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Data, Data, Who’s Got the Data?
We all want to make better decisions, right? And the best way to do that is to base them on data, right? And the first piece of data everyone always wants is ROI, right? Let’s…
Read More →Ada Lovelace Day Post: Mary Dixon Kies
In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, I’d like to recognize Mary Dixon Kies, the first woman to be awarded a patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office, in May of 1809, over 100 years…
Read More →It’s Not the Tools, Yo!
It’s the management! One of the MAIN points I make in any presentation I do on SocMed is that people who want to ban b/c of “productivity issues” are focusing on the wrong thing. Big…
Read More →Visual Thinking
Still pondering the whole idea of visual thinking from Dan Roam’s keynote at the recent Great Ideas Conference. I am not a visual thinker. There are white boards all over the offices at Beaconfire, and…
Read More →Let The Members Decide!
NOT ANOTHER MEMBER SURVEY! EEEEKKK!!! Because you know what always happens – you only find out what you already knew because that was all you thought to ask about. Also, you’re terrified of including any…
Read More →Forget “Don’t Be Evil.” What about “Don’t Be Creepy”?
I got back from Tech to find an email from one of my coworkers entitled: Last night Facebook blew my mind. It was about his first encounter with FB Social Ads. For those who haven’t…
Read More →Meeting Formats: Everything Old Is New Again?
Last week, I was invited to participate in an upcoming session at ASAE on “creating provocative and edgy learning topics and formats” for the 2009 AM. Aside from some momentary uncertainty about whether I’m really…
Read More →A Hot Site at a Cool Price
In the fall of 2007, I had the opportunity to interview Mukul Chopra, National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI), and Mark Rogers, American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (AAHPERD)…
Read More →Increasing User Response Rates = Increasing User Fatigue?
A recent post on Donor Power Blog about segmenting your constituents by propensity to act rather than more traditional demographics (age, location, income, etc.), led to a rather interesting exchange on the NTEN Discuss listserv….
Read More →Turns out, Big Brother tactics are NOT such a good idea
Information about people’s attitudes about online privacy, thanks to the Consumers Union According to the [Consumer’s Union] poll, 82 percent of consumers are concerned about their credit card numbers being stolen online, while 72 percent…
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