Three somewhat devious ways to get committees or boards to vote in your favor

August 15, 2008

This is interesting. I got an e-mail from an executive director who wanted to share a piece of advice anonymously. I don’t condone these tactics, but you’ve got to admit… Sometimes you’ve got an agenda item that needs a vote, and you just know the discussion is going to drag on and on. Sometimes you […]

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The ASAE2008 backchannel. Reminder. Sign up now.

August 15, 2008

Do it like this: Pick up your cell phone. Make sure it’s turned on. Compose a TXT message to GO@MOZEO.COM (if you can’t TXT to an email address, sorry, you’re outta luck*) Type “Join ASAE2008” into the body of your TXT Wait for confirmation. Once confirmed, you can post to the backchannel using this syntax: […]

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Top five association blogs

August 14, 2008

UPDATED: I found some hanging and dimpled chads in a dark corner at Technorati, so I’ve updated the list. Actually, it turns out the Principled Innovation blog uses a different URL than the one I queried (thanks to Jeff for pointing that out) and I also remembered that Maddie was blogging on a different URL […]

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Partial text RSS suxorz, and two more blogging guidelines

August 14, 2008

In addition to the Association Social Media Survey (executive summary to be released at ASAE & The Center’s Annual Meeting next week — see me for a copy!) that I have been working on, I’ve also recently wrapped up a real estate blogging survey at my day job. I posted three guidelines for effective blogging […]

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It’s the conversation, stupid.

August 12, 2008

I’ve decided to hack together a master RSS feed for all of the blogocluster (formerly known as the blogoclump). If you want your comment feed included, please leave a comment with the comment feed URL and I’ll publish the master comment feed here as soon as I can get the tubes and pipes to play […]

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McKinley’s Blog Watchdog August 2008

August 10, 2008

Welcome to blog watchdog August 2008. This edition focuses on ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership’s Annual Meeting in sunny San Diego! You can get this column and others from McKinley Marketing’s expert consultants by subscribing to their monthly newsletter. Here’s the fascinating full disclosure: I’m a paid freelance writer for McKinley Marketing. This […]

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ASAE2008 Interactive Backchannel. Try it. It will completely transform your conference experience!

August 8, 2008

My ASAE2007 experience was unlike any other conference experience primarily because I could tap into the collective experience of 20-30 ASAE2007 backchannelers. Seriously, you need to be on the backchannel. Dear readers, this is absolutely the BEST way to keep your finger on the pulse of what’s happening at ASAE’s Annual Meeting and to be […]

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This one almost flew under the radar

August 7, 2008

One of the most fascinating things about coming to work in the Realtor association family is learning of the sheer number of Realtor association professionals. With well over 1000 local and state Realtor associations, there are probably as many Realtor association executives (commonly referred to as AEs) as there are members of ASAE & The […]

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Four more years! Four more years!

August 6, 2008

It was August 6, 2004. The Summer Olympics were about to begin in Athens. The Statue of Liberty had just re-opened for the first time since the terrorist attacks of September 11. William Hung was a national celebrity. It was a hot, humid summer day in Virginia, and I pecked my first blog post on […]

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Schedule fail. UnBloggerCon, anyone? Or should that be BloggerUnCon?

August 6, 2008

Unfortunately, four people who I suspect would really like to attend Association BloggerCon IV, er, Meet the Association Bloggers, are actually presenting at the same time as the BloggerCon. Bob Wolfe, Greg Fine, Jason Della Rocca, and Andy Steggles all have competing priorities. So here I am to propose the first-ever Association UnBloggerCon (who ever […]

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