Book Review: The Decision to Volunteer

August 2, 2008

The first to review 7 Measures of Success, the first to review The Decision to Join, and now the first to review The Decision to Volunteer. Keep reading the Certified Association Executive blog and be the first to know! Full disclosure, ASAE & The Center provided me with a complimentary advance unedited proof of their […]

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The association community needs this!

August 1, 2008

Congratulations to Lindy Dreyer and Maddie Grant who are starting their own social media consulting firm called SocialFish, LLC. Look for them to make a big splash at the ASAE Annual Meeting next month. Tagged: Association Management; Associations; CAE; Certified Association Executive You’re reading Certified Association Executive by Ben Martin, CAE. Subscribe by RSS.

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My recipe for a delicious blog

July 31, 2008

Thanks to the good folks at Inman News for this nice piece. Tagged: Association Management; Associations; CAE; Certified Association Executive You’re reading Certified Association Executive by Ben Martin, CAE. Subscribe by RSS.

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I don’t really miss the ASAE listserves

July 31, 2008

Has anyone else grown weary of the discussions on ASAE’s four bazillion listserves? After about ten consecutive years as a subscriber to one or more of ASAE’s listserves, to say the content has gotten tired and predictable would be an epic understatement. You know the drill on these lists: “Can anyone recommend a good restaurant […]

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So Cal earthquake breaks on Twitter

July 29, 2008

First news of today’s So Cal earthquake broke on Twitter. See image at right. After watching the news come across Twitter, I started this post just to record how social media would cover the event. Immediately after the Virginia Tech shootings last year, I found that Wikipedia had a lot of information that the MSM […]

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Member apathy is a current reality…

July 23, 2008

…not a new paradigm, as Jeff points out. Others chiming in on the as long as people don’t really care post: Matt Baehr Tony Rossell Dennis McDonald Lindy Dreyer Elizabeth Weaver Engel, CAE Acronym Sue Pelletier Kevin Holland And check out the comments on what others are calling a controversial and provocative post. Tagged: Association […]

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More than just YouTube

July 22, 2008

In case you haven’t heard, there are a bunch of other video sharing sites out there besides the ubiquitous YouTube. Here are some of my favorites: Blip.tv – Nice high-resolution videos, highly customizable viewer Vimeo.com – The most aesthetically pleasing of the bunch Viddler.com – Tag or bookmark parts of a video (Ben’s choice) Veotag.com […]

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As long as people don’t really care, associations will survive

July 21, 2008

One of the biggest questions running through my mind as I leafed through Here Comes Everybody was, “If organizing groups is now ridiculously easy, what does this mean for associations, which are basically institutional group organizers?” Shirky didn’t actually come straight after associations as I thought he might, given the subtitle of his book (The […]

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WordPress, people. WordPress. Use it.

July 18, 2008

I’m a walking evangelist for two things on the web. One of them is WordPress, the open source blogging platform turned CMS. WordPress can be used for all kinds of websites, not just blogs. Check out this website we threw together for our annual convention using a Revolution theme on WordPress. Total bill? $80 + […]

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@bkmcae’s 10 rules for associations using Twitter

July 18, 2008

Dell has made $500,000 from its activity in Twitter. My association hasn’t made anywhere near that kind of cash, but we’re using Twitter extensively to engage our members, and we’re engaging them in surveys, our blog and even our convention using Twitter. Here’s what I’ve learned. Keep usernames personal. I’m seeing a lot of corporate […]

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