As part of my day job I’ve had the opportunity to attend the annual meeting of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) for the past few days, and as might be expected, have done so with an eye to the vital signs of online learning in the association community. I am glad to report […]
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Web 2.0-Open Source Association
I happened to notice recently in an e-mail update from the Association Forum of Chicagoland that an association wiki project has been launched—actually a range of projects that have, understandably, yet to coalesce into the cohesive presence represented by more mature Web 2.0 destinations like Wikipedia. While the content of the wiki is rather thin […]
The 7 Measures and Online Learning
I’ve been a fan of Jim Collin’s Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t for some time and was excited last year to see the publication of 7 Measures of Success: What Remarkable Associations Do That Others Don’t, a book that applies the Good to Great lens to associations in […]
A Modest Proposal: Kill the RFP, Part II
In this posting I continue the musings on the efficacy of Requests for Proposals (RFPs) that I began in “A Modest Proposal: Kill the RFP, Part I” I rarely see an RFP in which an organization has truly, in a disciplined, measurable fashion, mapped objectives for an online learning technology initiative back to overall strategic […]
A Modest Proposal: Kill the RFP, Part I
[Note: This is a two part series. I wrote it back when I was a learning technology vendor on the receiving end of many RFPs. I am no longer a vendor, and only in very rare instances will I agree to respond to RFPs.] I’ve recently been reading Exceptional Selling: How the Best Connect and […]