Description: e-ssociation is a pay-as-you go service, with little or no upfront investment. Your own branding can usually be incorporated into e-ssociation within hours, painlessly and cost effectively enhancing your web presence (configuration fee applies).
community (14714) association (8245) members (1677) conferences (1262) meetings (1222)
Associations do important work for which they're typically under-staffed and under-funded.
e-enablement is the use of IT to streamline operations, allowing staff to concentrate on the front-line activities they do best - i.e. working with members. This can be challenging to achieve as you need a strategy that yields the right functionality and high availability at an affordable cost.
IT solutions have been used in membership associations for many years. At first these were simple databases but they are becoming quite functional and sophisticated these days. As complexity increases so does the challenge of maintaining continuity whilst adding capabilities.