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You’ve Got to Read This: January 18, 2011

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Clay Shirky ’s Foreign Affairs article, The Political Power of Social Media (registration required), is a fascinating read that rebuts and shreds Malcolm Gladwell’s view about the power of social media to facilitate change. Manila protest January 2001 ~ flickr photo by M.a.c.a.r.o.n.i.

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Eric Lanke: Issues with Member Engagement

Eric Lanke

How do you use social media to engage members? Some are struggling to find the right combination of social media outposts (Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.) He blogs regularly on leadership issues, thinks too much about the books he reads, and is the author of several works of fiction. Subscribe to This Blog.

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The Hourglass Blog: A Lost Generation of Leadership?

The Hourglass Blog

How about watching corporations decimating our families with layoffs in the 80's, Black Friday in 1987, recession in 1991, recession in 2001 and then the circus of 2009? About This Blog. Why Another Blog? Social Media. Other Blogs. Harvard Business Blog. LifeCourse Blog. Seth Godins Blog.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.18.18

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Some quick hits before we get to the list of free webinars: Good advice: how to make your social media feed more interesting. ( Off-topic: Check out my Grabbing the Gusto blog for my weekend post about the list of recipes I’ve made this week or plan to make in the coming week. Host: Event Manager Blog. The Guardian ).

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Association Subculture: Information? Give it Away Now.

Association Subculture

A better use of our collective time would be re-examining the book " Exploring the Future - Seven Strategic Conversations That Could Transform Your Association ," by Robert Olson and Autl Dighe published by the ASAE Foundation in 2001. Their first foray was at MIT in 2001, when the school agreed to put coursework online for free.

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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Windows XP?

Associations Now

We’re a little less than two months away from the end of an extended support deadline Microsoft put on its Windows XP software—an operating system that remains hugely popular in the corporate world, although the software in its original form predates fundamental technologies such as social media, HTML5, touch-screen smartphones, even the iPod.

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Organizational Amnesia, Accountability Buddies, and Other Things I learned at the Grant Managers Network Conference

Beth Kanter

I found a blog post called “ The Dangers of Organizational Amnesia ” by Darcy Jacobson. ” She references a paper from 2001 why organizational memory is important from Dr. Jeff Conklin from the CogNexus Institute and describes organizational memory into two types: formal and informal knowledge.