Quick Clicks: Home runs
Welcome to another edition of Quick Clicks. Thanks to all the association bloggers who give us so much great stuff to link to!
- On the SmartBlog Insights blog, Rebecca Leaman wonders whether it still makes sense for nonprofits to attempt to drive traffic back to a single website "home base." Her question started a great discussion in comments.
- Andy Sernovitz has some thought-provoking comments on how you can take advantage of changing customer expectations (even if they might seem threatening at first glace).
- Jeffrey Cufaude has started a new series of blog posts he's calling "Wednesday What Ifs?". So far, he's tackled paying for dues and other programs and services in multi-year increments, giving implicit rather than explicit permission, and focusing on consistent quality rather than on the big breakthrough.
- Cindy Butts responds to some recent Acronym posts with her thoughts on the pursuit of perfection.
- Kevin Whorton has a great post at the College of Association Marketing blog on the surprising disconnect between the words and actions of one focus group.
- Jeff Hurt has great advice for pumping up the networking potential of your face-to-face events.
- If you're an "emerging leader" and you've ever thought, "When do I just emerge already?" Rosetta Thurman has a post for you.
- Shelly Alcorn at the Association Subculture blog has launched an interesting series of posts applying the rubric from Jim Collins' new book "How the Mighty Fall" to associations.
- Six is apparently a big number this week: A guest post by Mack Collier on Lauren Fernandez's LAF blog shares six truths of building successful online communities, and Aimee Stern shares six great ideas she got at a recent Super Swap.
- The Nonprofit University blog has some thoughts on the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision and its implications for nonprofit organizations.
- David Patt has some interesting observations about behavorial differences he's seen with older and younger colleagues. What do you think?
- Jeff Cobb at the Hedgehog & Fox blog has four questions whose answers might predict your future success. (And at his other blog, Mission to Learn, he has a post I loved on learning lessons he's gleaned from watching his toddler.)
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Comments
Thanks for the mention, Lisa - and for all these other great links. (Glad you liked the toddler post. That was a fun one to write.) - Jeff
Posted by: Jeff Cobb | February 25, 2010 4:22 PM
I'm always happy to link to great stuff, Jeff! (And I really did love your toddler post. I have a four-year-old, so the toddler years aren't that far removed for me--and it's still amazing to watch how fast she learns.)
Posted by: Lisa Junker | February 26, 2010 6:19 AM
Lisa, thanks so much for the mention. The "home base" question is certainly still very much open for me - but maybe that's all to the good: it can't hurt to be pushed to re-examine our assumptions, right?
Posted by: Rebecca Leaman | February 26, 2010 2:45 PM