Annual Meeting Roundup: Post-postgame
The discussion inspired by Annual Meeting continues with several great blog posts:
- Elizabeth Weaver Engel recommends faking your own death if necessary to see Clay Shirky speak (plus four other "top 5" lessons learned at Annual).
- KiKi L'Italien has 10 highlights and five "needs improvements" from the conference.
- Jeff De Cagna looks ahead to conversations we need to start preparing for at Annual Meeting 2010. (Don't miss the comments on his post.)
- Lindy Dreyer posted on her experience with the volunteer brunch and council meetings on Saturday, and asked for feedback on what kind of volunteer leaders association professionals want and need (be sure to read the comments on her post as well). During Annual Meeting, Peggy Hoffman wrote about similar topics from her perspective as a past council chair.
- Cynthia D'Amour analyzes how well the closing party did at engaging all attendees.
- For you visual thinkers out there: Another cool set of Flickr photos from Annual has been posted. The Splash blog also has an "Annual Meeting in photos" roundup, and Steffanie Feuer shared some photos from the Food & Wine Classic. (And of course there's the more general Annual Meeting Flickr pool, as well.)
- Brian John Riggs posted about themes he saw at both ASAE & The Center's Annual Meeting and AMCi.
- Maddie Grant shares three great examples of word-of-mouth in action at Annual. She also archived her "golden nuggets" from Clay Shirky's presentation all in one post.
- Matt Baehr has some notes from Annual.
- Jamie Notter shares some tips from his Learning Lab on managing conflict.
- Kevin Holland has the "Connect With Me" song stuck in his head.
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And for an example of complete organizational transparency with members post-meeting, I give long sustained applause to DrupelCon.DC:
http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/news/drupalcon-dc-numbers-community-profit-and-sustainability
It's a remarkable demonstration of trust, community, accountability and clear lines of communication. It's worth scrolling through the comment section to see how the members respond.
Posted by: Susan Fox | August 21, 2009 5:22 PM
Thanks for the link love!
And is it just me, or is anyone else completely blown away by the volume and quality of online contributions around this meeting?! I love that I get to continue that warm fuzzy feeling that I get at the meeting a few days later because of all the blogs. I love how far we've come. Who else remembers the "stealth" blog from Minneapolis?
Posted by: Jamie Notter | August 21, 2009 7:07 PM
Jamie - that's twice now you've mentioned the "stealth" blog at Minnieapolis -- give a little cred will you? That annual meeting was one month after ASAE and The Center/GWSAE merged. When I was trying to convince people in 2004 that I wanted to do a conference blog, the uniform response was "a what?". And then when I did it and I made little promo postcards for the meeting itself and I was telling people to check out the blog, I got the response, "the what?".
I'm proud of the Minnieapolis blog, and since it's been lost, it's even more mythic in my mind as an outstanding piece of literary meeting commentary.
Anyway, we've come a long, long way, but there's so much more to figure out -- like how to turn some of this content being generated into more widely useful things.
Posted by: Scott Briscoe | August 24, 2009 10:09 AM