Category Archives: ASAE

American Society of Association Executives

Upcoming Presentations

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I’ll be speaking at 2 sessions at ASAE’s Annual Meeting in Minneapolis next month.
The first is a preconference session called Building Bridges: IT as a Strategic Partner. The portion of the session I am involved in will focus on how to get IT involved in the overall strategic planning and execution of the organization. The second part of the program will take a detailed look at the current state of the association management system industry, which is the biggest technology investment for most associations (just slightly ahead of the web these days).

The second is a concurrent session called Web Technologies for the Future. The session is built around William Gibson’s quote: “The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” Non-profit organizations are typically the last on the technology distribution list, so there is lots of stuff we can talk about that have not penetrated our industry yet.

ASAE-GWSAE Town Hall Part Deux

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View from a Corner Office has another nice synopsis of the second town hall meeting for the GWSAE-ASAE meeting. Events conspired to keep me from attending this one, unfortunately. The post from mystery CEO also provided a link to an information page on the GWSAE site about the merger proposal. (Note to designer: blue links on a blue background – not good.)

From what I heard at the M&T meeting this week I think there is a lot of resistance to the merger within the GWSAE membership. The vote very well may fail if they don’t provide more specifics of what changes will occur due to the merger.

Update: Jeff De Cagna has chimed in on the second meeting as well.

Blogging Session Feedback

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This week I received the results of attendee evaluations from the blogging session we did back at the beginning of the month. (A copy of our slides are posted on the wiki page.) We had about 10 people on site attendees plus another 16 call-ins. The conference calls could have had multiple people on the line, so at a minimum we had 26 listening/attending.

Overall, the attendees rated the session a 4.3 out of 5.

People seemed to like the general introduction we gave as well as the case study of how we have deployed a weblog network at ASHA.

The most commonly requested change for the program was to provide more balanced coverage of external and internal uses of weblogs. In the session we spent about 10 minutes on external use in response to attendee requests. 50/50 on external/internal use would be a great program and probably be more attractive to wider audience. The main reason we didn’t have more on external use by an association is that I haven’t deployed an external blog yet for our assocation and so don’t have any direct experience to share yet.

Klogging Event

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I’ll be presenting, along with Glen Engel-Cox, an ASAE Knowledge Network titled “Blogging for Associations” on January 8, 2004. The session will cover how associations can set up a weblog network on their intranet as a low-cost knowledge sharing tool.

To support this session and some other stuff I’m working on, I’ve set up a wiki. You can see the page for the blogging session here and the main wiki home page here. I’ve restricted pages that I want to maintain control over but most of the site is editable. Feel free to add links to the resources pages if you would like to add information for the session attendees to see.