{"id":70,"date":"2008-10-13T20:20:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T20:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2008-10-17T20:41:21","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T20:41:21","slug":"let-the-fall-conferences-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/13\/let-the-fall-conferences-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Let the fall conferences begin!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, it’s that time already!\u00a0 Just got back from the first one, District 11 (Indiana and northern Kentucky), and it was a good visit. This was the first district I visited last year during my campaigning (and also the first district conference I’d ever attended outside my own district!).<\/p>\n

I drove down on Thursday evening after work (from Chicago) for dinner with the group, and on Friday, we had two marketing visits, one with a casino and one with a bank.\u00a0 We were early for the casino meeting, so we spent a few minutes becoming more familiar with their product.\u00a0 There were quite a few people gambling at 8:30 AM on a Friday.<\/p>\n

The district presented their annual C&L award to Thomas Carroll<\/a>, President and CEO of Lakeshore Public Television, the northwest Indiana public television station (PBS).\u00a0 D11 has a very interesting membership promotion based on a football theme; you earn yards and points based on club activity, bringing in guests and sponsoring members, etc.\u00a0 It’s generating some great excitement — District 11 has some real fire in their eyes and will surely be distinguished this year!<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, I have been suffering from a pretty bad cold the last few days, I almost lost my voice, but fortunately, it wasn’t until after I had conducted my afternoon educational session on “The Courage to Conquer:\u00a0 The Four Critical Success Factors”.\u00a0 My meeting with the district leaders afterwards basically consisted of me listening to them, and croaking out a few words!<\/p>\n

This weekend is my home district’s monthly DEC meeting (no official role there), and next weekend is my home district’s conference, so not very far either.\u00a0 Two more in November, D54 (Champaign-Urbana, also close) and D8 (St. Louis).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, it’s that time already!\u00a0 Just got back from the first one, District 11 (Indiana and northern Kentucky), and it was a good visit. This was the first district I visited last year during my campaigning (and also the first district conference I’d ever attended outside my own district!). I drove down on Thursday evening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district-conference","category-international-director"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}