Wikipedia has caught my attention lately. First, in the article I blogged about yesterday in the October HBR, Scott Cook from Intuit is talking about using volunteers to help for-profit companies build their businesses. He argues that there is resistance to this because of some myths people have about giving up control…
December 11th, 2008 | Jamie Notter | Comments | ContinuedSocial Media and Web 2.0
Businesses Competing for Volunteers
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
Radical Corporate Transparency
Given the push back I get when I suggest thinking about why we keep salary figures secret, I wonder what the reaction will be to the piece in the October Harvard Business Review where Dave Balter, CEO of BzzAgent describes his approach to what he calls “radical corporate transparency.” (By the way,…
December 9th, 2008 | Jamie Notter | Comments | Continued
A School of SocialFish
I am a huge fans of both Lindy Dryer and Maddie Grant. They are both relative newcomers to the Association Blogging world, but they are already running circles around veterans like me these days. One thing I like about both of them is that they are doers. There’s a LOT of talk around…
October 24th, 2008 | Jamie Notter | Comments | Continued
Blogging, Speaking, and Leadership
Maddie Grant put up a stupendous post on the first day of the ASAE Annual Meeting in San Diego. She did a session in San Diego, and it was her first time speaking, and in preparation she discovered an equally super post from Chris Brogan that gave some guidelines for speakers (or…
August 28th, 2008 | Jamie Notter | Comments | Continued
The “It’s Just A Tool” Excuse
Okay, finally I am going to process (via blog) some of what happened at the ASAE & The Center Annual Meeting. The first issue came out of the much ballyhooed “Secret Session” that was organized and promoted using word of mouth and social media tools. I actually have more to say…
August 27th, 2008 | Jamie Notter | Comments | Continued
YAP Explores Real World Example of the Myth of Control
If you haven’t seen it, there’s a cool discussion happening on the YAPstar site about what to do when you discover someone has created a group on Facebook and is using your association’s logo (without your permission). This is going to start happening more and more. It’s the kind of thing that…
August 12th, 2008 | Jamie Notter | Comments | Continued
Social Media Friday
I’ve been at my new job for exactly two months now, so I think it is time to officially announce my secret plan to convert my fellow co-workers into social media evangelists. Okay, maybe not evangelists, but I would at least like to see them taking advantage of the learning,…
August 1st, 2008 | Jamie Notter | 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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