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I hope you're enjoying our new shared rotation of Quick Clicks posters. I know I am.

Here are some posts that I found particularly interesting since my last turn at Quick Clicks:

- Wild Apricot has launched a new blog, Association Ideas@Wild Apricot. Officially, it's aimed at small-staff association leaders, but I think their posts so far are interesting for large-staff readers, too.

- Another recently-launched association blog is associationTECH, a place for association folks with an interest in technology to share their thoughts and ideas. They've issued a call for contributors, so if you'd like to join in, take a look at their About Us page.

- I find failure and how organizations respond to and learn from it to be fascinating, so of course I liked this post by Seth Godin sharing his take on a "hierarchy of failure."

- I am in no way influenced by personal bias in sharing this post with you: "How to Measure the Value of Editors."

- HBR has an interesting blog post from Roger Martin about whether or not management is a profession. I think Martin's arguments are food for thought for those of us in the association management field, too.

- Speaking of food for thought, Vinay Kumar recently posted some wonderful "what if?" questions for you to ponder. The Plexus Consulting blog also recently posted some questions to help you consider whether or not your organization is relevant, insightful, efficient, and effective.

- Shelly Alcorn has a great post on the way human memory functions and its implications for your members.

- I love this post by Maddie Grant on an advantage associations should never forget that they have--community.

- At the Connect blog, there's a great post by Carrie Hartin on her experience volunteering for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (man, that show makes me cry) and some lessons it taught her about volunteerism.

- Marsha Rhea and Elizabeth Weaver Engel both posted some thoughts inspired by a future-thinking exercise at a recent CAE event. What do the next 50 years hold for associations?