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What fundraisers Need To Know About Next Era of Digital Technology

Beth Kanter

Are these aspects of the DNA from 2003 still the same? I keep coming back to a decade old quote from Clay Shirky, “When the technology becomes boring, it becomes socially interesting.” We need to get to that point of more adoption. I spoke about how the technology is evolving and future implications. Fundraiser DNA.

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Facilitation Friday #25: Five Keys to Strategy Discussions

Idea Architects

Facilitation Friday #25: Five Keys to Strategy Discussions. When was the last time you were in a session intended to produce good strategy that actually did so? Too often strategy conversations are anything but strategic. Participants bring their past experiences and present expectations to the strategy effort.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Leadership Limerick: Time for.

Idea Architects

Every Monday, I offer a leadership limerick, highlighting an idea or strategy about effective leadership in limerick form. As Harvard economist Ed Glaeser notes, "Communications technology and face-to-face interactions are complements like salt and pepper rather than substitutes like butter and margarine.” Oct 2003 (1).

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Flexibility Is Key: Why the Top-Down Strategy Is Fading

Associations Now

The IT department has to come to the user, and match its approach to technology usage and workflow—not the other way around. In other words, the IT department has to come to the user, and match its approach to technology usage and workflow—not the other way around. Rejigger the Approach. A Blast From the Past.

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Governance and Strategy: Steps from Administrative Management to Strategic Leadership

SCD Group

The Solution: The society was volunteer-managed until 2003, then contracted with a firm for administrative support. The board had been successful growing the organization to that point by being hands on, with concrete tasks and deadlines. So why change? They began working with The Sherwood Group in 2009.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Five Lessons from the Road

Idea Architects

Use of any new technology should be considered in light of the character of the relationship an organization (or individual) wants to have with their members, customers, and stakeholders and how to reflect that and their core values and personality in doing so with the new technology. Oct 2003 (1). Sep 2003 (2).

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Best of the Web: February 2013

Association Adviser

9 Marketing Strategies You Must Stop Using—Now. Kent Lewis from iMedia Connection says you must stop using those (and seven other) ineffective marketing strategies, and focus your energy on what really works. This technology may not be far off. MySpace in 2003? 14T5cIp #assnchat. Kent Lewis. iMedia Connection.

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