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Up First
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ASAE to Develop Principles for Social
Responsibility
The American Society of Association Executives and The
Center for Association Leadership continues its work on social
responsibility, picking up where it left off with this past May’s social
responsibility summit.
At the association’s annual meeting, held August 16–19 in San Diego,
study groups met to discuss some of the 17 social responsibility
initiatives that came out of the global summit as they prepare to make
detailed presentations on their efforts at an online follow-up summit
scheduled for October. In addition, John Graham, president and CEO at
ASAE, announced some initiatives that ASAE and The Center plan to
implement around social responsibility.
Read what three initiatives
ASAE and The Center will implement in the year ahead.
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Sites and Venues
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No Pyramids in Columbus
Experience Columbus, the convention and visitors bureau
of Columbus, Ohio, has launched an unusual new marketing campaign—you
might even call it counterintuitive.
Unveiled at the ASAE annual convention in San Diego (August 16–19),
the campaign doesn’t focus on what the city has to offer; instead, it
homes in on what it doesn’t have to offer. “We don’t have pyramids
in Columbus,” reads the slogan, with a picture of a pyramid with an X
through it. Below, it reads, “But everything you’d want for a
meeting is right here in Columbus.” There are also variations on the
theme, including a picture of the Eiffel Tower, the Great Wall of China,
and Mount Everest, each with an X through them.
Read why the CVB came up
with the idea and how they will promote the campaign.
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Perspectives
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Winds of Change
By Sue Pelletier
I watched with sick fascination as Hurricane Gustav
blew in last weekend, threatening to once again flood New Orleans and
other Gulf Coast areas and causing the Republican National Convention to
severely curtail its opening activities on Monday. Thankfully, it
appears that this time a combination of good contingency planning and a
weakening of the storm resulted in minimal damage and loss of life,
unlike the horror show that Hurricane Katrina trailed in her wake three
years ago.
As the cleanup begins and the residents start trickling back to their
homes, I—and everyone else, I’m sure—have our eyes on the next
crop of hurricanes spinning their way across the Atlantic Ocean. But
I’m not just watching the TV news, or updates on regular online news
outlets like www.weather.com, just
as I didn’t get all my Gustav info from traditional resources.
Read how I used social
media to get the most up-to-date information during the
hurricane.
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Reflections of a Golfophobic
By Dale Irvin
Say it loud: I hate golf and I'm proud.
There, I said it. For the first time, I publicly declare that I hate
golf and, boy, is that a load off of my shoulders. I don't care if I
stand alone, but I take pride in being an anti-golfite with golfophobic
tendencies, and I am prepared to tell you why in something called, Eight
Reasons I Hate Golf. (No golfers were injured in the making of this
list.)
Read why Dale Irvin, a columnist
for AM's sister magazine, Financial and Insurance
Meetings, hates golf.
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