Wild Apricot
APRIL 20, 2011
You’ll find a variety of tech tools in this 2-part series, from volunteer and member management, to web publishing and document sharing, to back office tasks, project management, and more.( read more ).
Reid All About it
APRIL 3, 2011
The 30 Americans exhibition enters its third week at the North Carolina Museum of Art. I visited it on opening day after attending a museum-hosted debate about: Can there be such a thing as truly black art? , a question I wrote about last week. The exhibition features 75 works of art from the Rubell Family Collection in Miami by 31 African American artists — 31, not 30, because there was a late addition.
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Association Leaders
APRIL 25, 2011
A colleague recently forwarded an article to me from the New York Times titled, “Message to Executives: Stop Multitasking” I read the article with interest as I consider myself a multitasker. Let’s make sure we’re on the same page here – to me multitasking is having many active projects or activities going on at the same time.
Association Subculture
APRIL 12, 2011
skip to main | skip to sidebar. Tuesday, April 12, 2011. Words Make Worlds - Part 4 - Strategy vs Cultivation. (Last August, I became deeply inspired by work coming from David Cooperrider and Lindsey N. Godwin at Case Western - Positive Organization Development: Innovation-inspired Change in an Economy and Ecology of Strengths. This paper is a MUST READ for anyone interested in innovation in our association community.
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Golden's Rules for Association
APRIL 29, 2011
There are two kinds of public policy research: there is inquiry and there is advocacy. In the case of advocacy, you start with an answer and go in search of the facts that will bolster and support your position. In the case of inquiry, you start with a question and let the facts lead you [.].
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Wild Apricot
APRIL 21, 2011
This is the second in our 2-part series listing a variety of tech tools non-profits can use, from volunteer and member management, to fundraising, to website creation, community building, collaboration, and more.( read more ).
Reid All About it
APRIL 7, 2011
Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation. ~Albert Einstein, 1932, from What I Believe (or My Credo ) , a speech to the German League of Human Rights. If Einstein were around today, he’d blog, tweet and probably have a Facebook page too.
Association Leaders
APRIL 19, 2011
One of the many common traits of great leaders is they have a vision for their business and it includes a succession plan for themselves. They are positioning their business to succeed without them. Though many entrepreneurs are great leaders, some are not by nature – but they can be. To be great, however, entrepreneurs need to develop that exit strategy.
Association Advocacy Chick
APRIL 26, 2011
It’s neither comfortable nor pleasant, but at some point in our lives, we’ve all been underestimated. I routinely find myself in situations where the perception about my abilities don’t match the reality. I don’t look like the typical DC lobbyist. Heck, I don’t look like the typical association professional. However, I find that there’s a certain beauty to being what Merriam Webster defines as regard for being less than capable than they really are.
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Golden's Rules for Association
APRIL 21, 2011
The web has made it a whole lot easier to fake it. And that is, if anything, even more of a threat to serious, online communities than to traditional associations. There is little you can effectively do to police the content of others on the web … leaving it up to our associations (traditional and [.].
Optimist Consulting
APRIL 19, 2011
I was impressed to find out that the local Loughton Festival was partly organised by a collatilion of churches based in the Essex town. I thought it was clever that they had ‘jumped on the bandwagon’ and used the current trend for local festivals to create opportunities which enabled them to market themselves to their audience and potential audience.
Wild Apricot
APRIL 11, 2011
In honor of National Volunteer Week, our posts this week will focus on volunteers. In this post, we share some volunteer recognition best practices and ideas.( read more ).
Reid All About it
APRIL 21, 2011
Have you noticed a lot of talk lately about the fear of missing out or the fear of missing, well, everything? Linda Holmes at NPR’s Monkeysee blog wrote about “the sad, beautiful fact that we’re all going to miss almost everything. ” We won’t be as well-read as we wish. We won’t read every blog post in our Reader. We won’t see all the major critics’ top ten films of the year.
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Idea Architects
APRIL 25, 2011
Every Monday, I offer a leadership limerick, highlighting an idea or strategy about effective leadership in limerick form. We get involved wherever we care Joining others whose passions we share When red tape gets in the way Of what we could do every day The frustration hardly seems fair Coordinating the efforts of volunteers is necessary, but too often coordination becomes control.
Association Adviser
APRIL 8, 2011
April 2011 -- Features With a perfect storm of economic, demographic and technological forces bearing down on trade associations, the pressure to retain members and maintain their status as relevant industry thought leaders has reached a new sense of urgency.
Golden's Rules for Association
APRIL 20, 2011
Have social networks made traditional associations obsolete? Or are Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn et. al. just so many distractions from real association work? In my view, the answer is neither. I recently addressed this issue as a guest blogger on the Amercian Society of Association Executive’s (ASAE’s) blog space, Acronym. “Us versus Them” on Acronym.
Association Advocacy Chick
APRIL 8, 2011
There are people who I’m leery of. Those who claim they never have to prepare for a presentation or a meeting. People who hate chocolate. People who watch reality tv and nothing else. Above all, I’m very leery of number whores. What’s a number whore? A person who connects online for the sole purpose of making themselves look more important than they really are.
Speaker: Radhika Samant and Todd Wuestenberg
Employee recognition has often been deemed a "feel-good" initiative, tied closely to rewards. While we understand its importance, we tend to associate recognition with intangible outcomes like engagement and sentiment, rather than direct impacts on retention and high performance. In today’s workplace, the true ROI of recognition lies in its ability to regenerate tangible, business-driven results.
Wild Apricot
APRIL 18, 2011
Did you know that thanking volunteers can increase their engagement? In this post we suggest that instead of holding a "thank-a-thon" once a year, you develop on-going volunteer recognition plans.( read more ).
Reid All About it
APRIL 20, 2011
What do I do when I’m not writing? Every now and then I share what I know with others. Recently I did a few presentations that I thought I’d share with you too. Of course it’s not like the real deal when you get to experience my witty banter and stories. Consider this the Cliff Notes version. In March I went to Chicago to speak to a group of association volunteer leaders about creating and nurturing an online community – Community 2.0 – PowerPoint or PDF version with slide notes.
Idea Architects
APRIL 6, 2011
People looking to innovate have long been admonished to think outside the box. It's good advice so long as one remembers that over time every fresh perspective or new way of thinking will become a new box from which you must escape. Harvard Business School professor and bestselling author Rosabeth Moss Kanter wants us to do more. She suggests we need to think outside our building full of boxes, somewhat echoing Peter Drucker's concept of the " meaningful outside. " Kanter says: "To foster innova
Association Adviser
APRIL 11, 2011
April 2011 -- Features Savvy associations are utilizing integrated communication to break down silos and reinforce their member value proposition. Your mix of member communication vehicles is likely to change, but a strong brand will carry you through the next wave of media evolution.
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Golden's Rules for Association
APRIL 18, 2011
Johannes Kepler described music as one of the four harmonies that hold the universe together. (Geometry, Astrology and Astronomy are the other three, if anyone cares.) And yes, this really does have something to do with associations. I recently moderated a panel on Hegel. Brown and Davison’s The Power of Pull. The book contrasts traditional [.].
Wild Apricot
APRIL 25, 2011
Here is our monthly round-up of free non-profit webinars for the month of May. This month we've found 21+ free webinars on topics such as: social CRM; optimizing land pages, grantseeking; online fundraising; writing volunteer job descriptions and much more.( read more ).
Reid All About it
APRIL 14, 2011
“What keeps you up at night?” Its intention is good: discover what troubles people, their pain points, and try to address the underlying needs. But its roots are negative and focused on problem-solving instead of aspiration-pursuing. Jeffrey Cufaude wrote this in one of his Leadership Limerick posts, The Mojo of Motivation. His “aspiration-pursuing” idea stuck with me.
Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson
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Idea Architects
APRIL 11, 2011
"This is all well and good, but can you give me some examples of how this would work in the real world?" This was the approximate question a participant raised in a recent workshop I led, one which caused me to react a bit defensively even though it had been posed in a fairly neutral tone. I don't find the intent behind the question inappropriate at all.
Mizz Information
APRIL 25, 2011
Mizz Information. Monday, April 25, 2011. Social Media Manager Fatigue. Everyone knows being a social media manager is the funnest job in the world, right? I mean, whats NOT to like about being paid to be on Facebook and Twitter all day? If thats true why am I spending more and more time thinking maybe getting into this line of work was a terrible idea and maybe editing articles about enteral and parenteral nutrition was actually not boring or tedious?
AMR Management Services
APRIL 15, 2011
Pages. HOME. CONTRIBUTORS. AMR MANAGEMENT SERVICES. Friday, April 15, 2011. What Im Reading. With our CEO Steve out of the office today, Ive finally had time to catch up on all the articles and links hes sent me this week. (Shhh. dont tell.) (Oh, who am I kidding - hes probably reading this as I speak.) (Hi Steve - hope youre having fun on vacation!).
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