Community Matters

The Value of Virtual Marketing

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations.

With this episode, we’re expanding our podcast beyond the issues of managing and governing community associations. This new mini-series of episodes focuses on our business partner members and how they are marketing themselves in the new, virtual world we’ve all existed in since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. We’ll be talking with various business partner members about best practices for marketing in a virtual world, how to make the best of virtual events and how to make connections and new contacts without the in-person networking events that we were so dependent on in the time known as BC – before Covid.

This episode features two special guests – Sean McCabe, with Servpro of Upper Bucks, is the chair of the CAI Business Partners Council, and Michael Vennitti is with FreshFoam and is a member of the Business Partners Council.

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Social Media Impacts on Community Associations

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations.

In this episode, we'll be discussing the use of social media and its potentially significant impacts on community associations.

Today's guest is Edward Hoffman, Jr., a Partner and Co-Founder of Barrow|Hoffman, a Community Association Law and Litigation firm with offices in Warminster and Allentown, PA, and a member of CAI’s Pennsylvania Legislative Action Committee. For more information on Barrow | Hoffman, please visit their website at www.barrowhoffman.com.

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Safely Opening Your Fitness Center during Covid-19

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations.

Community Associations, like other businesses and organizations, are slowing starting to re-open facilities and amenities now that stay-at-home orders have been lifted in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. But how do associations re-open gyms and fitness centers and operate them safely while Coronavirus continues to be a threat? We’ll talk about this question and ways communities can provide this amenity while protecting residents in today’s episode of Community Matters Podcast with guest Kim Hamilton, Business Development Manager for Advantage Sport & Fitness.

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Act Early to Ease the Cost of a Building Repipe

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations.

Most community associations probably don’t think very often about your building’s pipes. But it might be too late by the time a leak shows up – your pipes are likely already failing. In this episode of Community Matters podcast, we discuss re-pipe as a critical capital improvement, with guest David Hossfeld, Vice President for Sagewater, a pipe replacement expert that operates coast to coast.

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Crisis Communications

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations.

We often hear people talk about the need for communication skills, especially in a crisis. And crisis communication skills are needed perhaps now more than ever in the midst of a global pandemic. We’re going to talk about crisis communication skills in today’s episode of Community Matters Podcast with guest Robyn Colajezzi, Director, Commercial Marketing and Development for SERVPRO of Germantown, Pennypack/Bustleton, and Upper Bucks.

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Pools in the Age of Coronavirus: To Open, or Not?

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations.

Memorial Day is fast approaching, and, with it, pool season. But, this year’s pool season is different from all the others, thanks to Coronavirus. Many community managers and homeowners are facing the same question right now about their pools – do we open them, or not? We’ll talk about this question and more in today’s episode of Community Matters Podcast with guest Ben Basch, Chief Development Officer for American Pool.

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Why You Need Flood Insurance

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations.

This topic was adapted from an article by Ross Rutman, with JGS Insurance, that was originally published in the May/June 2019 issue of our chapter publication, Community Assets.

It’s a pretty common question. Nearly every homeowner has asked at one point or another: why do I need flood insurance? I have been told that the property is not near a body of water and the area is not a high risk for flood. People also have let me know that there has never been a flood at their property before. So, why do you need flood insurance?

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Be Productive While Working from Home

Today’s episode of Community Matters podcast is being recorded during the ongoing coronavirus public health emergency. Millions of workers have been furloughed while millions more have been working from home for the last few weeks, and for the foreseeable future. This sudden change means a new and unfamiliar routine for many of us. In this episode of Community Matters podcast, we’re talking with Alyssa Cowling, Technology Director and Marketing Assistant for The Rahn Companies on how to stay productive and safe while working from home.

For more information on The Rahn Companies, please visit their website.

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Communicating After a Disaster: A Little Conversation Goes a Long Way.

Welcome to this edition of Community Matters podcast, where we discuss issues important to managing and governing condos, cooperatives and homeowner associations. 

Today’s episode is being recorded during the Coronavirus global pandemic, during which tens of millions of Americans are under stay at home orders. We are re-visiting and re-purposing older content that we believe may have some useful value to community associations as we deal with the ongoing public health emergency.

The subject of today’s episode is communicating after a disaster. This article was printed originally in our chapter publication, Community Assets, in May of 2019, and was authored by Jill Geiger, CMCA, AMS, PCAM, community manager with Associa MidAtlantic, and Barbara Saxton, CMCA, AMS, PCAM, condominium manager with The Galman Group.

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Technology for Community Association Management

Today’s episode is all about technology – more specifically, the technology necessary to efficiently manage a condominium or homeowners association, and a community association management company. From accounting and collections, to data security, communications platforms, and even mobile apps, we’re going to touch on all of it with today’s guest, Steve Gothard, Director of Operations for CAMCO Management Company and currently serves as the Chair of CAI’s Annual Conference & Expo Committee.

For more information on CAMCO Management Company, please visit their website.

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