Posted by david@highcontext.com (C. David Gammel) under Uncategorized
Amazon continues to set the bar for ecommerce efficiency and overall experience. I have been telling clients and audiences this for some years but I had an experience this week that shows they are still on top.
I bought three books from Amazon yesterday, which get free 2 day shipping from my Amazon Prime membership. […]
Millions are already viewing web sites on mobile phones. Many did notdesign association sites (and/or blogs) anticipating that. Daily Blog Tips includes link to mobile phone emulator so you can see what your sitecurrently looks like to those using mobile phone with Internet browser access. Type in your site’s URL, click Submit, and when displays you can use screen down feature on phone. Or test your site using your own mobile phone’s access.
There’s interesting discussion on a listserve about evaluation tools used in association employment hiring. These are a few methods mentioned so far …
1. Myers-Briggs 2. DISC, and having attorney do criminal background check 3. Emergenetics, used after they are hired 4. Using temporary placement first, offer after evaluate actual performance
And this one posted by a colleague: “The best interviews I’ve conducted have been over golf or fishing. With those you get a pretty good idea how someone will react in a frustrating situation.” Honestly, if anyone ever made me sit in a fishing boat all day “as a test”, either I’ll have to have an iPod full of NPR stories (free podcasts), a book, or I’m jumping off the boat and swimming to shore. While “teach a person to fish” parable has great application with employees, likely shouldn’t involve actual fish.
Posted by jeffpi1@gmail.com (Jeff De Cagna of Principled Innovation LLC, the association community's leading voice for innovation!) under Uncategorized
An excellent conversation on making innovation happen
Posted by bkmcae@gmail.com (Ben Martin) under Uncategorized
Watch this video. A ton of great (and surprising) insights from college students about facebook, texting (4000 per month???), iPods, online gaming, RSS, wikis and so on. These are our associations’ future members. Or aren’t they?
