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Are You Creative?
If you ask a group of kindergarteners if they can sing, dance, draw, paint, act, etc., every single one of them will raise her hand. If you ask that same group if they can read…
Read More →What Is Your Real Mission?
Last fall, I had the opportunity to participate in The Boondoggle. Organized by Joe Gerstandt and Jason Lauritsen, it provided an opportunity for 10 people who didn’t know each other to sit in a cabin outside…
Read More →Strategic Planning v. Strategic Thinking
Lots of chatter about strategy and strategic planning on the ASAE Collaborate groups recently, with lots of people throwing around lots of VERY IMPORTANT sounding terms. Me, I like simplicity. To quote the Eaglet from…
Read More →Dump Your Committees
Volunteerism is changing. I know I’m not the first person to think – or write – about this. Hell, Peggy Hoffman and Cynthia D’Amour have built their businesses on working with new volunteer models. But…
Read More →“Just Do The Next Right Thing”
January means resolution time, and whether you go the traditional self improvement route or follow my advice and take the “fun resolutions only” path, there’s a good chance you’ve set yourself some big goals for…
Read More →Mastering Your Craft
This past fall, I had the opportunity to participate in a multi-day retreat with a bunch of smart people where we focused on the future of work. Talking about the future of work led us…
Read More →A Year in Photos
My resolution in 2012 was to do Photo365. I started a little before January 1, 2012 and took at least one photo nearly every day for the entire year. I know I did miss a…
Read More →Marketing Masterstrokes
Yesterday, Kristina Twigg (Water Environment Federation), Lauren Wolfe (Higher Logic), and I presented on marketing your private online community at the Higher Logic Users’ Group Super Forum. Kristina, Lauren, and I each shared our own…
Read More →Content Curation and Membership Associations
It’s the final day of whitepaper release week, which means it’s time to focus on what associations can do about the problem of information overload to better serve our members. From my new whitepaper, Attention…
Read More →The Solution: Content Curation
From my new whitepaper, Attention Doesn’t Scale: The Role of Content Curation in Membership Associations: Information overload is not only a factor of volume. It’s also heavily influenced by the fact that the large disparity…
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