ABS is moving its world headquarters to 132 West State Street in Trenton May 1! We will be located directly across the street from the State House and look forward to serving clients from our new home. Office warming reception coming this summer.
Please Join
Parents Anonymous of New Jersey
For a Fundraiser and Board Recruitment Cocktail Reception
Click here for reception invitation
Wednesday, April 25
6:00 – 8:00 pm
Marsillio’s Restaurant
71 West Upper Ferry Road, West Trenton
With Special Guest NJ Senator Joe Vitale
Parents Anonymous of New Jersey is a Statewide, nonprofit organization and the State’s largest child abuse and neglect prevention organization.
A donation of $50 is suggested, but are not required and a contribution of any denomination is appreciated. Checks can be made payable to Parents Anonymous of New Jersey. All Donations are tax deductible.
Please RSVP your attendance plans to: panjstress@aol.com
‘Ensuring member value is a huge concern that is keeping association executives up at night,’ according to one recent Association TRENDS report. So how do you know if you are delivering value and that your strategic plans are in line with what your members need and value most?
One effective way to do this is to ask your members. Often the most cost efficient way to communicate to your members is via an online survey. But before you decide to send out a routine online survey, it is wise to pause and ask yourself these seven questions:
- Is this approach the best for reaching all key constituents of our membership?
- What was the response rate the last time we did a similar exercise? Many online surveys typically achieve less than a 10% response, so by definition they struggle to achieve adequate representation.
- How can we achieve better representation of key constituents from our surveys?
- How do we ensure that what we survey is not driven by pet ‘loves ‘or ‘hates’ of the board, or employees, but is guided by what really matters to our members and customers?
- How do we truly ensure that the survey process is objective and unbiased, so that our members are comfortable enough to be open and honest without fear of being judged?
- How do we ensure the questions are designed and asked in an unbiased way?
- How will we as an organization achieve real value that will impact our bottom-line from this exercise?
Online surveys can be valuable when used appropriately. Other methods are often required, such as quota telephone interviews; facilitated group discussions and / or in-depth interviews to ensure all key constituents are reached.
At ABE Research, we typically walk our clients through these types of questions and more to ensure that any research that is undertaken, truly addresses the issues in hand, reaches the right audience and delivers tangible value. As a result, you not only get a measure on value and your ROI but the process itself is worth the investment.

Prudence Shapcott is the lead consultant at ABE Research.
www.aberesearch.com
prudence@aberesearch.com
SAVE THE DATE
The 200 Club of Mercer County
2012 Annual Luncheon
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Stone Terrace by John Henry’s
2275 Kuser Road, Hamilton, NJ 08690
Guest Speaker:
Colonel of the State Police
Richard Fuentes
“State Police after 9/11″
Valor Awards TBA
http://www.mercer200club.org/events.htm
Friday, March 9, 2012
11:30 – Silent Auction & tee off
(2 indoor mini-golf courses at the Rescue Mission)
1:30 – Lunch
More details / photos: http://www.rescuemissionoftrenton.org/events.php
98 Carroll Street, Trenton (off Perry Street by Route 1 entrance)
Download Registration Flyer
This is a terrific event that provides a nice break from the winter doldrums. ABS has our foursome together and hope you can join us!
Reserve your spot today as spaces are limited. The event includes a fantastic silent auction (featuring golf at many of the area’s leading clubs and dinner at many of the area’s finest restaurants), a gift basket raffle, a wide assortment of trophies, a fantastic “summertime” barbecue, and of course, lots and lots of good-natured “golf kibitzing.” And there will be a new contest with lots of great give-a-ways!
By Gudrun Frank
Weblink Studio
Often times, business owners do not know how important it is to know how and where their domain is registered until it is too late.
- The ”Registrar” = the company that registered the domain name. Check accredited registrars here
- The “Registrant” = the person or entity that legally owns the domain name
- The “Administrator” = usually the person or entity that receives notifications about renewal and also receives password recovery messages.
Pitfalls
- You are registering a domain name with a company, assuming they are an accredited registrar with ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). However, they are a reseller for a registrar. Resellers are often times not monitored, so if they disappear, so may your domain name. You may unknowingly register a domain name with a registrar that is located in another country making communications difficult or impossible. (See story 4 for a real life example.)
- A web design or hosting company is registering the domain name for you. Instead of registering the domain name in your name, they are registering the name in their name. So legally they own the domain name. Although you are paying for it, legally, you don’t own it. If you are lucky, they will release the domain name to you when you want to change services but many times this is done to keep you hostage and prevent you from changing services. Imagine the nightmare if that hosting company goes out of business and you have no way of accessing your domain name registration to change name servers. (See stories 1 and 2 for examples)
- You register a domain name with your @verizon.com, @comcast.com, @aol.com e-mail address but you forget to change the e-mail address associated with your domain name when you change service providers. Therefore, notifications of pending renewals go to obsolete e-mail addresses and finally expire. (See story 5)
What you Should Do
- Make sure you are registering your domain name with an accredited registar
- Discuss with anyone who is registering the domain for you how it will be registered and make sure that you have access to your domain name settings through a control panel. You need to be able to change name servers and make payments independently from whoever registered the domain name for you. Also keep in mind, that it is important to register a domain for a business not in a person’s name but in the businesses’ name. Remember, whoever is the “Registrant” is the legal owner of a domain name. If the registrant of your domain name is an employee, this employee is the legal owner. If the employee leaves your organization, so may your domain name. This is also very important for Non-Profit organizations. Many times they depend on a knowledgeable volunteer. If that volunteer disappears with all the registration information, the domain name can only be recovered if it was registered in the organization’s name.
- Make sure that you keep in mind any changes to your e-mail service providers that may be connected to your domain name. Simply log into your control panel for your domain name registration and change the associated e-mail address.
- Check how your domain name is registered here. All domain names can be looked up in a Registry that is called WHOIS. If you chose “Private Registration” the available information may be limited. “Private Registration” is meant to shield and hide the real owner of a domain name but also does not give you the ability to easily check that the domain is registered correctly in your name.
Real Life Examples or How to Lose a Domain Name:
Disaster struck when “C” went bankrupt and the owner disappeared overnight without warning. Since the website was hosted on “C’s” servers, the website went down with the lights in the building.
From one day to the next, “A” lost everything he built over the last several years. He did not have a backup of his files to move them to another hosting company. He did not have access to his domain name registration to change the name servers. (Name servers are a database that the Internet uses to look up were a website is hosted and to connect a domain name with the hosting company). That meant his well-branded domain name, that all his customers knew and which was well established in search engines, went dark. Overnight he lost his successful business because he did not take care of some very basic precautions.
Mistake # 1: He did not ask for username and password for the domain name registration. Had he done that, he could have at least created a new website and move on. He would have had the expenses of creating a new site and entering all his products again, but the part that takes months, if not years to accomplish - his search engine ranking, could have been recovered.
Newark to benefit from organization’s focus on neighborhood revitalization
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4-Time Olympian Joetta Clark Diggs Honored
MAYOR BOOKER TO JOIN CHASE TO ANNOUNCE FIRM’S $4 MILLION INVESTMENT IN NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY CAPITAL, ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, AT 10 A.M., AT 284 SOUTH 11TH STREET, NEWARK
Investment will help preserve affordable housing in New Jersey;
Newark to benefit from organization’s focus on neighborhood revitalization
Newark, NJ – November 30, 2011 – Mayor Cory A. Booker, Members of the Newark Municipal Council, Deputy Mayor of Economic and Housing Development Adam Zipkin, Director of Housing and Real Estate Michael Meyer, Chase New Jersey Community Relations Manager Elliott Lee, New Jersey Community Capital President Wayne Meyer, The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Planning and Development Director, Newark Office Annemarie Uebbing will announce a $4 million grant from Chase to New Jersey Community Capital (NJCC) to help preserve affordable housing and expand the organization’s work in revitalizing New Jersey’s most distressed neighborhoods, with a major focus on Newark. The announcement will take place on Thursday, December 1, at 10 a.m., at 284 South 11th Street, in Newark.
Newark was selected as the site of the announcement due to the innovative and holistic approach the City and its community partners have taken since the onset of the mortgage and foreclosure crisis. The site of the announcement is a home in Newark’s West Ward that is one of 47 vacant properties in Essex County – including 21 in Newark – which NJCC purchased at a discount from Chase in 2009 to rehabilitate and find permanent tenants. In addition to the grant, Chase has invested more than $3.1 million in NJCC during the last seven years to enhance the organization’s continued leadership in the revitalization of New Jersey’s distressed neighborhoods.
WHO: Mayor Cory A. Booker, Members of the Newark Municipal Council, Deputy Mayor of Economic and Housing Development Adam Zipkin, Director of Housing and Real Estate Michael Meyer, Chase New Jersey Community Relations Manager Elliott Lee, New Jersey Community Capital President Wayne Meyer, and The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Planning and Development Director, Newark Office Annemarie Uebbing.
WHAT: Will announce Chase’s $4 million investment in New Jersey Community Capital, to help preserve affordable housing and expand NJCC.
WHEN: Thursday, December 1; 10 a.m.
WHERE: 284 South 11th Street (Between 12th Avenue and 13th Avenue) Newark
Contacts: Press Information Office – (973) 733-8004.
E-mail: Pressoffice@ci.newark.nj.us
JP Morgan Chase: Mike Fusco – (212) 270-5089
E-mail: Michael.f.fusco@chase.com
New Jersey Community Capital: Peter Grof – (609) 989-7766, ext. 406
E-mail: pgrof@njclf.com
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