About Us
Association TRENDS is dedicated to keeping senior association executives informed with essential news, developments and insights that ensure they stay up to date, avoid problems and take advantage of opportunities in the association world.
Founded in 1973 by Frank Martineau, CAE, and Jill Martineau Cornish, IOM, TRENDS is seriously useful, to the point and straightforward. The weekly online publication contains with actionable alerts for key legal or administrative dangers and opportunities as well as information about senior executive moves and changes. TRENDS also includes features such as TRENDS Attends to brief you on association meetings you were unable to attend, and Bottom Line$, with best practices and tips addressing key financial drivers. The monthly, print FOCUS TRENDS, as well as the online archive, provides additional reference material on best practices as well as deep, proprietary TRENDS research about the industry: the twice yearly PULSE, the largest in depth survey of association chief executive sentiment, concerns and plans; the annual Legal Brief; and the annual COMPENSATION REPORT for the DC-area, which tracks comparative pay for more than 90 association positions.
Often called "the bible of the association community," Association TRENDS is read every week by senior association executives, chamber of commerce executives, meeting planners, nonprofit legal and accounting experts, convention and visitors bureau directors and industry suppliers of all types. (The association market consumes more than $400-billion of goods and services annually and includes over 20k associations, distributed nationally, but with over 80% of headquarters in the Washington, Chicago, New York and San Francisco metro areas.)
In addition, Associations TRENDS sponsors the All Media Contest, an annual contest for association publications; and honors the "Association Executive of the Year" at the Salute To Excellence, held every February in Washington DC. Since 1982, when James P. Low, CAE, was named, there have been 37 Association Executives of the Year honored. Honorees recently have been:
2006 - H. Cris Collie III, CAE, EVP, Employee Relocation Council (now Worldwide ERC)
2007 - Thomas J. Donohue, CEO, US Chamber of Commerce
2008 - Roger Dow, CEO, Travel Industry Association (now US Travel Association)
2009 - Connie Tipton, CEO, International Dairy Foods Association
2010 - VAdm Norbert R. Ryan, USN-Ret., Military Officers Association of America
TRENDS also periodically selects Vendors of the Year, Young & Aspiring Association Professionals, Lobbyists of Note, and honors Industry Founders for which nominees are welcome at any time.
Co-founder Jill Cornish was named one of the "Women Players in the Association World" and one of the "Dazzling Dozen in Washington DC's Association World" by The Washington Business Journal. She was recognized with ASAE’s “2010 Women Who Advance Excellence in Associations” award.
In 2009, Association TRENDS was acquired by Columbia Books and Information Services, publisher for 50 years of the annual Directories of Trade and Professional Associations, which track activities and contact information and are available electronically in searchable form, updated daily, on 16,000 associations and more than 50,000 senior executives in www.associationexecs.com.
Publisher's Note:
At Association TRENDS, we promise to provide:
– Concise, relevant news of concern to you and the association community.
– Practical, timely, actionable information to help you deal with the challenges you face.
– A deep, insightful toolbox of resources to help you pursue your goals of organizational excellence, based on proprietary research, as well as marshalling the best that is available within the community.
We will continue to reach out to you for your feedback, suggestions and ideas.
Thank you for the support you have given us as TRENDS moves forward with you.
Joel Poznansky, Publisher, Association TRENDS, and President, Columbia Books & Information Services
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Autumn Jones, Contributing Editor | 240-235-0277 | ajones@columbiabooks.com
Madiha Qureshi, Contributing Writer | 240-235-0262 | mqureshi@columbiabooks.com
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