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Associations must focus their message for mobile future

Experts say shifting patterns of how people access Internet means groups must think hard about what information is online A desktop computer is no longer the primary point of Internet access for most people, and that fact could dramatically change how associations interact with their members.

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Executive Profiles

Longtime staffer guides NPMA through transition

How Bob Rosenberg is using his relatively brief stint as CEO to lay foundations for growth of pest management group Rosenberg

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Advocacy

The big winners in association lobbying? The PR firms

Analysis of tax documents finds business groups spent more than $1.2 billion on outside public relations during five-year period Public relations firm Edelman has a generous friend in the American Petroleum Institute. The oil industry association pumped more than $327 million into the company between 2008 and 2012, according to an analysis of tax documents by the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative journalism organization.

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Advocacy

Associations find elements to praise, criticize in SOTU

Obama's call for ‘fast-track' trade authority and cybersecurity receive accolades, but business groups cool on tax proposals President Barack Obama's push to give his office expanded "fast-track" negotiating authority on trade is a hit with association leaders. The same can't be said of his tax proposals. Associations issued an avalanche of responses following Obama's annual State of the Union Address Jan. 20. As usual for a speech packed with policy suggestions, groups found things to like and not like in what the president proposed.

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