August 20, 2008
Congrats, ASAE (and San Diego), and Thanks
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Had an incredibly busy last day of the conference, and took a lot of notes to flesh out in blog posts, and perhaps will get a chance to do so. But just finally got back to my room and have an early am flight tomorrow so won’t get to post everything I wanted before leaving.
Except for two notes:
1) I’d looked forward to Rene Mauborgne’s keynote the whole conference (finally, a general session about something actually applicable) and she did an admirable job for the time allotted — unfortunately, the bulk of the scheduled 75-minute general session was taken up by association trivia that lasted nearly an hour, and she had to skip over most of her presentation. It was unfair to her and, most importantly, to the attendees such as myself who wanted to hear what she had to say. I was extremely disappointed.
2) The 2009 conference ended with a pretty stellar block party in the Gaslamp and as it ends I have to say, overall, kudos to the ASAE staff for putting on another fine and worthwhile learning event (and to the folks from San Diego for putting on some really amazing social events that were the most enjoyable of all the ASAE conferences I’ve attended). Everyone will have something to quibble about (see my point one above, and there will likely be a few more in post-mortems to come) but this is a very difficult event to pull off, and ASAE did it. I’m leaving energized and ready to kick off my busy fall season with some new ideas and renewed commitment. Thanks, ASAE, and congrats to each and every staff person (I must say, the ASAE staff are all polite, professional, and calm, or at least that’s the way they came off during the conference, which is not an easy thing to do).
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