@Tech09 Wrap-Up
Posted Friday, February 6th, 2009 at 9:22 am by Elizabeth (27 posts)
Another ASAE Technology Conference is in the books. Last year, the subtitle could have been: “Social Media. Huhn. Good God. What is it good for? We have NO idea (but we’d like to find out)!” This year, SocMed was still the hot topic, but this time around, it was much less about, “What’s this Facebook thing I’m hearing about?” and more about, “Here’s a great case study in how our association is using Facebook to recruit students and young professionals.”
50 Idea Labs, 2 general sessions, a town hall meeting, a pre-conference on green computing, an evening of receptions, and over 100 exhibitors adds up to a LOT of information in 2 1/2 days.
Session highlights:
- Opening general session speaker Jeff Howe: Don’t focus on the tools of technology – focus on the human behavior they engender.
- Jeffrey Cufaude making me reconsider my well-documented distaste for PowerPoint. If I could do with slides what he does with slides, I might actually not run in terror anytime anyone mentions creating them.
- Jeff Howe again: Ask not what your community can do for you – ask what you can do for your community.
- Andy Steggles and Barbara Dunn playing good cop/bad cop about the legal intricacies of social networking technologies. I’m doing a presentation on this topic for the DC chapter of SHRM this spring, and I’m definitley planning to lift some of their information (with credit, of course).
- General session speaker Chris Sacca hitting us with Big Ideas:
- Just Start
- Listen More Than You Talk
- Go Big
- Bold Humility
- Be Open
- Feed Talent
- Users First
- 20% Time
- Worship Data
- Maddie Grant, Suzanne Carawan, and Jim Kelly reminding us that they key to social media success is that the decision makers in an organization need to embrace information sharing and transparency.
- Chris Sacca again: The “secret sauce” is the best talent, ample resources, the toughest problems, and keep the lawyers and accountants away (paraphrasing for the nonprofit community – he actually said “best engineers” and “largest infrastructure”).
- Having my mind blown by SocialFish‘s presentation on Shiny New Web Objects, and finally caving in and getting on Twitter as a result.
And guess what? All of everyone’s handouts are FREELY available for download. (If you don’t download anything else, get the handouts from SocialFish.)
And of course, YAP threw another amazing party. If you’re not a member, you should be. What are you waiting for? It’s free!
The Best of the Rest:
- Acronym has a bunch of posts, with ASAE doing the group blogging thing again.
- @Tech09, the official Twitter stream.
- Tech 09 wiki.
- Videos of Jeff Howe and Chris Sacca.
- Jamie Notter’s great recap.
- The ongoing debate around the identity of @tech09, and ASAE’s response.
- Maddie Grant’s Twitter-cap.
