What do you call a group of association professionals?
Do you remember learning some of the special terms for groups of animals, like a pride of lions or a gaggle of geese? (I'm fond of "an exaltation of larks," myself.) I recently came across a list of ideas for similar terms that can be applied to people: a brace of orthodontists, a wedge of golfers.
Of course, that list made me think that we association professionals need a term of our own! I've come up with a few ideas, but I'd love to see yours too. I'll put my thoughts in a comment on this post; if you have ideas of your own, chime right in.
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So here are my thoughts so far:
A mingle of association professionals
A synergy of association professionals
Acronym commenters, what other ideas do you have?
Posted by: Lisa Junker | May 20, 2009 8:11 AM
An acronym of association professionals
A committee of association professionals
A subcommittee of association professionals
A taskforceofthesubcommitteeofthecommitteeofthewhole of association professionals
Posted by: Jamie Notter | May 20, 2009 10:26 AM
Like the key baseball hitter and gritty race car driver, how about a clutch of association professionals?
Posted by: Ann Oliveri | May 20, 2009 10:54 AM
A constellation of yapstars... :)
no? hmmm...
a hatstand...
a gaggle...
a cluster...
a network...
a hub...
Nope. Sorry. uninspired.
Posted by: Maddie Grant | May 20, 2009 6:50 PM
While I really like a synergy of association professionals, but SAP would not work. Don't the association professionals come from all kinds of professions which would make a mingle more appropriate and MAP is not too bad. Perhaps an Assemblying of Association Professionals or an Assortment of Association Professionals and either one of those would be AAP.
Posted by: Kim Pearce | May 20, 2009 7:16 PM
I had so much fun with this in Visual Thesaurus (check the cool tool out here: http://www.visualthesaurus.com) and came up with a few ideas based on the word "community"
compeer
linkup
hamlet
baronage
comrades
affiliates
(but I think a merger of Maddie's gaggle & network may be just right ... gagwork? netgle?)
Thanks for the fun!
Posted by: Peggy Hoffman | May 21, 2009 8:14 AM
Jamie: I love it!
Ann: I like this one--association folks do come through in the clutch ...
Maddie: If that's uninspired, I want to see you when you're inspired! (And "a constellation of yapstars" works really well for YAP. You should keep that idea!)
Kim: Eeek, I hadn't noticed the "SAP" acronym. We don't want to give the impression that association folks are sappy. (Admittedly, I cry during Folger's commercials. But all association professionals should not be tarred with my brush ...)
Peggy: Thanks for the link to the visual thesaurus! That's really neat.
Maybe we could play off of the word "gaggle" a bit more ... a gabble of association professionals?
Posted by: Lisa Junker | May 21, 2009 8:39 AM