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I couldn’t resist taking part in this little viral experiment/art project. Called We Are Numbers, it’s a fun idea where you can buy a unique numbered t-shirt, then send in a picture or video of yourself wearing your shirt, which will be uploaded and linked back to your favorite website.
I’m number 61. I should be up on the website at the next update (next weekend, apparently - and of course I am too impatient to wait until then to post this)!
Also a great money-making idea for the artist, of course.
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Thanks to Google themes, you can have your own Philippe Starck designed home page, and it’s free. It’s also amusing, and subversive, and lively. Banners appear at the top and bottom of your customized Google landing page, displaying four different…
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Something unique happened this week - my association’s budget committee voted to recommend decreasing dues significantly. With rising costs and decreasing membership (which rise and fall with economic conditions) what they really wanted to do, before even looking at individual line items, is cut dues.
Years ago a minister made a comment in a sermon that stuck with me, “there’s no such thing as a church with too much money, only too little vision.” It applies to associations too, as there’s an enormous number of things that can be accomplished with more money. But sometimes it’s not about more.
These are the discussion points against a dues increase:
1. A dues decrease is a bad precedent as may be expected future years too;
2. The year after a dues increase is painful as it may mean a dues increase;
3. A dues decrease could send a backfire message that you overcharged them;
4. A dues decrease could give money from prior years to those in future years (that argument can be made with any reserve spending);
5. A dues decrease removes the ability to take available funds and do something “great” with them;
OR … as happened this week … the discussion that appealed to the committee (starting the first few minutes of the meeting): If in a bad economy, and everyone is suffering, and everyone has large costs ahead … the thought was to have focus on cutting member costs and not trying to figure out how to do more with their money at the current level. (Note: depending on organizational cash reserves this is less difficult for some organizations than others.)
They started by reducing dues, and then looked at the line items and other ways that could make it happen.
Should organizations do what they can to reflect the conditions being experienced by their membership? Does that mean doing less with less?
[Note: the recommendation has not yet been considered by the Board of Directors, so only a recommendation at this point]
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Check out the P.I. Blog on display
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I don’t really “do” Myspace, but check this out.
In particular, look at the links to all the (mostly charitable) non-profits and associations towards the bottom.
I don’t pay much attention to MySpace, but maybe I should. This page has 33,323 “friends”. If my association, or non-profit, or cause, or message, interests just 1% of that number, would it be worth it to me? You betcha.
Posted by Sue Pelletier under
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This one is maddeningly addictive: When you open this web page, a ball will be dangling from your cursor. When you move the cursor, the ball moves too. Flip the ball around and try to click on it–if you get it, the ball will change color.
Happy Friday!
