Tech Conference Town Hall

Since we agreed that comment made in the room would stay there, I will not report on what folks had to say but here are a few interesting findings from the electronic polling that took place in the room...

• 81% of participants were association professionals (others did not participate on many questions)
• Only 23% of association have a CIO or CTO (61% of those with 100+ staff)
• 68% reported having no formal technology plan (really ?!)
• Top 3 priorities:  Website improvements; AMS upgrade; social networking
• 81% reported technology budgets trending up over past 3 years
• 13% have deployed wikis; 35% have no interest (scary)
• 26% have deployed blogs; 34% have no interest (scarier)

Tagged: ASAE Association Technology Conference Town Hall polling

Comments

[Michael Sola]

Rick - great info as always. I posted a piece recently related to not just the trends but highlighting the NTEN IT survey across NPO platforms. http://cbf.typepad.com/tech/2008/01/its-always-in-t.html

Quite a few of my peers are in the same boat of trying to better position their IT shops in the business plans. I'm wondering if the high percentage you documented for no program plans is a direct result of not having that proverbial seat at the table. It's hard to stick to a formal plan if all you're expected to do is "keep the lights on".

Take care,
Michael