Don’t miss Principled Innovation’s first PI Briefing of 2009: Top 2009 Trends for Association Leaders. Registration is free for association staff, and Jeff De Cagna is soliciting input for questions to address during the call. The call takes place THIS Wednesday, January 7, so get a move on!
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Archive for Elizabeth Engel
Elizabeth is a Senior Consultant for Beaconfire, a web design & development, online campaigns & marketing, and Internet strategy firm located in Arlington, VA. Elizabeth is a Certified Association Executive, holds a Master's in Government & Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia, volunteers extensively for ASAE & the Center for Association Leadership, and is a rabid Philadelphia Eagles fan (is there any other kind?).
Top Trends for 2009
Last Chance to Vote!
For the 2008 Crunchies!
The Crunchies are an annual competition that recognizes the most compelling startups, internet innovations and new technologies of the year. And WE get to choose them. So get voting before midnight PST TODAY.
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Friday Top 5
Five Things That Are Great about the Holidays Being OVER:
- No more pine needles to sweep up, stockings to hurriedly remove after starting a fire in the fireplace, daily cat barf cleanups from silly felines drinking the water in the tree stand (it ALWAYS makes them sick, they ALWAYS have fresh…
Happy New Year’s!
As most who know me are aware, I only believe in fun resolutions - no save the world/become a better person/lose 10 pounds for me. If I want to start saving the world, I’ll just start whenever the idea occurs to me.
New Year’s, on the other hand, is for setting…
January 1st, 2009 | Elizabeth Engel | Comments | Continued
What I’m Reading
- Top 10 Tech Stories of 2008
- Information about long known but finally proven SSL vulnerability and the new exploits that could compromise secure sites
- Ben’s annual Bloggies awards. Congratulations to all the winners!
- News of all the NFL coach firings. Rod Marinelli, sure. To paraphrase him, you can’t go 0-16 and expect to keep your…
Always the Last to Know - Hottest Gadgets of 2008
For those of you who got CA$H from Santa and are looking to spend it (and boost the economy a little), may I present a geek fantasy: Hottest Gadgets of 2008.
I am DROOLING over the Livescribe, which may be just about the coolest thing I’ve ever heard of.
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Always the Last to Know - Feng GUI
Want to know where on your homepage the eye is likely to go? Feng GUI can help you figure it out.
(And if you happen to find that eyes are naturally drawn to somewhere that doesn’t have any content, you might want to change that in a big hurry.)
Check out the Feng…
December 29th, 2008 | Elizabeth Engel | Comments | Continued
The Friday Top 5
The last in my continuing series of holiday Top 5 lists….
The Top 5 Holiday Movies of All Time:
- A Christmas Story - “You’ll shoot your eye out.” ‘Nuff said
- Home Alone - admit it: you thought the original was hilarious, too.
- Bad Santa - Billy Bob Thornton is brilliant in this. And it…
Peace
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What I’m Reading
Pew’s Future of the Internet III (PDF) study, plus the online supplements. It’s long - the study alone is 138 pages - but it’s totally worth the investment of time. I quote from the Summary of Findings:
Technology stakeholders and critics were asked in an online survey to assess scenarios about the…December 24th, 2008 | Elizabeth Engel | Comments | Continued
Always the Last to Know - Typealyzer
Wondering what your blog’s Myers-Briggs type is? Find out here.
T4P is ESTP - The Doers
The active and play-ful type. They are especially attuned to people and things around them and often full of energy, talking, joking and engaging in physical out-door activities.December 23rd, 2008 | Elizabeth Engel | Comments | ContinuedThe Doers are happiest with action-filled work which craves their…
Just in Time for the Holiday Giving Season: Boosting Your Online Effectiveness
When it comes to figuring out what works, we’ve all (or at least all of us who know Kevin Whorton and/or Scott Oser) heard the mantra: “Test! Test! Test!”
Well, one of the best ways to test what’s working and not working on your website is MVT, multivariate testing.
Want to…
December 22nd, 2008 | Elizabeth Engel | Comments | Continued
The Friday Top 5
Continuing on my holiday theme….
Top 5 Best Holiday Tunes EVER.
- Vince Guaraldi’s recording of O Tannenbaum
- Eartha Kitt’s recording of Santa Baby
- Elvis’s recording of Santa Claus is Back in Town
- The Count Basie Orchestra’s recording of Jingle Bells
- Duke Ellington’s jazz version of the Nutcracker Suite
Check ‘em out and get your holiday spirit on!
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Crowdsourcing Associations Now, Part 2
I hope you already entered all your great ideas for articles in the ASAE SharePoint site. Now it’s time to vote!
You have over 80 topics to choose from. It sounds daunting, I know, but you should be able to express your opinions in about 15 minutes.
To vote:
- Go to www.asaecenter.org/associationsyou
- Scroll down…
Done (just love having a to-do checked off so quickly). Thanks. Now to practice writing that on checks ;) 
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