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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

It uses same idea as the visual thesaurus and mind-mapping type concepts to help you organize information about any topic of interest. Have you heard about Pearltrees ?

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NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Find a way for your family, your community, your company or your organization to join in acts of giving. From their website: On Tuesday November 27, 2012 charities, families, businesses and individuals are coming together to transform the way people think about, talk about and participate in the giving season. It’s a simple idea.

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JANUARY 14, 2013

One way is to use Curata , a tool that helps you easily find, organize, and share content on topics of your choice. So if you've read my recent FREE white paper on content curation , hopefully you're all jazzed to start doing it for your members. Shout out to Ray VanHilst for the link.).

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JULY 24, 2012

Jamie Notter recently recapped his notes from the MIX Mashup , an invitation-only conference on the future of work, or, to quote their website: "What will it take to make our organizations highly adaptable, endlessly inventive, truly inspiring, and genuinely accountable?" New staff and new volunteers start working with our organizations.

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

You promised to make her investment of time and money in your organization worth her while. What matters is what your audiences think it is, and how they translate their experiences with your organization. Are you delivering? Do you know what your brand promise is? Because it doesn't matter what you think it is.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

I'm always looking for a way to be better organized and integrated Along comes Brewster , which integrates all your contacts' myriad profiles into one view. In the continuing quest to make sense of all one's contacts - from Google, Outlook, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Cardmunch etc. - Anyone tried it? What do you think?

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AUGUST 2, 2012

My clients have included trade and professional associations of all sizes, social service organizations, and charitable and cause-oriented organizations - the gamut of the tax-exempt world. I combine a focus on finding and implementing creative solutions with a broad understanding of the association sphere.

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DECEMBER 29, 2011

And while we shouldnt - and in many cases dont - even want to go back, our organizations are not keeping pace. In the meat of the book, they examine how these four qualities, expressed through the mediums of organizational culture, internal process/structure, and individual behavior, have the power to create organizations that, to quote p.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Since I'm obviously running a little behind, I'm going to get all meta on you and do my Top 5 Top 5s: Top 5 tips for staying organized. Did you know it's 5:15 pm? Where did the day go? Top 5 cheap date ideas in the DMV. Top 5 funniest things I've ever read on the Interwebz. Top 5 tips for NFL players.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

What are you doing to generate a vision of the future in your organization? Strategic planning is a process (see above, RE: report that sits on a shelf), while strategic thinking is about vision, intuition, and creativity. And this confusion lies at the heart of the issue: the most successful strategies are visions, not plans.”

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NOVEMBER 15, 2012

What is your experience with decision making at your organization? If you are experiencing problems in these areas, what impact is it having on your organization? So we have a few questions for you. What kinds of conversations do - or don't - you have about risk? Your staff? Your relationships with your volunteer leaders?

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AUGUST 7, 2012

But knowing how to determine when to say no is difficult when a company is offering your organization money, free stuff or both. In association fundraising, sometimes saying no to corporate funders is as important as saying yes to new revenue.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

You're buying influence, and expecting that person to run the organization as well is a big mistake. If you do, you're setting her and your organization up for failure. A list of the true decision makers in the organization. And don't even try to hide bad news. Which may or may not be the same as the board and/or senior team.

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OCTOBER 30, 2012

Show off what's working at your organization, or get the input you need to take your marketing and communications efforts to the next level. If you'd like the group to look at a print piece (like a brochure, postcard, magazine, etc.), please bring enough that we can pass them around (say 5-8 copies). Register now ! It's free!

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AUGUST 29, 2012

You can't just trade in your organization's culture for a shiny new model, so you'd better learn to work with what you have. Generational difference: age or cohort ? Or: are today's elementary school aged kids really that much different than elementary school aged kids in the 1960s? Want to build a better mousetrap?

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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Public service post today. A friend of mine is a paid blogger for Razoo , and she is looking for stories to tell.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Which is more important: your org chart or your organization's networks ? Making a mistake is not the same as failing. Want to innovate? Ask a new question. Vendors are not the enemy. Start with the most important thing.

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JULY 31, 2012

Everything you do, say, or produce as an organization should relate back to your brand, to a common vision of what your association is. It's a classic. The same should be true of your association's brand. It is the foundation of your marketing and communications wardrobe.

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AUGUST 31, 2012

But Labor Day weekend is really about honoring labor and trade organizations (like associations?) Sure, it's the proverbial last weekend of summer, and a great time for cookouts and enjoying your favorite summer activities one last time before fall. and having a party for workers and their families. Not consumers, workers.

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AUGUST 22, 2012

Help your organization catch the innovation virus. I'm checking out Associations Unorthodox , Jeff De Cagna's new e-book, and how awesome is it that it's free? Pretty awesome, I think! Harvard Business Review takes on the gift economy, the transaction economy, and their impact on success in social media. Made a mistake?

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FEBRUARY 9, 2012

How many of our organizations are open about our selection criteria for our conferences? What can you do at your organization to be more transparent about why people are accepted or rejected for volunteer service, conference presentations, magazine articles, etc.? Splash: Refreshment For Your Small-Staff Organization.

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MAY 10, 2012

To change our behavior and our organizations. What impact with the data have on our organization? Splash: Refreshment For Your Small-Staff Organization. To drive decisions. So the next time someone says, "Lets start tracking this new metric!" make sure to ask why. Why do you want to track this? What are you trying to decide?

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MARCH 21, 2012

Great advice from the SocialFish for FB Timelines for organizations. Why do top people leave organizations? Splash: Refreshment For Your Small-Staff Organization. The loss of the 40 hour work week is killing us. Building an integrated communications strategy. On that topic, what is strategy anyway? 7 hours ago. mizz information.

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OCTOBER 16, 2012

Find a complimentary organization or two, and swap member lists, swap magazine ads, swap e-newsletter promotions, swap banner ads, swap conference attendance/booths/speaking spots, etc. It takes time, but you can do personalized, segmented HTML emails using some very simple shareware tools, some skill, and a little legwork.

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JULY 19, 2012

Treating people well, even to the point of going WAY above any beyond (the famous Ritz-Carlton $2000 rule ) is going to serve your organization far better than pretty much any other action you can take to promote yourself and what you do. Splash: Refreshment For Your Small-Staff Organization. WOM is simple but not easy. 7 hours ago.

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JULY 17, 2012

Praise, coach, re-evaluate where your organization is going and how you all can best contribute to getting there. But it wont hurt nearly as much, and it wont be the be-all, end-all of making your organization better. Splash: Refreshment For Your Small-Staff Organization. Share on FriendFeed. 7 hours ago. mizz information.

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

A few months ago, I was having a discussion with some smart association peeps, and we got talking about the fact that, in membership organizations, its not so much that we fear failure for its own sake. In a lot of organizations, I think, the members CLAIM they want to be member driven. Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B.

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DECEMBER 15, 2011

For those who arent yet familiar, the book is about transforming our organizations from a mechanized paradigm to a human paradigm by being open, generative, trustworthy, and courageous. Splash: Refreshment For Your Small-Staff Organization. Hey, #Tech11 had us ALL booked solid last week, right? Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B.

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APRIL 10, 2012

Each side feels like the other is holding out on the them or trying to gain advantage, and the lack of trust that results makes it hard to communicate and to work together for the good of the organization as a whole and, ultimately, the profession or industry you serve. The organization has chapters in every state. 7 hours ago.

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JULY 5, 2012

I think every organizations board status report should be a series of 5-10 key metrics that are tracked over time and shared in graphs or charts. The book does, however, make a GREAT case for hiring Roam to help your organization solve big, hairy problems, assuming you can afford him. I love infographics. I even use it sometimes.

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DECEMBER 7, 2012

But it seems like both IT staff and the rest of the organization know that on a conscious level now, and, because of that, are able to focus on how IT supports the entire enterprise and can and should be a strategic partner. The changing role of IT, or more specifically recognition of the changing role of IT. Big data."

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Or, as Jeff suggested, allocate some buckets of money to be spent on our organizations' top strategic priorities, then leave it up to the staff and volunteer leaders responsible for those priorities to figure out what are the best investments in programs, products and services to meet those priorities?

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JANUARY 30, 2013

John Haydon offers great tips for prepping your organization's Facebook Page to take advantage of Graph Search. Advice from Peter Drucker on the importance of humility, being human, and asking good questions. Life is about experience , not performance. Wes Trochlil reminds us: vendor relationships should be like a marriage. There are signs.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

It requires enforcement and discipline on the part of the organization, but clear visual cues can make your members' interactions with you far simpler. So a quick glance can help him identify whether something is technical, educational, a critical update, FYI, etc. Why are we still sending blast emails to unsegmented groups?

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APRIL 5, 2012

Many of our organizations, in an attempt to be all things to all people (or due to the temptation of all that tasty, tasty non-dues revenue), have larded up our membership "benefits" with so much tangential crap that our members cant focus on the stuff that will actually help them fix their problems. What do we do to fix it? Post a Comment.

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JUNE 28, 2012

Im not arguing that your CEO needs to join every second of every standing staff meeting of every department in your entire organization all the time. Splash: Refreshment For Your Small-Staff Organization. When weve completely insulated them from the sausage making, we cant get mad when they have no idea how the sausage gets made.

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APRIL 26, 2012

From apps to mobile-friendly websites to ensuring your emails render correctly and legibly to the ability to take mobile donations, nonprofit organizations MUST become fluent in mobile in 2013. Splash: Refreshment For Your Small-Staff Organization. How would you answer the question? Share on FriendFeed. No comments: Post a Comment.

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