Jamie Notter Blog
Peggy McIntosh Article About Diversity
The opening session of the ASAE Annual Meeting this year focused on diversity. They had a panel conversation with experts in the diversity field, and it was really exciting to see this conversation on that stage at this time. Although the conversation didn't go quite...
Moblogging from ASAE in San diego
I am I'm San diego for the annual meeting of ASAE and the Center for association leadership, and I am going to experiment with some mobile blogging on the iPhone. One challenge will be adding links in this format because I wanted to thank Christopher Carfi for linking...
Think Strategic Planning is Bad? Try Best Practices!
Thanks Jeff for chiming in on my rant against strategic planning. It reminded me, however, that I had wanted to point to YOUR previous post about best practices so I could take my turn chiming in. Jeff quotes Dave Pollard who wrote of legacy technologies and practices...
YAP Explores Real World Example of the Myth of Control
If you haven't seen it, there's a cool discussion happening on the YAPstar site about what to do when you discover someone has created a group on Facebook and is using your association's logo (without your permission). This is going to start happening more and more....
A Bit of A Rant About Strategic Planning
I heard Peter Senge speak a while back and he talked about being in "a bubble." His conclusion was that bubbles (like the dot com bubble) are not destined to grow and grow and then burst. They can avoid this fate, however, ONLY if the people inside the...
ASAE & The Center Annual Meeting San Diego
Just about a week til I head to San Diego for ASAE & The Center's Annual Meeting. This will be only my fifth meeting (hard to believe!), and I'm already at the point where I won't come CLOSE to doing everything that I want to do and see everyone I want to see....
ASAE & The Center Annual Meeting San Diego
Just about a week til I head to San Diego for ASAE & The Center's Annual Meeting. This will be only my fifth meeting (hard to believe!), and I'm already at the point where I won't come CLOSE to doing everything that I want to do and see everyone I want to see....
Strategic Planning is Dead (Yawn….)
Maddie was the first to fire a shot in response to the double strategic planning articles that ASAE and the Center just published. The Journal of Association Leadership published "The Development of Consensus Guidelines for Strategic Planning in...
Social Media Friday
I've been at my new job for exactly two months now, so I think it is time to officially announce my secret plan to convert my fellow co-workers into social media evangelists. Okay, maybe not evangelists, but I would at least like to see them taking advantage of the...