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Convention recap in September 2012 issue of Trade Show Executive magazine.
Three and a half weeks may have somehow slipped passed (what happened to summer?) since the 2012 ASAE Annual Meeting in Dallas, but I want to highlight the companies focused on technology-enabled learning that were on the floor at the accompanying expo.
It’s been a week since ASAE’s Annual Meeting ended and I’m not ready to close the book on this year’s meeting. If you attended the Annual Meeting in Dallas August 11-14 and saw the twitter feed – you know there was a lot of great information beind shared. There were so many great sessions that I wanted to attend but couldn’t. I couldn’t let all that amazing information dissapear into the twitter black hole of old tweets – so I spent a few days organizing, reformatting, and saving the tweets for future use.
As a newbie to the ASAE world, I was excited to venture out to Dallas to experience all the amazing association executives I constantly work with on a day-to-day basis. I will tell you, ASAE is refreshing. The people are friendly, kind, smart, and diverse. ...
We all probably have that one conference that you know you should attend but always have an excuse not to make it. “Too close to my board meeting.” “We don’t have the budget for it.” “I’ve been to Springfield (name any other city) before; don’t want to go again.” For me – it was the ASAE (American Society of Association Executives) annual conference. ...
The post-conference Euphoria (capitalized on purpose) that is what remains after an ASAE annual has finally start to wear off, and before all the excitement from Dallas subsides to everyday life, there are a few highlights and thoughts that stand out that I want to make sure don’t get lost in the next eleven months. ...
I chose well in my sessions. I was privileged to facilitate a challenging discussion on diversity and inclusion with a panel of passionate, outspoken association CEOs. I had the chance to sit down in a flash session facilitated by Jeff De Cagna and share thoughts with a bunch of association professionals who share the perspective that our lack of innovation is killing us, and it's time we did something about it. ...
ASAE saw its largest attendance since 2007 at its annual meeting last week. Are meetings making a comeback? Or did everyone just want to stand on the Dallas Cowboys 10-yard line?
Last week I attended ASAE’s Annual Meeting in Dallas, TX. This meeting brought about 6000 associations executives to this conference which had events in multiple venues around Dallas. While I was participating in the Twitter stream, I stumbled into a discussion with ASAE’s community manager, Mandy Stahl (@MandyStahl), about how it’s always cold in convention centers. We joked about the temperature being 100 degrees outside, yet we needed to wear sweaters.
ASAE’s Annual Meeting & Expo wrapped up Tuesday at the Dallas Convention Center, drawing 5,402 delegates as of Monday, with a buyer-to-seller ratio of approximate 60 percent to 40 percent.
While my job responsibilities limited the number of sessions I was able to attend at ASAE's 2012 Annual Meeting in Dallas, I was very pleased to make it to a fantastic session co-presented by an association executive and one of his more challenging members. ...
Dallas pulled out all the stops for ASAE's 2012 Annual Meeting, including luring Robert Van Winkle away from his pressing home improvement show schedule to kick it at the closing ceremony at Fair Park. You could feel the excitement building early, both in Dallas and afar ...
I plan to write a fuller recap post next week, but for now my Top 5 Tweets from #ASAE12 ...
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So given our industry’s biggest conference of the year. With lots of learning, networking and information sharing going on. What effect did all this tweeting, Instagramming, sharing and such have on our supposed influence?
My last post was about my experience in Dallas during ASAE12. This time, I wanted to give you the highs and lows of the conference from the perspective of my colleagues in the Diversity Executive Leadership Program aka DELP. Outside of our annual reunion, ASAE annual is the only other large gathering of DELP scholars.
Unlike the other Ben, Dallas wasn’t my first ASAE Annual Meeting: It was my tenth! In fact, it was my tenth straight, dating back to 2003! Having attended the Annual Meeting for all these years, both as an association executive and now as a vendor, one of the highlights is reconnecting with old friends. ...
At the conference I was impressed by the diversity of roles of the industry professionals who attended. There were association executives, as you would expect, but also many department leaders and directors, all there trying to figure out association-world trends, from education to technology and beyond. ...
The ASAE community answered the call to help the children of Dallas and the North Texas Food Bank. ASAE presented a check for $61,442, which exceeded ASAE's goal of $50,000 set in July. ASAE's donation will provide meals for 12,288 children. Through its Community Connection project, Un-learning tours, 5K Walk/Run and Fun, Dallas CVB, ASAE Foundation, companies, and attendees contributed money that will benefit the Food 4 Kids backpack program
At the ASAE convention in Dallas, Bob Harris and Russ Salzman lead a wonderful discussion on the future of associations. Bob began with a summary of key points from four current association leadership books ...
We caught up with ASAE President, John Graham, CAE, at last week’s ASAE Annual Meeting & Expo in Dallas to get his take on the game changers and drivers impacting the association world. We originally spoke to Mr. Graham in 2010, and thought it would be fun to see how things have changed over the last two years from his point-of-view ...
The opening general session at the ASAE annual meeting in Dallas featured a “duel” between political consultants Karl Rove and James Carville. For many attendees, the session fell short because it really didn’t relate to our day-to-day association management functions. ... This was disappointing to me because Carville offered some very insightful thoughts in his Associations Now interview leading up to the convention.
This week, the American Society of Association Executives wrapped up their annual convention in Dallas on a high note, showing a 12-percent increase in their numbers and the most-attended event since it was held in Chicago six years earlier.
My 5th Annual Meeting as a member of ASAE (American Society of Association Executives) was as memorable for many reasons however it is in keeping with many others that my wrap is kept to just five key takeaways. Arriving in Dallas TX for the first time and approaching the Omni Hotel Downtown Dallas gave me a sense of what we were about to experience. The Dallas CVB was really owning the convention and at every vantage point, like the lights on my hotel, making us feel welcome.
I did a session at the ASAE annual meeting last week. I co-presented a “Conversations that Matter” session along with Robert Barnes of Fitness Australia. Robert is an association executive who is actually implementing the ideas from Humanize in a very clear and intentional way.
I recently had the opportunity to speak at the AMC Institute’s Summer Conference in Dallas, just prior to the ASAE Annual Conference. My general session topic was on using technology in AMCs. We discussed a broad range of technology issues, but one area that I did not get to cover was the list of my Top 5 Favorite technologies. So I’m going to cover each of those in these next five blog posts.
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