The Blogoclump

Read & discuss at Tony Rossell's blog.

@maddiegrant You were my inspiration and I made sure that I gave you plenty of link love!!! #
@cardcat it feels like just yesterday when I was filling up for $.99, now I am starting to feel old; that sounds like my dad would say. #
@jamienotter count me in for some financial support and if you need true sag support I can probably work it out. #
Sitting around waiting for my windows pc to defrag. It was 75% fragmented. Can’t wait for my MacBook to get [read more]

Read & discuss at admin's blog.

My teenage son broke his wrist at the beginning of the summer. While waiting with him in an examining room today I noticed a computer and large monitor. The doctor came in, logged in by looking at the computer (it had face recognition), typed in my son’s name - and then proceeded to show me the difference between his first x-ray in June and today’s via the digital images on the computer. Would zoom in the images to show certain parts of the wrist. Made me wonder if they even need to print x-ray films anymore.

The other detail - I noticed my son on the bottom corner of the computer screen because there was a webcam on the top of the computer. So is his face attached to his digital file too? Here’s examples of how doctor’s offices and ER’s are also using webcams now.

Thoughts:

1. Are associations still printing out more than they need to print out?
2. If you’re in a meeting, and you need to look something up, can you do it from your conference room without needing to walk anywhere else in the office? And can everyone else see the file if you want them to?
3. Do we underestimate where there’s a computer, there can be a webcam too?
4. If using things like face recognition software matter-of-factly, does that give an image of being really high-tech in other parts of the practice too?

There’s no question that in addition to digital files, there are digital trails created about all of us via many sources. I read online Ben wondering the “ethics” of Twitter posts being data mined by associations, third-parties and even data recipients. I’d guess there’s a 110% chance they are. Anything posted to the public, or available to the masses (e.g., “private” Twitters posted temporarily on public blogs) is going to be mined. Just like the fact this post says I have a teenage son who had a broken wrist is now part of my digital trail. Count on it.

Read & discuss at CindyAE's blog.

http://ping.fm/p/IwfEg - this is a test post with an image to see if ping.fm completed their server move.

Read & discuss at Dave's blog.

“9 to 5 No Longer Only Way to Work,” claimed a recent news report. That’s really nothing new. Many organizations have long enjoyed the benefits of employee flextime.

Money-saving strategies seem to gain popularity during times of economic distress, though, and public and private organizations that haven’t considered it in the past are now recognizing the substantial savings that can be realized by reducing the need for employees to work the same shift, in the same place, every day.

Hopefully, this trend won’t disappear once business conditions improve. Flextime makes sense all the time.

Read & discuss at AEM's blog.

In our Monday session on open business models at the ASAE & Center Annual Meeting, we discussed one of the core tenets of open innovation and its value to organizations in the 21st Century. It is the notion that network-centric systems and processes are often far better structures for delivering value than […]

Read & discuss at Peter Turner's blog.

The “elevator speech” is a cliche among professionals of all stripes, including association executives — you know, how can you explain what it is you do in 30 seconds or less? The purpose is not really to spring it on unsuspecting people riding down with you to the parking garage, of course, but to help […]

Read & discuss at Kevin's blog.

The real lesson here for those of us who sell intellectual property and don’t feel particularly guilty about it: Any business model that depends somehow on stuff that someone else creates and owns is always in danger of toppling. This includes associations. Own your stuff.

Read & discuss at Kevin's blog.

The eagerly awaited winners of the 7th annual “America’s Best Restroom” contest have been announced. Below is a photo of the women’s room sink at the third-place finisher, Brio in Rockford, Ill. They’re all funky, and I’m sure very functional, too. This one does make me feel a little seasick, though (and this is supposed […]

Read & discuss at Sue Pelletier's blog.

Hat tip to my friend and fellow blogger Maddie Grant for pointing this effort out to me (here and here). I have been keeping close tabs on the emerging disaster brought about by an obscure federal panel that ordered a doubling of the per-song performance royalty that Web radio stations pay to performers and record companies since the beginning, but it’s looking especially grim now. For organizations like Pandora, the price would be crippling and as a result they may be forced out of business [read more]

Read & discuss at Dave's blog.