ASAE is hosting its Annual Tech Conference, December 6-8, at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. CEOs, CTOs, CIOs, other technology staff, and marketing and membership professionals will learn how to leverage mobile and digital content for their organizations.

Here are some of the 50+ topics on the agenda: how to create a profitable mobile application, how to handle challenges with an online community, how to develop a user’s experience using a cloud strategy, and how to use Google Analytics.  The three-day technology conference starts with a keynote from AAIM’s CEO John Mancini. He will discuss the social (So), local (Lo) and mobile (Mo) and the implications of “SoLoMo” as well as tactics CIOs should adopt to be “business value producers.”

On Wednesday, December 7, I’ll do a luncheon keynote on the quantifiable business impact of social.  I also hope to challenge the attendees to rethink their strategic use of social tools and context in order to achieve social market leadership. I’m really excited about my forthcoming book published by ASAE’s Association Management Press, Return on IMPACT: Leadership Strategies for the Age of Connected Relationships.

Closing General Session speaker will be David Weinberger, senior researcher at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, who will address the future vision of knowledge in a connected world and how government, business, science and education are learning to utilize network knowledge to make smarter decisions.

To register or find out more information, please visit ASAE’s Annual Technology Conference and Expo website.

By the way, ASAE is a membership organization of more than 22,000 association executives and industry partners representing more than 11,000 organizations. Its members manage leading trade associations, individual membership societies and voluntary organizations across the United States and in nearly 50 countries around the world. With support of the ASAE Foundation, a separate nonprofit entity, ASAE is the premier source of learning, knowledge and future-oriented research for the association and nonprofit profession, and provides resources, education, ideas and advocacy to enhance the power and performance of the association and nonprofit community. For more information about ASAE, visit www.asaecenter.org.

Mike recently heard me speak and sent the nice note below.

David,

Hope the weeks since Atlanta have treated you well and you’ve expanded and deepened many relationships along the way!

I really enjoyed your book and the presentation. I’ve preached “relationships” to my teams over the years and have experienced many times the power of relationships on outcomes.

I’ve spent most of my career in the Service world and a large part running Advertising and Marketing agencies and consulting firms. I wanted to share my wisdom on relationships that is often lost on the industry and especially younger consultants and planners in the broader Creative driven agencies and consulting shops.

There was a day when in fact all it took was a great relationship to secure business and hold business. People literally granting business and keeping business with firms strictly on the entertainment value gained from the relationship. Slowly as various forms of pressure and accountability grew on the buyers and spenders there was more emphasis put on “the work” and the pure relationship arrangements faded. However even during this time there was an old adage that went …”given the choice between having great relationships and doing average work or doing great work and having average relationships you would always choose the former because more times than not those relationships would sustain the status quo when things got tense. It was during this phase that several misconceptions were born regarding the role and power of relationships.  Firms and people actually believing that the relationships were just a superficial part of the overall value proposition. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m keynoting this great event – if you’re available and want to hear some of my updated research and thought leadership, hope you’ll join us. Each attendee will also receive a copy of Relationship Economics or ConnectAbility books.

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Nour, the thought leader on Relationship Economics®, will share unique insights on how to reinvent revenue models with an audience of business leaders in the nursery industry.

Atlanta, GA – August 18, 2010 – David Nour, author of Relationship Economics® and CEO of The Nour Group, Inc., has been selected to present at the Oregon Association of Nurseries’ 2010 Farwest Show Manager’s Circle. The annual Farwest Show is Read the rest of this entry »

Nour, the thought leader on Relationship Economics®, will share unique insights on Social Market Leadership to an audience of business leaders

Atlanta, GA – August 12, 2010 – David Nour, author of Relationship Economics (Wiley) and CEO of The Nour Group, Inc., has been selected as the opening keynote speaker for this year’s SM@RT conference. The annual SM@RT Conference is being held December 8-10, presented by the College of Business, The Reynolds School of Journalism and Extended Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno.

The SM@RT Conference features Read the rest of this entry »