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New Faculty Majority chooses Members Only · Sep 21, 2011
The New Faculty Majority has selected Members Only Software to provide their organization with association management software and web services. The NFM and it's sister foundation serve the needs of the now more than 70% of higher education faculty who work in an adjunct status.
Members Only firms up its alliance with X-charge · Jul 7, 2011
Members Only Software has been providing Accelerated Payment Technologies' X-charge payment app for some time. It's become our preferred means of integrating standards-compliant credit-card processing into our Windows and Web apps. Now we're offering X-Charge as an option to organizations even if they don't use Members Only. X-Charge's ability to store repeat customers account numbers offsite relieves you of an enormous risk when storing card number for re-charging. Talk to us about integrating X-Charge into your workflow!
Linking MailChimp to Members Only · Jun 23, 2011
Members Only Software can now provide your communications team with seamless integration between the popular MailChimp email-marketing application and your CRM. So you can use the Chimp to mail to your members and donors without the tedious and error-prone task of extracting and uploading data.
Members Only WebStore Ready for Prime Time · Jun 10, 2011
The completely re-crafted Members Only WebStore provides a total online shopping experience for your community, tightly integrated to your Members Only CRM or Association Management System. Manages member/non-member pricing, quantity discounts, downloadable products. And social links on every product make sure your users can share out any items that interest them.
Online Event Registration gets a Google FaceLift · May 15, 2011
This month we're proud to announce the availability of our Online Event Registration Portal. We've re-engineered the entire Event Registration mini-app in Google Web Toolkit, to provide a fast and responsive experience for your users.
The EventReg web application allows your members to register for your events, select and pay for sessions and tracks, purchase tickets for guests, claim special rates, indicate dietary preferences and communicate any special accommodations that they require.
News Archive...
Believe it or not -- more than half of all credit card thefts involve employees or business partners.
- 83% were not technologically sophisticated.
- 66% of security breaches involved data the victim did not know he had on his system.
- 87% were avoidable through the imposition of reasonable controls.
Do you have controls in place?We can provide the services you need to assure compliance with the PCI Security Standard.Be sure to visit our New
PCI
Resource Center
(statistics from the PCI Security
Standards Council)
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September Tip:
We
frequently get multiple sales in the same day
from the same customer for exactly the same
amount. For example, someone may sign up for a
class, and later sign a colleague up for the
same class. But the payment processing system
rejects the payment, claiming it is a
duplicate. What can we do about this?
Learn
more:
There's lots more tips in the
resources section! More
tips...
June Featured Article:
(June 6, 2011) Our marketing director
Doria Howe sat Members Only Software president
Michael Stein down to finally get a layperson's
explanation of the Google Web Toolkit. What is
this new development tool everyone is so
excited about, and how does it help our
users? Find
out here!
Members Only and X-Charge: A
PA-DSS Payment Solution
The major credit card brands are demanding
merchant account holders get in line with their
evolving PCI data security standard. One way
to ease your path to compliance is to use a
payment solution that's already been deemed
secure by the PCI. That's why Members Only
now provides CAMCommerce X-Charge at the heart
of its payment strategy. more...
Members Only with xCharge does more than
let you scan, authorize, and settle securely.
It also provides a mechanism allowing you to
retain access to credit card numbers without
storing them on your own servers.
If you've studied the PCI
requirements, you know that storing card
numbers means you need to observe the most
strenuous of the standards - to protect stored
Account Number data. Compliance becomes much
less of an ordeal if you never store this
information on servers under your control, or
in a way accessible to your staff. But if you
give up access to stored numbers, repeat credit
card billings or even routine chargebacks
become impossible. Here's where X-Charge can
really help.
The X-Charge Archive Vault stores your
cardholder data offsite, on X-Charge servers,
minimizing your exposure. Instead of storing
the account number, you store a "token"
X-Charge returns to you. This alias allows you
to recharge or credit back to that account
number, without ever pulling the full number
back onto your network. Does this meet the PCI
standard for payment applications? Indeed it
does; X-Charge is listed on the PCI Security
website as a PA-DSS compliant
application.
Of course, there is more
to compliance than selecting the right
software. The PCI standard manages to
address the entire security of your network,
from the open ports on your routers to the way
you manage your passwords. Users have been
turning to us for help in meeting these new
requirements. So we've just returned from a
two-day seminar given by PCI in Boston so we
can help the associations and non-profits we
work with get in line with these new rules.
Feel free to give us a call if you'd like to
consult further on what the payment brands are
going to be expecting from
you.
This just in...
09/23/2011: How a spelling corrector works
This post by Google's director of research Peter Norvig is undated; I just stumbled across it yesterday. It's a very nice explanation of how statistical spelling correction, like that in Google's search engine, works. To illustrate, he develops a complete spelling corrector in one page of Python code. A bit more technical than our usual link fare - but if you are interested in programming it's well worth the read.
07/21/2011 - NOSql Standouts
If you've been meaning to get your head around the NOSQL movement -- the advocacy of non-relational data-stores for humongous data-sets -- here is a great survey article from InfoWorld of some tools making a name for themselves.
07/04/2011 - MIT's Sherry Turkle : Alone Together
Sherry Turkle on our relationships with machines and with each other. A very worthwhile 20 minutes.
06/23/2011 - Is Online Social Simulation Giving you Popcorn Brain?
This amusing little article from CNN is not the usual link fare here - but I suspect it is true. When your first urge on seeing a gorgeous sunset is to update your status, something's gone wrong. These researchers claim too much online stimulation actually affects your neuronal structure.
06/06/2011 - How the iPhone changed Smartphones forever.
An insightful piece by Dan Frommer in Business Insider that looks at the half-dozen separate innovations, in the spheres of technology and business model, that made the iPhone such a game changer.
06/03/2011 - Microsoft Preview of Window 8
This little video from the folks in Redmond shows the impact that smartphone and tablet OS concepts have had on the designers at Microsoft. And hints that web-app architectures are poised to replace the old idea of desktop software.
06/01/2011 - Five Technologies that will Shape the Web
IEEE Spectrum's take on how the web will change in the next several years - more video, more mobile, and more inanimate appliances!
06/01/2001 Social Media Strategies for Meeting Planning Professionals
Michelle Bruno offers a variety of ideas for the effective use of new media for promoting and enhancing your face-to-face meetings.
05/31/2011 - Emerging Technology: Credit Cards with onboard computers.
These are traditional mag stripe creaitcards, but the onboard computer enables a slew of new security and convenience features, such as hidden account numbers, multi-account cards, and cards that can be turned on and off with a pin code.
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