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Aprio or Dropbox? Here’s why “free” has its drawbacks

The word “free” always looks nice, but the sad truth is you often get what you pay for. If you’re considering Dropbox, Google Drive or another file-sharing site platform to store and share your board materials, you may want to think twice. Implementing a board portal has some solid benefits that can help you achieve the good governance you want. Limited functionality Dropbox and other file sharing sites allow you to do
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Product Updates and Tips

Top board portal IT concerns addressed

This is for everyone in IT: we completely get it. It’s natural that when you’re asked to adopt new technology, you want to tread carefully. You have concerns. There’s a lot to consider, and a lot that can affect your day-to-day if things go sideways. We talk a lot at Aprio about making an application that’s easy for people to use. We include IT in that pledge, and your top concerns are
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Board Best Practices

Tales from the boardroom

We like to think of the start of the year as an opportunity to start fresh — to take all our experiences, including mistakes, from the year before and learn from them. We know what you’re thinking, What do you mean, mistakes? Well, we’re all human, right? Even if some of us (you) have super-human abilities. You know those moments when someone says, “One day, I’ll look back on this and laugh”?
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Board Best Practices

Five ways to keep board materials secure

Sharing information between directors is essential for any board. But sharing it safely — well, for a lot of organizations that’s another matter altogether. A recent report from Thomson Reuters suggests many organizations struggle with keeping their information secure, and may not even be aware of the implications for their organization should sensitive information be leaked. As we close out the year, we thought we’d offer some tips for making sure security
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Board Best Practices

Annual board evaluations

“Board evaluations deliver valuable information and are an important tool in improving the board’s overall effectiveness. A thoughtful approach to the evaluation process includes selecting the right topics for focus and the right tools for conducting the evaluation.” Click here to read more about Board Evaluations from Hansell Advisory. And building the survey right in your Aprio Boardroom software? Priceless. Ask us how if you’ve not taken advantage of this feature yet! For
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Company News

Announcing TELUS International’s subscription of Aprio boardroom

Aprio Inc. is pleased to announce that TELUS International, TELUS’ global arm, has purchased multiple subscriptions of the Aprio Boardroom to facilitate the governance and regulatory requirements of its growing international businesses. The Aprio Boardroom makes the preparation, dissemination and consumption of Board materials easy, convenient and highly secure. “We believe this to be quite an endorsement coming from an organization with such a significant international footprint,” said Ian Warner, Aprio’s CEO.
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Board Best Practices

Boardroom surveys: Get the elephant INTO the room

For any board to be completely functional, every director must be willing to express all views, including those that may be unpopular. Too often, directors will withhold comments, questions or, most especially, criticisms of other directors, or even the chairman of the board. They may do this because they feel intimidated by more senior or experienced people at the table, or because they are unsure of the reaction their question or comment
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Product Updates and Tips

Digital rights management – it’s not just for musicians anymore!

DRM (Digital Rights Management) refers to a collection of systems used to protect the copyrights of electronic media. These include digital music and movies, as well as other data that is stored and transferred digitally. For example, the Apple iTunes Music Store uses a DRM system to limit the number of computers that songs can be played on. Each audio file downloaded from the iTunes music store includes information about the owner
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