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One of the biggest status-quo traps for associations is their cautious, iterative moves towards the use of the new social media tools. Instead, association leaders might consider crossing the chasm before a college drop-out does.

In brief, many associations are vulnerable. They can be co-opted by a member(s), exhibitor(s) or a complete outsider who chooses to launch an online social network to serve their kind of members. One might even launch one for free via Ning.

It might in… Continue

...even before he started his lecture. I only hope I’d be half as wise, brave and funny as this 46-year-old Carnegie Mellon University computer-science professor, and video game trailblazer, Randy Pausch was last Tuesday afternoon.

Pausch is one of several U.S. university professors invited to give a best “last lecture.” This is not a call for professors’ best insights on their area of teaching.

It is to answer the question, “What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew… Continue

Did your opening scene get their attention and draw them in? Did your event attendees feel they had major roles in the "story" of "our" gathering? From humor, camaraderie, inspiration and new awareness, how many positive emotions did you evoke? Was there a build-up to a climactic point in which they played a part that mattered to them? Are they showing their friends their souvenir from the meeting? Have you made every moment count at "our" event?

From the first sight of your meeting loc… Continue

You know you’re in the hands of a pro when the former speech writer for the founder of Sun Microsystems is interviewing you. Ian Griffin retains his English accent, dry wit and curiosity. As a former journalist I enjoyed trading roles to answer his questions on ways to become quotable. Ian and his wife Sandra drove over from Castro Valley to share ideas on podcasting and Sandra's new venture with me and my dear friend Don Weil at my home in Sausalito.

We sat at my kitchen table looking… Continue

From capturing scenes of Burma protests to college keggers, “user-created” video has gone viral via YouTube and other sites. No news there. Yet this may be the most sweeping cultural change we have seen in the past few years.

For disgust or inspiration you can find something on video. Almost any action, anywhere, can and has been captured on still or video footage. Some of the most captivating vignettes are those created by professional filmmakers.

Brad Inman recruited them fro… Continue