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Happy Friday, folks! Hope those of you here in the U.S. are looking forward to Thanksgiving ...

- Brian John Riggs shares an interesting visualization of social media he created for his volunteers.

- Maddie Grant is launching a new series of interviews of association social media managers, and wants to know what questions you might recommend for her to ask.

- At KDPaine's PR Measurement Blog, Katie Paine suggests that one way to measure the impact of something is to stop doing it and see what happens.

- Anthony Tjan recently posted five mindblowing stats about the web.

- Shelly Alcorn breaks down some good advice on decision making.

- Joe Gerstandt argues that there isn't a conflict between hiring for talent and hiring for diversity.

- Linda Owens at the Learning Along the Way blog (which has one of the nicest designs I've come across lately) has some thoughts on associations as change agents.

- I just think this is really cool: The CEO of 37signals is establishing "office hours" for customers who want to talk with him.

- At his Management 2.0 blog, Gary Hamel outlines a book on adaptability that he's probably not going to write.

- The Plexus Consulting blog has a checklist to help managers get through a recession.

- Erik Schonher describes two key elements to your association's "personality."