X-rated?
Oh no, not another one–first PCMA with its Meeting Xperiment (where attendees send in ideas they’d like to see happen at the PCMA conference, and PCMA puts them into action during special “Xperimental” sessions). Now ASAE has launched its 2005 show blog as XtremeASAE Blog.
Bleh. Sorry, but that “X” thing is really old these days. Hip it is not. At least they didn’t go with a spiral logo for it (link via Seth Godin).
Anyway, I’ll stop squabbling about names, because substance is what it’s all about, and the ASAE blog should be a good one. They’re already linking to their IntroNetworks social networking tool, which I hope to be able to use even though I’m not attending this year (dream on, Sue!). Their blog comes with a Bloglet daily e-mail alert option, an RSS feed, and they’re even asking their presenters to put asae2005 tags on del.icio.us. So they’re doing all kinds of things that really are sort of extreme, for an association, anyway. But the name? Sorry, I’d put a big X through it and come up with something as fresh as what they’re doing.
July 18th, 2005 at 3:41 pm
Sue, we appreciate you posting about the XtremeASAE Blog. As for the “X” we are simply picking up on the meeting’s theme, which is “Association Performance to the Xtreme.” We definitely appreciate the vote of confidence on our substance. We want this blog to be a useful resource both for meeting attendees and for those association professionals who won’t be able to make it to Nashville. We hope your readers will visit our site and consider subscribing. Thanks again!
July 19th, 2005 at 9:34 am
Sue, we love it when you talk about the introNetwork System. We are thrilled to deploy one for ASAE’s show in Nashville. We started talking with ASAE a year ago and now are finally able to introduce all of the attendees to our software. Last week we were also at AD:TECH in Chicago and TS2 in Washington, DC. Things are really popping here in Santa Barbara.
July 19th, 2005 at 11:21 am
Yes, the whole “X” thing is old, and it is unfortunate that ASAE is using it as part of the meeting theme. But at the same time I do have to say that replacing “to” with “2″ beyond tired too.
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