Association Professionals Throughout the Ages

June 212010

This animation produced by the Association Forum of Chicagoland pokes gentle fun at the foibles of managing and leading membership organizations and professional societies. The Forum helps association executives manage and lead their organizations by providing essential learning, powerful resources and compelling experiences.

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Association Management with PAMS

March 212010

Professional Association Management Services (PAMS) for non-profit organizations.

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Cass Wheeler & Ho Sun Yee describe the challenges and opportunities of nonprofit and charitable organizations.

March 182010

Cass Wheeler, CEO of the American Heart Association National Center, and Ho Sun Yee, CEO of the Singapore Heart Foundation describe the challenges and opportunities of nonprofit, charitable organizations, at the ASAE & The Center Annual Meeting, 2008.

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JKA – Japan Karate Association – 日本空手協会

February 32010

The JKA is the most authoritative and by far the largest karate organization in the world, the Keeper of Karate’s Highest Tradition.

No other organizations approaches karate with greater intensity of purpose, or maintains such a large and dedicated professional staff of highly-trained, highly paid full-time instructors.

At the JKA, karate is not merely a sport, it’s a martial art whose aim is the harmonizing of mind and body for balance, strengh, perseverance, patience – for total confidence and self-mastery.

http://www.jka.or.jp/english/e_index.html

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World Professional Blogger-Journalist Association

January 182010

The inaugural convention of the association for the fast-growing, one-man media blogger-journalists, ‘World Professional Blogger-Journalist Association (WPBA, http://wpba.aving.net)’, will be held at the Youido Hanwha 63city Convention Centre in Seoul, Korea, on November 17, 2008.

Representing the WEB 2.0 era, bloggers have reached a total of 80 million in numbers worldwide, and their roles and influence in the society continue to expand, calling for an establishment of an association that will protect and promote the rights and interests of professional bloggers.

The objectives of WPBA are to establish blogger-journalists as a professional media, promote and protect their rights and interests, present new income-generating models, and to lay the groundwork for building a network of worldwide blogger-journalists. The convention’s slogan is “Open, Share, & Contribute,” symbolizing WPBA’s goal to satisfy worldwide consumers’ rights to be aware, to know, and to share information on business, product, and market, and to protect the environment by keeping a close watch over behaviors that destroy the environment and its natural order. Furthermore, WPBA intends to contribute to the development of a global culture and society through sharing of issues and cultural contents from around the world.

Fifty world-famous blogger-journalists from 30 nations representing the Americas, Europe, Southeast Asia and emerging nations, will attend the convention to discuss the establishment of the association and various issues. Majority of the international blogger-journalists who are attending are former journalists or present columnists, all leading opinion leaders representing their nation.

There will be a declaration of the establishment WPBA and explanation of the association’s objectives on the morning of the 17th, followed by a congratulatory speech from Paul Chaney, the president of International Blogging and New Media Association (IBNMA) and a congratulatory performance, finishing with a forum discussing WPBA agendas. Scheduled for the afternoon are the presentations from world’s foremost bloggers as well as AVING’s annual VIP ASIA 2008 AWARD.

For bloggers’ presentations, Jochen Alexander Siegle, a Journalist and Co-founder of MomentiMedia, will present on Blogging and Journalism Seen From an International Perspective, and Wei Lin Liu, author of ‘Sweet Spot’ and the most influential critic on internet-related fields in Taiwan, will explain How Blogging Revives Stagnant Economy and the Three Global Blogging Trend of 2009. The Director of China’s largest IT portal site, ZOL.COM, and the Vice President of CNET China, will introduce the Blogging Trend and Various Cases in China, and Dhiram Shah of Newlaunches and Matt Von Horn of DIGG.COM will give a lecture on Blogging in India, an Emerging Market, and the Relationship Between Blogging And User-Vote Based News-Site DIGG.COM, respectively.

The international participants are: blogger-journalists from America’s best site for public opinions, Digg (DIGG.COM); global blog site, Gizmodo (GIZMODO.DE); Japan’s representative blog site, Akihabaranews (AKIHARBARANEWS.COM); India’s Newlaunches (NEWLAUNCHES.COM); Russia’s PC news (PCNEWS.RU); Italy’s Geekissimo (GEEKISSIMO.COM); Switzerland’s Blogeek (BLOGEEK.CH); 3 active bloggers from Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore on CNET Asia; Director of China’s foremost portal site ZOL.COM, plus blogger-journalists from Rumania, Sweden, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, and New Zealand.

From Korea, approximately 100 bloggers active on portal sites such as Naver, Daum, Egloos, Allblog, Tistory, Blogkorea and Openblog will attend the convention. Taking part in this global publicity event will be product displays from Dideonet, Ubiq, Digifi, Sidiz, Pen and Free, NA4, Semantics, Skono, TILON, Odicorp, and C-motech.

Publisher Ki-Dae Kim of Global News Network AVING, founder and sponsor of the WPBA, commented that “This is the first time in the history of internet that influential bloggers from all around the world will gather here in Seoul,” and “WPBA will materialize the blogger-journalist’s identity and role, and explore new income-generating models for future bloggers, building a hub of global bloggers in Korea.”

WPBA’s sponsor, Global News Network AVING is a leading news agency on product and business news with current ties to 285 new media and main bloggers from 47 nations, and it is constructing 1000 news networks. The headquarters are in Las Vegas, USA. The coming WPBA convention is supported by Seoul City, Seoul Tourism Organization Co., Ltd., and professional congress organizer Seong & Min M.I.C.E. Consulting (www.seongandmin.com).

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Understanding Cornhole

December 62009

I was helping out members of the American Cornhole Organization move stuff when I stumbled on a box of old instructional films from the American Cornhole Academy. I’m in the process of cleaning the films.

If you want more information about American Cornhole, please go to http://www.americancornhole.org

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Future Educators Association – A classroom is waiting…

November 192009

The Future Educators Association (FEA), sponsored by PDK International, is a professional organization that supports more than 20,000 junior high/middle school, high school, and college students who are interested in education-related careers. This video launches the new tagline: A classroom is waiting…

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Lyme Disease: A Clear and Present Danger

November 132009

This 2006/2007 video was produced by Starving Artist Pictures and Crosse Media for Ticked Off and Fed Up, Inc. (TOFU), a 501(c)(3) charitable organization in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Please check out their website: http://www.TickedOffandFedUp.com

For more info about Lyme, go to http://www.LymePa.org or http://www.ilads.org, and be sure to watch the amazing award-winning documentary “UNDER OUR SKIN,” which is in theaters now and can be pre-ordered on DVD: http://www.underourskin.com

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Top Gear – Rednecks in Alabama USA – American road trip pt 1 – BBC

November 52009

Top Gear American road trip in Alabama USA. Watch the boys try to find a cheap used $ 1000 car and face alligators in a terrifying brake test. Above all else, take this chance to see the American Stag invade Top Gear! It’s the Chevrolet Camano vs. Cadillac in this hick drag race from BBC Worldwide!

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The History of the Professional Employees Association

October 162009

Stakeholders, past and present, take us on a journey through the history of this small British Columbia union for licensed professionals.

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