The Blogoclump

Ben Martin
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Going to Chicago for ASAE & The Center’s Annual Meeting? Please, come and hang out with me and the very hip cats from ASAE & The Center’s Membership Section on Sunday night. Here’s the pertinent information:

All membership professionals are invited to make new friends and catch up with old ones at the Membership Section’s Informal Networking Event on Sunday, August 12th from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. CDT at The Terrace restaurant and bar at The Conrad Hotel (521 North Rush Street, Chicago, IL) located next to Nordstrom’s. This is an informal gathering of membership professionals and not a hosted event. Leave a comment or email Sheri Jacobs at sjacobs at mckinleymarketing dot com if you need more information.

Tagged: ASAE2007 Association Management Associations CAE Certified Association Executive

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Daniel Farrell tagged me with an eight habits meme. The premise is these are eight habits I have that you might not know about. So here goes.

1. I work out 4-6 times per week for about 30 minutes per session, usually between 7 and 8 a.m. I’ve gotten to the point that I even take my running shoes with me on business trips.
2. I shave my face in the shower. Is that too much information? Shaving around this goatee is difficult without a mirror.
3. I gargle with Listerine twice per day. While gargling in the morning, I make good use of the time by Q-tipping my ears, applying deodorant, and putting gel in my hair. And always in that order.
4. When I arrive at work, I always park in the spot farthest from the building, unless it’s raining or going to rain.
5. I check my BlackBerry when I get bored.
6. When I sleep, I like air blowing on my face and white noise. So, I have a small fan that I leave on my bedside table that I run every night. I even bring it on the road when I go on business trips.
7. When I go to sleep, I usually start out on my left side, then the right, then on my back. Only then can I doze off.
8. I own at least four black belts. I don’t buy them out of habit, but out of necessity. I habitually leave my black belt at home when I travel for business.

Now I get to tag five people. Tony, Chris, Shawn, Andy, and Matt.

Tagged: Association Management; Associations; CAE; Certified Association Executive

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Well it seems Beavis, Butthead and their dirty little sisters have grown up, found ClumpChat 1.0 and totally defiled it. This seems to be a result of their finding the room through Meebo Rooms, not, I hope, through my blog or Matt’s. So ClumpChat 1.0 is dead. Watch for ClumpChat 1.01 hopefully in the near future. I have a feature request for Meebo.

Tagged: Association Management; Associations; CAE; Certified Association Executive

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Their most famous product may be the Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, but in the future we may come to know Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) as the innovators that launched “Public Insight Journalism.”
MPR, like others from earlier posts such as Gannett and the BBC, are developing new ways to design, produce and distribute news […]

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