Next edition May 15

Scroll down to the next post to see the Best of Chamber Management Carnival 2nd Edition!

The third edition of the Best of Chamber Management Blog Carnival is now seeking submissions from Chamber and association bloggers! Please look over your past months' posts and select the very best of interest to Chamber of Commerce management professionals. Topics can cover leadership/management, communications, member service/value, fund-raising, community involvement, recession management, or anything else you think will be of interest.

To submit your articles, visit the Blog Carnival Submission Page. Submission deadline is Noon on May 8; the Carnival will come out May 15.

Please note these submission guidelines:

• You must be the author of the article you submit to the Carnival.
• The article you submit must be available on a publicly accessible blog - we cannot accept submissions which require a subscription to view.
• You do not have to be in the Chamber industry to submit an article, nor does your article have to have been written specifically for Chamber professionals. However, the content of your article must be of interest to Chamber professionals and applicable to Chamber work.
• Authors should select a specific category for their article on the Submission Page. If you are unsure of which category to select, just select "Other" and we'll either leave it there or re-assign it to a more appropriate category for you.

Best of Chamber Management - Carnival 2

WOW - can you say "behind schedule"? So sorry for the delay, all I can say is I'm glad membership sales are so brisk!

Welcome to this edition of "Best of Chamber Management." It is a shorter edition than the inaugural, but it's my intention to always focus on quality over quantity with this carnival. Plus, this little carnival is still getting it's legs so I'm still contacting authors individually and seeking permission to use their articles - a little time-consuming, but always worth it given the quality of the information they share. I hope this process will become a little more efficient as we grow!

On to the carnival! The authors here are among my favorites in the chamber/association management industry - always relevant, always insightful, and super-friendly to work with too! My thanks to each of them for agreeing to be included here!

Member Value
Stuart Meyer offers 4 Strategies for Recession-Proofing your Membership Base posted at Association 2020, with particular emphasis on the "emotional value proposition" and leveraging volunteerism.

Cindy Butts presents Ask for too much and you get ... Nothing posted at AE on the Verge, saying, "If you find you aren't getting what you need from your members and volunteers, consider that you might be over-whelming them. Here are four 'asks' you can instantly make more manageable - these'll get you thinking about even more!"


Chamber Communication
Curt Moss is my ace-in-the-hole when it comes to Chambers and the world of blogging and social media. For this edition he presents Worried you're not a social media expert? Don't be! on his superbly useful blog, WebLink International.

Chamber Management
Looking for ways to "go green" within your Chamber? Rebecca Leaman presents Nonprofit Budgets Benefit from Greener Events posted at Wild Apricot Blog, where she includes a lengthy list of resources that will help you plan events that leave a smaller footprint!

Again, my thanks to each of these authors for allowing me to compile and distribute their articles in this way. I'm going to try again to set (and meet!) a deadline for the next issue. I'm shooting for a May 15 publication date, so the submission deadline will be Noon on Friday, May 8. Visit the Carnival Submission Page to submit your latest, best blogpost for Chamber professionals!