About the furthest I’ve gone is the emoticon smiley face, but some people go wild turning dashes, dots, and x’s into art. Check out the entries Wired got for its ASCII Gallery, from a rendering of Michelango’s Creation of Man to a pretty realistic-looking rendering of Stephen Colbert. There’s even a poster there…hmm, for the […]
Another report was published today noting the decline in consumer confidence in the economy. Gallup Poll reported similar data and others have ferreted out the feelings of individuals and corporations.
The trouble with a lot of these surveys is they measure opinions. While we all want to anticipate future happenings, a lot of opinions tallied in surveys yield self-fulfilling prophecies.
Consumers and businesses worry about each other’s health. So, consumers reduce spending and businesses lay off employees. Associations lose business and professional members (or worry about losing them), so they trim spending and lay off employees.
Politicians raise their rhetoric about economic conditions and may, or may not take action (which may, or may not, really impact the problem), fueling everybody’s fears.
A business may achieve record sales and record profits but falls short of analysts’ expectations. The stock drops, businesses lay off workers, and consumers reduce spending.
Each entity reacts to the others’ actions and anxieties.
Maybe we shouldn’t have so many surveys.
The final entry in our 4 part series about our article E-ssociating: The 21st Century Art of Electronic Association Marketing.
American Airlines is testing its WiFi system on a JFK-LA flight today. For an analysis of AA’s Internet plans, check out this post.
And I am a dummy. Before I went to sleep last night, I uploaded Friday’s presentation for NACS08 to SlideShare. First thing I did when I woke up this morning was go look at it. Oy. The font was all…
Whoa. So a couple months ago, I did a video explaining Facebook for a session that Principled Innovation TV executive producer, Jeff De Cagna, presented at the ASAE Marketing & Membership Conference.
The next thing I know, another PITV executive producer, Maddie Grant, is asking me to become a contributor for…you guessed it…PITV! If you haven’t checked it out, PITV is a fabulous video blog featuring some pretty interesting people with some pretty big ideas about association work. Besides Jeff and Maddie, Ben Martin is an executive producer and Matt Baehr is a distinguished contributor.
Now, I’m not really in to the whole 15-minutes of fame thing. But I believe that being able to produce a succinct, informative video–in a limited time with no budget–is a skill worth developing.
Nevermind the fact that I’m terrified of speaking in public.
Nevermind the fact that I’m terrified of cameras.
Nevermind the fact that every other day is a bad hair day.
Here’s my first post. By the way, if you’re not shy about sharing your ideas on video, PITV is always looking for contributions and comments. Drop them a line at feedback@principledinnovation.tv.
I’m in the process of putting together this month’s Free Learning Monitor, and one of the resources I plan to mention in it is WizIQ, a free virtual classroom/Web conferencing site that also offers “live web seminars by expert teachers on a variety of educational topics” and a large repository of recorded sessions on just […]
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