Monthly Archives: December 2009

What Nonprofits Can Learn From The Digital Age: Hierarchies, Heterarchies & Networks

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 ...

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Four Principles For Planning Brain-Friendly Annual Meetings

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 ...

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Porches, Greek Porticos, Refrigerator Rights & Social Media

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 ...

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6 Things To Help Your Conference Speakers Succeed

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 ...

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Social Media Counter – Living Statistics

Gary Hayes' Social Media Counter shared through Creative Commons license.  

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