Blog
Visual Thinking
Still pondering the whole idea of visual thinking from Dan Roam’s keynote at the recent Great Ideas Conference. I am not a visual thinker. There are white boards all over the offices at Beaconfire, and…
Read More →Let The Members Decide!
NOT ANOTHER MEMBER SURVEY! EEEEKKK!!! Because you know what always happens – you only find out what you already knew because that was all you thought to ask about. Also, you’re terrified of including any…
Read More →Forget “Don’t Be Evil.” What about “Don’t Be Creepy”?
I got back from Tech to find an email from one of my coworkers entitled: Last night Facebook blew my mind. It was about his first encounter with FB Social Ads. For those who haven’t…
Read More →Meeting Formats: Everything Old Is New Again?
Last week, I was invited to participate in an upcoming session at ASAE on “creating provocative and edgy learning topics and formats” for the 2009 AM. Aside from some momentary uncertainty about whether I’m really…
Read More →A Hot Site at a Cool Price
In the fall of 2007, I had the opportunity to interview Mukul Chopra, National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI), and Mark Rogers, American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (AAHPERD)…
Read More →Increasing User Response Rates = Increasing User Fatigue?
A recent post on Donor Power Blog about segmenting your constituents by propensity to act rather than more traditional demographics (age, location, income, etc.), led to a rather interesting exchange on the NTEN Discuss listserv….
Read More →Turns out, Big Brother tactics are NOT such a good idea
Information about people’s attitudes about online privacy, thanks to the Consumers Union According to the [Consumer’s Union] poll, 82 percent of consumers are concerned about their credit card numbers being stolen online, while 72 percent…
Read More →Preparing for the Future: Succession Planning
In the spring of 2007, a team of consultants from RSM McGladrey that included me assisted the Copper Development Association with a succession planning and staff development engagement. I had the opportunity to interview CDA…
Read More →It’s Not You, It’s Me – Learning to Love Your AMS
Remember how excited you were by the unlimited possibilities of your shiny new Association Management System? What would your staff say now? “We hate our AMS!” “It doesn’t do anything we want!” “We need a…
Read More →Setting Technology Policies That Make Sense in a Web 2.0 World
On Tuesday, September 9, I had the opportunity to speak to the Potomac Employers Roundtable. A group of about 30 people, largely senior HR and Administration professionals from a wide range of organizations (PR consultancies,…
Read More →