The resolution's language was reportedly softened after some AFL-CIO unions fretted about creating a "membership-lite".
To attract broad participation for the new Low-Carbon Energy Centers, MITEI has created a membership structure that removes many of the barriers common to other research endeavors.
While more traditional web applications might offer many arbitrary actions - "add person A to group B", for example - RESTful apps achieve the same results while only allowing the creation or modification of resources: "create a membership".
To attract and keep customers, Barnes & Noble has created a membership program providing steeper discounts to heavy buyers, but that has been unexpectedly popular and has recently cramped the company's profits.
The Wall Street Journal famously proved this strategy by expanding digital content, adding new paper sections such as Mansion, and introducing events, which created a membership experience that has quadrupled prices in less than a decade, ending the paper's previous reliance on heavy discounting.
"It's a headache to shop in stores for items you aren't allowed to try on or don't need to try on because you already know your size," says Diskin, "We've created a membership program for replenishment items like underwear and socks so that you can have them delivered to your door monthly, quarterly, or whenever you want rather than having to run to the store once there are holes in them".
At this meeting, members of civil society, such as activists with a particular disease and NGO representatives, took the lead in creating a governing board membership structure that guaranteed civil society's representation and participation in major funding decisions [ 72].
These programs provide the basis for other models that could offer research experience to undergraduates while also creating a sense of membership in the scientific community on a global level.
CAA has created a special membership category, Spouse Life Membership, to serve the needs of couples.
