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Reaction to ASAE's Annual Meeting & Exposition continues -- keep up here on our Scoop-It page (now with more than 100 posts).

But even as we continue to feel the meeting's afterglow, the world continues on, and there's been some great blog posts in the last week. Here are some small, good ones that caught my eye.

Ordinarily I'm not sure I'd link to this post. Don't get me wrong it's useful, but my thoughts on open rates are a tad on the skeptical side, so I don't think I would have paid much attention to this post if it weren't for the title: What We Talk About When We Talk About Open Rates. It's this simple really, you make a good play on a great Raymond Carver short story title and you make my Quick Clicks. Thanks Brett, I'm going to be reading some short stories tonight.

From there let's jump to diversity and inclusion and Jeffrey Cufuade who has some tough words and some tough introspection on the topic. I gotta say, though, Jeffrey, I liked the original post a whole lot better than the update. Your specific example makes the diversity and inclusion topic hard, and guess what? It is hard. It needs to make us uncomfortable. Taking it more general makes it more comfortable. There's need for both conversations, but your stark light on it makes your post stick out as essential for me.

It's not a far jump then to the messy topic of organizational culture. Jamie Notter didn't try to neaten it up for us -- such attempts are spurious anyway. Rather, he just gives some advice on how to see it, because before you can do anything about it, you have to see it and name it and know where you want to be -- but that's getting ahead. Start with Jamie's post, take a step back and see your culture for what it truly is.

And I just can't help it. If you can step back and see your culture, and it's not set on a bedrock of trust, then there's trouble. I like it when people share personal stories and make a point on their blogs. Here's Wes Trochlil's story on trust.

I like to end my Quick Clicks with links to nonassociation stuff I've read that I liked. I'm going to throw social media genius Chris Brogan's post in here rather than the end, though, because it's about building on things other than bedrock. I like the parable he tells a lot. Projects crumble. Careers crumble. Organizations crumble. Guess what? Those things are just an end, not THE END. (And if you want to get all existential, they're also beginnings.)

I've been really wordy in these Quick Clicks, so apologies for the not-so-quick clicks. To redeem myself, I really will share some quick hitters:

- Shelly Alcorn reminds us to keep it important.

- Lori Halley pulls together some of the recent thinking on board development.

- Maddie Grant gives us an idea of how to listen (i.e. find) things important to us in Google+.

- Scott Fulton (ReadWriteWeb) tells us what we can learn from Steve Jobs.

- And finally, Seth Godin pulls inspiration from the earthquake to provide a little truism about human nature.