Personifest wrapped up yesterday, and while I wasn’t able to attend all three days, I did get to see the kickoff and attend some breakout sessions. Some of my takeaways: Rick Smolan was the opening general session speaker, talking about the Human Face of Big Data. His talk was simply fascinating. He discussed multiple stories
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Last night kicked off Personify’s rebranded annual users conference Personifest. Eric Thurston, Personify’s CEO, discussed several issues related to the ownership transition at Personify over the past year. But the most important announcement from my perspective was that Personify has begun a partnership program where companies outside of Personify can be “certified” as implementation partners.
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I’ve written several times about transparency among the AMS vendors, and I received another great example last week from MemberSuite’s CEO, Andrew Ryan. Andrew sent out a long “state of the company” letter to his customers, and while the information is limited to customers (and consultants serving those customers), I can share with you that he
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I’ve written in the past about the need for more AMS vendors to be transparent about how things are going with their company and product. Here’s another nice example of that from Dmitriy Buterin at Wild Apricot. (I interviewed Dmitriy a couple years back. You can hear that here.) In this blog post Dmitriy highlights
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There have been two significant announcements in the AMS world in the past several weeks. First, Timberlake Software was acquired by Naylor just one day before last month’s ASAE Technology Conference. I had a chance to talk with Timberlake’s CEO, Brian Choate, briefly at the Tech Conference, and he’s very excited about what this acquisition
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I recently had the opportunity to attend iBEF, the iMIS Business Excellence Forum. iBEF is hosted by ASI, the makers of iMIS. As the website says, the “program is designed to help iMIS clients maximize their investment in iMIS by improving overall organizational productivity, increasing revenue, and/or reducing expenses.” As Nathan Slovin of ASI explained
In my last blog post I wrote about Protech’s efforts to improve transparency into their company, an effort that I applaud. One of my favorite examples of transparency comes from another company serving the association market, 20twenty Strategic Consulting. Each quarter, Rob Miller, executive vice president of 20twenty, sends a short “state of the company”
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Personify interviewed me last week on my recent article, Improving User Adoption and Avoiding the Cycle of Doom. In the video Rob Kaighn and I discuss what the Cycle of Doom is and the four ways to avoid it. You can view the video here.
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I had the opportunity recently to attend ASI’s iNNOVATION Conference in Florida. This conference is for ASI’s partners and re-sellers. (Though I’m neither a partner nor re-seller, a handful of industry consultants were invited to the conference.) The focus of the conference was on ASI’s flagship product, iMIS 20. ASI is positioning iMIS 20 as
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I got the opportunity to attend the Euclid ClearVantage Users Group Conference earlier this month. One of the reasons I attend user group meetings is to learn what the vendors are planning with their product. Euclid has rolled out a couple of new features that I found pretty slick. As part of what they call their
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