Non-dues revenue is sitting in your session recordings
More than 60% of associations are diversifying revenue, per ASAE. The fastest new…
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Claire Whitmore
36 posts by Claire Whitmore, Editor, Associations & Conferences.
Claire writes practical guides for association and medical meeting teams: abstracts, awards, speaker programs, and the messy middle between systems. Her pieces are researched and edited by Sessionboard's editorial team for program managers who'd rather fix workflows than read vendor pitch decks.
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Retention is decided in the eleven months between meetings
ASAE names retention the top association challenge. The renewal decision forms in the…
What ASAE's first State of Associations report says about your meeting
ASAE's first State of Associations report names meetings the most-cited source of…
What is a poster session? A guide for the team that has to run one
What a poster session is, how ePosters changed the format, and what running one takes:…
The poster hall that stays open all year
Printed posters come down Sunday. An ePoster gallery that stays open turns one weekend…
How to run a virtual poster session your members actually open
A working playbook for virtual poster sessions: submissions, consent, the searchable…
Consent, embargo, and disclosures: the ePoster work nobody puts in the demo
Publication consent, embargo timing, disclosures, and withdrawals: where ePoster…
Your speakers stop sharing the day the event ends. The transcript says they don't have to.
Session transcripts turn one event into a quarter of speaker advocacy: clips, quote…
Member-driven event promotion: the channel your association already owns
Faculty, chapters, and committees can outperform your ad budget. How associations run…
The business case an events director can take to a CFO
Attendance and NPS don't survive a CFO review. Three numbers do: consolidated program…
What keeps event advocates sharing (it isn't gift cards)
Gift cards buy one share. Status, effortless assets, and visible attributed impact…
Sponsor amplification that survives the renewal call
Sponsor packages promise amplification. Per-partner tracked links turn that promise…
Your speakers aren't ignoring promotion — they're ignoring assets built for the event, not for them
Speakers skip promo when assets sell the show, not their talk. Build speaker-first…
When you need a program layer, not another event management suite
All-in-one EMS vs program layer , when specialist depth beats suite bundling.
One conference, four systems — what small teams lose in the handoffs
Abstracts here, schedule in Excel, app there , what patchwork costs small teams.
When marketing owned the event website but program owned the truth
Marketing built the SKO site; program changed the agenda 14 times. Sound familiar?
The future of abstract management — AI pre-screening vs committee judgment
AI triage for abstracts , not replacing committees, saving volunteer hours.
Event websites that bind to live program data
Stop syncing spreadsheets to your event site , bind pages to live program data.
How event software pricing actually works for content-heavy conferences
Per-registrant vs per-event vs modules , what content-heavy conferences actually pay for.
Event monetization for content-heavy conferences (2026)
Badge revenue is one week , content-heavy events monetize the graph all year.
The content layer registration vendors don't want to talk about
Registration won the RFP. Abstracts, speakers, and schedule truth still need an owner.
Conference abstract vs. full paper — what program teams actually need
Abstract for selection; full paper for proceedings , what to collect when.
FAQ: Managing CME and credit deadlines across a multi-track program
Structured FAQ , CME credit deadlines, multi-track ownership, and when to tag sessions.
Awards management, built into the program — not bolted on
Awards and sessions on one program record , no duplicate profiles or VLOOKUP weekends.