Golden's Rules for Association

APRIL 29, 2011

There are two kinds of public policy research: there is inquiry and there is advocacy. In the case of advocacy, you start with an answer and go in search of the facts that will bolster and support your position. In the case of inquiry, you start with a question and let the facts lead you [.].

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Golden's Rules for Association

DECEMBER 14, 2012

You are probably also concerned about some of the issues impacting associations, and maybe even support advocacy by groups like ASAE to address them. Chances are that if you are reading this, you consider yourself an association professional and you appreciate the tremendous good that associations do for society.

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Golden's Rules for Association

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Much of the public thinks of associations as “special interests” who do nothing but lobby the system to game advantage (even though U. government data shows that associations spend many times more on educational activities than on lobbying). In my opinion, “special interest” is a pejorative only when applied to a group whose interests [.].

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Golden's Rules for Association

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Associations have garnered their share of attention from the Hill in the last year, but no one expected a thoroughly gridlocked Congress to actually get anything done about it … at least until after the election. And after that? Read my latest commentary in AssociationTRENDS to learn why I don’t think any of the association [.].

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Golden's Rules for Association

AUGUST 1, 2012

I didn’t exactly go through the five stages of grief when the public furor over the GAO Las Vegas retreat first erupted in the media. But I did go through something like that process. Stage one is denial: I am a “benefit of the doubt” kind of guy. If there is an innocent interpretation, I [.].

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Golden's Rules for Association

APRIL 21, 2011

The web has made it a whole lot easier to fake it. And that is, if anything, even more of a threat to serious, online communities than to traditional associations. There is little you can effectively do to police the content of others on the web … leaving it up to our associations (traditional and [.].

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Golden's Rules for Association

MAY 10, 2011

I recently suffered a very sudden and very significant loss of vision. Happily, the condition was fully correctible. Nonetheless, during the period of impairment I learned some very interesting things about how the brain works and we perceive the world. I discovered that when I was in familiar surroundings, my brain could reach back to [.].

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