Jan
01
2008 Association Predictions
Posted by bkmcae@gmail.com (Ben Martin) under Uncategorized
The last several posts have been focused on 2007, but now that we’re into 2008, I feel some predictions are in order. I have placed a call to the Psychic Hotline, and here’s what they had to say about the things that will happen in the association industry in 2008…
- There will be a really cool new association launched that will generate huge buzz in the association community.
- Six more blogs about associations will be hatched.
- Everyone will complain about the new IRS form 990.
- ASAE & The Center will debut two new research projects. One will be great, the other… not so much.
- Acronym will get redesigned and the President & CEO of the Center, Susan Sarfati, will start blogging there.
- Associations will really get interested in Facebook. Meanwhile, something like Second Life, but better, will be introduced and there’ll be another land rush among early adopters.
- People will be saying “As good as Nashville” in the San Diego Convention Center during ASAE & The Center’s 2008 Annual Meeting (that would be a compliment, for readers who didn’t attend 2005’s Annual Meeting).
- The backchannel will be back and better than ever.
- There will be another Association Social Media Unconference or perhaps a Blog Camp for association folk.
- There will still be no movement on an EMSAL.
Tagged: Association Management; Associations; CAE; Certified Association Executive