CEO’S MESSAGE
Progress Amidst Chaos: Advancing NMEDA’s Technology Initiatives By Danny Langfield NMEDA CEO
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ell, it has certainly been
on-a-pig” cosmetic makeover; we
an interesting three
A New Member Portal
mean an ALL new website—graphic
The backend database engine that
months since the last
treatment, navigation, content—the
associations run on is known as an
column I penned for this publication.
works. Staff has been working with a
AMS—Association Management
This missive is being composed right
member task force to ensure our new
System. The AMS is where your
web presence is intuitive, simple, clean
company and individual member
and professional. We are focusing
profiles reside. It is also the home of
on our three core constituencies: the
training records and all the technology
auto mobility industry, the buying
used for event registration, audit
public and our partners, a group that
results and corrective actions, and
includes allied health professionals,
much, much more. It is essentially the
organizations such as United Spinal
equivalent of a dealer’s DMS.
around the 4th of July. For a good little bit here we have all been living on COVID time…and it is decidedly different, that’s for sure. Sometimes it has felt like the time has absolutely crept by; on the other hand, how could time be creeping by when three months ago feels like three lifetimes? Strange days have found us, indeed. As of this writing, the NMEDA office’s home state of Florida has exploded with new cases, although thankfully hospitalizations and deaths have increased only slightly. But, just like
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and PVA, and our friends in voc rehab
We are bringing a disciplined approach to the new website: simple, clean, intuitive. We are aiming to go live on October 1.”
last issue, I find myself rolling my eyes
and the VA. We are charting a clear
For many years NMEDA has utilized
as I write—because I realize when you
navigational path for each group to
a custom AMS, and, as many of
actually read this, likely early August,
ensure our targeted message and
you know from painful, first-hand
there is simply NO TELLING what the
resources for each hits its mark.
experience, it has…issues. So, a few
situation will be.
Our current website actually has a
months ago we signed a deal with
The NMEDA staff has continued to
tremendous amount of pretty good
work remotely, and I’m pleased to
content, but over time the navigation
be able to report that we are making
has, quite frankly, spiraled out of
really good progress on several key
control. We are bringing a disciplined
initiatives. An update follows…
approach to the new website: simple, clean, intuitive. We are aiming to go
A New Website
live on October 1; circumstances could
I’ll start with the highest-profile effort
conspire to thwart that goal (as we
we have underway, the development
have seen), but that is our target,
of a new website. This is no “lipstick-
nonetheless.
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NMEDA Circuit Breaker
a company called MemberSuite to license their off-the-shelf AMS, which will be integrated with the new website. While not nearly as public-facing as the new website, the AMS is arguably more important to our members, particularly in your everyday online interaction with the association. Much more to come on this, but suffice it to
