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Kris Williams from the International News Media Association (INMA) Discusses Creating Community Across the Globe
Associations Creating Community - August 06, 2020 21:46 - 31 minutesKris Williams is Membership Director for the International News Media Association (INMA), which has over 11,000 individual members from 123 corporate members, from nearly 70 countries. The Board has very broad international representation, with also regional boards to represent different regions...
Building Community Through Relationships
Associations Creating Community - August 03, 2020 19:02 - 28 minutesKat Shamapande is the Director of Professional Development for the National Association of Surety Bond Producers (NASBP), which has members from many countries and also has its own international podcast with information about the surety industry. A podcast is a great way to benefit the members, ...
The Virtual Conference Experience
Associations Creating Community - July 31, 2020 19:51 - 25 minutesArianna Rehak, CEO of Matchbox Virtual Media, which produces virtual events and conferences for associations. Virtual events began as stand-alone events, but the covid pandemic thrust Matchbox Virtual Media into the fray with so many meeting cancellations. Arianna says that Matchbox primarily he...
Cultivating International Collaboration for Live Performing Arts Professionals, with Wan-Jung Wei, Executive Director, International Organisation of Scenographers Theatre Architects and Technicians (OISTAT)
Associations Creating Community - July 10, 2020 22:41 - 26 minutesWan-Jung Wei is the Executive Director of the International Organisation of Scenographers Theatre Architects and Technicians (OISTAT). Established in 1948, OISTAT serves those who facilitate and create design for live performance. OISTAT's Executive Committee and Governing Board members are from...
Where In The World Is Jefferson Glassie?
Associations Creating Community - July 10, 2020 22:28 - 27 minutesJefferson Glassie, FASAE, with the Whiteford Nonprofit Law Group, traveled to Delhi, India to participate in a a meeting of PangeaNet, a global network of law firms. It is a referral network for international law firms, but is also an association that is trying to build community and strengthen ...
Providing International Content, Standards, Science, and Membership Engagement, with Mary Ward-Callan of IEEE
Associations Creating Community - July 10, 2020 22:12 - 29 minutesMary Ward-Callan with IEEE talks about how to manage and provide content and networking opportunities for an association whose 420,000 members span over 160 countries. IEEE was initially a US based association, but now only 40% is from the US. Mary talked about creating community through global,...
Conducting Certification Programs Globally, With John Ganoe Of Community Association Managers International Certification Board
Associations Creating Community - July 10, 2020 22:00 - 29 minutesJohn Ganoe talks about how to administer a world-wide certification program for common interest community managers. CAMICB certificants are in about 15 countries. This necessitated an international examination form to test for the body of knowledge developed by a global group of subject matter e...
Global Professional Academic And Research Associations, With Eileen McCarthy, Of The Strategic Management Society
Associations Creating Community - July 10, 2020 21:36 - 29 minutesEileen McCarthy is with the Strategic Management Society, which consists of over 3,000 members representing a kaleidoscope of backgrounds and perspectives from more than 80 different countries. Membership is composed of academics, business practitioners, and consultants, focused on the developme...
How To Have Amazing Exhibitions And Events Around The World, With David DuBois, CMP, CAE, FASAE, CTA, and CEO of IAEE
Associations Creating Community - July 10, 2020 20:48 - 29 minutesWe sat down with David Dubois (virtually) with the International Association of Exhibitions and Events, which has members in 52 countries representing 1300 member organizations. IAEE has over 250 different communities/subgroups in different areas. David spoke about how IAEE organizes and manages...
Who Saves People's Lives in Dangerous Locations? THE ASSOCIATION OF AIR MEDICAL SERVICES
Associations Creating Community - July 10, 2020 20:33 - 29 minutesMost of the world has aircraft based rescue, and most of us just assume it's safe. Cameron Curtis, CMM, CAE, the chief executive officer of the Association of Air Medical Services, leads the association whose members go in to conduct rescue operations by aircraft anywhere in the world. AAMS is a...
John Graham
Associations Creating Community - January 29, 2020 17:03 - 22 minutesJohn Graham is president and CEO of ASAE, and believes community is critical for associations. “Community is near and dear to my heart,” he says. In the past, associations did education programs and trade shows, and “the view was that community was a byproduct of those activities. I think now w...
Holly Duckworth
Associations Creating Community - January 23, 2020 17:14 - 29 minutesHolly Duckworth, CAE, CMP, LSP, is with Leadership Solutions International and teaches mindfulness to CEOs and executives; she has written two books on leadership through mindfulness and how to lead in these chaotic times with a sense of calm. Holly says, “Mindfulness is the practice of being fu...
Robert Nelson
Associations Creating Community - January 23, 2020 17:13 - 27 minutesRobert Nelson is a consultant for associations and provides strategic and governance advice to associations and CEOs. Robert says the association business is all about community; community is everything we do, he says, bringing people together to accomplish their goals. Robert believes that the ...
Jeff DeCagna
Associations Creating Community - January 23, 2020 17:12 - 27 minutesJeff DeCagna, FASAE, and Executive Adviser at Foresight First, has been in the association profession for 27 years, and recently rebranded and refocused his work in Foresight First to concentrate on nurturing a more generative integration of stewardship, governing, and foresight to build high pe...
Peter O’Neill
Associations Creating Community - January 23, 2020 17:11 - 21 minutesPeter O’Neill is CEO of ASIS International, whose members are security management practitioners, and a former chair of ASAE. One of the goals of ASIS is building global, regional, and local communities and the recent roll-out of its virtual communities was very successful. Peter says one of the ...
Silvia Quevedo
Associations Creating Community - January 23, 2020 17:10 - 23 minutesSilvia Quevedo works at the Association for Profession Control and Epidemiology (APIC), which is a membership association with about 15,000 members and is primarily concerned with patient safety and mitigating risks from infection. This session was co-hosted by Kellie Newton of the Whiteford No...
Katherine Shamapande
Associations Creating Community - January 23, 2020 17:08 - 23 minutesKatherine Shamapande with National Association of Surety Bond Producers, with co-host Eileen Johnson of the Whiteford Nonprofit Law Group. NASBP members have a solid community as a niche industry and consider other members to be family and friends who they can call on when in need. The Associat...
Nicole Araujo
Associations Creating Community - January 23, 2020 17:07 - 24 minutesNicole Araujo has been in the association community for over twenty years in a support operations role to help associations. The way associations develop community, from a vendor’s perspective, really depends on the specific association. The best solution, she says, is not having all your eggs i...
Christina Lewellen
Associations Creating Community - January 23, 2020 17:04 - 27 minutesChristina Lewellen, at the time was with the Association of Proposal Management Professionals and is now with the Association of Technology Leaders in Independent Schools (ATLIS), and was also the former volunteer President of Harmony, Inc., a female Barbershop harmony singing group. There was a...
Lowell Aplebaum
Associations Creating Community - January 23, 2020 17:03 - 28 minutesLowell Aplebaum is principal of Vista Cova, which provides facilitation advice and services to associations. Lowell says it is essential for association members to feel like they belong and have the space to talk with one another in micro-communities. Many association leaders forget what it was ...
Sue Pine
Associations Creating Community - January 23, 2020 16:39 - 22 minutesSue Pine, FASAE, is with Association Headquarters and was recently selected to be an ASAE Fellow. She has worked as staff for many associations for over forty years. She says community is built by a series of little steps. For example, she insists the association members always state their name ...
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