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Kitchen’s Ink is a publication about association management, marketing leadership, and AI — written by a practitioner who is doing the work right now. New posts publish Monday through Friday. The archive goes back to 2016, but the active publication started in March 2026.
Start With These Posts
On AI and association marketing
- How to Strategically Use AI in Association Marketing
- The Case for AI as a Thinking Partner, Not a Production Tool
- The Prompt Is Not the Product
On association marketing and communications
- Association Marketing Often Is a Service Department. It Shouldn’t Be.
- Most Association Content Calendars Are Organized by Date. Yours Should Be Organized by Strategy.
- What 12 Years in Association Marketing Actually Teaches You About Members
On organizational leadership
- You Can Do Executive Director Work Inside a Director Title (publishing soon)
- The Someday List Is Where Organizations Go to Stagnate (publishing soon)
- What Six Years of Sitting in Board Meetings as Staff Actually Taught Me (publishing soon)
About the Author
Curtis Kitchen, CAE — Director of Marketing at the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, past President of the Kansas City Society of Association Executives, and a twelve-year practitioner in association management. Full bio here →
A Book Is Coming
The posts on this blog are building toward a manuscript. If you want to know when it’s available, email kitchenski@gmail.com with “Book” in the subject line.
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