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and...We’re Wireless!
ASAE Services and the ASAE-endorsed technology partners are pleased to sponsor the wireless connection in
the meeting rooms and general concourse at the Association Technology Conference & Expo 2008. The ASAE-
endorsed technology partners are: Boxwood Technology—provides online job board and career development
services; Chase Paymentech Solutions—provides credit card acceptance service; CommPartners—offers
expertise and communication technology products; and Xerox—supplies copiers and office equipment.
Thank you to
Conference Schedule
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Pre-Conference (optional)
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Implementing a Content Management AMS and provider. Walk away with an action plan of
System (CMS) for the First Time how you can also build your own offshore outsourcing
(Content Management) team, how to do it, what to watch out for and where to
find the resources.
Hear a case study on how The Gerontological Society
Andy Steggles, CIO, Risk & Insurance Management Society, Inc.
of America implemented an Open Source CMS and
integrated their website with their AMS. Find out the
Open Source Solutions: Considerations for
strategic decisions made, the Web functionality that was
Your Organization (OpenSource)
implemented, the most significant challenges and
benefits and important lessons learned. If you have ever been asked, “Why can’t we use one of
Lisa Rau, CEO, Confluence Corporation
those ‘free’ technologies?’“ and weren’t quite sure how
Anthony Rogers, director of information technology, The Gerontological to respond, then this is the session for you. Learn the
Society of America benefits and challenges of implementing Open Source
Dan Shenk-Evans, senior consultant, Community IT Innovators tools including content management systems, security
and more. You will leave this session with the information
Incorporating Change Management Best
you need to make an educated decision the next time
Practices in Large Technology Projects
you evaluate your business tools.
(Strategy/Leadership)
Clay Marshall, CIO, Rock Creek Strategic Marketing
Examine the classic 80-20 rule of technology projects Renato Sogueco, CIO, Society for American Florists
that were successful because organizations realized that
implementations have more to do with the people rather
than the technology. Look at key change management
best practices and how they have been implemented
through case studies, and learn how associations can
fold change management into the successful project
management of technology initiatives and more.
Cherese Mowers, senior consultant/project manager,
Community IT Innovators
Insourcing vs.
Outsourcing: What To
Do and How To Do It
(Strategy/Leadership)
Hear how one trade
organization has taken outsourc-
ing to the extreme by using 10
completely independent devel-
opers in four countries (India,
Belarus, Minsk and the U.S.)
working on the same products.
Understand what type of projects
are more conducive to offshore vs.
inshore outsourcing and where you
can recognize the real benefits. Learn
the strategies for reducing your dependency on your
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Learn from Young Professionals – The Social Top 10 Reasons to Create A Podcast Series
in “Social Media” (Web) (Web)
Are you exploring using social media tools to attract When and why would you create your own podcast?
and engage the next generation of members? Come Discuss needs, considerations, challenges, technical
hear from a panel of young professionals about how requirements and benefits of producing a podcast series.
they are using Facebook, MySpace® and other social Leave with a Letterman-style top 10 list of compelling
media tools to interact both socially and professionally reasons to create your own series.
and how you can tap into these tools to attract new Marla Dalton, executive director, The Infrastructure Security Partnership
members. Patrick Ferrise, director, content and communications, FlipSonic, LLC
Varada Krishnaswamy, knowledge manager, American Society of Civil
Robert Murphy, Internet marketing manager, Optical Society of America
Engineers
Michele Schwartz, fellowship director, The Archer Center
Walter Marlowe, P.E., CAE, executive director/CEO, The Construction
Moderator: Alyssa Thomas, member relations specialist, ASAE & The
Specifications Institute
Center for Association Leadership
Lauren Wolfe, marketing specialist, CK Marketing Solutions Inc.
Using the Web to Boost Your Special Interest
Record Retention in the Electronic Age Group Collaboration (Collaboration)
(Strategy/Leadership) Special Interest Group (SIG) collaboration can provide
An effective record retention program is your best value to your association membership, but how do you
defense against new litigation rules regarding evidence do it? What tools do you need? Are out of the box
and discovery, and an important component of solutions enough? How do you know if it’s working?
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Understand principles and Learn how to utilize your website to create an engaging
laws affecting document retention, how to manage environment for successful online collaboration with
electronic records and develop policies and procedures your SIGs.
that can be consistently managed by staff. Beth Jameson, director of IT, Product Liability Advisory Council
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It’s Not You, It’s Me – Learning to Love Your mitigate risk when using security credentials and
AMS (AMS) publicly accessible systems.
John Stover, senior SharePoint solutions architect, Susquehanna
Remember how excited you were by the unlimited
Technologies
possibilities of your shiny new AMS? What would your staff
say now—probably that it’s no longer meeting their needs! The Technology Maturity Model - Where Do
The secret is, you probably don’t need a new system. What You Fit In? (Strategy/Leadership)
you need is to use your existing system more efficiently and
Covering five key areas of technology and four levels of
effectively to communicate with all your audiences and to
maturity, benchmark your organization against nonprofit
meet your members’ requirements. Hear strategies that you
community averages and help enhance and refine the
can implement quickly and easily, no matter what system
model itself. Find out how you can move from ‘restrictive’
you use, that will allow you to fall in love with your
to ‘innovative’ in these key areas by managing the
AMS all over again.
strategic use of technology to further your organizational
Elizabeth Engel, CAE, manager, not-for-profit consulting, RSM goals.
McGladrey, Inc.
David Coriale, president, DelCor
Security Considerations for Collaborative
Solutions (Security) VoIP: Lessons From the IT Trenches
(Infrastructure)
In a typical extranet situation, both internal staff and outside
members access your network Join a panel of nonprofit IT professionals discussing the
systems. Learn how to utilize “lessons learned” from their Voice-over-IP phone system
multiple authentication implementations. Panelists will be from a variety of
providers to leverage organization sizes, and have had experiences with a
Active Directory for wide array of VoIP solutions.
internal users and your Vladan Dasic, manager, network & help desk, Society for Human
AMS and others while Resource Management
still providing easy Andrew Glasgow, VP operations, Glasgow Group
Brad Teague, IT director, Associated General Contractors of America
access through single Chaim Yudkowsky, director of information technology, American Israel
sign-on. Discover how Public Affairs Committee
to identify, evaluate
and What Really Drives Your Association? A
Business Intelligence Case Study
(Business Intelligence)
Everyone is talking about it, but do they really
know what business intelligence (BI) actually
is? BI can be a true benefit to associations if
implemented properly. Watch a live demon-
stration of the America’s Health Insurance
Plans (AHIP) BI solution that includes a
dashboard, data analysis, reports and a
data-warehouse. Walk away with steps
required to implement a cost effective
business intelligence solution.
Tony Meoni, VP, information & business
technology, America’s Health Insurance Plans
Frederic Persi, managing partner, Apextech LLC
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Transitioning to a New AMS/CMS: Lessons testing exercises of the asaecenter.org website including card
Learned (AMS) sorting, use cases and an audio/video-recorded usability test
of sections of the site. Learn the value of specific website
Implementing a new AMS/CMS system can be a very
usability testing techniques, obtain samples of testing tem-
challenging process. Sometimes it’s the organizational
plates, plus contribute to the continued improvement of the
culture and/or business practices that can hinder your
website, all while learning methods you can apply to your
implementation process. Find out how to eliminate the
organization.
pain involved in this transitional process. Walk away
with mistakes to avoid and tips on how to keep the Note: Participation in this session is limited to 50 attendees.
implementation on time and on budget. Amy Hissrich, director, knowledge initiatives, and Peter Hutchins, vice
president of knowledge initiatives, ASAE & The Center for Association
Jeanne Allert, president, Ellipsis Partners LLC
Leadership
Peter Wacht, CAE, senior director, communications & public affairs,
Dina Lewis, CAE, president, Distilled Logic, LLC
National Court Reporters Association
Usability Lab: Simple Tests, Valuable Results Virtual Servers – Do I Need Them?
for Your Website (Web) (Virtual Servers)
Have you wondered what your organization could learn You looked up one day and noticed you had a bunch
from user testing of your website? Discover the variety of of new servers that support small applications needed
testing techniques you can choose from and the information by one of your departments. Management wants IT to
you can glean from each. Then, learn by doing. Session support the growing initiatives of the organization, but
participants will take part in one of several possible usability with fewer resources, and keep it running 24x7.
Virtualization technology has provided IT depart-
ments with the resources to consolidate many
physical servers into fewer ones as well as aid in
disaster recovery by creating hot standby envi-
ronments for production servers. Learn from a
panel of industry experts how virtualization tech-
nology makes it possible to consolidate your serv-
er environment resulting in cost reductions,
increase operational efficiency, provide
increased applications availability and improve
business continuity.
Content Leaders TBD
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EXHIBITING OPPORTUNITIES-
Attention Technology
Solution Providers!
Building on last year’s outstanding success, the Association Technology
Conference & Expo 2008 is expanding to offer our members more solutions.
Don’t miss your opportunity to get your products and services out to more than
1,000 top decision makers in the association technology field.
Signing-up is easy…
Visit www.technologyconference.org/become_an_exhibitor.cfm.
There you will find an exhibitor prospectus, live map of the tradeshow floor, schedule of events and booth contracts,
and you can sign-up today with your credit card.
Have questions?
Call the Expo Hotline at 202.626.2805 or e-mail us at exhibit@asaecenter.org
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ASAE & The Center Bookstore Wikinomics—How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Don Tapscott and Anthony D. WIlliams
ASAE & The Center’s Bookstore Suggested Reading List
Our bookstore has the resources you need to do your job Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems,
better everyday. Pick up these and other great titles adn mutual funds, and many other items are being created
expand your association resource library. by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions.
Policies & Procedures in Association Management— While some leaders fear the heaving growth of these
Volume 2 Technology: ASAE & The Center Industry massive online communities, Wikinomics—How Mass
Research Collaboration Changes Everything explains how to
Looking to benchmark your technology infrastructure, prosper in a world where new communications
budget, or staffing against organizations of a similar technologies are democratizing creation of value.
size and scope? If so, this is the resource for you. This Anyone who wants to understand the major forces
valuable benchmarking tool contains more than 60 revolutionizing business today should consider
tables of data on technology. Wikinomics their survival kit. Description from
$30.00
Wikinomics.com website.
$25.95
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