Kitchen's Ink

If you found this blog and aren’t sure where to begin, this is the page for you.

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.

Start With These Posts

On AI and association marketing

• Why Are Some Already Giving Up on AI in Association Marketing and Communication?
• The Case for AI as a Thinking Partner, Not a Production Tool
• Why ‘AI-First’ Is the Wrong Frame for Association Marketing

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• Your Association Job Descriptions Are Out of Date.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

• You Can Do Executive Director Work Inside a Director Title
• The Real Reasons You’re Being Passed Over for Association Executive Director Roles
• I Submitted An Association Business Plan Nobody Asked For. Why Would I Do That?

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.