Quick Clicks: Annual Meeting postgame, continued
As I promised yesterday, I'm continuing to gather reactions to this year's Annual Meeting. (If I've missed any that you know, please leave a comment or email me at ljunker@asaecenter.org, and I'll be happy to include a link in a future post.)
- Maddie Grant has some extensive thoughts about several things that concerned and saddened her at Annual. There's also a great deal of discussion in comments to her post.
- Toni Rae Brotons, one of the participants in the "Guilt by Association" sitcom, was disappointed in the experience.
- It's not available as I write this, but at noon today the Social Media Sweet Spot will be discussing Annual. You can see the live webcast or view it after the fact here.
- Robert Barnes shares learnings, musings, and afterthoughts from the conference. (And thanks to Robert for traveling so far to be with us!)
- Jamie Notter has some thoughts about ways Annual could have been more social, connected, and action-oriented for learners.
- Bruce Hammond explains why a fraternity executive attends Annual.
- Elizabeth Weaver Engel has a new video of the YAP Annual flashmob (or at least new to me).
- Bojan Tercon shares his take on traveling to Annual and Los Angeles.
- The ConventionPlanit blog has two recap posts, one on the weekend and one on Monday.
- The associationTECH blog is seeking notes and summaries from technology-related sessions at Annual.
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Comments
So, what happens now with Maddie's post and all of the comments. Is there a process for evaluating feedback? For including the writer in that process? How does ASAE determine the need for change and how does it implement change?
Posted by: David M. Patt, CAE | August 27, 2010 12:24 PM
Hi David,
Yes, we're following Maddie's post and the others on the Annual Meeting & Exposition, and we do analyze feedback with the hope of improving our offerings.
We'll start the evaluation of the annual meeting the same way we always do, by looking at the feedback we get from the survey evaluations and anecdotal feedback -- including the stuff from the social web, and we develop a plan for how to improve the next year from there. In the past, things in this plan have included staff team deliberations, discussions with groups of members, and we've even had meetings with people not connected with the association sector. We'll take a look at where we're starting at and then try to develop a plan that will define where we want to go and how we might best get there.
And to all you Acronym regulars out there (could I say Acronymians?), apologies for the inside ASAE baseball. We realize that if we're going to cover our own annual meeting, it's the one time where some ASAE talk will get on the blog in opposition of it's primary purpose, which is to elaborate on and generate discussion about association management and leadership topics, not to talk about how well or not ASAE is doing in that regard. We'll return to our regularly scheduled programming soon.
Posted by: Scott Briscoe | August 27, 2010 2:32 PM
No apologies Scott! I understand that the purpose of the blog is not to talk about ASAE, but I want to share with you how much it means to me that you guys are open to talking about it a bit, particularly when dealing with negative feedback. That is, in fact, is a critical piece of association leadership and I love it when my association steps up to the plate like that.
Posted by: Jamie Notter | August 28, 2010 9:45 AM