What does KiKi think about the association industry after hosting weekly conversations about it for over nine years? What are her plans for Association Chat's future? How does her own consulting business with Amplified Growth play into what she is doing with the Chat?

On this Association Chat, Vista Cova consultant Lowell Aplebaum "flips the script" and interviews KiKi L'Italien, the usual host of Association Chat. 

Please join us for this one-of-a-kind interview on Association Chat. About Association Chat Association Chat (est. 2009) is an online community and weekly chat that takes place on Tuesdays at 2pm ET on https://www.crowdcast.io/kikilitalien. You can connect with the association community throughout the week on Twitter using the hashtag #assnchat or through the Facebook Group. Association Chat remains free (and only allows for one sponsor per episode) and takes me dozens of hours a month to research, write, facilitate, and schedule and thousands of dollars to sustain. If you find any meaning and value in what I do, please consider becoming a patron with a recurring monthly donation of your choosing on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/associationchat.  Find out more about Association Chat at https://associationchat.com/. (*"Cheekily" hashtagged from the beginning! #assnchat – yes, we know what it looks like and no, we aren't changing it.*) KiKi L'Italien serves as host for the chat with regular guests and quarterly live events along with creative collaborations with industry thought leaders.

How to listen to Association Chat Flash Briefings on Amazon Echo devices

There's now a new way get Association Chat News updates throughout the week!

Association Chat is now delivering the latest association industry news updates weekly through Amazon Echo devices.

You'll need to add Association Chat as a skill to your Amazon Alexa app:

1. Go to the menu in your Alexa app and click on "skills"

2. Search for "Association Chat"

3. Click on the Association Chat Flash Briefing logo and then click "enable" -- you're all set!

4. When you're ready to listen to the latest flash briefing, just say: “Alexa, what's my Flash Briefing?” or "Alexa, play the Association Chat Flash Briefing!"

Please check it out!

Here's what you need to know about some good stuff coming up that you might be interested in for the association industry.

Challenge the Excuses: Why Associations Must Do Better with Inclusion (Interviewing Gina Glantz of GenderAvenger)

Tue, Aug 14th at 10:30 AM EDT 

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/interview-with-genderavenger

Association Chat at ASAE Annual: Interview with Gary LaBranche at Fonteva Lounge and Smoothie Station

Sunday, Aug 19th at 12:45 pm CDT

Join me at the Fonteva lounge and smoothie station at ASAE Annual for an Association Chat interview with Gary LaBranche, CAE, to discuss his latest book being released on succession planning!

I'll have a few Association Chat swag items (t-shirts, stickers, and buttons) there and afterwards, you can even get a smoothie, courtesy of Association Chat sponsor Fonteva!

While I'm on vacation next week I'm going to be uploading some previous interviews I've done on Association Chat. Watch for those and please let me know if you like these short briefings on Twitter or Instagram!

What role have mentors played in your life? Chances are, whether they were called "mentors" or not, there are individuals you have learned from and whom you credit with teaching you some of your best lessons in life.

When Cecilia Sepp, CAE, saw yet another online post featuring someone looking for a mentor in the association space, she took notice and did something. 

This Thursday I'll talk with Cecilia Sepp about the new program she created, the Association Mentoring Network, asking her about mentoring, the program itself, and why something like AMN is needed more now than ever.

Register at https://www.crowdcast.io/e/mentors-and-mentorship

This is a longer Flash Briefing to kick off the week. I'm preparing for my family vacation down to Universal Studios next week and hearing from a lot of folks who are navigating vacation times and back-to-school prep. 

What are you up to this week?

Post your audio comments in response to my flash briefings on the anchor.fm app! 

https://anchor.fm/associationchat/episodes/What-is-your-voice-strategy-e1smcn

In 2015 Nancy Belmont launched a project called the Courage Wallthat captured the attention of national and international media. The Courage Wall is a huge public chalkboard that reads, “I WISH I HAD THE COURAGE TO . . . ®” Nancy was interviewed on the TODAY Show, was featured internationally on Al Jazeera Network, and was highlighted in print media including The Washington Postand Forbes Magazine. The project was even tweeted by First Lady Michelle Obama.

In 2016, Nancy launched the UNITY Project, interactive public art that aims to bring people together to celebrate individuality and strengthen the ties that bind us together. The project went viral with an Upworthy video that captured over 8 million views. Nancy created a manual to empower others to bring UNITY to their communities. To-date, over 1,000 people from 47 states and 30 countries have downloaded the manual.

In December of 2016, she created Be the Light, a project that helped people identify how they would share their light with the world. Over the course of four weeks, thousands of people lit candles and wrote intentions of actions they would take to spread light and love. The moving ABC story on the project recently won an Emmy Award.

In June of 2017, Nancy launched Soar, a project that encourages people to let go of burdens that hold them back from stepping into their best selves. Participants identify a burden they are ready to release, write that burden on a rock and place the rock in a bin. Then they are invited to hang a brightly colored origami bird to symbolize their lightness and freedom from that burden. The project helps us understand that we are not alone in the human journey and reminds us of our individual and collective greatness.

Nancy’s latest project, The Sanctuary, highlights people’s inner critic. Participants identify a negative thought about themselves that does not serve them. They discard that thought by writing it on a slip of paper that is ceremonially burned at the end of the project. They then craft a positive affirmation to take its place and write it on a colorful disc. Participants hang their positive affirmations in a field surrounded by thousands of other expansive thoughts, creating a sanctuary of limitless thinking.

Association Chat Association Chat (est. 2009) is an online community and weekly chat that takes place on Tuesdays at 2pm ET onhttps://www.crowdcast.io/kikilitalien. You can connect with the association community throughout the week on Twitter using the hashtag #assnchat or through the Facebook Group.

Association Chat remains free (and only allows for one sponsor per episode) and takes me dozens of hours a month to research, write, facilitate, and schedule and thousands of dollars to sustain.

If you find any meaning and value in what I do, please consider becoming a patron with a recurring monthly donation of your choosing on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/associationchat.  Find out more about Association Chat at http://associationchat.com/. 

(*"Cheekily" hashtagged from the beginning! #assnchat – yes, we know what it looks like and no, we aren't changing it.*)

KiKi L'Italien serves as host for the chat with regular guests and quarterly live events along with creative collaborations with industry thought leaders. Association Chat: https://www.associationchat.com  See Past Episodes: https://www.crowdcast.io/kikilitalien Where to Subscribe/Get Involved/Learn More Website: https://associationchat.com/ Facebook Group (private):https://www.facebook.com/groups/AssociationChat/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/association-chat-podcast/id1221431539   Google Play: http://bit.ly/googleassnchat iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/association-chat-28628199/?cmp=web_share Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/association-chat-podcast Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/kiki-litalien YouTube: https://youtu.be/RWiKUrUWxcg Watch Live: https://www.crowdcast.io/kikilitalien Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/amplifiedgrowth RSS Feed: http://getamplified.libsyn.com/rss

This Tuesday at 12:30 pm EDT, I’m talking with someone who is using technology to make finding the perfect sponsors and exhibitors not just more strategic, but interesting, as well. My guests will share their experiences on finding the best match for sponsorships.

At 2 pm EDT, I’m talking about Marketing, Membership and a View of the Digital Future for Associations with the VP of growth at Personify and CMO for Wild Apricot.

Thursday at 2 pm EDT we’re talking about the ethics around online reviews for #ReviewChat.

You can find more information about how to register for each of these upcoming events at associationchat.com

Now go out there and have a wonderful week and I’ll talk to you next time!

Welcome to Association Chat News Flash Briefing -  I’m KiKi L’Italien and here’s what you need to know for Tuesday, June 26th, 2018!

Today, Tuesday, you can listen to 2 live Association Chat interviews back-to-back starting at 12:30 pm EDT!

The first interview is all about GDPR: It's been a month since The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect and what has happened since then? I’ll ask members of the UK data privacy company The Trust Bridge about what’s happened since GDPR went into effect and the questions we all need to be asking ourselves today. Which murky rules have been clarified and which remain shrouded in mystery? We’ll find out today at 12:30 pm EDT.

After that, you can find out about a member engagement channel that too many associations aren’t leveraging. In fact, this channel is more often referred to as baggage and I have three guests that will challenge you to explore this channel further today at 2 pm EDT!

Look for more information about how to register on associationchat.com!

That’s it for today - Check back again soon for the next Association Chat Daily Briefing.

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If you enjoy these Flash Briefings or have a comment to share, please let me know by reaching out to me at [email protected] or on twitter @kikilitalien using the hashtag #associationflash

Have a great week everyone!

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If you are still wondering what you can do about GDPR, you can check out the resources and interviews available on the Association Chat private Facebook Group. You just need to make sure to join that.

Also, you can check out AssociationChat.com to see the latest post about new online learning on GDPR available from The Trust Bridge. This learning is available as a mobile app and you should check it out if you or your team needs more education on GDPR compliance.

Thanks for tuning into this Association Chat flash briefing.

If you enjoyed this briefing, please share it, visit associationchat.com, and subscribe to receive weekly emails and access to the podcast and online community!

Thanks for listening.

It's been a month since The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect and what has happened since then?

• Have the questions around GDPR changed?
• Are organizations more GDPR compliant today than they were on May 25th, when the EU's new rules on privacy and user data became enforceable?
• What do association executives need to know?

We'll discuss that on Tuesday, June 26, 2018 at 12:30 pm EDT for a special edition of Association Chat. 

From a The Verge article earlier this year: But perhaps the GDPR requirement that has everyone tearing their hair out the most is the data subject access request. EU residents have the right to request access to review personal information gathered by companies. Those users — called “data subjects” in GDPR parlance — can ask for their information to be deleted, to be corrected if it’s incorrect, and even get delivered to them in a portable form. But that data might be on five different servers and in god knows how many formats. (This is assuming the company even knows that the data exists in the first place.) A big part of becoming GDPR compliant is setting up internal infrastructures so that these requests can be responded to. No one’s ready for GDPR. (2018). The Verge. Retrieved 20 June 2018, from https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/22/17378688/gdpr-general-data-protection-regulation-eu

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It's been a month since GDPR went into action...check out what has happened since then! Live interview on Association Chat 6/26 at 12:30 EDT https://www.crowdcast.io/e/gdpr-and-associations#associationchat #assnchat #associations #CIO #GDPR #dataprivacy #GDPR

There’s a member engagement channel that too many associations aren’t leveraging. In fact, this channel is more often referred to as baggage. There are a number of associations who have turned the baggage into an asset. The baggage we’re referring to? Hint: it is your components – call them chapters, affiliates, sections or any other name and the potential is member engagement, awareness, sales, and growth. 

We’ll share a few stories, plus research culled from a survey of association CEOs and association benchmarking study.

Guests:

Charlotte Muylaert, Billhighway

Peggy Hoffman, FASAE, CAE, Mariner Management

Dresden Farrand, MPA, MPP, CAE, Vice President of Chapter Development, Independent Electrical Contractors, Inc. (IEC)

**SAVE THE DATE CEX: ASSOCIATION COMPONENT EXCHANGE OCTOBER 26, 2018 | ARLINGTON, VA**

Association Chat Association Chat (est. 2009) is an online community and weekly chat that takes place on Tuesdays at 2pm ET on https://www.crowdcast.io/kikilitalien. You can connect with the association community throughout the week on Twitter using the hashtag #assnchat or through the Facebook Group.

Association Chat remains free (and only allows for one sponsor per episode) and takes me dozens of hours a month to research, write, facilitate, and schedule and thousands of dollars to sustain.

If you find any meaning and value in what I do, please consider becoming a patron with a recurring monthly donation of your choosing on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/associationchat.  Find out more about Association Chat at http://associationchat.com/. 

(*"Cheekily" hashtagged from the beginning! #assnchat – yes, we know what it looks like and no, we aren't changing it.*)

KiKi L'Italien serves as host for the chat with regular guests and quarterly live events along with creative collaborations with industry thought leaders. Association Chat: http://www.associationchat.com  See Past Episodes: https://www.crowdcast.io/kikilitalien Where to Subscribe/Get Involved/Learn More Website: http://associationchat.com/ Facebook Group (private): https://www.facebook.com/groups/AssociationChat/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/association-chat-podcast/id1221431539   Google Play: http://bit.ly/googleassnchat iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/association-chat-28628199/?cmp=web_share Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/association-chat-podcast Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/kiki-litalien YouTube: https://youtu.be/RWiKUrUWxcg Watch Live: https://www.crowdcast.io/kikilitalien Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/amplifiedgrowth RSS Feed: http://getamplified.libsyn.com/rss