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Book Writing v. Blog Writing

Jamie Notter — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:35:50 +0000

Okay, I haven’t been posting here as often as I should, but it’s because I’ve been a bit pre-occupied with writing a book. Maddie Grant and I are in the final editing stages of a book called Humanize: How People-Centric Organizations Succeed in a Social World. The book was born out of conversations that Maddie and I were having for about a year, both online and offline, about the “social organization.” Social media is a big deal for organizations, but not just for marketing and communications. It is changing the way we run our organizations.

But as we started writing the book, we realized it’s not really even about social media. Social media just shines a light on the fact that we have been running our organizations like machines for at least a century, and that is no longer serving us. We argue that being human–being open, trustworthy, generative, and courageous–was one of the keys to the success of social media. More importantly, though, those elements also provide a set of organizing principles that can guide the way we run our organizations that is much more powerful than the status quo.

In the book we dig into each element in detail, discussing how human organizations address each issue at the levels of culture, process, and individual behavior. Once the book is out (in September), we will also have a set of worksheets that you can download–one for each of the four main chapters on open, trustworthy, generative, and courageous–to help you get started changing things, no matter where you are in the organization.

The book is available for pre-order now, and we do have the book website set up (though the worksheets won’t be there until September) at www.humanizebook.com. And I promise now that the book is done, I’ll have more time for blogging!

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Welcome Julie Hill!

Jamie Notter — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 04:22:03 +0000

We’ve hired a new staff person here at MSP. Julie Hill has joined the team as Marketing Manager. She has many years of experience doing a broad range of marketing and communications functions in the association world, and we are THRILLED to have her here helping MSP and our client associations. A more detailed bio for Julie is on our website.

We’re giving her a bit of time to get settled, but I’m sure you will eventually see her her as a blogger!

Image credit.

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Beyond Relevance

Jamie Notter — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:05:53 +0000

I am going to be part of a three-part webinar series with the title “Beyond Relevance.” It is being put on by TMA Resources, and it was partly inspired by a blog post I wrote on the Get Me Jamie Notter blog last September. In short, the association community often highlights the importance of being “relevant” to members, and I just don’t think that is enough any more. The first webcast will be this Thursday, February 25th, at 2pm. The other two will be on March 16th and 31st. You have to register in order to take part, but they are free!

Each webinar will be an open conversation among three panelists. This Thursday it will be me, Jeff De Cagna of Principled Innovation, and Ken Wolff from the consulting firm Achievance. But the conversation is not limited to the webinar itself. TMA has set up a blog just on this topic. I’ll be posting to it later today, as will many of the panelists, and there is also a twitter hashtag: #beyondrelevance.

Come join the conversation!

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