Jamie Notter Blog
A New Blog to Follow: metacool
I just stumbled on Diego Rodriguez's blog (hat tip to Bob Sutton) called metacool. Diego is a partner at IDEO and his blog is a must read for incorporating design thinking into what you do (according to Fast Company, anyway, and I'm seeing their point). And even if...
Deep Dive on Humanize
Next week is ASAE's Great Ideas Conference, and Maddie and I are doing a "deep dive" session on Humanize on Sunday afternoon (after the opening General Session). A "deep dive" is a three-hour session, and I'm glad ASAE has started adding them to their lineup at their...
The (Questionable) Value of Being the Authority
So I know this is going to come as a huge shock to everyone, but Encyclopedia Britannica is going out of print. Yes. They're going to stick with their online encyclopedia and a set of educational curricula (which actually accounts for 85% of their revenue anyway...who...
An Answer Is No Solution
Lesson of the week: we are way too focused on answers. I wrote about this years ago (I think that is my only post that includes a Rilke quote; worth reading...). It's deeply ingrained, going back to grade school for most of us. We were taught to come up with singular,...
Preparing for an Entirely New Economy
This article by Steve Denning on Forbes.com really hit me. Much of it cites Joe Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winning economist who has an article in Vanity Fair that argues our current economic downturn isn't just a cyclical dip, but the mark of a significant phase-shift...
Book Review: Social Gravity
Joe Gerstandt and Jason Lauritsen are two of my favorite people. They are consultants and speakers (like me), and they work around issues of diversity, HR, organization development (also like me). But that's not why I like them. I like them because they are incredibly...
Making Your Business More Agile
I spoke this week at Avectra's User and Developer Conference (AUDC). It was awesome conference. I can't even put my finger on it entirely, but the energy and learning and interactions all seemed...accelerated somehow. Well done, Avectra! Anyway, on Tuesday I did a...
Tell Your People
When I first started in consulting, I was on a big project with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It was an extensive assessment of "organizational issues" broadly speaking. I did a LOT of interviews and focus groups. I remember meeting with one of the senior...
The REAL point of Measurement
Mark Shaefer has a nice post about a recent "social media measurement smackdown" he participated in during a social media conference. He was pushing back against a prevailing notion that you can't measure social media. He's heard nice sound bites like "What's the ROI...