Reid All About it
AUGUST 21, 2012
Something unusual happened to me yesterday. I had a conversation on Twitter. You might be surprised to hear that, after all, I’ve been a Twitter resident for a long time. But somehow the magic between me and Twitter has faded over the years. When I first started using Twitter regularly back in 2008 I spent much more time there, especially after I was laid off in early 2009.
Wild Apricot
AUGUST 24, 2012
Here are just 5 of the fresh links we've bookmarked on Apricot Jam that offer insight and ideas for non-profits and membership organizations.
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YourMembership
AUGUST 24, 2012
Membership Software Association Management Software. Home. Solutions. Associations. Nonprofits + Foundations. Chambers + EDCs. Corporate + Social. Education + Alumni. Advantages. Branding. Control. Add-On Products. Support. Pricing. Company. News + Press. Customers. Technology. Management Team. Partner Programs. Corporate Responsibility. Inside YM. Careers.
Association Leaders
AUGUST 21, 2012
We talk often about the characteristics of good leaders in this blog. We examine them, use real life examples to support them and generally agree on them. We have looked at characteristics like creativity, motivation/inspiration, honesty, integrity, work ethic and more as characteristics many good leaders share. We often think of good leaders as charismatic.
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Thanks For Playing
AUGUST 21, 2012
As you're probably aware, Jeff De Cagna recently conducted a survey on innovation among association CEOs. The results are out, and he's summarized them in a short video: The biggest things that stood out to me were: Association CEOs have a lot of confidence in themselves. They have a lot LESS confidence in their staff members. But they think their staff members have lots of confidence in them.
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YourMembership
AUGUST 22, 2012
Membership Software Association Management Software. Home. Solutions. Associations. Nonprofits + Foundations. Chambers + EDCs. Corporate + Social. Education + Alumni. Advantages. Branding. Control. Add-On Products. Support. Pricing. Company. News + Press. Customers. Technology. Management Team. Partner Programs. Corporate Responsibility. Inside YM. Careers.
Principled Innovation
AUGUST 21, 2012
Over the next six weeks, I will publish a post on each of the six shifts presented in my new e-book, Associations Unorthodox: Six Really Radical Shifts Toward the Future , created in collaboration with CHIEF. If you have not done so already, I hope you will download the e-book today. Also, please join me on September 26 from 2 pm-3:30 pm EDT for my webinar on the e-book, presented in collaboration with Peach New Media.
Thanks For Playing
AUGUST 23, 2012
The Good: I love what ASAE has done with the volunteer committee structure. First of all, they've forced us to be more efficient by scheduling MUCH shorter committee meetings. Hallelujah! Sitting in a committee meeting for 8 hours is torture that shouldn't be forced on ANYONE. I also like the fact that the committee years now run according to the work the committee does rather than the Annual Meeting schedule.
Wild Apricot
AUGUST 20, 2012
Here's a reminder about our Managing Events in Wild Apricot webinar this Wed. Aug. 22 @ 3:00 PM (Eastern).
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Reid All About it
AUGUST 24, 2012
That’s Not the Real Me: How Vanity Sabotages Facebook Advertising by Louie Herr. I find this idea both hilarious and accurate, especially this: “We are actors on a stage. Shakespeare, as ever, proves prescient.” We’re a crafty bunch, showing off our best selves on Facebook, sometimes cool, sometimes not. Recently I’ve posted several photos of backyard wildlife – turtles, spiders, lizards – not sure what I’m telling advertisers and the rest of my Facebook friends with that display.
Jamie Notter
AUGUST 24, 2012
I am a fan of Netflix. I even stood by them when they tried to spin off the DVD business and pissed everybody off (okay, they didn’t communciate well on that one, but I still like the strategic move). But now I love them even more, because I came across this slideshow about their culture: Culture from Reed Hastings. There’s a lot in there.
Thanks For Playing
AUGUST 22, 2012
Are you familiar with the singularity effect ? It has a huge impact on people's willingness to take action. 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.
Wild Apricot
AUGUST 21, 2012
We're launching a new resource in our Membership Knowledge Hub - Getting Started With Online Surveys.
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Eric Lanke
AUGUST 20, 2012
image source I've mentioned previously that I'm leading another innovation effort for WSAE, something we're calling an Innovation Circle. Ours is focused on member engagement, and you can get an overview of what it is and what we're trying to achieve with it here. I've previously posted on some of the member engagement issues people in the Circle are wrestling with.
Jamie Notter
AUGUST 23, 2012
I received this question via Twitter last night: It’s a good question. Decentralization certainly sounds like a structural issue, and that is a part of it. But I put more of it into culture. In Humanize , decentralization is the cultural part of being Open (Chapter 6). And the reason for this almost startled me when I thought of it: Organizational structure is imaginary.
Thanks For Playing
AUGUST 20, 2012
One way to make sure stuff on your website doesn't print oddly is to PDF it. Of course, that has other problems, not least of which that it can really screw with your SEO. You know what's easier? Print Friendly. It's a great utility you can add to your site to allow things that otherwise might print oddly to, well, not. How does it work? Simple! And saves trees!
Golden's Rules for Association
AUGUST 19, 2012
Closing the ASAE annual meeting in Dallas, author Dan Pink argued that, regardless of profession, we are all in sales. But the characteristics, skills and traits he described as essential for success sounded to my ears like precisely the attributes that distinguish effective association leaders, and differentiate us as a profession. Read more in my [.].
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Idea Architects
AUGUST 20, 2012
Stop worrying if it’s been done “The wish to attempt only what has been proven creates a life of imitation. We may declare we want to be leaders, but we want to be leaders without taking the risk of invention.” —Peter Block Act with authenticity: be you "A good product is not enough; consumers today are also looking for soul -- and soul is one thing you cannot invent.
Jamie Notter
AUGUST 20, 2012
I did a session at the ASAE annual meeting last week. I co-presented a “Conversations that Matter” session along with Robert Barnes of Fitness Australia. Robert is an association executive who is actually implementing the ideas from Humanize in a very clear and intentional way. The session was about how systems thinking (that we cover in chapter 6 in Humanize) applies to volunteer models in associations.
Thanks For Playing
AUGUST 24, 2012
Can you believe next week is already the last week of August? The elementary school across the street starts session on MONDAY. Where does the time go? (Oh, right, to getting Spark launched.) If you were paying attention this past week, you could feel the seasons start to slip. The days are noticeably shorter, the sun is less intense, and there was some coolness behind some of the breezes.
Robert M Barnes
AUGUST 18, 2012
My 5th Annual Meeting as a member of ASAE (American Society of Association Executives) was as memorable for many reasons however it is in keeping with many others that my wrap is kept to just five key takeaways.
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Idea Architects
AUGUST 22, 2012
In a short essay , professor and innovation thought leader Rosabeth Moss Kanter outlines how every organization needs a portfolio of innovation efforts. She describes a pyramid consisting a solid base of continuous improvements and incremental innovations, a mid-range that is an incubator for new opportunities or projects, and a peak outlining future strategic directions that merit investment and risk.
Jamie Notter
AUGUST 21, 2012
I’m reading a great book right now: Beyond Performance , by Scott Keller and Colin Price. They are McKinsey consultants and have done tons of survey research with their clients to try uncover some new ways of thinking about organizations. A colleague suggested to me that they came to many of the same conclusions in Humanize , just from a different angle.
Velvet Chainsaw
AUGUST 20, 2012
Fundamentally, the only competitive advantage one has is customer knowledge. ~ Thomas Karlaris, CEO, Barclays. CEOs are building and investing in analytic muscle more than any other functional area. They want to connect with their customers as individuals and get to know them better. According to a 2012 IBM study of face to face interviews with more than 1,700 CEOs in 64 countries, 73% of CEOs are making substantial investments to draw more meaningful customer insights from available data.
Membership Marketing
AUGUST 21, 2012
Here is something that I have wanted to put together for a long time. It is a glossary of membership marketing terms linked to past posts that I have done over the years. I have called it "Membership Marketing from A to Z". As you will note, I still do not have an entry for "X", so feel free to share your ideas. Your feedback will also be appreciated on topics that are important that I have missed.
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