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Bethesda, MD Today at Infocommerce, Briefings Media Group, a business information and management training company in Richmond, Virginia, announced that it has completed the sale of The Salesman's Guide™ publications to Columbia Books and Information Services of Bethesda, Maryland.

Barry Melancon, executive director, AICPA, was honored as Association TRENDS Association Executive of the Year at the publication’s 32nd annual Salute to Association Excellence Awards February 16, 2011.

The TRENDS Association Executive of the Year and Association Top Vendor of the year are both Certified Public Accountants. Barry C. Melancon, CPA, CEO of the American Institute of CPAs, New York, is the 2011 Association Executive of the Year, the top honor for executives of national associations. Read the full announcement

Jill Martineau Cornish, IOM, was recently named top industry partner by the Center for Association Leadership (ASAE). The Association TRENDS co-founder and executive editor was presented with the 2010 Women Who Advance Association Excellence Industry Partner of the year award for her work at the publication for her invaluable insight and communication services to the association community.

A beacon for the association community, and the first Association TRENDS Association Executive of the Year James P. Low, CAE, 83, died Oct. 11 of cancer. “Jim was a scrapper and fought hard for the rights and value of associations and those who worked in association management. We have lost our finest advocate,” commented Association TRENDS executive editor Jill Martineau Cornish, IOM.

Six percent of CFOs plan to hire full-time accounting and finance employees during the third quarter of 2010, while 9% anticipate staff reductions. The majority of respondents (83%) in the Robert Half Financial Hiring Index said they do not expect to make changes to their personnel levels.

BETHESDA, MD (February 8, 2010) – On February 23, 400 high-level association executives will attend the Salute to Association Excellence to honor their peers, discuss the year past, and look forward to the year ahead. The event will provide those present with great opportunities to network, and will honor Military Officers Association of America President VADM Norbert R. Ryan, Jr., US Navy-Ret. as Association Executive of the Year.

Bethesda, MD (August 31, 2009) – Columbia Books and Information Services is pleased to announce that it has acquired Association TRENDS, the practical, trusted resource for senior association and nonprofit organization executives, from Martineau Corporation.

AssociationExecs.com, a division of Columbia Books & Information Services (CBIS), is pleased to announce that it will publish the 49th edition of 2009 Salary Survey of DC-Area Associations & Nonprofits The survey, previously of Cordom Associates, has been published continuously since 1979. In 2009 the survey was redesigned and now contains an all-new glossary of terms and 10 pages of all new compensation analysis.

In the midst of a recession cutting deep into everyone’s budgets, associations have been suffering from the same economic symptoms as their corporate peers. Members are holding back money for dues, cutting into association revenues; meetings are being canceled as potential attendees worry about the cost of travel. Some associations are even cutting jobs.

Bethesda, Md. (Nov. 1, 2008) – AssociationExecs.com unveiled a new search feature and a new look for the site today.

Bethesda, Md. (Oct. 21, 2008) – Association TRENDS, a newspaper focused on associations, featured AssociationExecs.com’s newest product in its October 2008 print issue.

Bethesda, Md. (Oct. 1, 2008) – AssociationExecs.com is now listing the number of non-conference events that associations hold each year in their profiles.

Bethesda, Md. (Sept. 3, 2008) – AssociationExecs.com has added two new features to its web site, allowing users to obtain more detailed information about an association.

Bethesda, Md. (June 20, 2008) – AssociationExecs.com, a division of Columbia Books & Information Services (CBIS), is pleased to announce that it will publish the 48th edition of Cordom Associates’ 2008 Salary Survey of Nonprofit Organizations in the D.C. Metro Area in September.