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Family trip to Austria gave 2 association management lessons. I’m power-sightseer so numerous tours/visits throughout — only one teenage son interested in not even on list — Red Bull headquarters in Salzburg (pic) that randomly passed on road to somewhere else. Extremely contemporary and bodies of water moving through it. There’s no question Red Bull is notable consumer trend, and definitely of interest to young adults.
Took “Sound of Music” tour with stops at movie landmarks movie (may be scaring you with that detail) … stopped at “I am 16 going on 17″ gazebo to find lock on it — no one allowed in. Reason given: too many people were jumping from bench to bench and dancing reenacting movie scene so thought safer to just padlock, plus vandalism concerns. Good plan - don’t let consumers in to do the one thing they want to do. Apparently 300,000 visit gazebo each year - including 1 bored teenage boy.
2 Lessons:
1. Do we completely leave out one thing younger members might be interested in? Do we try to find out what that is — in case never even thought about it? Might want Red Bull headquarters stop instead of or in addition to backstage tour of Vienna Opera House.
2. Are we locking members or others out of what they may want, that we have? Associations may be protective of research, data, information - when great public interest. Maybe it’s time to get rid of the padlock on the gazebo and let them jump and dance - with consideration or solution to safety and vandalism concerns.
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Jeff Cobb offered a great presentation at the recent eLearning Conference hosted by ASAE and The Center, and posts about trends in association elearning in his blog, Mission to Learn.
During my attendance at the conference — and I made nearly every chat and session –I was impressed by the range of what associations are doing […]
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Would be done blooming!
When we moved into our house, I inherited some rose bushes in my front garden.
If I had my way I would pull them out and put in other flowers.
I have never seen such thorny plants.
They look like tall sticks with occasional blooms.
The bushes are planted so close together, weeding their bed […]
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I came across an interesting post about organizational culture on the Kitetail blog, and it makes an important point about strategy: Your strategy and culture are joined at the hip: Lets face it, your culture has a big influence on…
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Personalization is so in style. Personalized URLS (PURLs) are like my new favorite pair of jeans…versatile, hard-working, a perfect fit and totally worth the extra cash.Why I HEART PURLsTargeting–No more crossing your fingers in hopes that respondents find the right content on your Website. When you send respondents to a PURL, you control exactly what […]
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Lee White is quickly becoming my favorite Social Media Today blogger because he summarizes so easily and clearly the big conversations going on in tech land. In this post, he refers back to a post by Dion Hinchcliffe about “Enterprise 2.0, the increasingly popular discussion of using Web 2.0 platforms in the workplace”.
“Dion Hinchcliffe has just posted State of the Enterprise 2.0. Absolutely worth reading. He reviews the lessons learned in the Enterprise 2.0 world in the past 12 months since Andrew McAfee proposed this definition. Hinchcliffe provides 7 specific lessons learned:
- Lesson #1: Enterprise 2.0 is going to happen in your organization with you or without you.
- Lesson #2: Effective Enterprise 2.0 seems to involve more than just blogs and wikis.
- Lesson #3: Enterprise 2.0 is more a state of mind than a product you can purchase.
- Lesson #4: Most businesses still need to educate their workers on the techniques and best practices of Enterprise 2.0 and social media.
- Lesson #5: The benefits of Enterprise 2.0 can be dramatic, but only builds steadily over time.
- Lesson #6: Enterprise 2.0 doesn’t seem to put older IT systems out of business.
- Lesson #7: Your organization will begin to change in new ways because of Enterprise 2.0. Be ready.”
Andrew Lang jokingly said at an ASAE presentation I was at last week that associations are always ten years behind. I think he meant basically that non-profits are ten years behind for-profits in taking advantage of - and finding in the first place - innovative ways of doing business and making money. Which I am sure is true, since the mission-driven purpose of every association is to further the profession and benefit our members, or vice versa, or both equally, first, and while everyone worries about revenues, we also like to think we have a higher purpose.
But clearly, as all of us association bloggers are saying, the new ways of doing business through Enterprise 2.0 are not ones we can ignore, because it’s all happening with or without us.
Associations are the oldest social networks, are they not?
We need to get to Associations 2.0.
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Ha! I am not normally one to toot my own horn, but I felt that I wanted to share my bemusement and excitement at being named a “2007 Young and Aspiring Association Professional” by Association Trends. (That’s my cheesy mug, top right below). I’m just happy about the “young” part - I feel, and am, older than I look…. hahahaha.
But I am 100% sure that this blog helped me get this, so wanted to say thank you to everyone for reading and commenting and sharing and participating in it with me! : )
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Family trip to Austria gave 2 association management lessons. I’m power-sightseer so numerous tours/visits throughout — only one teenage son interested in not even on list — Red Bull headquarters in Salzburg (pic) that randomly passed on road to somewhere else. Extremely contemporary and bodies of water moving through it. There’s no question Red Bull is notable consumer trend, and definitely of interest to young adults.
