Comment of the Week

David Gammel posted a wise (and laugh-out-loud) comment on one of BMart’s recent posts. Ben wrote up a great primer for new bloggers to the ‘clump on how to be, well, actually PART of the ‘clump. Bottom line: read what others write, talk about it,...

Lost in Translation?

I will be in Japan this week, visiting my brother who is a permanent resident there (he is a university professor at Keio University in Yokohama). So don’t expect too many blog posts. Although depending on my internet access, I may be able to do some. I will...

Five Things

There is a portion of my digital life that was lost with my hard drive crash in late January. It was a small portion, but each day I discover things that have fallen through the cracks or been looked over as I dealt with that. One of those things is related to...

Solving the Wrong Problem

Okay, this post is a bit outside the normal domain of this blog. It’s technically about “supply chain management,” which, as you might imagine, is not really the focus of my work or attention. But a brief article in HBR on the topic has been really bugging me. In the...

Helooooo? Anybody Out There?

There is an interesting conversation going on across the “blogoclump” (the collection of bloggers who blog about associations) about why association executives don’t read us! Jeff started the recent conversation with this post, and actually got seven comments (which...

Indexed

I absolutely love a blog that Mickie Rops pointed to, called “Indexed.” The posts are simply sketches on the back of 3×5 index cards. They convey interesting points in the form of graphs and diagrams (without, as the blog says, actually having to do the math). I...
Jamie Notter