Jamie Notter

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Yesterday I was interviewed by Michele Price on her Breakthrough Business Strategy internet radio show about our book, Humanize. In the conversation Michele asked about my background in conflict resolution and we talked a bit about how training in conflict resolution might be a good idea for people engaging in social media.

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Jamie Notter

JULY 16, 2012

It’s a good six to eighteen months into our decline before we figure out how to make a shift. And it’s not just strategy–we lack agility at the tactical level too. Across the board, we don’t know how to connect with others in a relationship that has true give and take. Strategy Means Change.

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Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

We started with open because we think it has always been the foundation of social media’s power. Social media took what was closed and made it open. Social Media. December 2007 (8). November 2007 (14). October 2007 (12). September 2007 (17). August 2007 (18).

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Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Now that it’s at least partially live, we’re sprucing up the book website and have links to the free, downloadable worksheets that accompany the four main chapters on how to be open, trustworthy, generative, and courageous. Ebook Versions of Humanize Now Available | Social Media for Chambers | Scoop.it. Social Media.

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Jamie Notter

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

in Humanize , Leadership , Social Media - 2 comments. Here are some highlights from the Humanize angle: 16% trusted information from Corporate sources, and 14% trusted information from social media. That’s low, overall (traditional media was 32%), but notice how corporate and social media are just about the same.

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Jamie Notter

JULY 18, 2012

” How to Succeed in the 21st Century Association. Social Media. December 2007 (8). November 2007 (14). October 2007 (12). September 2007 (17). August 2007 (18). July 2007 (13). June 2007 (17). May 2007 (11). April 2007 (13). March 2007 (13). Consulting.

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Jamie Notter

AUGUST 16, 2011

It has also been integral to social media. One of the principles behind the growth of social media has been the notion that what you are creating today will likely morph into something else down the road. Social media is generative, growing and changing constantly. Social Media. July 2007 (13).

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Jamie Notter

MARCH 5, 2012

Book Review: Social Gravity. in Books and Reading , Social Media - 1 comment. This includes understanding the difference betwen strong and weak ties, the critical importance of diversity within networks, and an understanding the role technology plays in today’s world of social media. Social Media.

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Jamie Notter

JULY 23, 2012

It’s written by Olivier Blanchard, author of the book Social Media ROI and the Brandbuilder blog. Olivier is talking more specifically about how companies are struggling to do social media well because they fundamentally misunderstand how the game has changed. Strategy Means Change. Consulting.

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Membership Marketing

APRIL 9, 2010

The Correlation of Social Media Usage and Membership Growth. Today I took a look at official usage of social media by associations cross tabulated with associations reporting either membership growth or decline. First of all, there has been an explosion of the use of social media in associations.

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Jamie Notter

JUNE 14, 2012

I was part of a presentation called “The Adaptive CFO” (along with Charlie Tate of Tate and Tyron and Joe Janela, the CFO at the American Pharmacists Association) and my part of the presentation was to cover how CFOs can support the organizational change that is inevitable in today’s fast-paced, social media world.

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Jamie Notter

MAY 25, 2012

Of course, we’re also interested in collecting data over time, so even if you don’t want our advice on how to get started, please go over and complete the quick assessment. Social Media. December 2007 (8). November 2007 (14). October 2007 (12). September 2007 (17). August 2007 (18).

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Jamie Notter

JULY 24, 2012

Figuring out how to structure the work or design the processes. The managers need to work on their own clarity and commitment to the strategy. When there’s tension about how to allocate resources I want them to be in the middle of it. When there is tension about how to solve tough problems I want them in the middle of it.

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Jamie Notter

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Patrick Lencioni offers some ideas on how to do that in his book, Silos Politics and Turf Wars (affiliate link). We also talk about this in Humanize in Chapter 6: How to Be Open. In my company (currently) social media is handled by one department but we ensure that the entire company is part of the conversation.

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Jamie Notter

APRIL 24, 2012

Most of what we face is in those bullets above, so let’s figure out how to deal with that rather than lamenting about how hard change is. Figuring out how to have an awesome workplace is hard. Strategy Means Change. Next post: Strategy and Context. Social Media. December 2007 (8).

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Jamie Notter

JANUARY 10, 2012

There is no shortage of knowledge out there at our fingertips: knowledge about the best management practices, the best strategies, the best structures, the best cultures. They explain the pitfalls of relying on “how it’s always been done” as a strategy. Social Media. December 2007 (8). November 2007 (14).

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Jamie Notter

JULY 30, 2011

Beyond stimulating conversations about business strategy, I think this book also provides a cutting-edge model for internal organizational effectiveness. The challenge is then to develop, both personally and organizationally, these right-brain qualities, and the book provides resources and suggestions for how to do that. Social Media.

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Jamie Notter

JANUARY 24, 2012

Millennials grew up with social media, in an environment where if something they had didn’t work the way they wanted it to, they would use their social networks to figure out how to change it themselves. Social Media. December 2007 (8). November 2007 (14). October 2007 (12).

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Tailoring the knowledge transfer and exchange strategy to the audienceâ??s Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007. RSS feed: We write on web technology and social media tools for non-profits - charities, associations, clubs and other organizations. How web masters and administrators can do more with less. July 2007 (12).

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Jamie Notter

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Sorry to be a downer, and I know I have a tendency to speak in hyperbole, but so much of what we do inside organizations, from the way we manage performance, to the way we set salaries, to the way we develop our strategy, to the way we organize our structure…all of this stuff seems so often to be made up. Social Media.

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Jamie Notter

JUNE 7, 2012

Failure is when you are trying something new, and you don’t know ahead of time how to make it successful. It’s not like you didn’t know how to spell the word correctly. Eliminating failure would mean doing ONLY what you already know how to do. Strategy Means Change. { Social Media.

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Jamie Notter

MARCH 20, 2012

In part 2, you’ll get to choose one of those four elements and explore in more detail how that element shows up in terms of process and structure, through small-group discussion with your peers. Here we’ll all focus on how to build a more decentralized culture, which is part of becoming more Open. Social Media.

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Jamie Notter

DECEMBER 14, 2011

In fact, if we don’t see it, we may dismiss what we are seeing altogether: With no one figure to credit or blame, with no face to put on a sprawling inchoate movement, and with no hierarchy of power, we simply don’t know how to process what “it” is, and therefore how to think about it. Social Media.

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Jamie Notter

APRIL 3, 2012

Effort will be unstable, so learn how to be generative. Effort will be unstable, so learn how to be generative. Which is why we need to learn how to be more generative. We need to learn how to grow and change in ways we can’t necessarily predict ahead of time. But this is how we collaborate! Social Media.

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Jamie Notter

MARCH 30, 2012

It’s more of an underlying concern I have about organizations in general, and maybe the association community in particular: I am concerned that we love great ideas, but we don’t know how to actually do them. We don’t know how to BE great. Strategy Means Change. Social Media. December 2007 (8).

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Jamie Notter

JUNE 21, 2012

Most were in agreement that there was great power available in the periphery of our organizations, we just needed to figure out how to set that power free. Social Media. December 2007 (8). November 2007 (14). October 2007 (12). September 2007 (17). August 2007 (18). July 2007 (13).

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Jamie Notter

MAY 30, 2012

In the context of social media, humanizing often involves breaking down boundaries between the organization and its external stakeholders, but that does not ALWAYS need to be the case. So how about you create some safe space where they will be less afraid? Social Media. December 2007 (8). November 2007 (14).

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Jamie Notter

JULY 9, 2011

I think it zeroes in on not only what trust really is, but how to apply the concepts to actually getting better business results. Social Media. December 2007 (8). November 2007 (14). October 2007 (12). September 2007 (17). August 2007 (18). July 2007 (13). June 2007 (17).

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Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

As you get into each of the four main chapters of the book on how to be open, trustworthy, generative, and courageous, you have access to a 20-page worksheet that will help you assess your own organization and develop an action plan to make changes. Social Media. December 2007 (8). November 2007 (14). Consulting.

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Jamie Notter

AUGUST 27, 2011

The book is particularly powerful because it focuses not only on the mystery of how culture works but also on the practical aspects of how to deal with and change culture when it gets in the way of performance. Social Media. December 2007 (8). November 2007 (14). October 2007 (12). August 2007 (18).

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Beth Kanter

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.”

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Jamie Notter

JULY 26, 2011

Knowing the difference between Boomers, Xers, and Millennials won’t tell you how to structure your benefits options or choose a business model. Social Media. December 2007 (8). November 2007 (14). October 2007 (12). September 2007 (17). August 2007 (18). July 2007 (13). Consulting.

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Jamie Notter

JULY 12, 2011

I walked away with tangible, hands-on tactics on how to manage an emotional highjack, improve the core competencies of EI and clarification of intention versus impact. Social Media. December 2007 (8). November 2007 (14). October 2007 (12). September 2007 (17). August 2007 (18). July 2007 (13).

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Jamie Notter

JANUARY 17, 2012

I am a conflict resolution professional, and I spend a LOT of my time helping people to understand what conflict is and how to resolve it. You manage it when the issues are defined at the very beginning, you manage it when you decide how to collect data. Social Media. December 2007 (8). November 2007 (14).

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Jamie Notter

AUGUST 12, 2011

in Change , Leadership , Strategy - 10 comments. My first encounter was during a frustrating conversation among association executives and consultants related to social media. What strategies could we employe to get those external voices more in line with what we were saying. Strategy Means Change. Social Media.

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Membership Marketing

MAY 4, 2010

What Strategy Leads to Membership Growth? In our Membership Marketing Benchmarking Study this year, we asked participants to tell us their membership growth strategy. Labels: 2010 Benchmarking Survey , Growing Membership , Growth Strategy. How to Calculate Where your Membership is Headed. ► 2007. (51).

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Jamie Notter

MAY 10, 2012

I know we get a lot of coverage of Humanize in the context of social media, since we apply the lessons of social media to how we run our organizations. Organ­izations need to better under­stand indiv­idual talent, and they need to better under­stand how to commu­nicate the requi­rements for needs­-based work.

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