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We recently uncovered technology drives member loyalty. This nugget came from our 2017 Community Brands Digital Member Study, which revealed a strong correlation between loyalty and technology. Members who see their organization as an early technology adopter are...

Matt Rist, Director of Product Delivery The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an European Union (EU)  data privacy regulation intended to give EU residents (including UK residents) more control of their data. The GDPR is scheduled to go into effect on May...

Do you love your association management software (AMS)?If you said “no,” then it may be time for a change. With so many AMS platforms available today, it’s often easy to get caught up in all the bells and whistles the softwares claim to have.But, it’s not only about...

Jay Ablian EVP and GM of Partnerships, BluePay Community Brands brings you this information from our partner, BluePay, which offers fast, easy and secure payment processing solutions to fit every organization’s needs. Whether a nonprofit or association, BluePay is the...

The countdown is SO ON! Our first ever Community Brands conference – Xperience 2018 – is just 13 days away! To get you excited about attending, we thought it would be fun to take a look at the event by the ​numbers … # 1 association and nonprofit technology event of...

Jean-Paul (JP) Guilbault CEO, Community Brands It’s hard to believe another year has gone by, and what a year it’s been. A year ago, Community Brands was formed when we brought together association and nonprofit technology leaders Abila, Aptify, NimbleUser and...

Associations are making a move from old school, legacy association management software (AMS) systems to modern enterprise platform-based AMS systems on the Salesforce App Cloud. The primary drivers are these:Performance, scalability and security. The Salesforce...

​Data privacy and protection are getting increased attention in the software world and the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which goes into effect on May 25, 2018, is leading the way.  The one overarching principle made clear in the opening sentence of...

- Nimble Query Nimble Query puts the power of SOQL in the hands of your administrator. Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL) is a way to search Salesforce data that is more powerful and useful than a simple report. SOQL queries can be used to create Visualforce...