Tweet For the next few days, I’m participating in TweetsGiving 2009, a global celebration that seeks to change the world through the power of gratitude. I will return to my normal topics about associations, education, meetings and events, and social media on in a few days. As I sit on my front porch in the…
Yearly Archives: 2009
Tips For Using Twitter During Presentations
Tweet I’m sure you’ve read the horror stories that some speakers have faced as an audience turns on them in Twitter. I’ve even participated in some of those backchannels where the audience challenged a speaker for more current information, less boring PPTs or corrections of misstated facts. (I’ve also participated in backchannels, where the conversation and tweets were…
Predictions From Nonprofit Prophets
Tweet Have you read Carol-Anne Moutinho’s Playing the Not-for-Profit Prophet? Canadian association professionals have been weighing in on what they think nonprofit associations will look like in five to six years from now. Bud Crouch, a speaker for an upcoming CSAE 2009 Governance Summit, shared his thoughts. Carol-Anne, the great association oracle that she is, follows…
Meetings And Events As Systems Thinking: The Community Ecosystem
Tweet Recently I wrote Meetings And Events As Systems Thinking: The Contact Sport. I talked about viewing each meeting or event within the larger context of a system using the analogy of a sports season. Here’s another way to think about your annual conference, event or meeting: part of a community ecosystem. An ecosystem (or ecological…
Meetings And Events As Systems Thinking: The Contact Sport
Tweet One of my favorite bloggers, Valeria Maltoni, has an interesting article on Marketing As Systems Thinking. Valeria says social media and relationships are contact sports. Wow, that’s a powerful analogy. If social media and relationships are contact sports, then conferences, meetings and events are the athletic fields, gymnasiums and playgrounds for player-to-player and player-to-object…
