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Feature Post #1

Friday Top 5

Happy 1 Year Blogversary, T4P! In honor of that, my top 5 favorite posts:

1. Blog Potomac Recap. Look who accidentally created a shit-storm! HEE!
2. My Ada Lovelace Day post on Mary Dixon Kies and my Blog Action Day post on Poverty in DC. Changeblogging rules!
3. The memes I’ve participated in - the Leadership meme, Why I Blog, Great Ideas Volunteer Unsession, WOM meme, Changeblogging meme. I love memes because they make me think - and write - about stuff at the same time as a lot of other smart people are doing the same.
4. My three posts about unplugging. I think this is something to which we do not give enough attention.
5. Some fun stuff I’ve written about management issues.

Thanks for reading, y’all!
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Elizabeth Engel | July 3rd, 2009 | Continued

Feature Post #2

What Are You Reading This Summer?

What are you reading this summer? In my beach bag for light weight summer-reading are three paperbacks: * the dog-narrated, zen of auto racing book, The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein; * the Pulitzer winning Olive…

Ann Oliveri | July 3rd, 2009 | Continued

Feature Post #3

What?! My blog is two years old?!

How did that happen? The two year anniversary of this blog quietly slipped by last Friday. Last year I celebrated my blog’s birthday with candles and ice cream. Mmmm…vanilla caramel fudge.

This year, I’m celebrating by finalizing all the little details for Buzz2009. (I actually feel a little guilty about cheating on the Association Marketing Springboard by posting so much on the Buzz2009 site.)

I’d also like to take a minute to thank all of you for reading, sharing, commenting, tweeting, emailing, and otherwise supporting all the crazy ideas I go on and on about. It means a lot to me. I get a little choked up just thinking about it.

Lindy Dreyer | July 3rd, 2009 | Continued

Feature Post #4

Best of AJam - Association Links for June 2009

In the spirit of ” 30 Great Links for Associations ,” here are some of the most popular blog posts, articles, presentations, and other web resources submitted to AssociationJam.org in June 2009 — one hot link from each topic category: Membership , Events , Board , Volunteers , Fundraising , Social Media , Technology , Other and, of course, Fun! Membership New Members and Twitter Rookies — Why Do They Leave Us? : Reid All About It New users of Twitter leave for some of the same reasons that new members…(read more)

Rebecca Leaman | July 2nd, 2009 | Continued

Feature Post #5

The Wisdom of Engineers, Part 2

Remember how I told you that I’m surrounded by engineers in my family? Well, engineers, aside from knowing lots of good jokes about themselves, frequently come up with a lot of wisdom.

One of my favorite engineering sayings is:

“Cheap - Good - Fast. Pick two.”

Needless to say, I think this concept has applications far outside the world of engineering.

(Many of you will attribute this to the project management concept of the Iron Triangle. But I heard it from engineers first, so I credit them.)

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Elizabeth Engel | July 2nd, 2009 | Continued

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