Dear ISA Leaders,



Everyone in this group knows about the difficult decisions being made and the deep cuts facing ISA. I understand the difficult circumstances necessitating many of these decisions and see the consternation of leadership as they struggle with them. In an effort to spur creative dialog and balance the defensive strategies being offered, I have written a series of articles about my vision for the future of ISA. I would like to see us start thinking about playing a… Continue

The 4th Annual Marketing and Sales Summit took place last week in Boston and was a big hit. I've just written a blog article discussing the use of social media tools at the summit: Using Social Media for a Social Media Round Table. I believe that these techniques should be made common place at summits and… Continue

Check out my Word Press blog and the linked article. We have a major problem on the horizon with the retirement of baby boomers.



Dr Jerry Cockrell used his time at the Water and Wastewater Automatic Controls Symposium to address this same subject. Of the myriad of topics he could have chosen to present he chose to talk about attracting young people to our profession. This is a huge issue and is getting larger and larger. I really see this as one of the foremost challenges we will… Continue

Shari Worthington and I recently presented "ISA Leaders and the Internet" at the Spring Leaders Meeting. Not surprisingly, the discussion surrounding Twitter revealed fascination, suspicion, excitement, and confusion (not in any particular order). There were lots of ISA Leaders in the audience who were interested in getting started on Twitter, so I thought I would provide some help to… Continue

How local ISA Sections (or Divisions, Departments, etc...) can leverage the latest Internet technologies for (mostly) free and (relatively) easy solutions to web site management, collaboration, and outreach. Presented at 2009 Spring Leaders Meeting.



Please download the handout (PDF) for additional details. You can… Continue