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Declare a “tradition holiday”–If governments can declare “tax holidays” to stimulate consumer spending, why can’t association boards and CEOs declare “tradition holidays” to stimulate generative thinking about how our organizations can create new value in the 21st century? The middle of an economic downturn, when the…
January 6th, 2009 | Jeff De Cagna | Comments | Continued
The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Social Communications (how’s that for a committee?) has approved an iPhone app called iBreviary. The application, which is a virtual version of the Catholic liturgical book, was created by an Italian priest, Reverend Paolo Padrini, and is available in Italian, English, Latin, Spanish and French, with…
January 4th, 2009 | Jeff De Cagna | Comments | Continued
Happy New Year, and welcome to 2009! To set the right tone for the year from the very beginning, I want to share my three watchwords for 2009 with you straightaway, and without any rhetorical flourish (there’s plenty of that below):
Serious. Simple. Social.
Without question, the “2009 is going to be…
January 1st, 2009 | Jeff De Cagna | Comments | Continued
From mid-November through mid-December, I conducted a survey of e-learning usage and practices in the association sector. More than 500 organizations participated, and based on preliminary review, the data is quite interesting and valuable. I’ll be continuing my efforts in January by conducting in-person and phone interviews with approximately 20…
December 31st, 2008 | Jeff Cobb | Comments | Continued
Check out the comments on my post about Five Fears Associations Have about Social Media.
Thank to all for commenting, and please, keep ‘em coming and register for the webinar (go on, it’s free)! Remember, I’ll pick my top five to discuss. Although at this rate, maybe we should have an unconference…
December 30th, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
No matter what form your personal celebrations may take, I hope P.I. Blog readers everywhere are enjoying a safe, peaceful and joyous holiday season!
As 2008 draws to a close, and we prepare for the arrival of the year 2009 later this week, I want to invite everyone to submit and…
December 28th, 2008 | Jeff De Cagna | Comments | Continued
Today, I had a great interview with Dr. Matthew Fraser, senior research fellow at the INSEAD business school in France, and co-author (with Professor Soumitra Dutta) of the equally great new book, Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom: How Online Social Networking Will Transform Your Life, Work and World.
Throwing sheep, you ask? …
December 18th, 2008 | Jeff De Cagna | Comments | Continued
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I’m pulling together my best of 2008 blog awards, but as a distraction, I decided to head back to this post from January 1, 2008 to see how my ten association predictions for 2008 fared.
Prediction #1: There will be…
December 15th, 2008 | bkmcae@gmail.com (Ben Martin) | Comments | Continued
The October HBR is chock full of “myth of control” articles. I mentioned a small one yesterday, but the lead article by Scott Cook of Intuit (maker of Quicken) is all about “harnessing the masses” by building “user contribution systems.” In short, you get users (broadly defined) who will do tons of…
December 10th, 2008 | Jamie Notter | Comments | Continued
The next P.I. Briefing is coming up on January 7, 2009, and I want to make a special offer to associations with local affiliates that might find value in a more intensive and focused strategic conversation around the top 2009 trends.
For any association that registers ten or more of its…
December 7th, 2008 | Jeff De Cagna | Comments | Continued
Digital Curation was the topic of a Webinar I delivered earlier this year with innovation expert Jeff De Cagna. We’ll be taking it for another, updated spin next week (Tuesday December 9, 2-3 PM Eastern) as part of the Association Societies Alliance Webinar series. Find out more and register at:
December 3rd, 2008 | Jeff Cobb | Comments | Continued
On Wednesday, January 7, 2009, from 2 pm-3:30 pm EST, I’ll be leading a brand new FREE P.I. Briefing on “Top 2009 Trends for Association Leaders.” I hope you’ll be able to join me. You can register for this briefing right now at http://2009trends.eventbrite.com. The complete session information is below.
“The only…
November 30th, 2008 | Jeff De Cagna | Comments | Continued
The association community has always been enamored with the Jim Collins idea of creating “stop doing lists,” so here is my brief stop doing list for association community leaders feeling frazzled by a steady diet of negative information about the state of the global economy.
1. STOP reacting to each daily dose…
November 25th, 2008 | Jeff De Cagna | Comments | Continued
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Here in Richmond, one of the major topics of conversation is the financial woes of Richmond-based consumer electronics chain Circuit City. You probably know all about the 150 stores being closed nationwide, but you might not know that they’ve laid off 500-800 workers at…
November 24th, 2008 | bkmcae@gmail.com (Ben Martin) | Comments | Continued
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I’ve attended a number of conferences recently in which I’ve (over)heard several conversations amongst consultant-types saying “They had so-and-so speaking about such-and-such, and nobody I talked to had even heard of them.” The air of the gripe seems to be, “If they had hired me,…
November 21st, 2008 | bkmcae@gmail.com (Ben Martin) | Comments | Continued
Done (just love having a to-do checked off so quickly). Thanks. Now to practice writing that on checks ;) 
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