iab, you beat me to it.
The thing is Tim, I also like getting my design news from different sources, and the sources tend to align on the IDSA. If IDSA is about communicating to business, the site should reflect that, the conferences should reflect that. Instead we have a bunch of regional conferences at schools mainly attended by students. Last time I was at a national, I don’t recall any CEOs strolling the halls. Many of us on the professional side have daily SVP or C level contact at our companies or with our clients. Not once has one of them mentioned outreach from the IDSA or learning about ID through the IDSA… I have had several contacts based on the Steve Jobs book. That one guy did more in terms of business awareness for ID.
Also, you didn’t respond to my feedback on the site itself. At least just make it clean. The frog site is not super fancy by any means, but it is clean and highlights the content. We do have a lot of clients as regular readers of our media platform: