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Preparing for the Future: Succession Planning
In the spring of 2007, a team of consultants from RSM McGladrey that included me assisted the Copper Development Association with a succession planning and staff development engagement. I had the opportunity to interview CDA…
Read More →It’s Not You, It’s Me – Learning to Love Your AMS
Remember how excited you were by the unlimited possibilities of your shiny new Association Management System? What would your staff say now? “We hate our AMS!” “It doesn’t do anything we want!” “We need a…
Read More →Setting Technology Policies That Make Sense in a Web 2.0 World
On Tuesday, September 9, I had the opportunity to speak to the Potomac Employers Roundtable. A group of about 30 people, largely senior HR and Administration professionals from a wide range of organizations (PR consultancies,…
Read More →Tagged in the Changeblogging meme
Mads tagged me in this conversation that originated with Qui Diaz of Livingston Communications. To quote Qui: “Changebloggers, as defined by Britt Bravo, are ‘people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise…
Read More →ASAE AM Conversation: The Lunchtable Twilight Zone
As you’ll note if you read Confessions of a Justified Meeting Attendee, I mostly avoided the ASAE Exhibit Hall. However, one day, I made the mistake of having lunch. No it wasn’t the food –…
Read More →BloggerCon and BloggerUnCon
This year was my first BloggerCon. It was also the first year that BloggerCon was part of the official program. So it was kind of a mixed group: long time bloggers about associations like Jeff,…
Read More →Law of Unintended Consequences
In common with most attendees, I began my San Diego odyssey on a plane: a US Air flight from DC. I’m a platinum elite muckity-muck member (or whatever it is), so I’ve mercifully been shielded…
Read More →Confessions of a Justified Meeting Attendee*
I was a bad ASAE & the Center Annual Meeting attendee. I did not visit the exhibit floor. In all fairness, I’m a consultant/vendor. They really don’t want to see me. I’m really just going…
Read More →What Comes After Web 2.0?
A prescient question posted by one of my colleagues this morning. My answer, of course, was Web 3.0! From whatis.com: The idea of the Semantic Web was created by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee….
Read More →Social Networking the Not-for-Profit World
In ASAE’s recent Decision to Join study, the following four items ranked consistently as the top member benefits in membership associations across nearly all demographic categories: Providing networking opportunities Providing professional development opportunities Supplying industry…
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