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Welcome to this week's edition of Quick Clicks! And thanks to all of the association bloggers who give us great stuff to link to.

- Judith Lindenau has been undertaking a fascinating thought exercise at the Off Stage blog: Realtor associations traditionally have been able to rely on strong revenue from their Multiple Listing Services. But what if they didn't have an MLS? Where would their revenue come from? She's written four posts in the series so far. I hope non-Realtor associations are inspired to consider what they would do if their largest revenue stream no longer existed.

- Jamie Notter has a really interesting post on strategic planning and why it's skewed toward relevance (and why that's not a good thing). I'm looking forward to the follow-up post he promises for later this week.

- The Plexus Consulting blog considers demand elasticity and why associations need to prepare for it.

- Jake McKee shares a striking example of community members who really love their community. Does your association inspire that kind of connection for your members?

- The Harvard Business Press blogs feature a number of fantastic writers, but a couple of posts really stood out for me this week: Peter Bregman writes on confirmation bias and how it can hurt us in personnel management; Ranjay Gulati discusses what it really means for an organization to be customer-centric.

- Christine Melendes at the PCMA Membership Blog uses the Masters golf tournament as a springboard to discuss your association's "green jacket moments."

- Jeff De Cagna has posted a podcast interview with author and innovation expert Alex Osterwalder on business model generation.

- Ellen Behrens digs into the difference between an informative event and an infodump. On a related note, Jeff Hurt recently shared his thoughts on why you need to awaken your attendees' sense of curiosity.