The Blogoclump

Read & discuss at Hilary's blog.

Just met a guy on my way home who picks up old bikes, fixes them up & lends them to the intl students working at the beach for the summer. #
Likely won’t be able to stay in the Association space unless I find a position in Eastern PA or N. NJ or find the a really flexible opp. #
I also made a pretty important step this week and officially started my job search. Looking for a KM, Learning, Online Community or SM job. #
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Read & discuss at admin's blog.

Do you have it?

Read & discuss at jeffpi1@gmail.com (Jeff De Cagna of Principled Innovation LLC, the association community's leading voice for innovation!)'s blog.

My entire day was thrown off because the speaker for an education course sent a TEXT message that his flight was canceled (at 3 AM) instead of calling. For a 9 AM class. And the person the TEXT was sent to doesn’t sleep with his “device”. So, morning mayhem.

And what’s on the registration form of everyone who signed up? Their office phone number. Which works if people are in the office; and they often aren’t if they’ve signed up for a 9 AM class.

Lessons learned:
1. Ensure the instructor knows the right way to provide notification in the event of a problem. It may not occur to someone who always uses text messaging that there’s a time to use the phone number to wake someone up instead of using it to send a text ( … like 6 hours before class when you’re a thousand miles away and it’s the middle of the night, for example);

2. Ensure students give cell phone info and/or home phone info on registration forms - in event need to contact students before a class. (Not all students check email throughout the early morning so that has limited help).

My parenting as AE advice (noted yesterday) is still ahead. But today I was all about tracking and moving. And now I’m going to bed. Without my Blackberry. If you text me something important at 3 AM, I just might not respect you in the morning.

Read & discuss at CindyAE's blog.

  And a lot better than yesterday!
(I’m attending an annual convention as a first timer and struggled the day before.)
I got over my pitty party thanks to my recharged battery and began my search for new buddies in the bus transporting us to the convention center.

By person number five - yes, I just kept turning around in […]

Read & discuss at Cynthia D'Amour's blog.

We’re playing a zero sum game.

Read & discuss at jeffpi1@gmail.com (Jeff De Cagna of Principled Innovation LLC, the association community's leading voice for innovation!)'s blog.

Other than Berkeley Breathed’s spectacular Opus last Sunday, which I can’t find a link to, here’s a link to the best airline-related travel comic I’ve seen lately.

Read & discuss at Sue Pelletier's blog.

The people who don’t seem to know how to communicate with millennials aren’t necessarily dumb, uncaring, or too old to understand. They just haven’t thought about it.

They’re like the able-bodied people who know and care about disability access but don’t think about it.

Sometimes, young people don’t think, either. The NU Dance Marathon, at Northwestern University, is the largest college student-organized event in the nation.

Some years ago, its 5k run, a small add-on to the event, was widely promoted outside the school. Organizers, though, didn’t think adults would have different expectations than college students, so they planned as if it were a student event. Adult runners were unhappy.

Lesson? Know your audiences and prospective audiences and market and plan accordingly. Differences may be due to age, culture, language, profession, experience, or any of countless other variables.

Generations are not always that different. They just may not think about people who are not like them.

Read & discuss at AEM's blog.

This week I needed to use Internet Explorer in order to access some systems for one of my clients. This is not as much of a challenge as it used to be for someone based on a Mac now that Apple uses Intel chips in their hardware.
I am using Windows XP on VMWare Fusion, […]

Read & discuss at david@highcontext.com (C. David Gammel)'s blog.

I keep forgetting to remind all you association execs to respond to the first ever Association Social Technology Survey! The survey will close on Monday, June 30 at 11:59 pm PDT so don’t delay. A free executive summary of the results will be available in mid-August, and the full report will be ready for purchase this fall. The survey is being conducted by Principled Innovation LLC and sponsored by Omnipress. This is the first time…

Read & discuss at Mickie Rops's blog.