Ben Martin, CAE Virginia Association of Realtors
David, thanks for helping us draw a straight line between our association’s strategy and our web presence. You helped us to get crystal clear on what we need to accomplish on the web in order to meet our strategic organizational goals. With your assistance, we determined what kinds of features our web site must have and we crafted a methodology that will ensure we choose the right web developer. Your expertise and assistance was well worth the investment. Thank you!
Ben Martin, CAE
Vice President of Marketing & Communications
Virginia Association of Realtors
Chad Barr CB Software Systems, Inc.
David is one of the smartest people I know. His ability to combine the power of technology, Internet, marketing, strong business strategies and advice is the reason his clients gain their successful dramatic results.
Chad Barr
President
CB Software Systems, Inc.
Alan Weiss Summit Consulting Group, Inc.
A great resource for technical issues, challenges, and web strategies, who is highly responsive and oriented toward custom solutions.
Alan Weiss
Owner
Summit Consulting Group, Inc.
Phylliss M. Moret, RPh, CSA American Society of Consultant Pharmacists
Thank you for helping our fourteen-person knowledge management (KM) team advance our goal of providing greater value to our members with knowledge-based products and services. Your half-day workshop — “Knowledge Strategies and Processes for Associations: Models for Creating and Enhancing Member Value” — gave us a solid strategic basis for this kind of endeavor while also providing clear and powerful processes and tools for us to use in execution.
We were especially pleased at the value you added to the substance of our workshop by interviewing each member of the team ahead of time, reviewing our first KM project, and speaking with several of our members to create case studies pertinent for our workshop.
I highly recommend your services to anyone looking to create value with knowledge in their organization.
Phylliss M. Moret, RPh, CSA
Associate Executive Director/COO
American Society of Consultant Pharmacists
Jeanna Ray Infectious Diseases Society of America
Thanks to working with you, I’m now able to catch issues that I would not have caught before. I am also pacing our projects much more effectively, creating realistic timelines that we are able to meet. Thank you!
Jeanna Ray
Web and Electronic Communications Manager
Infectious Diseases Society of America
Dee Kaminski Parenteral Drug Association
We had to navigate some tricky waters in determining how to best enhance the stability of our site and prepare for significant future growth. Our site is a major revenue channel and you helped us eliminate considerable risk and prepare for expanding our online presence in the future.
Dee Kaminksi
Director, Marketing Services
Parenteral Drug Association
Doreen Croser American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
David, you helped us realize how our new brand and overall strategy should be reflected in our web site design, content and functionality. We are making good progress on implementation and couldn’t be more pleased. I highly recommend your services to anyone who needs help linking strategy to execution online.
Doreen Croser
Executive Director
American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Margie French Cosmetic Executive Women
CEW benefited from David Gammel’s experience in preparing for our web site redesign. His systematic approach for understanding audiences and overlaying them with our desired outcomes will ensure that we will target the right message to the right user on the right page. David comprehended our needs, effectively organized them and positioned us to improve our members’ online experience with us.
Margie French
Chief Operating Officer
Cosmetic Executive Women
Chris Shue Reinsurance Association of America
David – you score high in the ever important ‘Comes Through in the
Clutch’ category.Chris Shue
Reinsurance Association of America
Shahid Naeem, Ph.D. Columbia University
Dear David,
It was a pleasure working with you and I appreciate how well you handled a very, very complex charge.
Through a well structured set of meetings that always ran perfectly on time, you managed to distill into one voice what the committee members wanted. These needs represented scholarly business, but also education, policy, news, social events, and even the possibility of member- contributed content for the site.
I like the way you kept meetings on time, got everyone to speak, and distilled from the many voices, most over the phone, what it was that would work best. Also, unlike most meetings (and as chair my life is filled with meetings), I learned a lot and thought a lot about the web, what it means for us and what it can do.
As you saw, everyone is excited about where we are going. Well done!
Shahid Naeem, Ph.D.
Governing Board Member, Ecological Society of America
Department Chair
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
Columbia University
Mark Bolgiano Council on Foundations
Dear David,
I want to thank you for the results of our partnership on the Council on Foundations web site redesign project earlier this year. Thanks to your assistance, we are well on our way to launching a site that will fulfill our new direction.
Your knowledge of associations and information architecture was a great asset as we reorganized and redesigned the CoF web site. You helped us to clearly identify our goals for the site and then guided us through restructuring our content and services to focus on achieving them.
The new design and organizational scheme have been well received by our senior staff and have held up very well during implementation in our new site. In fact, our web site technology vendor indicated that it was one of the most effective organizational schemes they have ever seen.
Your counsel as our new executive team has come on board has been invaluable as well. One five minute conversation with you prepared me so well for a key meeting that it alone was worth your fee for the entire engagement.
I count you among my trusted advisors and would highly recommend you to any executive who wants to focus on creating value with their web site.
Sincerely,
Mark Bolgiano
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Council on Foundations
Robert Stableski NAFSA: Association of International Educators
We had a great leadership meeting this weekend—and I did an overview of association trends, using your article as a base. Your one meeting with us was an eye-opener for me, and got traction in our meeting.
Robert Stableski
Deputy Executive Director, Professional Development Services
NAFSA: Association of International Educators
Mike Guerrieri American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
David is a visionary in the non-profit space. He helped develop and execute the web strategy for my association and helped us to create an award-winning, highly usable site. He keeps amazingly on top of technology trends that might affect associations and other non-profits. He also under- stands how to effectively work with senior management and governance to turn strategy into reality.
Mike Guerrieri
Information Technolog Director
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Fred Simmons Gulo Solutions
David is forward thinker in the association industry. He’s a great resource and extremely knowledgeable. Highly Recommended.
Fred Simmons
Principal
Gulo Solutions
David Tauriello American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
David provided great consultative support to ASHA’s effort at re-deploying journal content on a hosted service (Stanford’s Highwire Press). He met with key stakeholders from ASHA and Highwire to define objectives and determine scope, then documented and guided interaction design. As a result, ASHA members can search for articles from asha.org, login and retrieve content on the hosted domains.
David Tauriello
Director of Content Management
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Jeff De Cagna Principled Innovation, LLC
David did an excellent job with the re-design of my website, creating a site that is visually appealing, easier to navigate and simpler to maintain. In broader terms, David is one of my most trusted colleagues and most valued collaborators. I always enjoy working with David, no matter the circumstances.”
Jeff De Cagna
Chief Innovation Officer
Principled Innovation, LLC
Lee Weinstein Syscom Services, Inc.
I’ve known David for a number of years and have found him to be smart, hard working and insightful!
Lee Weinstein
President
Syscom Services, Inc.
Russell Magnuson Results Direct, Inc.
David offers uniquely insightful perspective on a wide variety of technology issues. Of significant value are his insights for helping organizations uncover hidden opportunities for knowledge capture/management. We have known and worked with David for years. He is among the most knowledgeable and trustworthy consultants in the industry and earned our respect through first hand experience and work.
Russell Magnuson
CEO & Chief Technology Officer
Results Direct, Inc.
Mathew Emery Kintera
I was a member of the ASAE Technology Section while David was chair and attended several of the ASAE conference sessions where David spoke or designed the session. I have always enjoyed and learned from his forward thinking yet pragmatic perspective on how to best serve an association’s membership via technology.
Mathew Emery
Kintera
Brenda Siler Independent Sector
David and I were colleagues at ASHA. He had superior skills in identifying great talent contributing to a successful redesign and expansion of ASHA’s web and knowledge management activities. Stakeholders were always able to rely on David’s proactive customer service response to issues related to web management.
Brenda Siler
Vice President, Communications and Marketing
Independent Sector
Kenita D. Hidalgo, CMP American Council of Engineering Companies
I want to thank you from the bottom of my toes for putting on such a world class event. You delivered a great topic, kept everyone’s interest piqued and no one left the room! You had a great rapport with our audience and maintained a high level of interaction with them throughout the session. From the comments I heard afterward, I know that you helped the audience to better understand social media and how it can provide value to meetings and events.
I highly recommend you as a speaker to anyone who wants their audience to get past the buzz words and really understand how to use the Web effectively. I look forward to working with you on future programs.
Kenita D. Hidalgo, CMP
Director, Meetings and Conventions
American Council of Engineering Companies
Capital Chapter Program Committee
Professional Convention Management Association
Virginia Quintero Rosell American Chamber of Commerce Executives
The responses from participants and all of at ACCE who listened in was that the content was outstanding, informative and well presented.
Virginia Quintero Rosell
American Chamber of Commerce Executives
Amy Weikel Endodontics & Endodontic Surgery, PC
I attended your lecture at the convention last week and wanted to let you know that it was the most informative and beneficial of all the sessions I attended at the meeting. The ideas you presented on how to utilize our website to support a referral-driven business were particularly valuable to me.
Amy Weikel, MBA
Endodontics & Endodontic Surgery, PC
Jeanne S. Ray Association of the U.S. Army
The presentation was excellent. I find that your writings and presentations are always FULL of information I can USE right away.
Jeanne S. Ray
Association of the U.S. Army
Laruen T. Mountain U.S. Chamber of Commerce
We sincerely thank you for your contributions, time and dedication to the Institute program. Your efforts attracted a great deal of attention and praise. We applaud your work in leading a successful Institute. We were fortunate to have you serve as a faculty member. You have truly made this an enjoyable experience for our staff and Institute participants.
Lauren T. Mountain
Institute for Organization Management
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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