Acronym

Welcome to this week's edition of Quick Clicks!

- A former Acronym blogger has popped up again in the association blogging community--Virgil Carter, who contributed a great deal to Acronym before he retired as CEO of ASME, is now leading the Plexus Consulting blog. Virgil introduces himself and lays out his planned approach to the blog here. Even if you weren't reading Acronym when Virgil was blogging with us, I highly recommend you take a look at what he's doing in his new digs.

- Judith Lindenau at Off Stage asks if you really know how much your association's governance system costs.

- At the Nonprofit University blog, Laura Otten takes on some practices she'd like to wash right out of the nonprofit sector.

- "We have to, as a community, get the hell off the hamster wheel of busier = better ..." Elizabeth Weaver Engel has a challenge for the association community, based on an insight she had while reading Seth Godin's book Tribes.

- "Real professions have strong associations ... Whether we work on a world-wide level or via one community at a time, virtually or face-to-face, we will make progress only if we perceive associating as power."

- Carol-Anne Moutinho argues that member feedback is what separates good associations from great ones.