Tag Archive: ASAE

Creating The 24/7 Small-Staff Association Online Conference

Tweet Photo by CharlieGentle http://www.flickr.com/photos/charliegentle/94736480/sizes/o/ Join me July 13-15, 2010, for ASAE’s Online Conference for Small Staff Associations (nonprofit associations with ten or few staff).     2010 Small Staff Association Online Conference Topic: With the rise of social media, mobile technology, and a very vocal blogosphere, it sometimes feels like your members never sleep. How can…

Four Principles For Planning Brain-Friendly Annual Meetings

Tweet My post for ASAE’s Acronym’s “Big Ideas” month for association bloggers.  What if associations provided brain-friendly annual conferences? Planning Brain-Friendly Conferences If you wanted to create a conference environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like today’s conferences, meetings and workshops. If you…

Predictions From Nonprofit Prophets

Tweet Have you read Carol-Anne Moutinho’s Playing the Not-for-Profit Prophet? Canadian association professionals have been weighing in on what they think nonprofit associations will look like in five to six years from now. Bud Crouch, a speaker for an upcoming CSAE 2009 Governance Summit, shared his thoughts. Carol-Anne, the great association oracle that she is, follows…

What Are You Becoming?

Tweet Brian Birch asks an interesting question on ASAE & The Center’s Acronym Blog: Who are we really, as association professionals? If you work for a nonprofit association as I do, I suggest that you read his post and the replies. Here’s how I responded to “Who are we really, as association professionals?” I could…