Top 5 Lessons Learned at ASAE 2009:
- Want to foment revolution? Forget the board. "The Master's tools will never dismantle the Master's house." (courtesy of @lindydreyer and Audre Lorde)
- The membership model of associations is dying. How will your organization respond? (courtesy of @maddiegrant, Clay Shirky, and the cocktails at our unsession in the Azure bar at the Intercontinental)
- Want more and more active, engaged volunteers? Meet them where they are - young professionals, certainly, but really everyone. (courtesy of Bob Wolfe)
- The things that make us successful today will blind us to what will make us successful tomorrow. (courtesy of Jason Della Rocca)
- If you're scheduled opposite Clay Shirky, fake your own death so you can attend his session in disguise.
Want more? You know you do:
- JNott talks about failure, innovation, and how much he loves his peeps (awwww.....)
- Renato's mantis-style note-taking fu knocks my socks off.
- Maggie couldn't go, but she has some great thoughts on virtual attendance.
- Maddie wraps it up without coming across as a TOTAL fan-girl.
- Peggy reminds us that we don't have control, we have the illusion of control. Isn't it time to let go?
- Kevin can't understand why it was so #@$%ing hot in Toronto (me either), but he also has a lot of other interesting insights to share.
- Frank has 14 take-aways, but the common theme is the importance of connection (or at least, I think that's the theme).
- Acronym has, seriously, 57 posts about the meeting. Many of them are pre-meeting, but still, that's a lot of good information, particularly when you realize that several of them are, like this post, roundups.
And a suggestion: as ASAE membership demographics shift towards (my snarky, cynical) GenX, y'all need to cut WAY back on the cheese in the general sessions. WAY BACK.
5 comments:
Thanks for this. You really captured some of the main conceptual take-aways. I'm starting to realize that even though I'm classified as a late Boomer, I really am more GenX like in my thoughts and attitudes, for example, your last point is one I strongly agree with -- I guess I made that clear in my tweets too.
Excellent round up here. thanks. I was a virtual attendee also and really enjoyed being engaged with the community. Great experience even tho I wasn't there. Really missed my peeps though! And TO is a great city, so missed that too.
Thanks for the link love ;) With all the blogging, tweeting and thinking about the event, I swear it half feels like I was there.
If only I could have won a Kindle remotely....
My God, it was hot. And those people don't know the first damn thing about air conditioning.
@Kevin - I suspect it's similar to what we see in the southern v.v northern US - heat wave in DC? Nobody dies - everything's airconditioned, and we know what to do. Heat wave in Chicago? People dropping like flies, because it's just so unprecedented they don't know what to do.
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