Maddie posted last week about the survey currently being administered by the nonprofit, Civlination, for online community managers. Civilination is about stopping online hostility and bullying so everyone's voice can be heard. They want to get as many community managers as possible to take the survey, so please help me spread the word. This issue [...]
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I honestly can't remember the last time I saw real anger expressed in a blog dialogue in the association community, but that's what we have right now in the midst of a multi-blog exchange that all started with Joe Flowers' post about why he is not going to renew his ASAE membership in 2011. Start [...]
Continue ReadingLindy Dreyer and Maddie Grant published their first book this week. W00t! It's called Open Community: A Little Book of Big Ideas for Associations Navigating the Social Web. They gave me an advance copy and even put a quote from me in the "praise for Open Community" page. I think the book is a great [...]
Continue ReadingIn case any of you didn't realize it, I do a regular monthly blog post on the world famous Socialfishing blog. The title of my column is "the social organization," and I write about the intersection of social media with leadership, management, and organizational dynamics. I post the last Wednesday of the month, so that [...]
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Posted October 20, 2010
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This past weekend I had the opportunity to actually ATTEND a conference, rather than go as a speaker or to network as part of a business development strategy. I went to Blog World Expo in Las Vegas simply to learn. I am a blogger, after all. I got to wander the expo floor without trying [...]
Continue ReadingThanks to the great people at the TSAE conference who came to my "Truth and Authenticity in the Digital Age" session. As promised, here are some resources: Link to the presentation Handout that includes my "Building a Culture of Truth" article Link to that Facebook search site that instantly showed all my status updates. Link [...]
Continue ReadingHow the iPad Changed My Life
Posted August 31, 2010
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Okay, the title is overly dramatic, but I am impressed with how the way I so comfortably use this machine has actually changed my habits a bit. I bought the iPad mostly for reading. I didn't buy a keyboard for it, nor am I planning to use it for presentations. I have a laptop for [...]
Continue ReadingI am speaking to an association in Iowa next week on leadership, and a couple of the themes I'll be talking about are (a) how fast things change these days, and, somewhat related, (b) how social media is changing the game in general. And it's not about the number of people on Facebook or how [...]
Continue ReadingPolicies are good. Relationships are better.
Posted July 22, 2010
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The second installment of Buzz 2010 was great on Tuesday. The topic was risk management and social media, and it's one I really need help on, because I've realized lately that I am probably a little TOO comfortable with risk. Maybe it will come back to haunt me when I get sued, but I just [...]
Continue ReadingWhat’s Next for Social Media?
Posted July 6, 2010
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Monday this week was a holiday, so I was able to do something I rarely let myself do: I rested. I didn't go to the office. I didn't write some blog posts. I didn't catch up on email. I didn't put mulch down, organize the basement, pay bills, or clean the house either. I simply [...]
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Jamie is a Vice President at MSP where he leads the consulting division. 
