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I’ve noticed recently that many certification articles/books written for certification NONexperts assume a fairly sophisticated understanding of certification/testing concepts which (duh) if the individuals already had, they wouldn’t be reading the piece. Here’s my current favorite written to explain the test development and scoring process for individuals certified in a healthcare profession (org name witheld to protect the “innocent”): “The scaled scores are not a “number correct” or “percent correct” scores. Raw Scores are arithmetically…
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E-mail 1: I’d like to schedule a teleconference Monday at 2. Please indicate your availability. My response sent… E-mail 2: Doesn’t seem to work. How about Tuesday at 3? My response sent…. E-mail 3: Still not good for everyone. What about Thursday at 4? My response sent… E-mail 4: Hmmmm, how about… I’ve seen this go on for days. Who has time for this? I have just one word of advice: www.meetingwizard.com. Save yourself and…
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I’d like to say I’ve never seen anything like it, but…check it out, you will laugh.
via Johnnie Moore’s weblog.
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Social responsibility advocates talk a lot about the need to ?give something back.?
Well, I don?t recall taking anything in the first place, so I?m not sure what I?m supposed to be giving back.
Wealthy corporations and individuals, you can argue, have made tremendous amounts of money from the labor and purchases of the less fortunate. Perhaps it?s appropriate for them to ?give something back? since they have amassed an overwhelming portion of society?s valuable resources.
Not-for-profit organizations and many associations, on the other hand, represent people who have not benefited from the largesse of society. We are the ones who help those in need and we shouldn?t be categorized with society?s successful capitalists.
Everybody should contribute to making our world a better place to live because we will all benefit. Make it a positive act, not a negative one, and people will be more likely to help.
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From Twitter via @fredsimmons. Thanks, hon.
Social media is still on the rise globally - here’s some data from TrendSpotting.
“Universal McCann has recently published its comparative study following Social Media trends by three waves: September 2006 (Wave 1), June 2007 (Wave 2) March 2008 (Wave 3).”
There’s some good commentary on this data at the original post. I personally am not interested in specific data (numbers and percentages - yawn) but trends, absolutely. And what this graph means to me is this:
- Blogs and online videos are now absolutely mainstream. There is no reason to not CONSIDER taking advantage of what value might be created by incorporating them in your association’s communications vehicles.
- Social networks are now almost mainstream. Even if you don’t want to create a profile for your association, do it now as a placeholder before someone else takes your name.
- Podcasts are coming up in the world. What an easy thing to start doing. Offer them to your members only or use them to promote your content to the public, but use them. People are downloading them!
- RSS is still having an identity crisis. We early adopters need to find a way to teach our associations how to use it effectively internally and to push feeds out to our audiences. Once it catches on to the mainstream it will change everything for late-adopters - but people still don’t get it.
That’s my two-minute interpretation. Any thoughts?
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As you can see at this link, the ASAE Data Standards Committee has released a preliminary set of standards for constituent XML. According to the site,
"For those who understand XML standards, the various documents will be self-explanatory. For those not used to dealing with these types of documents, this document should provide at least […]
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I haven’t been able to attend ASAE’s Summit on Global Responsibility, which started yesterday, but I hope to sit in on some of it virtually today (in addition to the on-site gathering at the new Gaylord, there also are a number of satellite sites (none near me, alas) and you also can hook into the […]
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Already back to work. Feels like I just left the office. On a day as perfect as today it’s a little easier to get motivated. #
@jamienotter sounds like a serious plan. Just need to clear the decks and make the time to do it. Could be just what I need. #
The ride into work is less than smooth. Seems like far too many cars and too little road. Philly area needs better roads and more mass trans #
Heard on NPR: Howard Davidowitz said we have [read more]
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More evidence on the power of words.