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It?s nice to see an association executive who works normal hours.
Chris Hogan, IOM, Director, corporate affairs and investor relations, American Gas Association, described a typical day for Associations Now. He recorded his key daily events between 9:05 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.
Some executives brag about how early they come to the office, how many hours they tally, and how much time they spend away from their families, as if those were badges of honor.
They think that trotting into the office at 7:00 a.m. demonstrates a greater commitment than starting the day at 9:00 or 10:00 o?clock.
It?s what you do with your time, however, not how much time you work, that really matters. Whether you?re an early bird or a night owl, traveler or home office dweller, your effectiveness can best be measured by the results of your work, not by the ticks on your time sheet.
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I am appearing on a panel discussion next month where I will be sharing my views on how to build community and collaboration with global customers. The entire event looks pretty interesting so I have posted the information below. Use the promo code SPEAKER to get a $100 discount on registration.
The event is BDI’s […]
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Kevin Holland has a nice post about finding your association’s “sweet spot” that expands on the post I did here about not trying to please everyone.
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Apathy is hard work. Thanks to the slacker marketing team at ThinkGeek.com, I have a deeper understanding of both the etymology of meh and the creative process. Here’s the product description of their meh. t-shirt: “…we gave the writing job…
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There’s a great bit in the April 28 New Yorker called “Pope-a-Palooza,” about how events producer Chris Wangro dealt with a 25,000-person youth rally/music festival for Pope Benedict XVI (it’s not available online, unfortunately). Some of my favorite parts were about how he Pope-ified a Rolling Stones set, and about how he rallied some ex-Grateful […]
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Shouted the voice from above.
A few days ago, James took off work to participate in a advocacy day with one of the groups he’s involved in.
Because of some of the side things going on in our life, it was challenging to get him out the door.
At points we debated whether or not he’d be able […]
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I’ve used Zoomerang survey software a really long time. What would typically have taken me 15 minutes to input instead took 60 minutes. So warning Zoomerang users: sometime in the past 2 weeks they completely modified how to enter questions - and it is not remotely as easy as before. Now numerous set-up (formatting) options for each question field including font, font size, if images, etc. - definitely not for the beginner survey user like the old easy format where it was more plug and play.
You might want to experiment with it if you think you may have a time-sensitive survey anytime in the future.
On the plus side, another new feature is apparently the ability to do skip logic. So questions only appear if answering string of questions certain way. Wonder how long it will take me to figure out how to do that!
