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This week's installment of Quick Clicks is a hybrid. First, I'll introduce a new tool we're going to try out during the coming days to share what people are writing about ASAE's 2011 Annual Meeting & Expo. Then, your normal Quick Clicks programming will resume with some recent links on association management.

Annual Meeting links

We're fortunate that Annual Meeting attendees are a knowledge-sharing bunch, as there always seems to be healthy buzz in the blogosphere during the meeting. In past years, we've posted a traditional Quick Clicks post each day during the conference to point you to the latest articles and blog posts. This year, we're going to gather them all in one place with a new online tool called Scoop It.

Scoop It is a free online tool that's still in beta mode, so this is an experiment in progress for us. But, it's a convenient tool for curating links on the web, and the conference provides a focused, short-term event to build a collection of links around.

The widget below scrolls just a few of the latest links that we've "scooped" so far. Click anywhere on the widget to check out the full #asae11 Scoop It page.

The direct link is www.scoop.it/t/asae11, and if you're RSS-inclined, you can subscribe to a feed of all the "scooped" links here: www.scoop.it/t/asae11/rss.xml. As we continue to add links during the conference, please let us know what you think.

And now on to this week's links:

Research. "6 Tips to Make Membership Research Work," from Adina Wasserman via Erik Schonher's Experts in Membership Marketing blog.

Management models. Which model of organizational management do you follow: Holding, Strategic, Active, or Operationally Involved? Findings from a Booz & Company study, via Virgil Carter on the Plexus Consulting Group blog.

Small-staff. "Tips for leveraging people's skills and talents in the best possible ways" at a small-staff association, from Shannon Otto at MemberClicks.

Get IT help. Nonprofits can tap the minds of tech experts on TechSoup's forums, via a new program called "Donate Your Brain." This is an opportunity both to get IT help and to see an interesting microvolunteering initiative in action. (via Engaging Volunteers)

Staff bonuses. Good or bad? Laura Otten at the Nonprofit University Blog says staff bonuses are bad, calling them "offensive and difficult in the nonprofit sector."

Me vs. Us. Shelly Alcorn, CAE, writes, "I believe WIFM (short for "what's in it for me?") is the bane of association leadership. … The Boardroom belongs to WIFU instead (short for "what's in it for us?")"

Generations. Jamie Notter had to trim his training on generational diversity down to 50 minutes for a recent training session, he focused on three points: Theory matters, Learn about millennials, Embrace change. He recaps those points here.

Conference speakers. 17 tips for conference planners on how to help make speakers' experience, and thereby their audience's experience, a positive one.

Idea sharing. What's the tipping point for an idea to spread like a virus? One new study says it might take just 10 percent of people in a social network to adopt a view to ensure the idea spreads throughout the network.