Despite the fact that my consulting work is focused on game industry stuff, I’m still lingering a bit in the association/non-profit community. Apparently, they like the way I think and still invite me to share my experiences in serving the IGDA.

And so, I went to the annual conference for the American Society of Association Executives to run a session on being innovative. The session was titled “Counterintuitive Paths to Success: Upending the Status Quo”. The session was itself an off-shoot of an article I wrote for their magazine on how I ran the IGDA (mostly against the grain of how associations are usually managed).

While at the conference, I got to take in some great sessions by the likes of Clay Shirky and Charlene Li, among others. And, of course, enjoyed some networking and social action as well.


They had the CN Tower lit up the whole time.

 


Participants hard at work during my session.

 


Charlene Li on building a groundswell of engagement.

 


Clay Shirky: “Convene, not control.”