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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 regularly.
Start With These Posts
On AI and association marketing
- Learning to Talk to AI Made Me Better at Talking to People
- Why Are Some Already Giving Up on AI in Association Marketing and Communication?
- I Built a Daily AI Publishing System From Scratch. Here’s What It Actually Taught Me.
On association marketing and communications
- The Community Is the Content. Your Job Is to Deploy It.
- The First, Most Important Association Staff Thing I Set Up Was a System Nobody Asked For
- Your Association Job Descriptions Are Out of Date. Your Organization Is Paying for It.
On organizational leadership
- My FIELD Rules: The Leadership Framework I Built for One Role That Turned Out to Be for Every Role
- The Real Reasons You’re Being Passed Over for Association Executive Director Roles
- You Can Do Executive Director Work Inside a Director Title
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. I also write children’s books. The Amera Can series — six stories about a bald eagle named Amera that explore character, courage, and doing the right thing — is complete and available on Substack at curtiskitchenbooks.substack.com. 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.