In poetry, there are no standards—unless you’re writing a haiku. Which is why the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is hosting a haiku competition in celebration of its 100th anniversary this year.

Entries for the contest should follow the traditional 17-syllable, three-line format and focus on any voluntary standard that strikes as poetic inspiration. ANSI will select winners in five categories: technically relevant, funny, traditional, poetic and beautiful, and overall best haiku.

Submissions are open until October 19, the day of ANSI’s founding and the last day of this year’s World Standards Week. Winners will be announced in November.

Thinking about entering? We’ll just leave you with this haiku before you get to writing:

Writing on standards

Can be fun; but don’t forget

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A Meta Annual Experience

Well done at #ASAE18! Our Head of Story, @rookzero, and co-presenters @_EmilyForbes and @vjmayor collaborating with over 100 #association pros to make a co-created #video DURING their session! 🎥📲🙌 https://t.co/arkYP0wBHx

— 5:00 Films & Media (@hi5oclock) August 20, 2018

If you’re at this year’s ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition in Chicago, you already know that a lot of work and preparation has gone into the conference. Industry leaders and association professionals from around the world are in the Windy City learning and exchanging new strategies, solutions, and resources to make their associations better.

If you’re not at the conference, take it from 5:00 Films & Media’s Tim Parsons, the National Confectioners Association’s VJ Mayor, and Seenit’s Emily Forbes, who presented a session on crowdsourced video Sunday. The presenters, who previously collaborated on an effort for NCA, created a crowdsourced video of their experience at the conference leading up to their Sunday session.

The video isn’t complete, either: If you feel like adding your own imprint on the crowdsourced clip, share your experience at ASAE Annual by downloading Seenit Capture and uploading your video with the Seenit Capture ID “asae18.”

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