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Welcome to everyone attending Great Ideas this week! (I'm not there in person this year, so I'm looking forward to experiencing the conference from the perspective of a virtual attendee.) Today's Quick Clicks features a few early blog posts related to the conference specifically, as well as some others related to "great ideas" more generally:

Jeff De Cagna rounds up some information about the conference, including a podcast interview with general session speaker Dan Pink.

Jeffrey Cufaude shares some thoughts on Drive, Dan Pink's new book, and how it relates to motivating volunteers.

Jamie Notter talks a bit about why he has been to every Great Ideas Conference.

Elizabeth Weaver Engel shares her top five favorite sayings and quotes; in a comment, Maddie Grant adds two quotes from the Great Ideas general session speakers.

TMA Resources has launched a new blog, Beyond Relevance, "a conversation on the new paradigm for associations." Definitely worth reading all of the posts so far.

In a related post, Shannon Otto at the Splash blog says that associations should aim higher than relevance (and shares some thoughts on how).

Tony Rossell breaks down four basic methods associations can use to test a free trial membership program.

In the Aptify CEO blog, Amith Nagarajan argues that innovators must be able to act without perfect data in hand.

Bruce Hammond has a great story about how a friend has saved his job by trying new things.

Ann Oliveri found some insights on the power of saying no (and saying yes) in Seth Godin's new book Linchpin.

Jeff Cobb discusses the power of content curation for organizations and individual learners.

Marsha Rhea at the SignatureI blog shares some tricks leaders can use to overcome our brains' selective interpretation of the world around us.

Shelly Alcorn continues her look at how mighty associations can fall: part 2, part 3.