SURGE Spring: Know Before You Go
SURGE is our free virtual conference for association professionals – and it’s happening May 2-4th! Here are some things to know before you go: THE BASICS What to expect: The event consists of 12 thought-provoking sessions, shown over three days, from 12-4PM EST. As the sessions play, an attendee chat will run alongside. Speakers will also be in […]
The Influencer Marketing Tool That Made All The Difference
Building attendance for our virtual summit, SURGE 2017, presented us with an interesting challenge. The event was premised upon collaboration, and we were committed to the idea that the success of the summit would lie in the active participation of the attendees. This meant that we were not just promoting an event, but inviting people to […]
The Association Movement in the Philippines
I recently returned from the Philippines, where I found myself immersed in an emerging market. I was staying in the Bonifacio Global City (BGC), a new business district in Manila. Every single building in the vicinity was less than ten years old, and the sky held as many cranes as buildings. Traffic is what you would […]
SURGE Spring Line-Up: What’s In Store at the Summit
It is with great excitement and anticipation that we announce the full SURGE Spring session and speaker line-up for our May 2nd-4th interactive virtual summit. Our twelve sessions all explore the theme of transformation, rooted once again in the belief that our best resource for change is collective knowledge. Just like last time, an attendee chat will run […]
Building Community: The Power of Creative Contrarianism
This is a piece about collaboration. I want to share my experience creating our interactive virtual summit, SURGE – an event that was not just designed to inspire and incite collaboration between attendees, but was itself truly a product of collaborative efforts. We hosted this virtual summit in early November, assembling thousands of association professionals online for three […]
Save the Date: SURGE is coming back!
Underpinning all our efforts at AssociationSuccess.org is a thesis: that the best, brightest, and boldest ideas come from minds meeting. Early November saw this thesis in action, with the unfolding of SURGE 2017, our free virtual summit, and our vanguard experiment in collaborative innovation. SURGE 2017 was a three-day virtual event, during which attendees had exclusive access […]
The Most Impactful Articles of 2017
The original plan for this particular publication was to round up our most popular articles of 2017 and write curated blurbs on them, just like we did last year. Easy enough, right? This information is ready available à la analytics by looking for the most clicked articles. But I was challenged by a community member: “Click rates don’t […]
Seeking volunteers for an association industry campaign
You’re at a cocktail party surrounded by unfamiliar people. New faces loom, eager to strike a conversation, but there is one hurdle you know you’re going to have to heave yourself over each time they try. “What do you do?” one friendly stranger asks. Here it goes again. “I work in the association industry.” “The what?” […]
Join us at SURGE 2017!
If you are reading this article, you are already committed to enquiry, to learning and to keeping yourself aware of the conversations taking place across the association space. If you are reading this article, you already positioned yourself within the association community and share in some of its concerns, its interests and its experiences. And […]
Seeking a freelance writer
Note: This posting is not longer active. We’re a site that is a hub for thought leadership within the association industry. We publish articles and eBooks. We host webinars and virtual conferences. Our articles teach, and inspire, and challenge people to think differently. Here’s a taste of our voice: https://asorg.wpengine.com/empower/how-can-we-harness-the-power-of-crowdsourcing/ https://asorg.wpengine.com/empower/standing-out-from-the-crowd-the-ai-edition/ https://asorg.wpengine.com/article/can-associations-facilitate-job-satisfaction We’re looking for […]