Third day of the 2010 Annual Meeting & Expo, a third set of interesting slides. Handouts for today's Thought Leader sessions and Learning Labs are available online. For ones that provided their presentation slides, as well, I've selected three slides... Joe Rominiecki

Presented at the Monday general session at the 2010 Annual Meeting & Expo, below are parts 4-6 of "Guilt By Association," a sitcom of sorts about a CAE study group. See parts 1-3 here and stay tuned for parts 6-9... Joe Rominiecki

Day three of Annual Meeting was packed full of learning and conversation (and ended in some great parties and receptions). For more photos, be sure to visit the 2010 Annual Meeting Flickr pool.... Lisa Junker

Welcome to the last day of the Annual Meeting! I hope you enjoyed the Food & Wine Classic, the YAP party, or wherever else your travels took you yesterday. Here are some blog reactions to the conference so far: -... Lisa Junker

Exhibitors at Annual Meeting have their finger on the pulse of the industry. The inquiries they hear on the tradeshow floor can give you a good sense of the worries and ideas that are top of mind for association... Lisa Junker

Presented at the Sunday general session at the Annual Meeting & Expo, below are parts 1-3 of "Guilt By Association," a sitcom of sorts about a CAE study group. Enjoy. Stay tuned for parts 4-6 and parts 7-9 in the... Joe Rominiecki

I swung by the APAC booth this morning to see what burning questions they're hearing. Chris Vest and Carla Lochiatto of ASAE's public policy team (who are not pictured above, by the way) were kind enough to fill me... Lisa Junker

Bruce Hammond, director of communications/editor for Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity sent us these three takeaways from the "Quit Annoying Your Website Users!" session: 1. Presenter Dave Coriale from DelCor said: Things that MUST be tested for usability--registration/sign-up, your search results,... Aria White

Another day of the 2010 Annual Meeting & Expo, another selection of interesting slides. Handouts for today's Thought Leader sessions and Learning Labs are available online. For ones that provided their presentation slides, as well, I've selected three slides that... Joe Rominiecki

Day two of Annual Meeting was full of action--from the early-morning 5K to the opening general session and the packed expo floor. For more photos, visit the 2010 Annual Meeting Flickr pool (and you photographers who are with us in... Lisa Junker

- Carrie Hartin has posted at the Connect blog about her preparatory reading for Annual Meeting. - Thomas Getchius blogged his takeaways from Bill George's opening general session keynote and from a session on the Decision to Learn study. -... Lisa Junker

Steve Smyth, VP of marketing for TriStar Publishing, Inc., sent us the following blog post based on his experience with the Healthcare Community Committee on Saturday: As a long time member of ASAE who more then occasionally wondered "Where'd they... Lisa Junker

I spoke with Shirley Wong (above), council member at the Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation, after today's Learning Lab "Fundraising in the New Economy." She was kind enough to share three important notes she wrote down during the session: Giving is... Joe Rominiecki

I dropped by the Career Connection Lounge today and had the opportunity to talk with June Cline, CSP, CSAC, of Open Heart Communications, who's one of several coaches meeting with Annual Meeting participants during the conference. I asked June what... Lisa Junker

In his Thought Leader session on Sunday, Bob Rosen, Ph.D., chairman and CEO of Healthy Companies International, talked about how leaders create healthy organizations by fostering their human capital and building the capacity to live with anxiety. At the end,... Joe Rominiecki

What are association execs thinking about right now? I thought I'd ask in the bookstore. Right now, it looks like education, governance, and social media are fairly top of mind. The three best-selling books so far during Annual include: 1.... Lisa Junker

Three things I got out of Bill George's General Session that you had to be listening closely to catch. His big four leadership qualities are align, empower, serve, collaborate. And, on crisis, the topic of his talk, he had... Scott Briscoe

Here are just a few of the photos from day one of the Annual Meeting, courtesy of the conference Flickr pool (and our wonderful staff members Amy Hissrich, Scott Briscoe, and Peter Hutchins, all of whom are great photographers):... Lisa Junker

Scott Oser of Scott Oser Associates sent us a few thoughts from Saturday at Annual Meeting: 1. If you are not volunteering you should be. The people you meet and the things you get to work to accomplish are awesome.... Lisa Junker

Shawn Boynes, CAE, senior direction of education for APIC, shared this blog post from this morning's CAE breakfast: Robert Tucker provided a great start to the morning at the CAE breakfast by sharing thought provoking ideas & smart perspectives on... Lisa Junker