Conference (AUDC)

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Curiosity in the Pursuit of Culture

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Dear Del: What’s the difference between a query and a report?

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Should You Contact your IT Department to use Cloud-Based Software?

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How to build and repair relationships with association technology vendors

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How to handle and prevent the use of Shadow IT by association staff

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DelCor’s Managed IT Services Honored by The Channel Company

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A technology plan is your association’s roadmap to the future

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What are we thinking? DelCorians share ways for association execs to learn about technology.

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The Importance of EQ for Technology Leaders

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Marrying into the family: why new vendor partners must fit in

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Do you have the X factor? Digital experiences for the modern member

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5 technology trends association executives can no longer ignore

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The IT Snowpocalypse Survival Guide

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The special ingredients for a DelCorian workplace culture

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What are we thinking? DelCorians weigh in on association technology trends

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Associations’ Online Learning Resolutions for 2016

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Top 9 of 2015 - our most popular posts

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Our Tech15 Takeaways

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Why cross-functional teams are essential to technology success

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Don’t Let Ransomware Hold Your Association’s Data Hostage

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How to bridge your staff’s technology knowledge gaps

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The professional development advantages of MOOCs

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An addendum on empathy: make yourself heard

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Empathy and conflict: technology project superpowers

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Using Blab to create online community connections

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Great leaders are consistently inconsistent

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No more bingo: rethink your conference’s mobile app to deepen the attendee-exhibitor experience

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Don’t worry about being like Amazon

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4 tips for creating your content strategy

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Can Your Members Find the Content They Need?

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Content Marketing Lessons from Major Brands

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Content Strategy Breakdown

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Restructure Your Website with Informed Decisions

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Are whiz-bang association apps elusive?

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A Holistic Approach to Vendor Management

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Tips for testing and accepting delivery of association software

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What to review, specifically, before you sign an association software contract

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Wait! Before you sign that association software contract…

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Outsourcing IT to a Managed Serviced Provider (MSP)

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What I learned at the 2015 ASAE Annual Meeting

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5 Tips for Selecting an AMS Vendor

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Plan ahead: turn Your conference ideas into action

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AMS Trend #5: Intelligent business decisions

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Images: your cure for data indigestion

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Bonus AMS Trend: APIs and middleware—integration aides

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Tips for ASAE Annual from a seasoned Pro

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AMS Trend #4: The mobile-friendly AMS

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AMS Trend #3: The rise of the CRM

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The 5 AMS Trends You Need to Know

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AMS Trend #2: Location, Location, Location

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High Noon at the IT Corral

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Ignoring mobile means missed opportunities

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Do You Have a Strategy For New Website Technology?

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CAE Credential Conferred Upon Conley

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The Secret to Managing Change with Project Management

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Security tools to protect your association against social engineering

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How associations can dive in to Big Data

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Is your association’s IT security policy up to snuff?

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Protect Employees On-the-Go with a Bring Your Own Device Policy

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What association CEOs need to know about Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies

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3 essential positions on your project team

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Thoughts on the ASAE Technology Conference Pathways

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Reframe Your Approach to Change Management: Community Theater

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How to Reframe Your Approach to Change Management: Welcome to the Jungle

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Neighbor helping neighbor

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How to Reframe Your Approach to Change Management: We Are Family

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Reframe Your Approach to Change Management: Welcome to the Machine

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DelCor Awarded Workplace Excellence Seal of Approval

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Finding the sweet spot for your association’s IT security

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The IT security threat landscape for associations

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How to prepare your association for a move to the cloud – the not-so-technical edition

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A facilitator’s tricks of the trade

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Getting started with facilitation: setting up for a successful meeting

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Why do I keep yammering on about facilitation?

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Prioritize Your Association’s Technology Needs

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DelCor earns MSP Pioneer 250 award for second consecutive year

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It’s agile, not free-for-all development

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Geek Speak: Reports

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IT Directors, It is Time to Think Like a CIO

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The path from IT director to technology leader

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Save a seat for IT at your strategic planning table

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Don’t leave IT out of the loop

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IT and Marketing: The Reese’s Cup of Associations

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Use agile techniques to move a project through a waterfall world

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Does Your Cloud Service Provider Have A Data Disaster Recovery Plan?

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The end of the website as we know it

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When should you reevaluate your AMS and other enterprise-wide systems?

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4 ways to de-stress at work

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Expert tips: how to live happily ever after with your new AMS

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Expert tips: how to find the best AMS vendor for your needs

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Expert tips: how to get your money’s worth from your AMS investment

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Expert tips: project team survival begins with change management

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Expert tips: how to get your staff ready for a new AMS

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Decoding Digital Strategy, Content Strategy, and Content Marketing

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Expert tips: the why and what of AMS selection

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Sneak peek: what you need to know before selecting an AMS

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How Should My Association Prepare for a Software Upgrade

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How to judge responses to your association's RFP

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RFP or RFI? Start with a Requirements Analysis

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The recipe for creating a successful RFP

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Before you distribute an RFP, narrow down the field with an RFI

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Dave’s Top 10 Signs Your Project is in Trouble

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The 6 components of a good requirements analysis process

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The unexpected benefits of requirements analysis

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A Requirements Analysis is Critical to the Success of Your Technology

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Dear Del: Help! I Don’t Have a Test Plan!

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LH/RH: Avoid the blind men’s elephant and the tragedy of the commons

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LH/RH: What's the right hand up to?

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Host a tea party for your vendors

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Don’t be a Target – PCI compliance for associations

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Trust: key to a successful vendor/client relationship

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Come on, let's grow! DelCor's volunteer night at CAFB

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What is the right amount of data to convert?

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Association Book Club: The Back of the Napkin

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The springtime giving season starts now

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Passwords, Annoying But Necessary For Data Protection

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John Spence: talent is a strategic objective

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Password management dos and don’ts

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The dark side of big data: collect and share data intentionally

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Do you rely on sneaker net?

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Dear Del: How often should I empty my computer trash?

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Does Your Website Reflect Your Association’s Mission?

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How to Apply Design Principles to Online Learning Content Strategy

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DelCor named to CRN’s Managed Service Provider 500 List

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It’s not just what you say, but how you say it

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Dear Del: How do I deter drive-by helpdesk requests?

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Dear Del: How do I break down silos and prevent rogue IT?

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Dear Del: Can a docking station go bad?

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Projects gone wild – how to get back on smoother slopes

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Lost a team member? Stop and reset

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How to prioritize IT projects: a 5-point checklist

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Off-the-clock call of duty

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A new mom, a third hand, and the promise of tech wearables

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Top 10 posts on The DelCor Connection, 2013

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How I regroup – or – deciding what to ignore

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AMS: what’s old, what’s new, what’s next

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Right now: 3 tech trends affecting association IT users

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Before migrating to the cloud, consider this...

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How to decide between a public and private cloud hosting solution

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Which is better: on-premise or cloud hosting for your IT infrastructure?

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If a co-worker types at home and there is no one there to see or hear it, does any work get done?

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Breaking down the IT development process: agile vs. waterfall 101

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Micro-Interactions can Enhance Website Usability

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Don’t let content strategy haunt you

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Dear Del: 3 common issues for remote workers

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Dear Del: Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, get your license here

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Dear Del: Run your own reports!

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Dear Del: Please, stop the SPAM!

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Dear Del: Adjust email synchronization to extend smartphone battery life

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The latest in bring-your-own-device (BYOD) management

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Stop multitasking: it’s making you high

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Using the IT Maturity Model for Website Redesign

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Association enterprise system care & feeding: keep your mission-critical engines tuned up

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IT fitness: a workout plan for associations

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Integration: don’t ‘good’ systems just snap together like Legos?

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Golf & IT: improving your game on the green & in khakis

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Hunger Action Month

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#ASAE13 in pictures

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What we learned at #ASAE13

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Motivation: the key to bringing out your team’s inner genius

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Dear Del: Why do I have 2 project managers?

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6 tips for creating RFP responses that win

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Is your project doomed? Not if you read this

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Capital Area Food Bank: a volunteer’s view

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Technology: bridging the generational gap

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The hiring project: using project management to select the right candidate

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Know when to say “when”

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Murphy’s law of webinar presentations

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A veteran’s view – the how and why of technology at #AUDC13

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#AUDC13 – the road to relevance, social media spirit animals, & leis

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How to avoid a technology mugging

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Gaming for charity: tips for associations & nonprofits to get in the game

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Does Your Website Inspire Your Members?

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From rude to required: Tweeting at meetings is now en vogue

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Do You Know Where Your Data Center Is Located?

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Buckets of inspiration from a flooded data center

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Super Bowl or super (power) failure? Cloud Connection to your association’s rescue!

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Who moved the cheese?

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Making sure your technology is “mise en place”

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Graphing Facebook’s future and the possibilities for Graph Search

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Gretchen’s Project Management Stressbusters Tool Box

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If our software vendor has a PM on our project, why do we need you?

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Instagram or Instascam? Before you delete, consider this…

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Think like a scientist – experiment with your members

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Last-minute gift guide for the nerd in your life

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Apple, Google, and the misdirected maps

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What I learned at #Tech12

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3 very DelCorian takeaways from #tech12

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What does “hosting” mean? (most people think they know)

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How to give new life to old computers

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5 things I learned at UI17

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A Toolkit for Gathering Project Requirements

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When battery backup isn’t enough

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Pesto, change-o: conference food done right

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A 10-second lesson on listening

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Bosses Day – celebration or curse?

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Rethinking Technology Requirements, Snuggie Style

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Social is changing the face of [fill in business noun here]

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Lessons from Dreamforce ’12

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In case of emergency

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The virtual receptionist

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Managing stakeholder expectations

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Didn’t you see the 3 big orange cones?

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Usability by design, and the attendee experience

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Overcome the barriers to virtual collaboration

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Farewell email, hello virtual collaboration tools

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How Associations Can Use Location-Based Marketing