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Yacht and Beach Club Hotel Lobbies
- Conference and program materials distributed as part of Disney special check-in
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The Web 2.0 Experience
| | 8:30am - 10:00am | - Morning Keynote – Jimmy Wales, founder of the Wikipedia Project
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Jimmy Wales will help kick off the DigitalNow experience by talking about the success, implications and the future of the Wikipedia project, and how the same principles that helped to make Wikipedia one of the top three information “destinations” in the world can apply to associations.
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Read the notes from this session.
| | 10:00am - 10:15am | Conference Break | | 10:15am - 11:30am | General Session
- Reality 2.0: Attracting and Engaging the Next Generation Member
Stephen Abram, VP Innovation & Chief Strategist, SirsiDynix, and President-Elect Special Libraries Association will introduce us to the association members of today and tomorrow. We’ll see and talk to the real people living the Web 2.0 experience today – those teen, twenty and even thirty-something’s who use Web 2.0 tools to terra-form the living, breathing worlds they inhabit. We’ll hear from their own mouths what they want and expect from the associations they belong to.
| | 11:30am - 1:00pm | Attendee Luncheon | | 1:00pm - 2:30pm | Workshops
- Disney Institute Workshop - Organizational Culture: The Heart and Soul of Your Association!
Every organization has a culture, defined by those within as, "Here's how we do things around here." Association leaders have the responsibility for ensuring that the culture within their organizations contributes to the demonstration of appropriate individual behaviors that are aligned with association goals. Join Disney Institute for an interactive experience which will focus on the importance of culture in a number of key philosophies and proven best practices for developing and nurtuing a "culture of excellence," including these areas: -
- Recruitment of staff, volunteers, and members
- Orientation and training
- Alignment with a common purpose and key operating priorities
Fusion e.comm.unity® Resource Center
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Fusion e.comm.unity® Resource Center | | 2:45pm - 4:15pm | Plenary - Association 2.0 with Stephen Abram, President-Elect, The Special Libraries Association
As the change engine we call the Internet continues to evolve interms of technology, infrastructure and complexity, it's pulling the human race along with it. Over the next several years, profound advances in the scope and scale of the Internet -- a phenomenon we are calling Web 2.0 -- will arm and enable a new kind of leadership for associations. Will you be one of the new breed? Download Stephen Abram's Association 2.0 presentation Workshops
Fusion e.comm.unity® Resource Center
| | 4:15pm - 5:30pm | Reception
Fusion e.comm.unity Resource Center | | 5:30pm | Dinner on your own | | 7:00am - 8:00am | Attendee Breakfast | | 8:15am - 10:00am | - Morning Keynote – Chris Trimble, author of Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution
Chris Trimble made a splash earlier this year with his book Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators – From Idea to Execution. A former Navy man, Chris uses his experience advancing creative ideas through the military bureaucracy to help business leaders find innovative ways to manage their own bureaucracies to accomplish strategic objectives. Trimble’s 2005 Harvard Business Review article, "Building Breakthrough Businesses within Established Organizations," received more orders for reprints than any other HRB article. Chris will use that article as a basis for his customized DigitalNow presentation. The goal is to send attendees off with practical ideas that can be implemented with speed and urgency. Read the notes from this session Download the video | | 10:00am - 10:15am | Morning Break | | 10:15am - 11:45am | Plenary - Business Imperatives Driving the Next Generation of Association Management Systems, a panel discussion moderated by J. Clarke Price, President and CEO, Ohio Society of CPAs, with panelists: Mark Langley, COO, Project Management Institute; Bruce MacMillan, C.A., President and CEO, Meeting Professionals International; Ron Barth, President and CEO, PANPHA; Kevin Hostutler, President and CEO, ACGI Software; Barry Malek, Chairman and CEO, Avectra; Amith Nagarajan, Chairman and CEO, Aptify.
Workshops - Linking Strategy to Execution 2007 presented by Pamela Hemann, CAE, Chairman, ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership; Katherine B.Trahan, President/CEO, Safety Council, Louisiana Capital Area; Dave Fellers, CAE, Executive Director, Radiological Society of North America, and Velma Hart, CAE, National Finance Director/CFO, AMVETS National Headquarters
Download Kathy Trahan's presentation Fusion e.comm.unity® Resource Center | | 11:45am - 1:00pm | Attendee Luncheon | | 1:00pm - 2:30pm | General Session - CEO Roundtable: Fierce Conversations with Susan Scott author, Fierce Conversations — Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time
- As a visionary leadership development architect, Susan Scott has enabled top executives worldwide to engage in vibrant dialogue with one another, with their employees and with their customers for two decades. A recognized thought leader in the global business community, Susan is committed to large-scale and individual transformation through the principles set forth in her book and customized corporate training programs. Susan will lead a round table session during which association leaders will have fiercely honest conversations about the obstacles that stand in the way of progress, and how they can surmount them. There’s room in the conversation for success as well as failure, and the outcome will be new insight into how the way you communicate with the people and teams responsible for implementing your strategies can make or break the execution phase.
| | 2:30pm - 2:45pm | Afternoon Break
Fusion e.comm.unity® Resource Center
| | 2:45pm - 4:15pm | Plenary - Where Have All the Members Gone?: A New Generation of Professionals Asks, "What's in it for me?" Moderated by Tom Hood, CEO, Maryland Association of CPAs, with panelists: Beth Yoke, Executive Director, Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA); Tamara Basso Bensky, Board Chair, Maryland Association of CPAs; Stephen Abram, President-Elect, The Special Libraries Association; Paul Pomerantz, CAE, Executive Vice President, American Society for Plastic Surgeons; Bonnie Cramer, Board of Directors, AARP; Stuart K. Meyer, Marketing, Membership and Communications Officer Emergency Nurses Association.
Our age of constant connectivity is breaking old communications models across the board and creating new ones. This workshop explores the questions: How can associations attract and retain members in this environment? As far as the new generation of professionals is concerned, what’s it in for them to join an association?
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Workshops | | 4:15pm - 5:30pm | - The User is Always Right: Making Personas Work for Your Site presented by Steve Mulder, author, The User is Always Right, and Principal Consultant, User Experience, Molecular
- e-Publishing Models in a Web 2.0 World panel discussion moderated by Rick Johnston, CAE, Ironworks Consulting, with panelists: Gary Rubin, Vice President, Publications and New Media and Publisher, HR Magazine, Society for Human Resource Management; Eric Hellweg, Senior Editor, Harvard Business Review Online.
Download the e-Publishing presentation
Disney Institute Workshop – Organizational Culture– The Heart & Soul of Your Association!
Every organization has aculture, defined by those within as, “Here’s how we do things around here.” Association Leaders have the responsibility for ensuring that the culture within their organizations contributes to the demonstration of appropriate individual behaviors that are aligned with association goals. Join the Disney Institute for an interactive experience which will focus on the importance of culture in a number of key philosophies and proven best practices for developing and nurturing “culture of excellence," areas including:
- Recruitmentof staff, volunteers, and members
- Orientation and Training
- Alignment around a common purpose and key operating priorities
Fusion e.comm.unity® Resource Center |
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5:30pm - 6:45pm | Free Time Fusion e.comm.unity Resource Center |
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| | 6:45pm | Buses depart for dinner/evening event at
Pleasure Island
| | 7:00pm - 9:00pm | Dinner sponsored by Walt Disney Parks & Resorts
Pleasure Island
| | 7:00am - 8:00am | Attendee Breakfast | | 8:15am - 11:00am | - Keynote and Group Exercise
Stephen M.R. Covey, author, The SPEED of TRUST: The One Thing That Changes Everything
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- Conference Close
| | 11:00am | Departures | | 11:00am - 3:00pm | Disney Institute Field Experience - High Tech + High Touch: The Winning Combination
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- Following the closing general session, you are invited to take part in a fun afternoon of exploration and discovery. Facilitators from the Disney Institute will join you for a box lunch and provide an overview of the experiences to come. Then, board a motorcoach to visit selected onstage and backstage locations to see and experience how the latest technology, when combined with the warmth of personal interaction, can create powerful synergy. Among the technologies to be explored: biometrics, daylight infrared, digital imaging, and WIFI. Motor Coaches will return to Disney’s Yacht Club Resort no later than 3:00 pm for airport departures. Please stop by the Disney Institute booth for further information on registering for this fun and informative event.
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