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What Does the Future Hold?
At the recent CAE Celebration, Marsha Rhea led us in a futurist thinking exercise, which seemed apropos as this is the 50th anniversary of the CAE. After flying through some pretty densely packed slides, she…
Read More →Accountability – it’s not a dirty word
Two things have struck me recently (or perhaps I should say “stuck in my craw”): Associations are generally warm-n-fuzzy(er) than for-profits. Associations like to be collaborative and engage in consensus based decision making, but sometimes…
Read More →Next-Generation Leadership
JNott recently concluded a great series on leadership skills for the 21st Century, and Acronym has declared May to be Leadership Inspiration Month, and the combo got me thinking: What qualities will the association leader…
Read More →Handling Information Overload
I’ve been thinking about information overload for the past month or so. It started with Jeff De Cagna’s breakfast session on Solving 21st Century Problems back in early March. Then the #assnchat for March 16…
Read More →Food for Thought
Why oh why do we always (over) focus on: “What are the risks of engaging in social media?” [EEEKK!!!!] Why aren’t we asking: “What are the risks of staying on the sidelines?”
Read More →Generations, Leadership and Change
A number of things, including this post on leadership mindsets by Jamie Notter, have gotten me thinking about the major forces that I think are currently shaping the association community. “The economy” and “health care…
Read More →More on Social Media as Religion
I’ve been continuing to think about this topic, and I’ve realized there’s at least one more parallel to make: The converted – aka us (I’m including you because you’re reading this blog) – spend too…
Read More →Ada Lovelace Day: The TR35
If you hang around this blog for a little while, you’ll soon discover my geek crush on Technology Review, a fantastic publication that comes out of MIT six times a year. It covers all aspects…
Read More →Social Media as Religion
One of the most fun parts of Untech10 was the end of the day tweetaway session. Everyone was asked to capture their top takeaway from the day in 140 characters or less. Mine was: “socmed…
Read More →SEO for Not Much Dough
In the fall of 2007, I had the opportunity to talk to Layla Masri, president of Bean Creative, about search engine optimization (SEO). Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a complex discipline. Entire companies specialize in…
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