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Client Testimonial
"AMR's creative team continues to exceed our expectations. Their clever and creative designs have produced excellent branding for our website and other published materials. Moreover, the online real-time membership directory and listserv services that we incorporated into our website redesign allow our members to efficiently network and contact one another."
Regina Hilbert, plan administrator - Suffolk County, New York Supplemental Retirement Plan and NAGDCA past president

Blogs

Social Media – Contacts or Relationships
By Eric Kenoyer, SPHR, Vice President of Development

In hundreds of blogs, case studies, and other hyperbole on social media, there is one idea that has continuously been in the echoes of these conversations: relationships. While social media has allowed us to have more relationships and connect with others more than ever before, have we been able to fully leverage these new relationships or have we just increased our number of contacts?
The New 990 and Changes for 2009
By Mattie Conkwright, CPA AMR Controller

The redesign of IRS Form 990 for 2008 made a significant impact on the tax-exempt community. As a result of a complete overhaul by the IRS, the newly designed Form 990 was transformed into a public disclosure document which was intended to enhance transparency, strengthen disclosures required to promote accountability, and encourage what the IRS perceives as good governance practices.

Goodbye 2009, Hello Future!
Author: Emily Ott, Marketing Coordinator
 
 Happy New Year from everyone here at AMR Management Services!
 
The beginning of a New Year is always a great time to reflect on the past and dream about what could become of the future.
 
It’s remarkable what we as people and organizations can learn from looking back at our past successes and even our past failures. ASAE recently did a decade in review on t
Event Management At It's Best

Author: Emily Ott, Marketing Coordinator

The AMR staff has been working diligently this fall, particularly in our Conference and Event Management department. With major conferences taking place with almost every full-service client, our team has been running hard these past few months to produce highly effective and successful events for our Client Partners. 

The Battle of Technology
Author: Emily Ott, Marketing Coordinator
 
I was recently emailed the link for an article from the Wall Street Journal about the way social media is replacing email as a form of communication. As I read this I was intrigued, but by the time I finished, I felt as if I were terribly out of touch with the social m
Changing Dynamics, Generations in the Workplace

Author: Emily Crumrine, AMR Marketing Coordinator

What could the Baby Boomer’s non-retirement do to an association’s membership?

Social Media: A simple concept
Author: Emily Crumrine, AMR Marketing Coordinator

Times change, we all understand this.

Facebook in its first night of existence on Harvard’s campus reportedly gained 1200 members in 24 hours. The first Twitter post was sent March of 2006 and 2 years later this “little birdie” had more than 4 million followers.
Corporate Social Responsibility: An Association’s Destiny
Author: Emily Crumrine, AMR Marketing Coordinator

Newsweek Magazine recently released a ranking of the greenest companies in America. This list, comprised of America’s 500 largest publicly-traded companies, is the first of its kind and illustrates a new wave of corporate social responsibility.

AMC Managed vs. Standalone: Is there a difference?
Author: Nick Ruffin, AMR Director of Business Development

Perhaps a better question to ask is “What is the difference?”

This has long been a question that both association leaders and association management companies (AMC’s) have struggled to answer definitively.

A new whitepaper published by the AMC Institute (AMCI) sheds light on the difference between these two models by analyzing data from both ASAE and the Center and AMCI.

What could your organization accomplish if you knew the future?
By Nick Ruffin, AMR Director of Business Development

ASAE and the Center published last year a remarkable resource for both association leaders and Association Management Company (AMC) staff. The book Designing Your Future: Key Trends, Challenges, and Choices Facing Association and Nonprofit Leaders outlines 50 key trends broken down into the categories of Political, Economic, Environmental, Technological, and Socio-demographical changes.





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