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I have to agree with Caron, I wasn't ready with my key takeaways at the Friday General Session either. Now that I've had some time to digest, here are some of the ideas and quotes that are still bouncing around in my head:

"Relevance is a losing argument…if we're not already relevant, we're toast." Jeff De Cagna, Principled Innovation

"What is the simplest thing that could possibly work?" Jeff De Cagna, Principled Innovation

When deploying a new technology in your organization, create a "buddy system" to lessen the load on your tech support staff. Make each member of your testing team a "buddy" to a couple of other staffers as they get comfortable with the new application so they have a quick place to go for help. - Katherine Mowers, Community IT Innovators

Also, I'm still really intrigued by the Wikinomics ideagora concept. I need to find a way to play with that concept for our members.

And just for fun, here's my vocabulary lesson from the conference:

• "e-pretending" - using web forms to generate emails which are then hand-entered into your database. Not that any of us actually do that....


• "adhocracy" (this one's apparently been around for a while but it was new to me) - a structure where you establish temporary working groups with knowledgeable people which then disband when the group's goal is reached.


• "opening the kimono" - Putting your "secret" stuff out on the internet where anyone can see it. Or at least I think that's what it meant…I kinda lost the thread because I was laughing too hard.