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Dec
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“Just Because You Have Always Done It That Way Doesn’t Mean You Should” —That was the title of one of the best sessions I attended at the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) Great Ideas Conference in Orlando. In this posting and the next handful after it I plan to ...
Dec
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Tony Rossell has thoughts about what association executives can learn by looking at what motivates teenagers considering vast number of college options. These impacted his college-bound son's decisions:1. Consistent mailings2. ...
Dec
10
You Never Know…
Posted by Cynthia D'Amour
Which lives you may touch.
I’ve worked with Diane Barrera from the American Dietetic Association for just over two years.
I emcee the ADA’s annual Leadership Institute - a project Diane oversees.
It’s a multi-day event with lots of time spent together.
Diane is a real dynamo so we clicked soon after meeting.
A few ...
Dec
10
Wish I was in this session
Posted by Sue Pelletier
Check out this great idea Jeffrey Cufaude used in a recent session he led at ASAE and The Center’s Great Ideas Conference:
I had the 60+ people in my session on Beyond Brainstorming: Facilitation Tips and Techniques for Generating Great Ideas crumple a sheet of paper into a snowball and ...
Dec
10
Becky Granger, CAE of EDUCAUSE shared the cartoon below from the CodingHorror blog on the ASAE Technology Listserve today. This cartoon represents what can happen when there is not good communications and project management from both the vendor and the...
Read & discuss at rjohnston@ironworks.com (Ironworks Consulting)'s blog.
Dec
10
I gave a presentation at ASAE’s Great Ideas conference this past Saturday on innovation, technology and risk for associations. This post is the first of several I’m going to write this week on elements of the presentation. A good question to start with is: what is innovation?
Innovation often gets mythologized ...
Read & discuss at david@highcontext.com (C. David Gammel)'s blog.
Dec
10
I was just reading through this article about job perks being offered to Gen Y (and yes, it does make this baby boomer mad, as the writer warned it would). Makes me wish I was 20 again—not. Will the latest generation expect more perks from their meetings, too? My guess ...