Tweet Today’s nonprofits are facing a myriad of new issues and challenges. Associations must begin to consider and embrace new models of structure and organization or risk becoming obsolete and irrelevant. Recently, Scott Oser started a discussion What If Associations Abandoned Hierarchies on ASAE’s Acronym Blog. Jamie Notter responded with The Trouble With Hierarchies….
Yearly Archives: 2009
Four Principles For Planning Brain-Friendly Annual Meetings
Tweet My post for ASAE’s Acronym’s “Big Ideas” month for association bloggers. What if associations provided brain-friendly annual conferences? Planning Brain-Friendly Conferences If you wanted to create a conference environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like today’s conferences, meetings and workshops. If you…
Porches, Greek Porticos, Refrigerator Rights & Social Media
Tweet Debra Askanase has an interesting post, Front Yard and Back Yard Conversations, about the progression of relationships in social media. Go read it. I’ll be here waiting for you when you return. She suggests that many social media platforms are like front yards and that relationships really develop in people’s back yards where the…
6 Things To Help Your Conference Speakers Succeed
Tweet Recently, several bloggers have written about conference speakers including their own personal experiences as a presenter. Some have discussed how a conference organizer has surprised them with magnification of the Twitter feed on the stage while they presented. They didn’t know this was going to happen before they presented. Others like Patrick O’Keefe have…
Social Media Counter – Living Statistics
Tweet Gary Hayes’ Social Media Counter shared through Creative Commons license.
