09/16/2026
Michele Morgan sat down with Riley Miller at Bursting Silver for The Modern Membership Org, and they covered a lot of ground about what iUG actually is.
"The misconception I spend the most time correcting: people think we are ASI. We are not. Two completely separate organizations. We work closely with them, and that independence is exactly why it works. Users tell us things they would not tell the company that builds the software, and we carry those things back. I would like to think that has moved some of what has changed at ASI over the years.
The other one I want on the record: we are not a technology organization. Our conference programs for events people, membership people, and customer service. If you touch that database in any way, there is something at Emergence for you.
We also talked about our volunteers, who are everything to us, and about the first iUG Community Impact Award, which will be presented in Arlington.
And I said the thing I always say about getting in a room together. My fear is not that people stop meeting. It is that the ideas you generate by hearing what others are doing never get generated at all.
Emergence is in Arlington this November. If you are not an iUG member and you want to know what we are about, reach out to me."
Michele Morgan runs the iMIS Users Group on a staff of two for more than 600 member organizations. On volunteers, why independence from ASI is the point...
