Thanks For Playing
DECEMBER 30, 2011
skip to main | skip to sidebar. Thanks For Playing. Seeking community in associations since 2008. 30 December 2011. Happy New Year! However you choose to celebrate - on the town with a huge crowd, with just your closest loved ones, or something in between, I wish you a joyful New Years celebration, and health, happiness, and excellent adventures in 2012!
Wild Apricot
DECEMBER 27, 2011
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YourMembership
DECEMBER 23, 2011
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Association Leaders
DECEMBER 19, 2011
Leadership is the topic most addressed in this blog. Leadership is certainly an important topic. However, it’s also something I am fascinated with personally. I am interested in learning what great leaders do to become great leaders. I am interested in what makes leaders fail. All this interest is because I am on a journey – a leadership journey.
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Reid All About it
DECEMBER 6, 2011
Blogs are not dead! That was the verdict from DelCor Technology Solution’s unconference last month: Progress U. – Blogger Summit. I’m go glad I got up to Arlington VA to attend, it was a great day of conversation. DelCor’s publishing a series of follow-up posts from the Summit. The first talks about the state of blog reading and writing today and why blogs are a good idea for associations.
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Thanks For Playing
DECEMBER 29, 2011
skip to main | skip to sidebar. Thanks For Playing. Seeking community in associations since 2008. 29 December 2011. Book Review: Humanize. If youre one of my regular readers - or someone who knows me IRL - you probably know of my disdain for business books. Generally, they state the obvious or the *painfully* obvious at a fifth-grade reading level, with LARGE print on pages with LOTS of white space.
Wild Apricot
DECEMBER 21, 2011
A quick note to say Happy Holidays! Our Version 4.3 has been released, Version 4.4 is on its way, and if you're looking for Wild Apricot support over the next few weeks -- don't worry, we'll still be around to answer the phones and help you out!
YourMembership
DECEMBER 22, 2011
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Association Leaders
DECEMBER 5, 2011
Associations, Volunteerism and More…that’s the title of this blog. But truth is, most of the time it’s about leadership. Through this blog, I have tried to initiate discussions of the characteristics of great leaders and show examples of both good and bad leaders. I like exploring leadership with you. I like it even better when something written in this blog strikes a chord with you and you comment about it.
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Association Subculture
DECEMBER 19, 2011
skip to main | skip to sidebar. Monday, December 19, 2011. Five Terms for 2012. I am Santa Claus!!!! Santa Iron Man Parody. I am pretty sure this is the final post for this year. (Im leaving myself a little room to maneuver there. You never know when inspiration might strike.). Id like to sincerely thank all of our clients, colleagues and friends who made this such a successful year for Alcorn Associates.
Eric Lanke
DECEMBER 19, 2011
Eric Lanke. Association executive and author. Pages. Home. Leadership. Innovation. Member Engagement. Generations. Books Read. Fiction. Monday, December 19, 2011. Innovation Does Not Happen Online. image source. Shocking, I know. There are those in our community who would have you believe the opposite. Sometimes, they seem so strident in their demand for online interaction as a way to drive collaboration and innovative practice, its almost as if they think online communities are a prerequisite f
Thanks For Playing
DECEMBER 20, 2011
skip to main | skip to sidebar. Thanks For Playing. Seeking community in associations since 2008. 20 December 2011. TED Talks: Filter Bubbles. Automated filtering is great, right? It saves us all a huge amount of time. Maybe not. Maybe what it does is put us in an echo chamber. Share on FriendFeed. Labels: TED , TED talks , video. No comments: Post a Comment.
Wild Apricot
DECEMBER 14, 2011
Like all our upgrades, this one was delivered 'automagically' to all accounts. It includes improvements in member self-service, online payments, email bounce handling and much more.
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YourMembership
DECEMBER 21, 2011
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Virtual
DECEMBER 15, 2011
With the calendar down to just one page, now’s a good time to think of all the “year end” activities for your association. Here’s my list, I’ll leave it to the guy with the beard to check it twice. Environmental scan Every Board should spend some focused time looking outwardly at trends that are driving [.].
Association Subculture
DECEMBER 15, 2011
skip to main | skip to sidebar. Thursday, December 15, 2011. Book Review - Humanize by Maddie Grant and Jamie Notter. Welcome to the desert of the real. Morpheus - The Matrix. (This is a book review of Humanize - How People-Centric Organizations Succeed in a Social World. Just so you know, I wasnt asked to write it and received no type of compensation for doing so.
Eric Lanke
DECEMBER 12, 2011
Eric Lanke. Association executive and author. Pages. Home. Leadership. Innovation. Member Engagement. Generations. Books Read. Fiction. Monday, December 12, 2011. What Race for Relevance Inadvertently Taught Me About Committees. Ive talked about Race for Relevance once before on this blog, the recent book by Harrison Coerver and Mary Byers calling for "Five Radical Changes for Associations.
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Thanks For Playing
DECEMBER 19, 2011
skip to main | skip to sidebar. Thanks For Playing. Seeking community in associations since 2008. 19 December 2011. Always the Last to Know: Embedding Tweets. This is information that would have been useful to me Friday, when I went back through my #Tech11 tweet stream to find my top takeaways, but did you know that you can embed tweets just like you do YouTube videos or Slideshare presentations?
Wild Apricot
DECEMBER 9, 2011
Video can be effective for telling stories, evoking emotion, gaining support and even recruiting members. Here's a new ebook and some ideas on video storytelling.
YourMembership
DECEMBER 16, 2011
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Virtual
DECEMBER 15, 2011
With the calendar down to just one page, now’s a good time to think of all the “year end” activities for your association. Here’s my list, I’ll leave it to the guy with the beard to check it twice. Environmental scan Every Board should spend some focused time looking outwardly at trends that are driving [.].
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Association Subculture
DECEMBER 13, 2011
skip to main | skip to sidebar. Tuesday, December 13, 2011. Is Facebook Stealing Something Important From Us? she says, leave me alone. tonight i just wanna stay home. she fills the pot with water and she drops in the bone. she says, ive got a darkness that i have to feed. i got a sadness that grows up around like a weed and. im not hurting anyone. im just spiraling in and then. she closes her eyes and hears the song begin again.
Eric Lanke
DECEMBER 5, 2011
Eric Lanke. Association executive and author. Pages. Home. Leadership. Innovation. Member Engagement. Generations. Books Read. Fiction. Monday, December 5, 2011. Calling Everyone (Not Just Boomers): Which Battle Are You Fighting? image source. Thanks to Elizabeth Weaver Engel for pointing me to this opinion piece in The Chronicle of Philanthropy reacting to a recently released study that shows more than 12 million Baby Boomers want to start new nonprofits or socially-oriented for-profits over th
Thanks For Playing
DECEMBER 16, 2011
skip to main | skip to sidebar. Thanks For Playing. Seeking community in associations since 2008. 16 December 2011. Friday Top 5. Todays Friday Top 5 is about #Tech11, too - my top takeaways. In the fishbowl session on social CRM led by Lindy Dreyer in which Lindy pointed out that association websites are transitioning from being places where we push information out to members into community hubs, Polly Karopwicz observed that our members ARE the hub.
Wild Apricot
DECEMBER 7, 2011
Are you new to communications planning? Wild Apricot has developed a Getting Started With Communications Planning guide for small associations and non-profits.
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