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Observing the evolution of associations

Longtime SmithBucklin executive has seen many changes McGury For 25 years, Carol McGury has been in the trenches of associations, working with countless groups as an executive with association management company SmithBucklin. She's worked with trade associations, membership societies and technology user groups. She remembers the old days of collecting membership data: paper surveys, collated and tabulated by hand. "There wasn't even scanning then," McGury said. Since then, associations have pretty much reinvented themselves. "Back in the day, associations came about because a group of folks said, ‘we have to solve this problem,'" McGury said. This solution might mean… Read More