Jeff De Cagna who frequently speaks and writes for ASAE, and blogs, and does other consulting things is part of an effort to try to analyze trends in association use of social media. Conducting an association social media survey. Obviously only one person per association should respond.
Even if your association does a limited amount of social media, your response can help. Plus you can get a copy of the results when compiled. And maybe even win a gift certificate to Amazon.
While it warns it’s “long”, it took me under 5 minutes to answer (maybe that’s long for some?)Here’s the link to Jeff’s site - then you need to click “Take the Survey” to access. Thanks!
While waiting at my son’s school this morning, I listened to a line of high school kids one after another try to not get a tardy slip, with a series of explanations, even though late for school. They all got tardy slips. As I was leaving one of my son’s friends came strolling in with a coffee coolatta (10 minutes after the bell rang). I’m guessing he just took his tardy slip without any comment. Other than the comment the coolatta sent.
The odd thing about watching this is that it freed me from how terrible I’d been feeling about enforcing a deadline. Gave many weeks to be on time. Responses from the high school attendance monitor sounded familiar: * You know the deadline; * Yes, there are penalties for being late; * Instructions not followed; * Helps to start early if don’t want to risk being late; * The school didn’t cause the problem that resulted in delay; * No, can’t “bend/ignore the rules” for one person; * Allowing others to be late isn’t fair to the people who are early or on time; * Yes, things can go wrong, but you’re still late.
And I wondered if they’re learning a lesson that may help them succeed later; or if it’s miss the high school deadline today, and miss the association and/or work deadline tomorrow.
Associations hear the same reasons for many things with a time deadline - dues bills, course credits, scholarship deadlines, competitive grant application deadlines, early bird pricing, legal/filing deadlines, etc. And associations have to comply with numerous time deadlines too - IRS filings, PAC filings, bill payments, etc.
The whole concept of ignoring the rules ignores there really are rules. Life is full of rules. Some with more serious penalties than others, some result in missed opportunity. Want to ignore the rules or test the deadline? Go ahead. But every day the attendance monitor (or the association, or some government entity) is handing out their tardy slips.
Men should not kiss women when presenting them with awards or introducing them as speakers.
Kissing suggests a sexual relationship or attraction, not a professional one.
Men should relate to women in the same way they relate to men. Shake hands when greeting or congratulating them. Introduce them as accomplished, successful, or renown, not as beautiful or attractive. Present them with plaques, gavels, statuettes, etc., not with soap dishes or beauty creams.
Men should not wait to be told their actions are inappropriate. Many women are accustomed to being treated less professionally and merely brush it off, to avoid confrontation. Men should not treat that as affirmation of their behavior.
I was sitting in a consulting workshop a few weeks ago being led by Alan Weiss. Alan was making the point that the most valuable consulting is the kind that focuses on transformational behavior, rather than transactional behavior. That is, there is more value in helping an organization move to a higher level of performance […]
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As I passed through the kitchen to get to the bathroom to get dressed to go out, I saw the bag of new snacks left open on the counter…
It was James’ latest adventure eating from Trader Joe’s.
Jalapeno cheese crunch things.
Yuck.
I noticed at the movies tonight that one preview for an upcoming movie ended with a Facebook.com/[moviename] URL instead of the typical www.[moviename].com. I’m going to use that more too. Might be easier to bypass the “what’s Facebook” thing if just keep sending people to Facebook via a link for info.
One of my members, Jeremy Hart, tagged me on a meme. I guess I should get paid for this blog post, since I’m responding to a member request. Let me clock in…
1. Who is your favorite musical artist (post a YouTube video)? Only one? I guess that honor must go to Matt Slocum, songwriter/guitarist for off-again on-again Sixpence None the Richer. They are recording a new album. Here’s a sneak peek:
2. Who is your favorite artist? Easier question: Rene Magritte. I have a postcard sized print of this Magritte painting on my desk, a reminder that a) we can create more of our reality than we think and b) things aren’t always as they appear at first glance.
3. Who is your favorite blogger? I really don’t have one, although J-Nott has won my prestigious best association blogger award two years running.
4. If you could meet anyone (alive or dead), who would it be and what is the most interesting thing about them? Mother Teresa. She said, “We cannot all do great things, but we can all do small things with great love.” She lived that.
5. What did you want to be when you grew up? I’m still not grown up, but I thought I’d be a teacher when I was much younger.
6. What is the most interesting piece of trivia you know? The value of the copper in a US penny is greater than $.01.
7. If you could live in any point in history what would it be and why? There is no better time to be alive than right now. There are so many cool things happening, and the age at which you can really make a difference in this world is going down constantly.
8. What is the most interesting job you have ever held? Director of Communications & New Media at VAR. It also happens to be the most challenging.
I’ll be merciful on my blogging buddies. This arm of the meme dies here.
