Seven Top Association Management Systems for Small and Medium Trade Associations in 2025
A few years ago, Matrix Group Creative Director Alex Pineda suggested that we ditch PowerPoint and move to Google Slides. The reason? Collaborating on a PPT file is really hard. […]
A few years ago, Matrix Group Creative Director Alex Pineda suggested that we ditch PowerPoint and move to Google Slides. The reason? Collaborating on a PPT file is really hard. We used to pass around huge files via email or rely on the network share. Alex came up with a beautiful [...]
Last month, some of the largest AMS (association management software) companies (YourMembership, Abila, Aptify and NimbleAMS) joined forces to create Community Brands, which they describe as "a powerful and unified family of brands and a connected eco-system of software and services to better serve associations, nonprofits and government entities."
Website design and usage is getting more challenging for a lot of us. In addition to more older Americans accessing the internet via smartphones only, more young people than before are living with diagnosed cognitive disabilities like autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which [...]
A few months ago, the office space committee met to discuss conference rooms at Matrix Group. We have a standing committee that is thinking about the future of work and we decided that we needed more collaborative space, complete with a screen and projector since we're always looking at [...]
I was trying to get my 6-year old out of bed the other morning. He wouldn't budge. Finally, he challenged me by asking, "What's special about today?" That stopped me my in tracks. "What IS special about today?," I thought. I named a few things: "I'm picking you up early. You have [...]
One of the best parts of my job is conducting user interviews. Nearly every Matrix Group project starts with a User Persona exercise where we interview staff to glean their most important target audiences. Then a team of Matrix Group staff interview people in each group. Whenever I can, I [...]
Teri Carden, Founder of ReviewMyAMS, has a unique take on conference sessions. She crowdsources several of the sessions at AMS Fest. AMS Fest is an event that brings together AMS (association management software) vendors with association executives looking for a new AMS. It’s basically corporate speed dating. Teri held AMS Fest events [...]
I blogged recently that Matrix Group switched over to Google Apps. I have had a personal Gmail account for many years now and my family can't function without our shared family Google calendar. So now I have Gmail at work and I'm loving it. I especially love Gmail's inbox configurations. Here's how it [...]
A few years ago, I blogged about Google Apps. I wondered if my business, and businesses everywhere, were ready to make the switch to Google Apps.
Well, a few years later, we finally made the switch. A couple of months ago, Matrix Group switched over to Google Apps. We now [...]
