One thing to note was that TONS of people wanted to know more about social networking, social media tools, blogging, and other Web 2.0 issues - how to get started, how to know if our associations' members will get involved, how will it really affect them. Which was not surprising, but great to hear at the same time. We've been calling for a really properly intensive conference, or series of webinars, or whatever, on this for ages! Inquiring minds want to know!! Hopefully we'll see more concerted offerings soon.
Another thing to keep an eye out for - a bunch of us participated in (beta -tested, if you will - heheheh) a new Non-Profit Finance board game. Literally. You roll dice, move money chips around the board between expenses, revenue and investments, read cards which might have unexpected positive or negative events which you have to make decisions on which may affect your bottom line but which could also grow your membership... anyway. I don't want to say too much because it's still being developed, but it was a TRULY AWESOME, super fun learning tool for any non-finance association professional, which could be used particularly for boards or any staff development too. You get this amazing picture of how decisions involve many factors and can have different results over the short term vs the long term. I love this kind of creativity! Way to go ASAE!
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