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It’s time for answers and results for your specific problems. The Annual Meeting & Expo doesn’t just have something for everyone, it has what you need.

View learning labs by professional interest.

CEOs
Component Relations professionals
Finance & Business Operations professionals
Government Relations professionals
International
IT professionals
Legal/HR professionals
Marketing & Communication professionals
Meetings professionals
Membership professionals
Nonprofit professionals
Small-staff professionals

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CEOs: A CEO-only track with 6 sessions, plus many other CEO-related sessions including

• A Diversity Toolbox for Associations;
• CEO Only: Engaging Your Board in Strategic Conversations (part 1 and part 2);
• CEO Only: Planning for a Successful Transition;
• CEO Only: An Exploration of Organizational Evolution;
• CEO Only: Maintaining Your Organization’s Relevance;
• CEO Only: Collaborate with Your Board to Achieve Your Organization’s Goals;
• Confessions of a New CEO: Lessons Learned in My First Year;
• Embracing the Revolution: Exploring Serious Questions for 21st Century Association Leaders;
• From Local to Global – Creating Your International Infrastructure;
• Lead, Laugh or Get Out of the Way!;
• Make the World a Better Place;
• Putting People First: Improving Staff and Volunteer Happiness to Enhance Organizational Performance
• Reduce Your Organization’s Real Estate Expense;
• Scenario Planning – NOT a Passive Forecast!; and
• Stay Ahead of the Curve with ASAE & The Center’s Latest Research.

Also, don’t miss the CEO Networking Breakfasts:
Sunday, 7:00-8:15 a.m.
Monday, 7:00-8:30 a.m.
Tuesday 7:15-8:45 a.m.

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Component Relations professionals

• 10 Steps for Using Social Media to Engage Volunteers;
• Building and Maintaining Loyal Relationships;
• Corporate Social Responsibility and Community Relations: Making the Connection;
• Developing a Rock Star Chapter;
• Relationship Economics
• Thanking Volunteers with Authenticity; and
• 2009: The Year of Engagement.

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Finance & Business Operations professionals

• Finding Common Ground in a Shifting Economy – When Membership and CFOs Unite!;
• Firewalling Your Association Against Real and Perceived Conflicts of Interest;
• HR Outsourcing for Small Associations: Do What Makes Cents;
• Reduce Your Organization’s Real Estate Expense; and
• The Fundraising Landscape – Where is it headed?

Don’t Miss! Finance & Business Operations Breakfast:, Monday 7:00-8:15 a.m.

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Government Relations professionals

• Re-energizing Your PAC and Grassroots Program.
• The Basics of Managing an Association Government Relations Program; and
• Using Social Networking Tools for Your Advocacy Efforts.

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International

• Develop Social Responsibility Programs for a Global Audience;
• From Local to Global: Creating Your International Infrastructure;
• General Session: Politics and Culture of the Changing Global Landscape;
• Increasing Cross-cultural Competence in a Changing World;
• Make the World a Better Place;
• The Buddy System: Accomplishing Major International Goals Through Partnerships;
• The Global Economy: A Look at the Challenges Ahead;
• The Legal Side of International Operations; and
• Using Social Networks for International Expansion.

Don’t Miss!
Global Good Morning! International Orientation and Meet ‘n Greet , Sunday 7:15 – 8:15 a.m.
International Reception, Sunday 4:30-6:30
Global Good Morning! International Meet ‘n Greet , Monday 7:15 – 8:15 a.m.
Global Good Morning! International Presentations, Tuesday 7:15 – 8:15 a.m.

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IT professionals

• Building Successful Online Communities;
• Data Security: How to Protect Your Association and Your Members;
• Proven Technology Solutions for Small and Medium-size Associations;
• The Power of Technology on Association Education and Learning;
• The Top 10 Potholes on the Internet Highway;
• Tracking Member Interaction with Business Intelligence Technology;
• Using Technology to Survive and Thrive in a Tough Economy; and
• Website Management – Best Practices for Managing Content, Responsibilities, and Website Politics.

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Legal/HR professionals

• Avoiding the 10 Major Sources of Legal Risk for Associations;
• Develop a Meaningful Ethics Program in Your Association;
• Firewalling Your Association Against Real and Perceived Conflicts of Interest;
• HR Outsourcing for Small Associations: Do What Makes Cents;
• Industry Ethics: Right, Wrong, or Gray?;
• Legal Issues and Best Practices in Nonprofit Governance;
• Navigating the Employment Cycle: Employer Beware;
• Professional Development Essentials;
• Putting People First: Improving Staff and Volunteer Happiness to Enhance Organizational Performance
• Shifting the Paradigm of Diversity and Inclusion;
• The Legal Side of International Operations;
• The Top 10 Potholes on the Internet Highway;
• The What and How of Building Your Compensation Strategy;
• Tune-up Your Association’s Retirement Plan; and
• Understanding Nonprofit Staffing Trends.

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Marketing & Communication professionals

• 10 Direct Marketing Strategies You Can Implement Tomorrow;
• 40 Hot Tips to Better Position Your Education in Down Economy;
• A Strategic Approach to Blogs, Wikis, and All the Rest;
• Building Successful Online Communities;
• Competing with Facebook for Member Attention – and Winning!;
• Create and Promote an Indispensible Brand;
• Creating Clear, Compelling Messages;
• Marketing Solutions Lab;
• Membership Marketing on a Shoestring Budget;
• Redefining Your Unique Value Proposition;
• The Top 10 Potholes on the Internet Highway; and
• Using Social Networks for International Expansion.

Don’t Miss! The Communication & Marketing Section Reception, Sunday 5:45 – 6:45 p.m.

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Meetings professionals: A Business of Meetings track with 9 meetings-specific sessions and many other meeting-related sessions including

• 40 Hot Tips to Better Position Your Education in Down Economy;
• Bring Your Conference to Your Members;
• Business of Meetings: Building Attendance with Customer-centric Meetings;
• Business of Meetings: Building Community Through Marketing Partnerships;
• Business of Meetings: Implications and Strategies for Meetings of the Future;
• Business of Meetings: Improving Communication and Collaboration with Volunteer Leadership;
• Business of Meetings: Increase the Value of Your Meetings with Web 2.0 Tools;
• Business of Meetings: Marketing Your Meeting–How the Tried and True Complement the New;
• Business of Meetings: The Changing Face of Healthcare Exhibitions;
• Business of Meetings: Using Micro Strategies to Build Association Events;
• Creating High-Impact Learning Events When Education is Not Your Full-time Job;
• Membership Marketing on a Shoestring Budget.

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Membership professionals

• 10 Steps for Using Social Media to Engage Volunteers;
• Competing with Facebook for Member Attention – and Winning;
• Looking in the Right Places: Finding New Member Markets Close to Home;
• Recession Retention – Keeping Members in Tough Economic Times;
• Thanking Volunteers with Authenticity;
• 2009: The Year of Engagement;
• Using Social Networks for International Expansion; and
• What Are Those Membership Dues for Anyway? Associations as a Platform for Member Value.

Don’t Miss! The Membership Section Networking Reception, Sunday 5:00-6:00 p.m.

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Nonprofit professionals

• Corporate, Social Responsibility and Community Relations: making the Connection;
• Increasing Your Leadership Power to New Levels of Excellence;
• Legal Issues and Best Practices in Nonprofit Governance;
• Managing Conflict with Confidence: 7 Skills You Didn’t Learn on the Playground;
• Navigating the Employment Cycle: Employer Beware;
• Shifting the Paradigm of Diversity and Inclusion;
• Thanking Volunteers with Authenticity;
• The Fundraising Landscape: Where is it Headed?;
• Turning Adversity to Advantage;
• Understanding Nonprofit Staffing Trends; and
• What Can E-philanthropy Do For You?

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Small-staff professionals

• Association Publications - Beyond Just Revenue!;
• A Strategic Approach to Blogs, Wikis, and All the Rest;
• Big Ideas for Small-staff Association Executives;
• Creating Clear, Compelling Messages;
• Creating High-Impact Learning Events When Education is Not Your Full-Time Job;
• Define Your Unique Value Proposition;
• HR Outsourcing for Small Associations: Do What Makes Cents;
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• Proven Technology Solutions for Small- and Medium-size Associations.

The lists are just a sample of some of the sessions being offered. For a full listing visit the education page of the Annual website.