August 14, 2005
Grand Opening
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I love to watch and learn from opening session productions at various conventions because one of my hats at ACCA is managing the productions at our annual conference. ASAE seems to have learned its lesson from past sessions and greatly improved this time around — there was no endless parade of various officers making remarks. The opening video was pretty good, and they made good use of multimedia. They had a dance troupe in the middle of it that displayed some pretty amazing feats and was really fun to watch for about ten minutes (but it went on for about twenty). And they limited the number of speakers to just the chairman, CEO, and the keynote — perfect.
Judy Woodruff spoke well and, toward the end of her remarks, gave a good “journalistic” perspective on the next round of elections (god, already?). Unfortunately, up to that point her speech contained a decided leftward tilt. I have no problem with that, but find it unusual that nowhere else on the agenda is a speaker who will counterbalance it with a more rightward tilt. There’s nothing wrong with bringing in speakers who have an opinion, obviously, but when it comes to politics, an association leaves itself open to criticism if it does not recognize the spectrum of opinion within its ranks.
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