Who helped build America while almost no one was watching? And why have we almost completely forgotten this?
A new book helps explain what chambers did, why they did it, and why we shouldn’t forget them. The book is called: The Magicians of Main Street: America and its Chambers of Commerce, 1768-1945. An epilogue takes the story up to today.
The author and our webinar host is Chris Mead, senior vice president of the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE). Mead will explain why chambers dreamed so much and reached so far – sometimes too far. But our country would be nothing like what it is if not for business organizations very much like yours.
This is the very first webinar on this topic since the book was published and had its debut at the ACCE convention last month, where it was the talk of the attendees. Come learn about the pickup teams of business people who changed their communities and, occasionally, their nation and even the world.
Nashik Call Girl Just Call 7091819311 Top Class Call Girl Service Available
Memo to American Chambers of Commerce: Why Your Country Shouldn't Forget You
1. Who is WebLink?
• Leading SaaS Association Management Software
Company
• Established in 1996
• 60 Employees
• Based in Indianapolis, Indiana
• Leading Software Provider to over 650 Association
Customers; 5,500 Users; Supporting over 650,000
Members
• Several Employees with Association Experience
2. About WebLink
• Association Management
Software
• Website Design &
Development
• Non-Dues Revenue
Programs
3.
4. Memo to American
Chambers of Commerce:
Why Your Country
Shouldn’t Forget You
CHRI S MEAD
SVP, AS SOCIAT ION OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE E X ECUT IVES
S E PT EMBER 9, 2014
WEBINAR FOR WEBL INK INT ERNAT IONAL
5. Chris Mead
Author of The Magicians of Main Street
Senior Vice President, Association of Chamber
of Commerce Executives
Executive Director, Community Growth
Educational Foundation
BA in English, Oberlin College
MBA, Stanford University
6. A Race Through History
13 Reasons You’ve Been Forgotten
25 Things You Did
Four Things You Can Do Today
7. 13 Reasons People Forget What
Chambers Have Done
1. Shared credit
2. Shared achievements
3. Individuals get the limelight; Napoleon v. his troops
4. Starting but not always finishing things
5. “Rich boy makes good” seen as boring
6. Business people best known for their business successes
7. “It was inevitable."
8. 13 Reasons People Forget What
Chambers Have Done (Continued)
8. A sea of nonprofits
9. “Just local”
10. No clear ideology
11. Neither saints nor villains
12. Based on something you can’t touch
13. Sometimes overshadowed by the U.S. Chamber
9. 25 Things You Did
25 Things That Local, Regional, or State Chambers:
Thought up
Started
Funded
Helped get funding for
Sustained through years of lobbying and support
Or otherwise helped make happen.
35. And that’s only the Cliff Notes version
Chambers are an indelible part of American life, culture, and history
Take out chambers from our past and the country would be almost unrecognizable
36. Four Things You Can Do Today
1. Learn what your chamber has done.
2. Learn what other chambers have done.
3. Explore what this means for your chamber today.
4. Tell your members and the public.
37. Questions/contacts
Chris Mead, SVP
ACCE
(703) 998-3545
cmead@ace.org
Magicians of Main Street available on
Amazon.com ($29.95 plus shipping/handling).
More information at:
www.magiciansofmainstreet.com