http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2008/01/invest-in-your-career-through-professional-associations/ Rethinking Customer Experience & Marketing Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:56:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2008/01/invest-in-your-career-through-professional-associations/comment-page-1/#comment-635 Chris Bailey Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:42:58 +0000 http://baileyworkplay.com/2008/01/03/invest-in-your-career-through-professional-associations/#comment-635 Hiya Kare, thanks for the additional insight. I particularly value your perspective on how to improve meetings and trade shows. Your experience as a presenter rings true with mine. Way too many gatherings are content with passive learning (that is...if there is any true learning). I'm with you...hopefully we're nearing a crucial tipping point where participatory and collaborative learning will be the key ingredient to any conference. Hiya Kare, thanks for the additional insight. I particularly value your perspective on how to improve meetings and trade shows. Your experience as a presenter rings true with mine. Way too many gatherings are content with passive learning (that is…if there is any true learning). I’m with you…hopefully we’re nearing a crucial tipping point where participatory and collaborative learning will be the key ingredient to any conference.

]]> http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2008/01/invest-in-your-career-through-professional-associations/comment-page-1/#comment-634 Kare Anderson Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:42:40 +0000 http://baileyworkplay.com/2008/01/03/invest-in-your-career-through-professional-associations/#comment-634 A follow-up notion, since you are obviously a savvy online user (having found Chris Bailey): in becoming active in that professional association you join, why not help it move more quickly to adopt social media tools to offer members (and exhibitors, sponsors and other stakeholders) more value and visibility. Here's more about why and how here http://sayitbetter.typepad.com/say_it_better/2007/10/how-an-online-s.html here http://sayitbetter.typepad.com/say_it_better/meeting/index.html and more ideas on the power of meeting participation here http://www.movingfrommetowe.com/category/meetings/ A follow-up notion, since you are obviously a savvy online user (having found Chris Bailey): in becoming active in that professional association you join, why not help it move more quickly to adopt social media tools to offer members (and exhibitors, sponsors and other stakeholders) more value and visibility. Here’s more about why and how here
http://sayitbetter.typepad.com/say_it_better/2007/10/how-an-online-s.html
here
http://sayitbetter.typepad.com/say_it_better/meeting/index.html
and more ideas on the power of meeting participation here
http://www.movingfrommetowe.com/category/meetings/

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