Acronym

For what must be about a decade now, Lisa Junker has been churning out Quick Clicks once a week (-ish). In our last meeting about Acronym, we decided to divide up that duty between Lisa, Joe, and myself--to mix up the perspectives, but also to free Lisa up just a little bit with the hope that she'll have a non-Quick Clicks post or two she can write (and we all want that!)

So the first Quick Clicks written by someone other than a Junker fell to me today. I immediately was filled with power, but understood the great responsibility that was now mine. Um, right...

So here are a few of the things I've run across in this holiday-shortened week that I thought were noteworthy; I hope you do, too.

First up, a quick and poignant post from Jamie Notter the points to social media burnout. Not really burn out on using social media, rather, growing weary of having the same conversations about social media. For those who have been in the space a while, I'd love to see your thoughts on the future posts Jamie promises to write.

Building from that, David Patt from the Association Executive Management blog says it's too fast to be talking about what's next, that associations would do well to focus on a few things. (But I think I'd fall into the category that David labels Jamie's "techno-buddies." Not sure how I feel about that.) And in a weird, psychic phenomenon, someone who probably does not know Jamie, or even has a grasp of what the association sector is, answered Jamie's questions six days before he asked them; check out Jon Goldman's post on Mashable on the social experience.

It's true, referencing a social media topic is like fish barrel shooting, or whatever the cliche is, in terms of blogosphere interest. It's much harder to generate interest in different topics, like.... puppies! I really liked Cynthia D'Amour's story of Mavis, the pup who didn't cut it as guide dog, told in Cynthia-style with a good, Cynthia-point to punctuate it.

Moving along, I'm glad Maddie Grant shared the digital strategy documents that she did, and that Shannon Otto gave us notes from the #Hackaction event in not 1, but 2 different posts (I feel like I was there).

Taking an intellectual turn, Jeff Cobb shares a thoughtful post on something that's been on my mind recently: that learning is a means to an end, and, particularly in business settings, we learn so that we can make better decisions. We tend to think about learning as the structured activities that we make time for: conferences, books, podcasts. While these are important, they make up only a tiny fraction of the learning that we do, the bulk of it is labeled experience. To Jeff, it's the difference between spotlights and floodlights.

And finally, I couldn't possibly do a Quick Clicks without linking to a Seth Godin post or to some useful tool or tidbit. You really should read Godin, the man makes me think and makes me angry that I'm not doing more. He's also the reason you're reading me on this blog--maybe sometime I'll share the story of how Acronym began. But to close out, here's the useful tidbit: it comes from the YouTube blog and it tells you about a service to easily get legal rights to use music in your creations. And my favorite Godin post from the last week... his sugar cane parable.